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OsCommerce
- One of the best-known open source software for online business. This
product has one of the largest community of users, developers,
volunteer contributions, there are hundreds of modules available for
free download.
Having a very good programming knowledge, patience and
huge amount of free time, one can expect to turn osCommerce into a
feature-rich, working system. The main problem, however, is the same as
for any other free online storefront platform: all modules are
developed by different people and conflicts between the poorly tested
components are very common. There are many community members who offer
their paid services for cart customization. But in this case you will
anyway have to spend money, often much more when youd have to pay for
the certified support and customizations of much better tested
solutions.
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| Features |
OsCommerce
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ViArt Enterprise |
| License fee |
Free
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299.00 USD |
| Multi-site |
No
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Yes |
| Trial period |
Unlimited
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Free version with restriction |
| Technical support |
No authorized technical support service. Only forums and online articles
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Authorized technical support service, forums, FAQ, online manual, free unlimited support |
| Installation service |
Only third-party services
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Installation service 50.00 USD. Free installation service for paid hosted clients. |
| Design & development
services |
Only third-party services
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Comes with 20 pre-define templates plus 97% of source code, Custom development service and web design service |
| Store Operation Features |
| Support for downloadable
egoods |
Not available
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Yes |
| Affiliate system |
Only third-party services
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Yes |
| Real time shipping rates calculation |
UPS, FedEx & USPS
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Fedex, UPS, USPS V3, Customizable shipping modules and methods |
| Moderated product reviews
and ratings |
Add/Edit/Remove product reviews
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Yes |
| Statistics tools |
Statistics for product sales,
low stock
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General statistics and shop summary, Shop statistics, Top Paths Through Site, Top Pages Views, Shopping Cart Conversion Funnel, Visitors environment statistics, Search statistics. customized reports available. |
| Taxes |
Tax implementation on a state and country basis, tax on shipping on a per shipping service basis
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Ability to set tax by state, country, product type, advanced tax structures including VAT. |
| Orders management |
Order status system, automated
and manual credit card processing
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Order status system, automated order notifications, automated and manual credit card processing, order search and filtering, possibility to export/import all and filtered orders, support of recurring orders, PDF invoices and packing slips |
| Inventory tracking |
Reports for bestsellers, best viewed products, low stock products
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Reports for number of orders, number of products, options, product /category views sorted by date period, bestsellers, Out of stock messages, number of products/options in stock for every item. |
| Security |
Encrypted customer data, Secure transactions with SSL
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Full HTTPS/SSL support
Encrypted customer data (Blowfish encryption)
PGP-encrypted e-mail notifications
Customer/admin access restriction by IP |
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For complete details |
| Catalog & Storefront |
| Number of products in
catalogue |
Unlimited
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Unlimited |
| Storefront customization |
Partially editable interface
(complete flexibility is planned for further releases), plain text editor, CSS compatible.
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100% template-based storefront
100% CSS-based
Customizable menus
Customizable logo and
templates layout from browser
Built-in text editor |
| Multi-language support |
Products, store interface
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Store interface, messages
completely multi-lingual |
| Extended product
specifications |
Extra fields
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Extra custom fields, product options and components, dependant options, filters for products. |
| Marketing & Promotion |
| SEO Tools |
Not available
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Catalog, title and meta tags definition, URLs, site map generator |
| Marketing and promotion
tools |
Featured products
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Merchant Module, Rewards and Bonus Points Functionalities, Call Centre modules, |
| Added Features |
| HelpDesk Modular |
No built-in components
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Included |
| Forum Modular |
No built-in components
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Included |
| Classified Ads |
No built-in components
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Included |
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