osCommerce Review
- The Customer's Perspective: How osCommerce works to create a positive shopping experience
- The Merchant's Perspective 1: How osCommerce works to allow effective selling on the Internet
- The Merchant's Perspective 2: How osCommerce works to allow you to administer your Shopping Cart
- Strengths of osCommerce Explored
- Customizing the osCommerce template
- Weighing Up the Options
- Disadvantages of osCommerce
- Advantages of osCommerce
- Final Comments
- Legal Stuff
osCommerce Demonstration
Attitude has two osCommerce demonstration stores available for evaluation. One, highlighting the full feature-set of osCommerce, the other, showing how osCommerce can serve simpler shops with smaller product ranges.
Want to Sell Online?
Attitude offers three specific services to help you create and grow a great shopping site specific to your business and its customers!
Attitude can assist you in the setup, installation, and customization of your ecommerce site. Attitude's ecommerce solution of choice is osCommerce.
osCommerce Installation - Shopping Cart installed for only US$49
When a visitor arrives at your store they are primarily interested in an easy and secure way to shop and purchase. osCommerce is designed with these interests in mind. osCommerce produces:
- user friendly stores with intuitive navigation
- a convenient shopping cart model
- a secure shopping cart model
These three aspects work in harmony to provide customers with a hassle free shopping experience.
osCommerce provides highly visible and easily accessible product catalogs that allow customers to naturally and conveniently navigate towards the products that interest them. There are multiple ways provided for the customer to search and browse your catalog and find relevant products. The software can also provide suggestions about related products and can automatically inform them of new products.
Shopping cart software like osCommerce allows the customer to browse freely within the store, adding and removing products at will until they make their final selection. They can then proceed to the checkout and pay for products. This is a popular and natural system that enhances a shopper's experience as they do not feel "locked into" purchasing a product and are more likely to freely browse the store.
osCommerce allows secure purchasing using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) to encrypt information between the customer and the vendor. This protects valuable customer information such as their credit card details, and makes them feel more comfortable purchasing from your store.
osCommerce features a customer account system, which means that customer contact details are remembered for subsequent purchases. This makes it easier to make a repeat purchase, review previous orders, view order status and keep contact information up to date.
Customers also appreciate a number of tools that make the task of shopping and tracking past purchases easy.
- Purchases can be reviewed by customers so that they can track and monitor the status of their orders. Information regarding processing and shipping can be displayed and osCommerce can send an email to a customer whenever the status of one of their purchases changes.
- Customers can view the status of each order. The software provides the customer with detailed information regarding their order, including whether their order has been processed or shipped.
- Customers have access to their full history of purchases allowing them to track back through their past purchases.
- Customers can register to receive email notification of product updates relevant to them.
- An optional product review feature (which can be disabled by the shop owner) allows customers to review products and read the reviews of other shoppers.