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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
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<h2>osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 Release Candidate 2a</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Catalog Screenshots</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/screenshots/oscommerce-1.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 1px solid #dfdfdf;" src="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/screenshots/oscommerce-1s.png" border="0" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/screenshots/oscommerce-2.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 1px solid #dfdfdf;" src="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/screenshots/oscommerce-2s.png" border="0" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/screenshots/oscommerce-3.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 1px solid #dfdfdf;" src="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/screenshots/oscommerce-3s.png" border="0" alt="" /></a></p>
<h3>Administration Tool Screenshots</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/screenshots/oscommerce-4.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 1px solid #dfdfdf;" src="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/screenshots/oscommerce-4s.png" border="0" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/screenshots/oscommerce-5.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 1px solid #dfdfdf;" src="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/screenshots/oscommerce-5s.png" border="0" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/screenshots/oscommerce-6.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 1px solid #dfdfdf;" src="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/screenshots/oscommerce-6s.png" border="0" alt="" /></a></p>
<h1>Downloads</h1>
<h2>osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 Release Candidate 2a</h2>
<h3>Download</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.oscommerce.com/redirect.php/go,44"><img title="Download osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 Release Candidate 2a" src="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/16x16_download.gif" border="0" alt="" /> oscommerce-2.2rc2a.zip</a> (2,359,052 bytes; md5: 31bb9f5f2bd93d18666f8e41c8283147)</p>
<h3>Release Announcements</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.oscommerce.com/about/news,129">osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 RC2 Released</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.oscommerce.com/about/news,130">osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 RC2a Released</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Server Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>PHP v3+ (PHP v5+ recommended)</li>
<li>MySQL v3+ (MySQL v5+ recommended)</li>
</ul>
<h2>osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0 Alpha 5</h2>
<h3>Download</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.oscommerce.com/redirect.php/go,45"><img title="Download osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0 Alpha 5" src="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/16x16_download.gif" border="0" alt="" /> oscommerce-3.0a5.zip</a> (3,803,184 bytes; sha1: 4a35e809849a596b886a485002767542c353097d)</p>
<h3>Release Announcements</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.oscommerce.com/about/news,132">osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0 Alpha 5</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Server Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>PHP v5.2.0+ (with MySQLi extension)</li>
<li>MySQL v4.1.13+ or v5.0.7+</li>
</ul>
<h1>Features</h1>
<p>Although osCommerce is still in its development stage, the available Milestone releases are considered to be stable with the following features:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>General Functionality</strong>
<ul>
<li>Compatible with all PHP 4 versions</li>
<li>All features enabled by default for a complete out-of-the-box solution</li>
<li>Object oriented backend <em>(3.0)</em></li>
<li>Completely multilingual with English, German, and Spanish provided by default</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Setup / Installation</strong>
<ul>
<li>Automatic web-browser based installation and upgrade procedure</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Design / Layout</strong>
<ul>
<li>Template struture implementation to:
<ul>
<li>allow layout changes to be adaptive, easy, and quickly to make <em>(3.0)</em></li>
<li>allow easy integration into an existing site <em>(3.0)</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Support for dynamic images</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Administration / Backend Functionality</strong>
<ul>
<li>Supports unlimited products and categories
<ul>
<li>Products-to-categories structure</li>
<li>Categories-to-categories structure</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Add/Edit/Remove categories, products, manufacturers, customers, and reviews</li>
<li>Support for physical (shippable) and virtual (downloadable) products</li>
<li>Administration area secured with a username and password defined during installation</li>
<li>Contact customers directly via email or newsletters</li>
<li>Easily backup and restore the database</li>
<li>Print invoices and packaging lists from the order screen</li>
<li>Statistics for products and customers</li>
<li>Multilingual support</li>
<li>Multicurrency support
<ul>
<li>Automatically update currency exchange rates</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Select what to display, and in what order, in the product listing page</li>
<li>Support for static and dynamic banners with full statistics</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Customer / Frontend Functionality</strong>
<ul>
<li>All orders stored in the database for fast and efficient retrieval</li>
<li>Customers can view their order history and order statuses</li>
<li>Customers can maintain their accounts
<ul>
<li>Addressbook for multiple shipping and billing addresses</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Temporary shopping cart for guests and permanent shopping cart for customers</li>
<li>Fast and friendly quick search and advanced search features</li>
<li>Product reviews for an interactive shopping experience</li>
<li>Forseen checkout procedure</li>
<li>Secure transactions with SSL</li>
<li>Number of products in each category can be shown or hidden</li>
<li>Global and per-category bestseller lists</li>
<li>Display what other customers have ordered with the current product shown</li>
<li>Breadcrumb trail for easy site navigation</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Product Functionality</strong>
<ul>
<li>Dynamic product attributes relationship</li>
<li>HTML based product descriptions</li>
<li>Automated display of specials</li>
<li>Control if out of stock products can still be shown and are available for purchase</li>
<li>Customers can subscribe to products to receive related emails/newsletters</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Payment Functionality</strong>
<ul>
<li>Accept numerous offline payment processing (cheque, money orders, offline credit care processing, ..)</li>
<li>Accept numerous online payment processing (PayPal, 2CheckOut, Authorize.net, iPayment, ..)</li>
<li>Disable certain payment services based on a zone basis</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Shipping Functionality</strong>
<ul>
<li>Weight, price, and destination based shipping modules</li>
<li>Real-time quotes available (UPS, USPS, FedEx, ..)</li>
<li>Free shipping based on amount and destination</li>
<li>Disable certain shipping services based on a zone basis</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Tax Functionality</strong>
<ul>
<li>Flexible tax implementation on a state and country basis</li>
<li>Set different tax rates for different products</li>
<li>Charge tax on shipping on a per shipping service basis</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><img title="Payment Gateways" src="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/page_image_team.gif" border="0" alt="" /></p>
<h1>Payment Gateways</h1>
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<td align="center"><a href="https://www.2checkout.com/2co/signup?affiliate=1255821" target="_blank"><img title="2CheckOut" src="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/partners/2checkout.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a href="http://www.authorizenet.com/" target="_blank"><img title="Authorize.net" src="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/partners/authorizenet.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a href="http://www.chronopay.com/" target="_blank"><img title="Chronopay" src="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/partners/chronopay.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>
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<td align="center"><a href="http://www.ipayment.de/" target="_blank"><img title="iPayment" src="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/partners/ipayment.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a href="http://www.paynova.com/" target="_blank"><img title="Paynova" src="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/partners/paynova.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/mrb/pal=PS2X9Q773CKG4" target="_blank"><img title="PayPal" src="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/partners/paypal.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center"><a href="http://www.psigate.com/" target="_blank"><img title="PSiGate" src="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/partners/psigate.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a href="http://www.secpay.com/" target="_blank"><img title="SECPay" src="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/partners/secpay.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a href="http://www.trustcommerce.com/" target="_blank"><img title="TrustCommerce" src="http://www.oscommerce.com/images/partners/trustcommerce.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>
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<h3>Related Posts:</h3>
<ul class="related_post">
<li><a href="http://www.ecommerceinstall.com/open-source-definition.html" title="Open Source Definition">Open Source Definition</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ecommerceinstall.com/79.html" title="CS-Cart Features">CS-Cart Features</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ecommerceinstall.com/about-oscommerce.html" title="About osCommerce">About osCommerce</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ecommerceinstall.com/get-your-own-free-ecommerce-website-in-24-hours.html" title="Get your own free ecommerce website in 24 hours ">Get your own free ecommerce website in 24 hours </a></li>
</ul>
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