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ENSIM POWER
TOOLS
| osCommerce
Online Store |
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osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution
under ongoing development by the Open Source community. Its
feature packed out-of-the-box installation allows store owners
to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum
effort.

The main features available in osCommerce
are:
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
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