Posted By: Diomenas on February 27 2012 11:20 pm
osCommerce 3.0.2 is not the current Stable release of osCommerce. It is still in development. You would be better served to switch back to the Stable Release version of 2.3.1.
Note the following from the osCommerce.com website: Note: osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0 is currently in development and does not yet contain the same user-end features that v2.3 has. This release is recommended for developers and users who are participating in its development and are providing feedback.
http://www.oscommerce.com/solutions/oscommerce
Posted By: Razibul Hassan on September 29 2011 05:13 am
This is one of the best ever Open source e-commerce CMS. It bundles all the good feature for designing, setting and running a successful online store. Thanks for the out of the box CMS that matches the variety of needs perfectly.
Posted By: Mark on August 11 2011 09:12 pm
I am a web developer who was recently tasked with investigating a client's hacked oscommerce install. After looking at the code I quickly realized what a steaming pile of garbage it is. Seriously, I have never seen such awful, old-fashioned, insecure code in all of my professional life. One of the "security" features they use depended on the name of the file as read from the URL. This means that by simply typing the name of that file into the url bar in the right place anyone could access sensitive backend information! I cannot believe that something as poorly coded and insecure as oscommerce has garnered the high ratings on here that is has. It is a ticking time-bomb for any merchant that uses it and I would suggest you use ANYTHING else.
Posted By: osCommerce template solution on June 24 2011 10:07 am
i read through the comments and felt compelled to thorough my hat into the ring. A lot of people mention issues with 'theming' and working with the OSC template. So i have to mention our brand spanking new product (free before admin blocks the comment..lol)
I am sure a lot of you have heard of Wordpress, the biggest CMS on the planet with a zillion easy to edit themes? Well we have created a custom oscommece plug in that drops a full OSC store into ANY wordpress theme...solving all OSC theme problems.
you can take a look at it and sign up to test it here www.wponlinestore.com
I hope it solves a few problems and bring a few people back over to the joys of osCommerce
cheers Garfield
Posted By: Boxx on June 17 2011 04:27 am
GoldenPlanet is using OSC as engine for their OpenbBizBox solution.
It's horrible to work with, especially the editor is a pile of crap.
Also, it's backend module lacks a lot of features, eg. modifying an order, making an manual order eg. if a customer phones an order in.
It also lacks serialnumer management.
Maybe usefull for a hobbysalesman selling healing stones or stockings, but thats about all.
Posted By: Peter on May 13 2011 12:15 am
osCommerce 2.3.1 is a horrible piece of software. No theming support and the module system is barely worth mentioning. The code is messy and you have to hack away at core files to achieve even simple customisations. I had the misfortune of having to build a production shop using this crap and it was a nightmare from start to finish. Avoid it at all costs! If you are building a simple store use OpenCart instead.
Posted By: John on March 10 2011 02:15 am
This is a horrible piece of rubbish. ZenCart is modeled on this and has lots of security issues.
Posted By: Angela on February 15 2011 02:38 am
Thank you for offering the admin-view of Oscommerce 2.3.1. I've been using Oscommerce since 2005 and developed some excellent PHP skills because of Oscommerce; it requires a lot of customizations if you want to differ yourself from the "default" style and feel.
I wanted to see what 2.3.1 was all about, to see if it was worth trashing my countless customizations.. it isn't. 2.3.1 looks (nearly) identical to my classic 2.2 (with RC updates & security patches).
Fooey to all of these people below griping about Oscommerce - it's one of the most versatile & easy to use shopping cart systems available. Earlier this evening I gave Magento, Prestashop, etc. all a test drive and they're all bloated & have such nonsensical features/navigation compared to Oscommerce.
I'm quite happy with my ancient, legacy version of Oscommerce. I will be keeping an eye on OSC to ensure I'm up-to-date security-wise, but other than that; there is no need for Oscommerce to change. It's perfect as-is!
Posted By: Confused on January 14 2011 05:49 am
After spending some more time with adjusting an old installation:
Too many files nested in too many folders, no proper separation of code and layout (have to search through the thousand files to find the HTML tags you want to change and "hack" the PHP code, which is then lost on a new version installation), use of deprecated HTML, no proper and simple theming function/support, impossible to update from a very old version. It's faster to add all the products again and ask your customers to re-register, than to add the database updates which don't work anyway in the end...
