Why Choose osCommerce for Your Shopping Cart Development

Many brick and mortar storeowners are now moving their businesses online with the growing number e-shoppers over the recent years. This article explains how small retailers can easily setup their e-commerce store with OSCommerce.

OSCommerce is an e-commerce and online store management application. It has an Open Source license and is one of the oldest e-commerce platforms used over the last 15 years. Developing a store on OSCommerce can be done easily on any available web servers using PHP with MySQL.

It provides various e-commerce tools including store templates, themes, layouts, add-ons and many more options to start your online store. Through OSCommerce development services, storeowners can ensure secure, stable and user-friendly transactions for their online customers.

There are currently two releases of OSCommerce – Versions 2.3 (stable) and 3.0 (in development) developed as two independent programs that do not share code. Contributions, the official name for the open-source community developed plugins, are developed for either 2.x or 3.0, and are incompatible with one another.

OSCommerce has been acknowledged as the most ingenious and outstanding software in the IT market today; over 260,000 have moved their stores online using the OSCommerce development. An e-commerce website, customized on OSCommerce can increase sales numbers, by improving the store’s conversion ratio. Moreover, it is a versatile business tool that helps in managing all kinds of online stores.

The platform has an extensive list of features and is one of the most flexible ecommerce website development solutions available in the industry. It has a wide range of customization options for the e-commerce website owner – all at an affordable price.

• Compatible with PHP 4
• Features enabled for a complete out-of-the-box e-commerce experience
• Object oriented backend
• Multilingual support (English, German and Spanish)

• Easy to backup and restore the database
• Print invoices and packaging lists from the order screen
• Multi-currency support
• Automatically update currency exchange rates

• Customers can view their order history and order status
• Temporary shopping cart for guests and permanent shopping cart for customers
• Fast and friendly quick search with advanced search features
• Secure transactions with SSL

• Weight, price and destination based shipping modules
• Real-time quotes available (UPS, USPS, FedEx,)
• Free shipping based on shipment value and destination
• Disable certain shipping services based on a zone basis

Online merchants can completely tailor their e-stores with the latest features and usability by simply utilizing OSCommerce for their ecommerce websites. Being a versatile platform, it can help you get your store online in least possible time and give you flexibility of setting up a personalized store inline with your concept, design and functionality. There are various other advantages of opting for this solution like:

Every store in the market wants to look unique and create its own identity, which completely depends on the design and development of its website. The templates, themes and layouts play a significant part in bringing success to your store’s identity. The design of your web store should provide a great user experience to your customers and should urge them to purchase goods or services from your store. OSCommerce provides unlimited potential of website customization. Developers can develop high-end modules and trendy designs for your store through customization.

There are instances when consumers are unable to purchase products from your store and you lose them forever simply because your site isn’t equipped to accept money through the payment mode they prefer. This solution allows access to payment gateways including PayPal, Authorise.Net, Sage pay and many more that encourage easy, stable and secure transactions. This helps improve your conversion rate and loyal consumer base.

Online retailers using the OSCommerce product management system can arrange their services and products the way they like; they can also keep a track of best-selling items and return consumers visiting the website. Also with a little technical know-how, they can generate various consumer reports, purchase and browsing history reports easily. OSCommerce customization can also provide simplified layouts that can make it really easy for the online retailers to manage their websites even without being technical experts.

Online storeowners can enhance their websites, boost their sales figures and overall gain while increasing their customer base for their online stores by hiring an OSCommerce developer.

At Rishabh Software, we know what it takes to develop and manage a successful online store. Apart from OSCommerce, we also offer OpenCart development services and other custom e-commerce solutions for enterprises.