OsCommerce is the most comprehensive and popular open source Shopping Cart system in existence. It has a huge list of features and is probably the most versatile shopping cart solution and offers vast range of customization choices for the on-line storefront owners depending on their need at a very affordable price.

OsCommerce is a PHP and mySQL based catalog and shopping cart application that can either be directly integrated into a web site - or – a site can be built around osCommerce as a base. Its feature packed out-of-the-box installation allows store owners to maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with absolutely no costs or license fees involved.

Features:

Customer Functionality:

• Customer accounts
• Customer address books (other shipping destinations)
• Order history
• Temporary (not logged on) and permanent (logged on) shopping carts
• Search catalog for products or manufacturers
• Product reviews by customers
• E-mail notifications
• Foreseen checkout procedure
• Secure transactions with SSL (You provide your own SSL certificate)
• Number of products in each category are shown
• Bestseller lists
• Display what other customers have brought (relating to the current product displayed)
• Affiliate program
• Gift Vouchers
• Banner Advertisements
  

Administrative Functionality:

• New design for user-friendliness
• Add/Edit/Remove categories, products, manufacturers, customers, and reviews
• Categories-to-categories structure
• Statistics for products and customers
• Dynamic product attributes
• Tax zones, classes, and rates
• Configuration parameters in database for remote editing
• Payment and shipping modules
• Connection to oanda.com's currency exchange rate servers for multi-currency shops
• Decide what to display (and the order) in the product listings
• Mass mail entire existing customer base (Mailing List)
• Backup tool

• Uses PHP and MySQL
• Out-of-the-box functionality
• Localization: English, German, and Spanish; plus contributions

AdbSoft's Value Addition to osCommerce through customisation

AdbSoft's osCommerce customisation team has executed several osCommerce customizations in the past, and, in the process, has thoroughly understood the underlying architecture and source code of osCommerce engine. Default theme and 'look & feel' of osCommerce may not be stunning and appealing to large percentage of target audience of the storefront owners. Combined with the creative abilities of its web designers, AdbSoft can turn the osCommerce storefront into a world-class online e-Commerce web site.

osCommerce also comes with a lot of add on modules for gift vouchers, customer based pricing, download management, downloadable products etc. AdbSoft can customize / develop new features for you using the osCommerce framework. AdbSoft's osCommerce customization offerings fall into the following three broad categories:

Silver:

• Standard osCommerce Installation (Latest snap shot release)
• Site Configuration
• Integrating client’s logo and other images into header area
• Payment Gateway Integration
• Note:
  o This package does not include custom web site design or custom programming
  o Delivery within five business days of placing the order

Gold:

• Custom Storefront design, including inner pages, and graphics
• Integration of this design into standard osCommerce Installation (Latest snap shot release)
• Configuration and Payment Gateway Integration
• Note:
  o o This package does not include custom programming
  o o Delivery within a maximum three weeks of placing the order
  

Platinum:

• Custom programming for developing and integration of new features into osCommerce
• Custom Storefront design, including inner pages, and graphics
• Integration of this design into standard osCommerce Installation (Latest snap shot release)
• Configuration and Payment Gateway Integration
• Creating additional reports for administrator
• Cart based discount
• Customer based discount
• Price dependent and price independent attributes
• Inventory management
• Gift vouchers redemption
• Disabling customer registration for product purchases
• Developing modules for integrating payment gateways not supported as a default by osCommerce
• Modifying banner advertisement module to support entire web site, and ability to specify banner ads for different sections of the site
• Featured products
• Product comparison
• Module for supporting sale of services
• Module for supporting sale and tracking of online content products
• Module for downloadable products
• Module for subscription based content viewing and download
• Newsletters
• Polls
• Forums
• Note: 
  Pricing will depend on the scope of customization