osCommerce is a complete online store solution that contains both a Catalog front-end and an administration tool backend, which can be easily installed and configured over a web-based installation procedure.
Features:
Although osCommerce is still in its development stage, the available Milestone releases are considered to be stable with the following features:
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 struture 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
