What is osCommerce? osCommerce is a free, professional, full-featured, open-source shopping cart system, and is the backbone for our Linux ecommerce packages.

See osCommerce in action! Online demo here: http://demo.oscommerce.com/

Some of the features included with our osCommerce Hosting Plans include: FedEx / UPS Package tracking, unlimited categories, unlimited products, multiple payment gateways including full PayPal integration , fully customizable, sales reports, credit card validation, multiple languages, advanced product search tools, customer order history, newsletters, and more. osCommerce is part of our Easy Apps and can be installed with a few clicks from your web site control panel!

• General Functionality
  • All features enabled by default for a complete out-of-the-box solution
  • Completely multilingual with English, German, and Spanish provided by default
  Setup / Installation
  • Automatic web-browser based installation, administration and upgrade procedure
  Design / Layout
  • Template structure 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 Multi currency 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
    • Address book 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 For seen 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 (check, money orders, offline credit card 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

Charming Web has osCommerce installed on our Business + Linux plan. We will even do the basic installation for you at no charge! You just add your products and set your shipping and prices for your store. Signup is easy and account setup is fast!