Looks like the typical open source attempt of nerdy, self-absorbed Linux coders that don't understand what the average users want and need.
Posted By: Confused on January 11 2011 07:13 am
Too complicated too install, administrate, update. Also, PHP-Nuke-like three-column layouts were never "in".
Posted By: Gbaster on September 18 2010 07:37 am
it's real that osCommerce has been dead for many years.
But was the best.
I have already 172 e-shops on osc,
But you have to rewrite some piece of code.
When i am ready i will use the opencart
but in this script too you have to write some code,
you have to make your own bridges between versions.
Posted By: A1ex on September 12 2010 08:43 pm
OsCommerce is in soft words not designed well, this can be used only for very very simple shopping cards with products that dont require any options or attributes such as size or color or other variants. I am trying to setup a website for client and its very difficult to do this with osCommerce. One of the biggest and not to be rude but stupidest problems I've seen in it is if I try to add color attributes it is very difficult, there is no way to create a set and copy over to other product, after I tried several add-ons that did not work one did but still would not even show them in alphabetical order which makes it seem very unprofessional since that is a fairly easy to program. The images are not even resized with GD or other way. Anyway I seen they are coming with improved version, but its not stable yet, and I think Im done working through this mess of OsCommerce and looking to try another solution...
Posted By: Suborna Fermi on August 19 2010 06:21 am
OSC is very powerful eCommerce system as lots of free modules are available. Also coding is very easy to customize.
Posted By: Nando on June 28 2010 11:48 am
Osc is actually obsolete. I refused to believe that the software came without any templates.
The concept of tableless is far from osc.
¿Templates? ¿Layouts? ¿What is that?
After some work I installed STS (a module for osc to use templates), but OSC needs a serious rework.
The version 3 continues on Alpha stage since I remember.
After some bad experiences, I tried with Zen Cart. It suprised me that Zen Cart and Osc were actually so similar. Later I find out that they shared the same core code, BUT there is a lot of work in Zen Cart. Zen Cart is superior in many ways to osc. I gave up and I'm giving a chance to ZC.
Posted By: alex on June 17 2010 04:11 am
This is probably the worst piece of crap i have ever used... The code architecture is more than terrible, it is torture for whoever has to touch it (everyone who wants to extend the core functionality via plugins).
The only real problem is, that there is no real alternative with such a big community behind it.
soooo its a dilemma, i really dont understand why people fork this piece of junk (like zencart, xtcommerce and all the other copies) instead of writing a clean plugin-friendly shopping cart.
Posted By: Brian on April 14 2010 10:04 am
osCommerce has been dead for many years. Do yourself and your company a favor, do not use osCommerce. Pick a solution from this decade.
Posted By: Steve on November 24 2009 02:52 pm
osCommerce takes a great deal of PHP work just to get it to the point where many of the other open source ecommerce packages start. While the community is active, the actual core development is almost non-existent (two+ years between recent releases). In 2000 when it was originally release I bet this was the best thing since sliced bread, and would have been more than acceptable as an ecommerce solution, but as of 2009 this beast needs to be shot and put out of its misery. The internet, eCommerce, and the average web shopper have come a long distance in the last nine years. Of course if you are a developer then use osCommerce, job security.
Posted By: ecommcoder.com on September 12 2009 03:34 pm
osCommerce is simply great. We have been working on this for 3 years. It gave us a lot - we got lots business opportunities. Our big thanks to osCommerce founder and contributors. It has changed our business - we are really grateful.
Posted By: dreaded on August 16 2009 09:50 pm
Unless you are a top notch PHP programmer, Oscommerce is the worst shopping cart ever. Definitely not for newbies or non-programmers. Of course oscommerce lovers would argue on this. Anyway ask any e-commerce owners and they would definitely tell you the best shopping cart is the one which is highly customizable and highly robust but all I can say is that oscommerce isn't one (again unless you are a PHP freak). The addons and modules require you to strip the bloody scripts apart all over the shop. Even the forum support sucks with thousands of unresolved issues. My advise if you are not in a hurry to set up an e-commerce store, go learn PHP or buy a well-designed shopping cart script or sadly pay someone to design a shopping cart for you. If budget is your biggest constraint and your do not mind a simple mediocre layout with easy adjustments and pre-installed configurations, which is "as it is", try Prestashop or Opencart. But then again both support and contributions are limited. It's your call.
