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osCommerce Hosting

osCommerce is a powerful and extremely popular online shop e-commerce solution. Its feature packed out-of-the-box installation allows store owners to set up, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort. osCommerce web hosting gives you both a catalog front-end and an administration tool backend.

osCommerce Store Demo | osCommerce Admin Demo

osCommerce Hosting Help
With osCommerce hosting, you have everything you need to start selling products and services online, and osCommerce is supported on many of our web hosting plans. You can auto-install a FREE osCommerce shopping cart on your hosting account from within the Site Applications section of your control panel (Site Manager). For more information about osCommerce, please see http://www.oscommerce.com/.

We also offer Zen Cart on some hosting plans.

Business

Business Class Hosting

  • 100GB Web Space
  • 2000GB Bandwidth
  • Unlimited Email Accounts
  • Host Unlimited Web Sites
  • FREE Static IP
  • E-Commerce Solutions
  • FREE SSL Certificate
  • And More...
$16.95/mo Learn More

Semi-
Dedicated

Semi-Dedicated Hosting

  • 200GB Web Space
  • 2000GB Bandwidth
  • Unlimited Email Accounts
  • Host Unlimited Web Sites
  • FREE Static IP
  • E-Commerce Solutions
  • FREE SSL Certificate
  • Guaranteed Server Resources
  • And More...
$54.95/mo Learn More
 

Expanded Feature List

General Functionality

  • Compatible with all PHP 4 versions
  • All features enabled by default for a complete out-of-the-box solution
  • Object oriented backend (MS3)
  • Completely multilingual with English, German, and Spanish provided by default

Setup / Installation

  • Automatic web-browser based installation and upgrade procedure

Design / Layout

  • Template structure implementation to:
    • allow layout changes to be adaptive, easy, and quick to make
    • allow easy integration into an existing web site
  • Support for dynamic images

Administration / Backend Functionality

  • Supports unlimited products and categories
    • Products-to-categories structure
    • Categories-to-categories structure
  • Add/Edit/Remove categories, products, manufacturers, customers, and reviews
  • Support for physical (shippable) and virtual (downloadable) products
  • Administration area secured with a username and password defined during installation (MS3)
  • Contact customers directly via email or newsletters
  • Easily backup and restore the database
  • Print invoices and packaging lists from the order screen
  • Statistics for products and customers
  • Multilingual support
  • Multicurrency support
    • Automatically update currency exchange rates
  • Select what to display, and in what order, in the product listing page
  • Support for static and dynamic banners with full statistics

Customer / Frontend Functionality

  • All orders stored in the database for fast and efficient retrieval
  • Customers can view their order history and order statuses
  • Customers can maintain their accounts
    • Addressbook for multiple shipping and billing addresses
  • Temporary shopping cart for guests and permanent shopping cart for customers
  • Fast and friendly quick search and advanced search features
  • Product reviews for an interactive shopping experience
  • Forseen checkout procedure
  • Secure transactions with SSL
  • Number of products in each category can be shown or hidden
  • Global and per-category bestseller lists
  • Display what other customers have ordered with the current product shown
  • Breadcrumb trail for easy site navigation

Product Functionality

  • Dynamic product attributes relationship
  • HTML based product descriptions
  • Automated display of specials
  • Control if out of stock products can still be shown and are available for purchase
  • Customers can subscribe to products to receive related emails/newsletters

Payment Functionality

  • Accept numerous offline payment processing (check, money orders, offline credit card processing, ..)
  • Accept numerous online payment processing (2CheckOut, PayPal, Authorize.net, iPayment, ..)
  • Disable certain payment services based on a zone

Shipping Functionality

  • Weight, price, and destination based shipping modules
  • Real-time quotes available (UPS, USPS, FedEx, etc.)
  • Free shipping based on amount and destination
  • Disable certain shipping services based on a zone basis

Tax Functionality

  • Flexible tax implementation on a state and country basis
  • Set different tax rates for different products
  • Charge tax on shipping on a per shipping service basi

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