The Usability Of OsCommerce

Nearly 13 thousand stores are using osCommerce as a platform to sell their products. The e-commerce solution has attracted and continues to, an entire community that’s supportive and contributive to the advancement and improvement of the platform. osCommerce is open source so updates and plugins are always being developed by enthusiastic users, making it ever growingly functional.

The design and layout of osCommerce is template structured to allow for changes to be adaptive, easy, and quick to make as well as easy to integrate into an existing site. The administrative and backend functionality of osCommerce includes add, edit, and remove categories, products, customers, and reviews. It also supports backup and database restores. Language barriers and localizations are also not a problem as there is multilingual and multicurrency support.  osCommerce supports automatic currency exchange rates and implementation of tax based on country and state . On the other hand, the frontend functionality of osCommerce, among other features, allows for customers to view their order history, secure transactions, fast and quick product searchs, and breadcrumb trails for easier site navigation.

Setting up osCommerce is simple but the first and most important step is finding a PCI-Compliant business web hosting provider. PCI-Compliancy is now a requirement and the fines can get pretty hefty if you are not hosted with a PCI-Compliant provider. WebNet Hosting runs a PCI-Compliant web hosting platform and secure environment with high speed servers allowing you to get the most out of your osCommerce shopping cart, you can learn more about the osCommerce Shopping Cart packages at www.webnethosting.net.  WebNet Hosting also offers a complimentary migration service for all customers switching their osCommerce hosting from another web host to WebNet Hosting.