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osCommerce, formerly
titled The Exchange Project, is a feature packed out-of-the-box online
shop ecommerce solution for both Windows or UNIX ecommerce web hosting servers
running PHP3 and PHP4. This unique cross platform compatibility allows
for greater flexibility and
a reduce
learning
curve. Maintenance is made easy with a user friendly browser based GUI
Administration Tool.
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Customer Functionality
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- 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
- Forseen checkout procedure
- Secure transactions with SSL
- Number of products in each category are shown
- Bestseller lists
- Display what other customers have brought (relating to the current
product displayed)
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Administrative Functionality
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- 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
- Not tied together with the catalog module (admin module can
be installed on another server)
- 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
- Backup tool
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General Functionality
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- PHP3/PHP4 compatible
- Out-of-the-box functionality
- Becoming modular
- Localization: English, German, and Spanish
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