Wednesday, March 28, 2012

OsCommerce - The Shopping Cart Software


Among the many open-source shopping cart software available, one of the major edges that osCommerce has is it's reputation. It's reputation of being widely patronized giving it an image of being dependable and well-supported amidst the fact that it's for free. What bothers most users when customizing with osCommerce is it is not easy to accomplish if you do not have much background in developing software. Thus, if you are planning to use osCommerce with some modifications in the code, make sure to ask for assistance.

Since it utilizes automatic web browser installation and upgrading, starting using osCommerce is very easy. Any changes done in the layout can be done easily and quickly. However, templates are not available, thus you can only do editing on the header and the footer and both the right and left columns. This does not sound so pleasing to people who intend to have to see a lot of variations in their layouts.
Yet, incorporating changes is not difficult because it has a complete out-of-the-box solution and the backend is object oriented. Moreover, it can be used by a lot of users because it has multi-language features that are compatible with English, German, and Spanish speaking users. The software also provides multi-currency so it is also compatible with a lot of nationalities. Read Full Story

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