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One of the main strengths of osCommerce revolves
around community developed contributions that
- save time and money when developing your site
- allow you to benefit from new features and ideas
The
osCommerce website describes contributions as
developments "... provided by the community which are
in the form of project add-ons, feature updates,
language packs, and extended modules."
osCommerce contributions are designed to be
easily slotted into an existing osCommerce
installation and provide specific enhancements or
capabilities.
Currently there are almost
1000 community made contributions available for
download from the osCommerce website that either
expand or enhance the base osCommerce product.
Many of the contributions center on expanding the
capabilities and usability of osCommerce. For example,
some contributions allow for the store to be connected
to new and changing payment systems.
Others concentrate on the delivery side of the
business. For example. enhancing the osCommerce
shipping modules with contributions that enable
delivery costs to be calculated to take into account
localised shipping systems and costs to ship to
different regions.
There are also contributions that assist the
merchant in administering their site (for example
making it easier to update product prices) or in
selling in better ways to their customers (for example
customer wish lists within your store, or the ability
to create and operate an affiliate scheme).
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