Posted By: alex on July 30 2009 09:28 am
Sorry but oscommerce is rubbish...
Don't get me wrong, if you want a simple shop set up, it is perfect, but if you need to customize it (modules ecc..) then you will end up crying and yelling because the code architecture is terrible (to install an addon you cannot simply push install to auto-install it, you often need to perform core-hacks wich is c.a.t.a.s.t.r.o.p.h.i.c.a.l. for any cms.. (i recommend strongly a complete rewrite wich adopts strong conventions and mvc)..
Posted By: Webman on April 25 2009 03:21 pm
osCommerce has been around for years, and it's a well known e-commerce CMS. osCommerce allows you to easily add products and categories, manage orders, add payment and shipping modules, and more.
The one current drawback to osCommerce is its primitive look and feel. Also not to mention you need to do quite a bit of manual editing with the design and layout.
However, the new osCommerce v. 3 has some improvements for the design and layout, such as template selector, and also ability to select the layout of boxes.
I believe that they will make osCommerce more modern in a newer release version.
Posted By: sprocket on March 15 2008 09:40 am
Why is this the only viable open source ecommerce solution? Most others including cp, X, osC, Freeway and Zencart are derivatives of osCommerce often with just a template layer added.
Take a look at the code, and just imagine trying to maintain it. All you need to add is meatballs and sauce and you would have a great dinner!
Seriously the code is terrible. It is about time for a new, engineered, open source PHP ecommerce platform.
Any takers?
Posted By: Vadym on February 17 2008 03:41 am
We have been using osCommerce and its different 'flavors' since May 2002. Have worked with over 750 online stores since then. Online stores of our customers vary from home-based crafts to international companies with multimillion turnover. And it looks like osCommerce is one of the best Ecommerce solutions for such small to medium businesses! The flexibility is the key of course.
Posted By: Cristina on February 6 2008 01:22 pm
Ive installed oscommerce in 2 websites for my customers but when trying to modify the application I noticed it was not as simple as I thought it would be.
Thanks!
Cristina
Posted By: Vicky Toshach on January 21 2008 11:44 am
I started off making my site with osCommerce. It certainly is easy to install and get a good working site. Easy to design compared to others. However, the features availabl weren't as robust as ZenCart. I opted for ZenCart in the end and am very happy with it.
Posted By: Mike on January 11 2008 09:25 am
We have put much consideration into re-building our commerce site using osCommerce due to the flexibility is offers in customization. We are not using it now and I am paying the price in conversions with the ability to tailor things as I see fit. We are going to make the move and are very exciting. Thanks to all that support this board, it is a wealth of great information and has been incredibly helpful to us in making the right choice for the future. Keep up the great work!!!
Posted By: Rebecca on October 21 2007 05:17 pm
Have been using oscommerce for several years now. Easy to install and there's a great community. Admin interface is intuitive and there are lots of useful features. There are lots of modules available, but the mods can be difficult to install as you need to modify the PHP, sometimes extensively. The more mods you've installed, the more difficult it becomes of course. Upgrades can also be a nightmare as again you have to get into the PHP. I haven't had any performance issues on the servers I use.
Posted By: bahtiyar on October 18 2007 09:54 am
its very complex and usefull e commerce script.it has got a lot of hacks and information.
But script code is very complex .if you want to change and adapt this script.its very hard for you.
Posted By: Tim Pearson on April 4 2007 11:19 am
Can be a little confusing when changing template designs, there are some contributions that help with this like STS, but could be better. All in all a good ecommerce package.
Posted By: Shaun on March 6 2007 01:58 pm
I spent a whole afternoon installing and modifying osCommerce only to discover that the person who designed the database thought that osCommerce was the only program allowed access to it. A little thought, like naming the tables with a prefix like maybe osc_ would have meant that the installation didn't write over every table in my mysql database with their generic names. language - customer - and the cms that I was using suddenly stopped working. Definitely my fault for not investigating this fully before I installed osCommerce, but I can assure you it will never happen again. A definite -10 out of 5.
