ecommerceinstall.com » OsCommerce http://www.ecommerceinstall.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:33:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 osCommerce Online Merchant http://www.ecommerceinstall.com/oscommerce-online-merchant.html http://www.ecommerceinstall.com/oscommerce-online-merchant.html#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:46:11 +0000 admin http://www.ecommerceinstall.com/?p=56

osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 Release Candidate 2a

osCommerce Online Merchant is a complete online store solution that contains both a catalog frontend and an administration tool backend which can be easily installed and configured over a web-based installation procedure.

Catalog Screenshots

Administration Tool Screenshots

Downloads

osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 Release Candidate 2a

Download

oscommerce-2.2rc2a.zip (2,359,052 bytes; md5: 31bb9f5f2bd93d18666f8e41c8283147)

Release Announcements

Server Requirements

  • PHP v3+ (PHP v5+ recommended)
  • MySQL v3+ (MySQL v5+ recommended)

osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0 Alpha 5

Download

oscommerce-3.0a5.zip (3,803,184 bytes; sha1: 4a35e809849a596b886a485002767542c353097d)

Release Announcements

Server Requirements

  • PHP v5.2.0+ (with MySQLi extension)
  • MySQL v4.1.13+ or v5.0.7+

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 (3.0)
    • 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 (3.0)
      • allow easy integration into an existing site (3.0)
    • 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
    • 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
      • Addressbook 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 care processing, ..)
    • Accept numerous online payment processing (PayPal, 2CheckOut, 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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]]> http://www.ecommerceinstall.com/oscommerce-online-merchant.html/feed 0 Open Source Definition http://www.ecommerceinstall.com/open-source-definition.html http://www.ecommerceinstall.com/open-source-definition.html#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:43:39 +0000 admin http://www.ecommerceinstall.com/?p=53 Open source software is defined by its attached license guaranteeing anybody rights to freely use, modify, and redistribute the software.

Open Source is a certification mark owned by the Open Source Initiative. Developers of software that is intended to be freely shared and possibly improved and redistributed by others can use the Open Source trademark if their distribution terms conform to the OSI’s Open Source Definition.

To summarize, the Definition model of distribution terms require that:

  • Free Redistribution
    No restrictions are placed on parties from selling of giving away the software.
  • Source Code Availability
    The software must include source code and must also allow for binary distributions when there is a well-publicized means of obtaining the source code.
  • Derived Works
    Modifications and derived works must be allowed, and must be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.
  • Integrity of the Authors Source Code
    The distribution of modified source code must be allowed although restrictions to ensure the possibility to distinguish the original source code from the derived works are tolerated. For example, the possibility of using different software names.
  • No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
    The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.
  • No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
    The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
  • Distribution of License
    The rights attached to the program must apply to all to whom the program is redistributed without the need for execution of an additional license by those parties.
  • License Must Not Be Specific to a Product
    The rights given by the license must not be different for the original distribution and any other one even when it takes place in a totally different context.
  • License Must Not Contaminate Other Software
    The license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with the licensed software. For example, the license must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium must be open-source software.

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]]> http://www.ecommerceinstall.com/open-source-definition.html/feed 0 osCommerce Philosophy http://www.ecommerceinstall.com/oscommerce-philosophy.html http://www.ecommerceinstall.com/oscommerce-philosophy.html#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:42:36 +0000 admin http://www.ecommerceinstall.com/?p=50 Open Source software provides an opportunity for people to work on software with others that share the same interest, exchanging ideas, knowledge, and work with one another, to expand and improve the solution.

The motivation for working on Open Source software originates at different sources, which include working on the software for fun as a hobby, to make the software meet own requirements, and to bring commercial interest into the software.

It is this combination of motivations that has brought together a team of developers to successfully make what osCommerce is today – and what it will be in the future – and an active and growing community, with each person having their own unique requirements but ultimately sharing the same goal: to use the software and to make it a better solution.

Open Source software always remains open providing the opportunity for anyone that is interested to work on it, at any time.

Because Open Source software is open, it provides a choice. The choice to use the software, the choice to learn the software, and the choice to join, share, and participate in a community – a community full of enthusiastic supporters that want to see the software grow and succeed.

It is this very reason why Open Source software is successful, and most importantly, why it works.

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osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution that offers a wide range of out-of-the-box features that allows online stores to be setup fairly quickly with ease, and is available for free as an Open Source based solution released under the GNU General Public License.

osCommerce was started in March 2000 and has since matured to a solution that is currently powering over the 11,435 registered live shops around the world.

Today, osCommerce has been taken to the next level, moving towards an e-commerce framework solution that not only remains easy to setup and maintain, but also making it easier for store administrators to present their stores to their customers with their own unique requirements.

The success of osCommerce is secured by a great and active community where members help one another out and participate in development issues reflecting upon the current state of the project.

You are more than welcome to contribute to the success of osCommerce by helping out in the realization of the project, by participating in the forums, by donating to the team developers and sponsoring the project, or just by spreading the word!

We welcome you to the osCommerce community!

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