osCommerce or Open Source Commerce is an open source e-commerce and online store-management software program. Allowing store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved, osCommerce comes with a rich set of features.

Available as a free software under the GNU General Public License, osCommerce can be used on any web server that has PHP and MySQL installed. Without any special requirements, osCommerce is able to run on any PHP 4.1+ enabled web server running on Linux, Solaris, BSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows environments.

Key Features of osCommerce:

• Compatible with all PHP 4 versions and object oriented backend.
• Automatic web-browser based installation and upgrade procedure.
• Support for dynamic images and Template structure implementation.
• Supports unlimited products and categories.
• Multilingual and multicurrency support.
• Add/Edit/Remove categories, products, manufacturers, customers, and reviews.
• Administration area secured with a username and password defined during installation (MS3).
• Print invoices and packaging lists from the order screen.
• Temporary shopping cart for guests and permanent shopping cart for customers.
• All orders stored in the database for fast and efficient retrieval.
• Secure transactions with SSL.
• Dynamic product attributes relationship.
• Accept numerous offline payment processing.
• Weight, price, and destination based shipping modules.
• Flexible tax implementation on a state and country basis.
• Accepting a large variety of payment gateways.

C.H. Ting, Jinhwa