Posted By: Ted on November 23 2006 12:52 pm
We are making osCommerce, Zen Cart and CRE Loaded stores for several years. osCommerce is the best solution for not professionals. Its code is simple for understanding. But if you need more functionality try CRE Loaded. It is based on osCommerce but has a lot of extra useful features.
Posted By: Stomar on November 19 2006 12:11 pm
The best e-commerce package out there. Great community support.
Just one issue - The checkout process is too complex and requires too many steps for the consumer.
GeographyIsHistory.com
Posted By: galib on November 1 2006 08:01 am
I've worked with osCommerce a few times and was pretty impressed. osCommerce is an excellent shopping cart. As with all open source software, you have access to the source code and the freedom to customize the store to meet the individual needs for any web site. There are also hundreds of modules contributed by the open source community to add even more functionality, connect to payment gateways, customize shipping methods and much more.
Posted By: a poortman on October 9 2006 04:23 am
Allready made more then 100 oscommerce shops. Never had problems or complains. Super to customize and even better to use. Oscommerce is the best.
Posted By: Tina on September 17 2006 12:50 pm
From a project point of view osCommerce is every good about open source, an enormous library of add-on modules, a very active forum community, and a large install base. The core application is sound and with some time and effort the code is not very difficult to figure out. On the down side the architecture is a little dated as much of the presentation is intertwined with the logic. There are a few add-on templating system which help to ease that issue. I've also worked with some of the other options for eCommerce and feel that all things considered osCommerce remains the best choice.
Posted By: Edwin on September 15 2006 03:52 am
osCommerce is hands down the best open source ecommerce package yet. I was a bit frustrated with the way you can customize your templates but there are two main contributions that make this process much easier.
A couple of templating contributions I can recommend are STS
www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1524
and BTS (a little more complex but it allows you include PHP in the templates - good for integration with wordpress)
www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1263
Peace!
Posted By: Ted on August 19 2006 02:14 am
osCommerce is the most powerful and reliable open source shopping cart system on the Web. Hundreds of our customers have only the best responses of this shopping cart system.
Posted By: john on April 24 2006 12:25 pm
oscommerce has SE component, you can make it SE friendly too by modification in the basic cart, we use chronopay as our payment processor, its well supported by it.
Posted By: DauglasJ on April 24 2006 12:04 pm
There is SE component in oscommerce, you can make oscommerce SE friendly by modification of the basic cart. We use chronopay as our payment processor, its well supported by their system.
Posted By: Jai Obuhoro on April 19 2006 06:12 am
For those looking to sell products online. Here you go with Oscommerce. Easy to install and configure. All I have to say is free and will get the job done. http://soulposter.com
Posted By: smartuser on March 5 2006 07:21 am
osCommerce is our e-commerce solution since 3 years. and it will go on...
Posted By: Boris Juric on February 20 2006 05:42 am
osCommerce is probably the best ecommerce solution available. Design custommization can be tricky, but when you get to know it, literally anything is possible. We had great success with it. Lots of contributions (modules) allow almost any functionality you can imagine. That's why our web development company has chosen to offer customized osCommerce to be its main e-commerce solution for clients.
Posted By: Nelly on February 19 2006 01:12 am
Oscommerce is really good *but* it really should be search engine friendly 'out of the box' without any contributions/addons. Also, a true shop keeper will want to follow-up with customers. The newsletter in OSC is too boring and non-customizable.
Posted By: Kaitlyn on February 19 2006 01:00 am
I have a love/hate relationship with oscommerce.
Pros: it is FREE plus has tons of addons that you can get for almost everything you could need. You can ask any question relating your oscommerce store and you will get a fairly quick response from the large oscommerce community at their forums.
Cons: a witch to integrate the free addons. They are written by different folks but sometimes these addons don't work well with each other or you wind up spending hours changing the core files. Then when there's a new oscommerce update, you might not be able to integrate your changes easily, or worse, you'd have to start all over again. Plus, IMHO I would like an autoresponder feature/addon integrated with oscommerce (instead of the bland and limited newsletter it comes with), which you could use to do followups with your customers/subscriber. Just my two cents!
