osCommerce is an open-source package that allows your hosting company to offer an excellent e-commerce solution for your clients.

osCommerce user-end and administrative features make the functioning and administration of the site easy and efficient.

Multi-language and currency support in osCommerce will help your customers expand their business up to international ranks.

Help4Hosters can install osCommerce 2.1/2.2 for you and help you with administering and configuration of the Internet shops based on osCommerce versions 2.1/2.2.

1. Client End Functionality

• the shop stores in the database all information related to customer accounts (contact and billing info, Customer purchase history, Customer address-book, cart contents);
• customer address book allows sending purchased items to other shipping destinations;
• there is Temporary (not logged on) and permanent (logged on) shopping cart;
• products of the shop are conveniently divided into categories;
• it is possible to search or browse catalog or manufacturers;
• number of products in each category are shown;
• orders are made step-by-step, there is a possibility to correct the entered order details; customer foresees checkout procedure;
• there is a possibility for a customer to leave a product review; rate a product and get to know product reviews of other customers;
• the shop can have bestsellers list;
• customer gets e-mail notifications (e.g., account creation, order completion);
• secure transactions are possible with SSL certificate;
• customers see what other customers have bought (links to current product are displayed);
• new entries to the categories and to the shop are highlighted;
• there is a possibility to choose the most convenient payment tipe and shipping option from the list of available ones;
• for products not available in stock there are the dates of adding of the products to the stock;
• customers view specials, products sold at reduced prices;
• multi-language support (English/German/Spanish/Russian etc)

2. Administrative Functionality

• user friendly design;
• administrative Panel is not tied together with the catalog module (back-end can be installed on another webserver);
• possibility to correct the shop configuration, text files, manage modules, change the outlook of the shop via handy web interface;
• possibility to add/edit/remove categories, products, manufacturers, customers, and reviews;
• administrator decides what to display in the products listings
• products catalog is easy to be administered; it is possible to divide the catalog into categories;
• special product attributes can be added, and the prices for products can be altered according to the product attributes;
• many Payment and Shipping modules are easy to be installed and configured;
• it is possible to set product prices in more than one currency;
• multi-currency shops are connected to oanda.com's currency exchange rate servers; also exchange rates can be manually modified;
• customers are informed by email about account creation/Order processing/appearance of new products;
• many powerful tools to make the management of the shop easier: creation of backup copies of the shop database; handy File Manager; banner management; automated mailing of messages and newsletters to customers;
• implemented feature of calculation of various kinds of tax zones, classes, and rates;
• management panel provides detailed statistics of the sold products; orders history and customers;
• creation of special discounts on certain products;
• administrator can add comments to orders;
• administrator has complete control over order processing, delivery and payment.