Monday 2 July 2012

Benefits and Drawbacks OsCommerce Development System

You may have heard about osCommerce. But do you know what exactly osCommerce is? osCommerce is an online shopping cart used widely. It has been very popular and is very efficient when it comes to building an online shopping website. It has plenty of features and is considered as the most flexible shopping cart. It also enables the owners with the customization options for their shopping cart website as per their requirements at an affordable cost.  If you are wishing to set up an online shopping portal, you can surely think of using osCommerce. osCommerce is an open source application and can be downloaded from osCommerce.com. It offers wide range of features that helps to setup the online shops very easily and quickly. It serves the owner and the customers very well, since it has a good fronted catalog for the customers and also an administration backend for the owner which can configured on any web server.

osCommerce can be installed on any PHP 4.1 and higher versions enabled web server. These web servers could be based on Linux, Solaris, Mac Os, Microsoft Windows environment.

Benefits:

  •       osCommerce is trusted and considered as one of the best possible solutions for building online shops. It is very popular and is used widely. It has good community support to get the queries solved if there are any.
  •       osCommerce is free to download. One can use the existing code and the new updates to it, freely. It uses PHP and MySQL.
  •     It allows the use of the SSL (Secure Connect Layer) protection.
  •     osCommerce helps merchants build a strong customer base by providing some additional features such as their reviews or monthly newsletters.
  •     Supports processing of many credit cards as well as shipping services.
  •     It can manage large number of products. Thanks to the secure and indexed database.
  •   It is very easy to use since it has typical shopping cart model having number of ways for accessing the products catalog. 
  •     It is very easy to install osCommerce on web severs to get it running.
  •    There are number of add-ons available and more are being developed.

Drawbacks:

  •   Technical support is restricted to the osCommerce forums which may not be much help to the novices.
  •   Also the customization of the osCommerce shopping cart has to be looked upon technically which requires good knowledge.
  • Although osCommerce can be easily configured, if one is not comfortable with updating the files, then they may have to hire a developer for doing it.
  •   Adding multiple add-on modules may take time.
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