Posted By: Steve on February 7 2006 12:00 pm
Is it possible to us a oscommerce style site for an online retail store? How easy is it to set up for a merchant account.
The site we have we did through go-daddy just as a banner site but now we want to have our own store. Poeple recommended Xoop's any comments?
Thanks
Posted By: ALEX RIBEIRO on February 7 2006 03:26 am
great
but i dont know how install...sorry for my bad english, i am Brazilian, you help me for instalation. please.Thanks
Posted By: Michael on January 26 2006 10:59 am
I've worked with osCommerce a few times and was pretty impressed. I'd imagine it's probably a bit much for most applications, but the ton of features also makes it a usable option for many different users. I think it really shines when you build a site with it in mind, rather than work it into an existing setup.
Posted By: Chris on December 3 2005 02:34 am
We used OS Commerce for our KVM switch store. We had it customized back and forth, using the Ultimate SEO URL's to make the site search engine friendly (check out the urls to see it in action). It was nice being able to change everything to our specific shopping cart needs too.
Posted By: Keso on October 3 2005 07:38 am
osCommerce is an excellent shopping cart with an unusual feature. It's free! As with all open source software, you'll have access to the source code as well as the freedom to customize the store to meet the individual needs for any web site. Not only that, there are hundreds of modules contrbuted by the user community to add functionality, connect to payment gateways, customize shipping methods and options, and more.
It's also a full featured shopping cart offering an easily navigable site for your customers, secure credit card transactions through SSL, and a well rounded administration area to customize and maintain your store.
Posted By: William on September 21 2005 12:29 pm
I has few clients use oscommerce, it's great project. The only thing is it's little too powerful.
Posted By: navy on August 31 2005 05:46 am
Great great script .. not very flexible about content management but this is not his job, Very secure and many contributions.. A very good solution for your shop .. i'm a fan ;o)
Posted By: Jesse on July 8 2005 08:48 am
Great tool! Works very good!
Posted By: robert goese on May 17 2005 08:29 am
Wow, the best open source shop with many contributions - but I wait for the next version with table-less design...
Posted By: Jesse on April 30 2005 04:50 am
Awsome e-commerce software.
Posted By: harko on March 15 2005 11:00 am
I'm running several shops with osCommerce while helping others to keep it running. It is very easy to set it up and bring it online, but if you want to have some aditional features (like real thumnails instead of browserscaled pictures, affiliates, a look different from default, autologin for users or some more payment-modules), you have to hack the code, mostly the core-files. It is defenetely in need to have someone with basic programming skills at your side to help you with this excellent solution if you want to run a fulltime-store. But it works also very well out of the box.
Posted By: Colin Flisk on March 8 2005 03:00 am
On the whole I have been quite happy with osCommerce. Just keep in mind that you may need to download and install quite a few contributions (hacks written by other users) before you get your store to function the way that you would like it to. If you are on a shared host then it may be good to check out their policy on the PHP register_globals flag, as the standard osCommerce distribution requires it to be on. Although, like every other issue that I have come across so far, there appears to be a hack for this too. I have found the user driven support for the system to be very good.
Posted By: Clarence Simpson on March 3 2005 11:12 am
We've been using this for our online business for about 6 months now and we couldn't be more pleased. osCommerce is very usable out-of-the-box, and you can expand and update it later.
We had a pretty much stock install at first. From the time I first got the package to the time I launched the site was about 1 week (but I have a day job, so that was just in my minimal free time). And the stock install is very serviceable on it's own.
Since then I've installed 10 or so community contributions to add all kinds of cool features like - automatic Froogle submission, visitor statistics, search engine friendly URLs, category tabs (a la Amazon), and several other cool shipping/payment enhancements.
Posted By: JP on February 28 2005 01:01 am
I am downloading oscommerce now, and while I can't vouch for it yet, I can say that zencart wouldn't work because it wanted PHP Safe Mode
Posted By: Chris on February 23 2005 09:03 am
Although it has taken me longer to get started than expected, I wanted a system that could grow with my business and OSC is the best system for that.
