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While ensuring that any visitor to your online shop
is met with an intuitive and easy to use environment
is important, it is equally important that the system
for administering and controlling the shop for you the
vendor is similarly user friendly and constructive.
Administering Your Shopping Cart
The administration of osCommerce is simple and
largely intuitive. Access to the administration area
of the store is password protected and once authorised,
the vendor has a free hand to setup, modify and
organise the store to their liking.
Some of the capabilities osCommerce provides the
vendor include:
- Full control over the addition, removal
and modification of categories, products,
manufacturers, customers, and product reviews.
- Full control over the shops catalog structure,
organizing the products from category-to-category.
- Systems for reviewing reports on both
customers and their purchases.
- Ability to add and control product attributes.
Colors and sizes can be specified and the customer
offered a choice as they purchase.
- Systems to cope with Tax zones, classes, and
rates.
- Control over how shipping costs are
calculated for each purchase. Modules that are
installed by default with osCommerce allow shipping
charges to be calculated based on the number of
items purchased, by weight, or as a flat rate. It is
also possible to specify different rates for
different geographic locations. Support exists for
the US postal service, UPS and Federal Express.
There are currently over 60 more shipping module
contributions available on the osCommerce site.
- Control over the way payments are processed.
Multiple payment methods can be installed giving
customers a choice of how they pay. Modules that
come preinstalled with osCommerce provide support
for AuthorizeNet, Paypal, Secpay, Worldpay and other
major realtime credit card processors. Modules also
exist to receive credit card data for offline
processing and support for payment by Money Order or
Check. In addition to this there are currently over
120 payment module contributions available on the
osCommerce site.
- Support for multi-currency shops and the
ability to update exchange rates manually or via
connection to currency exchange rate servers.
- Support for multi-language sites.
Language support is available for English, German,
and Spanish. More languages are available from the
osCommerce site.
- Backup tools to safeguard the store from
computer failures.
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