osCommerce is an open-source package that allows your hosting company to offer an excellent e-commerce solution for your clients.

osCommerce user-end and administrative features make the functioning and administration of the site easy and efficient.

Multi-language and currency support in osCommerce will help your customers expand their business up to international ranks.

Help4Hosters can install osCommerce 2.1/2.2 for you and help you with administering and configuration of the Internet shops based on osCommerce versions 2.1/2.2.

1. Client End Functionality

• the shop stores in the database all information related to customer accounts (contact and billing info, Customer purchase history, Customer address-book, cart contents);
• customer address book allows sending purchased items to other shipping destinations;
• there is Temporary (not logged on) and permanent (logged on) shopping cart;
• products of the shop are conveniently divided into categories;
• it is possible to search or browse catalog or manufacturers;
• number of products in each category are shown;
• orders are made step-by-step, there is a possibility to correct the entered order details; customer foresees checkout procedure;
• there is a possibility for a customer to leave a product review; rate a product and get to know product reviews of other customers;
• the shop can have bestsellers list;
• customer gets e-mail notifications (e.g., account creation, order completion);
• secure transactions are possible with SSL certificate;
• customers see what other customers have bought (links to current product are displayed);
• new entries to the categories and to the shop are highlighted;
• there is a possibility to choose the most convenient payment tipe and shipping option from the list of available ones;
• for products not available in stock there are the dates of adding of the products to the stock;
• customers view specials, products sold at reduced prices;
• multi-language support (English/German/Spanish/Russian etc)

2. Administrative Functionality

• user friendly design;
• administrative Panel is not tied together with the catalog module (back-end can be installed on another webserver);
• possibility to correct the shop configuration, text files, manage modules, change the outlook of the shop via handy web interface;
• possibility to add/edit/remove categories, products, manufacturers, customers, and reviews;
• administrator decides what to display in the products listings
• products catalog is easy to be administered; it is possible to divide the catalog into categories;
• special product attributes can be added, and the prices for products can be altered according to the product attributes;
• many Payment and Shipping modules are easy to be installed and configured;
• it is possible to set product prices in more than one currency;
• multi-currency shops are connected to oanda.com's currency exchange rate servers; also exchange rates can be manually modified;
• customers are informed by email about account creation/Order processing/appearance of new products;
• many powerful tools to make the management of the shop easier: creation of backup copies of the shop database; handy File Manager; banner management; automated mailing of messages and newsletters to customers;
• implemented feature of calculation of various kinds of tax zones, classes, and rates;
• management panel provides detailed statistics of the sold products; orders history and customers;
• creation of special discounts on certain products;
• administrator can add comments to orders;
• administrator has complete control over order processing, delivery and payment.

Your hosting company should meet the following server requirements to offer osCommerce to your clients:

• PHP version 3 or 4;
• MySQL database server.

Also, if you are willing to offer secure connection in osCommerce shop to your customers, your web server should be capable of using SSL.

Please refer to the osCommerce FAQ.

Interested in Help4Hosters installing osCommerce 2.1 or 2.2 for you? Order osCommerce installation today!

If you have a custom request about osCommerce, please email us, and we will do our best to meet your needs.