OsCommerce

OsCommerce is one of the first platforms for online stores.  It was developed in the spring of 2000 by  German Harald Ponce de Leon.  The word "osCommerce" literally sounds like an online store, the engine was created specifically for e-commerce, which in 2000 began to gain popularity.  Today, CMS can be installed on any server around the world.

In 2006 was created CMS Magento based on oscommerse.  Due to the fact that the project with responsive osCommerce was frozen, all the attention of web developers turned to Magento.  The platform continued to produce online stores operating on the osCommerce engine for several years.

As of 2008, 14 thousand sites were successfully operating on the oscommers platform.  In November 2010, version 2.2 was updated to version 2.3.  The engine has integrated changes such as web design without tables and social networking tools.

Some facts about responsive osCommerce

 1. The first name of oscommerse is The Exchange Project, the following version names are OsCommerce 2.2 Milestone and OsCommerce Online Merchant.

 2. OsCommerce 2.3.4.1 - the latest version of oscommers, which was updated

 3. An open source platform that can be edited and supplemented

 4. A large community in which about 296 thousand participants

 5. Installs on any web server with support for PHP and MySQL

 6. More than 8 thousand additions

 7. The platform is licensed under the GNU GPL

 8. Since 2003, one of the versions of oscommerse - Milestone 2

 9. The second branch 3.0 was released on April 1, 2011

 10. To date, more than 260,000 online stores operate on the basis of osCommerce

 11. On the basis of osCommerce templates were created about 10 modernized analogues: Zen Cart, CRE Loaded, VamShop, xt: Commerce, VamCart, TomatoCart, OSC-CMS, including osCommerce SoloMono, and as well as Magento, OpenCart, Prestashop.

Advantages of osCommerce

Like any other platform, ocommerce has its strengths:

• Simple controls – administrative panel to cope even those who have never driven online shopping;

• Easy setup expandable;

• Platform is compatible with all types of browsers, and thus Internet shops are displayed correctly in all browsers;

• Ocommerce can be installed on any hosting and is convenient in editing frontend and backend

• The installation procedure on your web server simple and intuitive to use;

• An infinite number of products, categories, brands, attributes;

• Large community;

• Integration with 1C;

• Free to use;

• OsCommerce at the moment was 20 years old, during this time, it was fix most of the shortcomings;

• Product reviews;

• Special offers;

• Customer management;

• Customize currencies and languages;

• Export and import of goods;

• Opportunities for SEO;

• Extension of the online store due to the modules;

• Treatment of taxes;

• Processing of orders;

• Reports;

• The "What others bought" is able to increase the conversion and the probability of purchase;

• Ability to view purchase history and order status;

• Shopping cart for guests and permanent customer;

• Possibility to enter several delivery addresses;

• Ability to connect several payment systems (with extensions);

• A large number of advanced tools.

Weaknesses oscommers

Cons engine oscommers are:

• Outdated design templates;

• By default, only one integrated PayPal standard (when the module is installed);

• Updates are very rare;

• The popularity of the platform gradually decreases.

Before selecting oscommers template every owner is trying to find out more about the shortcomings of the platform. Many developers write errors and failures, poor scalability, necessity of constant manual intervention when administering. To cover all these disadvantages and drawbacks, and was created by the modified CMS SoloMono.

Who fits ocommerce

When the high workload of an online store (we are talking about hundreds of thousands of products, numerous sections and subsections, brands and attributes) platform slowly begins to work. But as a first experience in e-Commerce with not too bulky directory, it is fine.

With osCommerce CMS can also work with programmers who do online shopping for their customers. With open source code and its extension, the engine is perfect for this area.

OsCommerce templates

Oscommerce templates is very conservative in its design. On Themeforest there are only 7, the value of each varies from 19 to 58$. Templates at the moment is outdated and does not meet modern requirements of web design and usability.

On other forums the choice is more diverse, but here we can note the primitive design. Most likely it was affected by freezing of the project and releases analogues. On Russian forums you can find about 18 free oscommers templates available for download.

Installation Ocommerce Templates boils down to simple steps:

1. Need to download the template archive and extract it

2. Next you need to find the folder osc

3. The files from the folder filled to the osc server

Outdated design Ocommerce Templates - one of the reasons why we decided to create a CMS context purchase. Today we can offer our users 6 stylish template for an online store for 6 subjects:

• Laptops

• Clothing

• Health

• Gadgets

• Phones

• House

In each template you can change the location of blocks, so to achieve uniqueness in design just.

Also, osCommerce was marked by the legacy interface of the administrative panel was also improved on the engine, context purchase oSc. In addition, he is now intuitive, it has a modern interface and pleasant to use.

Prices on oscommerse

Software with basic functionality, osCommerce can be downloaded from the official website for free. In the cost of creating an online store will include:

• hosting on the tariff plan provider;

• the domain name;

• template (oscommerse template);

• modules

In addition, if you want to do for your online store a more modern and stylish design, it will also need to pay web developers.

Why create platform context purchase

At high load, many users complained that the engine starts to "creak". Was the required updates. So there was a modification of the platform osCommerce – SoloMono.

To date, the platform context purchase you can create a massive online shop with unlimited number of products. Our goal was to revive, upgrade and improve the platform ocommerce and make it the most convenient and popular for creating online stores worldwide.