what is osCommerce ?
osCommerce is a PHP based E-commerce shopping cart platform . osCommerce is available under GPL , osCommerce is an easy-to-setup and run online store. osCommerce is for selling online. osCommerce is completely customizable E-commerce.
osCommerce runs from your web server, which means you are fully in control of all its features and capabilities.
in 2020 , current stable version is v2.3.4.1 which require PHP v4+
Features
- its free to use
- osCommerce is easy to install
- it have multiple customer modes
- Admin can add unlimited product and unlimited category depth
- multiple sales and discounts
- osCommerce have unlimited pages as like CMS
- osCommerce have multiple payment plugin like PayPal , 2Checkout , Stripe , Square payment
- osCommerce have multiple shipping plugin like UPS XML , Canada Post , Big Royal Mail
- osCommerce have discount coupons plugin like Ceon Custom Order Surcharge/Discount , Shipping Discounts
- gift certificates
- osCommerce support multiple language
- osCommerce is completely manageable and customizable
Technology
Server side Language : PHP
Database : MySQL
Frontend : HTML , CSS , JavaScript
Is osCommerce free or paid ?
Yes osCommerce is completely free under GNU General Public License , one can customize code and re use it as base of other script as well under GPL , in short osCommerce can be free to run, study, share, and modify the script.
Who using osCommerce ?
As per stats from osCommerce offical site , 21,019 live websites uses osCommerce
Is osCommerce a CMS ?
Yes it have in built CMS but it is made as E-Commerce Platform , Admin can add pages as required ,
Does osCommerce require coding ?
Yes it require coding if anyone want new features which is not in osCommerce or cant be exteneded by addons . osCommerce have 9,119 free add-ons which cover almost all functionality which one require in making E-Commerce . but still if require to customize osCommerce than you need experienced developer in PHP , MySQL , html , CSS , JavaScript
is osCommerce come with admin control ?
yes osCommerce have admin control , mostly you can browse by /admin from main domain where you installed osCommerce , suppose like www.osCommerceCart.com/admin . osCommerce admin panel allow various module , from where you can manage almost whole osCommerce shopping cart , some module like Catalog section where you can add / edit category , product , Discount Coupon , Manufacturer etc.. , in Reports section you can check different report like Purchased items Report , Customer order statistics etc. , in Orders section one can check all incoming orders , in Configuration section one can manage all configuration for site like which customer detail you want to ask when some one register , one can chnage store logo form configuration section etc..
How to check which osCommerce version using ?
to check osCommerce version
- go to admin panel >> by browsing /admin at your domain , suppose www.mydomain.com/admin
- at Admin panel go to Utilities section and go to version checker and you will see the osCommerce version and also you get detail that is it latest version or not .
