osCommerce & osCommerce Contributions
The osCommerce shopping cart is by far one of the most popular shopping cart software programs available and has proven reliable time and time again. osCommerce is a free open source shopping cart platform that is a solid choice for both small and large eshops across the Internet.
One of the beauties of using an open source application is the community support available from fellow osCommerce users which seems to go hand and hand with open source software these days. Take a quick look at the osCommerce support forums and you will find hundreds of fellow webmasters answering each others questions at all hours of the day.
Not only does osCommerce perform well right out of the box, but being an open source application osCommerce is highly modifiable to suit just about anyone’s needs in an online shopping cart.
Free osCommerce Contributions are one of the quickest and simplest ways to modify and enhance your eshop. These contributions are in all essence little bundles of code which are designed to be added to your site to provide new features or eased functionality. A wide variety of osCommerce contributions can be downloaded for free from the osCommerce contributions page. The contributions on osCommerce.com were all donated to the community by other webmasters, and although many are quite useful one must remember they are free donations and quite possibly not tested in a wide range of conditions for extended periods of time, and might need some tweaking to get them to perform properly.
Third party development companies also produce a wide range of osCommerce contributions and modules including both paid and free contributions. Many of these enhancements are extremely robust and well designed applications that have had a lot of deep thought put into their development to fill specific needs expressed by osCommerce webmasters.
A great example of a well thought out and quite useful commercial osCommerce module that recently hit the market is know as Quick Updater by Concept Laboratory. This particular osCommerce module was developed to reduce the time needed to make regular updates to your osCommerce product database by allowing you to update all your category and product fields across multiple products with a few simple mouse clicks. Those of you with a big number of products or categories in your osCommerce eshop might want to consider giving this module a closer look.
Add comment June 27th, 2007
