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
Everyone's requirements are different for an ecommerce site. The options can be broadly classified as follows...
Developing a ground-up solution
Lots of work and the costs can be prohibitive. Initially custom built sites seem like a smart move because you can get 'exactly what you want', but there is a large setup cost, a long wait until the site is launched, and there are often periods of trial and error. There are also high development and maintenance costs, and it can be difficult to change web developers.
Installing a fixed shopping cart product
Buying a commercial cart package often gives you access to ongoing support. However, the set list of features often may not allow enough flexibility for the system to change to meet individual and ongoing customer requirements.
Adapting a freely available shopping cart option
This can provide a good base to build on. The best of these systems should be developed in an organized, ongoing way and allow a mechanism for adequate support.
osCommerce fits into this category.
osCommerce caters for a broad range of scenarios. If you already have a reasonable grasp on computer coding or have the time to learn, you can use the osCommerce software and support community to construct the entire site yourself.
Alternatively, if you are happy to pay for a complete ecommerce solution you can hire a web developer to customize osCommerce to your requirements.
Like any option, osCommerce has both advantages and disadvantages.