Ecommerce solutions are affordable and accessible for small business thanks to open source software.
Online internet merchant banking fees often makes small business ecommerce unviable. This changes and becomes affordable when used with open source shopping cart solutions like osCommerce together with reliable ecommerce payment gateways such as; 2CheckOut, Authorize.Net, PayPal, SecPay, PSiGate, and TrustCommerce.
There are also osCommerce modules for all major Australian banks and Australian ecommerce payment gateways such as Direct One, SecurePay and Pay it @POST (Australia Post).
Installation of osCommerce is free upon request with any account. We will set up your ecommerce solution for you, or you can save money by setting up osCommerce yourself, using the online help and documentation and web based configuration management interface.
- General Features
- Multi currency support and automatically update currency exchange rates
- Multilingual support, completely multilingual with English, German, and Spanish provided by default
- Select what to display, and in what order, in the product listing page
- Secure transactions with SSL
- Fast and friendly quick search and advanced search features
- Product reviews for an interactive shopping experience
- Foreseen checkout procedure
- Number of products in each category can be shown or hidden
- Global and per-category bestseller lists
- Browser Based Administration, Configuration & Management
- Templates allow layout changes to be adaptive, easy, and quickly to make (MS3)
- Supports for unlimited products and categories
- Add/Edit/Remove categories, products, manufacturers, customers, and reviews
- Support for physical (shippable) and virtual (downloadable) products
- Administration area secured with a user name 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
- Display what other customers have ordered with the current product shown
- Customer / Front end 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
- Bread crumb trail for easy site navigation
- Address book for multiple shipping and billing addresses
- Temporary shopping cart for guests and permanent shopping cart for customers
- Product Functionality
- Dynamic product attributes relationship
- 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