| Medium/Large
Business
OSCommerce
is a complete online store solution that contains both a catalog
frontend and an administration tool backend.
Catalog Screenshots

Administration Tool Screenshots

Features:
- General
Functionality
- Compatible
with all PHP 4 versions
- All
features enabled by default for a complete out-of-the-box
solution
- Object
oriented backend (MS3)
- Completely
multilingual with English, German, and Spanish provided
by default
- Setup
/ Installation
- Automatic
web-browser based installation and upgrade procedure
- Design
/ Layout
- Template
struture implementation to:
- allow
layout changes to be adaptive, easy, and quickly to
make (MS3)
- allow
easy integration into an existing site (MS3)
- Support
for dynamic images
- Administration
/ Backend Functionality
- Supports
unlimited products and categories
- Products-to-categories
structure
- Categories-to-categories
structure
- Add/Edit/Remove
categories, products, manufacturers, customers, and reviews
- Support
for physical (shippable) and virtual (downloadable) products
- Administration
area secured with a username and password defined during
installation (MS3)
- Contact
customers directly via email or newsletters
- Easily
backup and restore the database
- Print
invoices and packaging lists from the order screen
- Statistics
for products and customers
- Multilingual
support
- Multicurrency
support
- Automatically
update currency exchange rates
- Select
what to display, and in what order, in the product listing
page
- Support
for static and dynamic banners with full statistics
- Customer
/ Frontend Functionality
- All
orders stored in the database for fast and efficient retrieval
- Customers
can view their order history and order statuses
- Customers
can maintain their accounts
- Addressbook
for multiple shipping and billing addresses
- Temporary
shopping cart for guests and permanent shopping cart for
customers
- Fast
and friendly quick search and advanced search features
- Product
reviews for an interactive shopping experience
- Forseen
checkout procedure
- Secure
transactions with SSL
- Number
of products in each category can be shown or hidden
- Global
and per-category bestseller lists
- Display
what other customers have ordered with the current product
shown
- Breadcrumb
trail for easy site navigation
- Product
Functionality
- Dynamic
product attributes relationship
- HTML
based product descriptions
- Automated
display of specials
- Control
if out of stock products can still be shown and are available
for purchase
- Customers
can subscribe to products to receive related emails/newsletters
- Payment
Functionality
- Accept
numerous offline payment processing (cheque, money orders,
offline credit care processing, ..)
- Accept
numerous online payment processing (2CheckOut, PayPal,
Authorize.net, iPayment, ..)
- Disable
certain payment services based on a zone basis
- Shipping
Functionality
- Weight,
price, and destination based shipping modules
- Real-time
quotes available (UPS, USPS, FedEx, ..)
- Free
shipping based on amount and destination
- Disable
certain shipping services based on a zone basis
- Tax
Functionality
- Flexible
tax implementation on a state and country basis
- Set
different tax rates for different products
- Charge
tax on shipping on a per shipping service basis
Payment
Gateways
Small
Business
We use PayPal for smaller sites with smaller budgets and fewer
products. Installation takes less time, and the end product is
a fully functional ecommerce system. Here is some information
on PayPal.
Founded
in 1998, PayPal, an eBay Company, enables any individual
or business with an email address to securely, easily and
quickly send and receive payments online. PayPal's service
builds on the existing financial infrastructure of bank
accounts and credit cards and utilizes the world's most
advanced proprietary fraud prevention systems to create
a safe, global, real-time payment solution.
PayPal
has quickly become a global leader in online payment solutions
with 50 million account members worldwide. Available in
45 countries around the world, buyers and sellers on eBay,
online retailers, online businesses, as well as traditional
offline businesses are transacting with PayPal.
PayPal
has received close to 20 awards for technical excellence
from the Internet industry and the business community at
large -most recently the 2003 Webby Award for Best Finance
Site and the 2003 Webby People's Voice Award for Best Finance
Site.
They
have recently expanded with a new Premier/Business Account
which has the following features:
-
Accept credit card payments on your own web site
-
Pay multiple recipients with one batch payment
- Download
your transaction history into Quicken, QuickBooks, or
Excel
-
Do business under a corporate or group name
-
Exclusive 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week customer service
hot line
-
Frequent special promotions, like free listing days
on eBay and double ($10) referral bonuses
-
Identify yourself to other sellers as a Premier or Business
account in your reputation pop-up box, visible to anyone
you are paying.
- Receive
interest on your account balances
-
Optional ATM/Debit cards and checks
All
of PayPal's premium features for a modest 1.9% fee on incoming
payments.
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