Posted By: Mikel on February 17 2005 12:51 pm
I had to do some customization work on this package for a client (add credit card info and some other features). The code is a NIGHTMARE. Tho it is a nice ecommerce package with a lot of options. This was not made to be extended easily. I have a bachelor's in computer science and the first thing they teach you is OOP princicples. IMO the oops of this is either horrid, or nearly non-existent. But if you don't have to mod it, try it out!
Posted By: Stefan on January 25 2005 12:53 pm
I started off with OSCommerce but are running Zen Cart for about a year. Zen Cart's code is much more structured and clearer making it easier to customise modules. OSCommerce is still good though so I guess it is a matter of preference.
Posted By: sukarja on January 10 2005 09:04 am
good. good. good
Posted By: Zilla on January 10 2005 05:19 am
I'm currently using OSCommerce for the homepage at the end of this comment. Overall it is a well balanced product, especially good because it is free and open-source. Most other solutions are expensive and clunky. My major complaints are based around lack of support for templates and decent styling and a complete lack of any security features for the admin area. A htaccess solution is not acceptable when all other sites offered have well engineered security features.
The lack of templates makes styling the product very time consuming and I had to get into the code to fully hack my own styles. After a long battle I gave in to most of the default style. As a result 90% of all oscommerce site (that I have seen) all look the same.
On the plus side, it is very easy to add products, catagories and modules to. It is well supported on its homesite and there are many third party modules and add ons for it. However, some of these modules require you to hack the code, so make sure you back up at all times as some of the code didnt seem to work when I tried certain 'fixes'. All in all when compared to the other Open Source solutions, OSCommerce certainly rises above.
Posted By: René Laux on January 3 2005 04:52 am
Nice product; made some testing on IIS, works quite good but didn't test all the features until today
Posted By: Oliver Nielsen on December 30 2004 04:17 am
Tried downloading and installing both osCommerce and Zen Cart. I expected Zen Cart to be by far the easiest to work with, but even the installation itself was far more difficult than that of osCommerce. The interface of osCommerce is also much less cluttered. Don't believe that hype about Zen Cart - osCommerce is so much better (IMHO).
Posted By: Brandon on November 30 2004 03:27 am
Very nice. Payment options in the default install seem to lack somewhat, but Im going to try it.
Posted By: Colin McBrinn on November 26 2004 05:47 am
I am a lecturer researching CMS - e-commerce open source products. I can confidently say, osCommerce is the best solution that I have tested. Excellent product, very easy to use, I will definitely be demonstrating this to my students.
osCommerce Website
osCommerce 3.0.2
osCommerce 3.0.2 is not the current Stable release of osCommerce. It is still in development. You would be better served to switch back to the Stable Release version of 2.3.1.
Note the following from the osCommerce.com website:
Note: osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0 is currently in development and does not yet contain the same user-end features that v2.3 has. This release is recommended for developers and users who are participating in its development and are providing feedback.
http://www.oscommerce.com/solutions/oscommerce
This is one of the best ever Open source e-commerce CMS. It bundles all the good feature for designing, setting and running a successful online store.
Thanks for the out of the box CMS that matches the variety of needs perfectly.
I am a web developer who was recently tasked with investigating a client's hacked oscommerce install. After looking at the code I quickly realized what a steaming pile of garbage it is. Seriously, I have never seen such awful, old-fashioned, insecure code in all of my professional life. One of the "security" features they use depended on the name of the file as read from the URL. This means that by simply typing the name of that file into the url bar in the right place anyone could access sensitive backend information! I cannot believe that something as poorly coded and insecure as oscommerce has garnered the high ratings on here that is has. It is a ticking time-bomb for any merchant that uses it and I would suggest you use ANYTHING else.
i read through the comments and felt compelled to thorough my hat into the ring. A lot of people mention issues with 'theming' and working with the OSC template. So i have to mention our brand spanking new product (free before admin blocks the comment..lol)
I am sure a lot of you have heard of Wordpress, the biggest CMS on the planet with a zillion easy to edit themes? Well we have created a custom oscommece plug in that drops a full OSC store into ANY wordpress theme...solving all OSC theme problems.
you can take a look at it and sign up to test it here www.wponlinestore.com
I hope it solves a few problems and bring a few people back over to the joys of osCommerce
cheers
Garfield
GoldenPlanet is using OSC as engine for their OpenbBizBox solution.
It's horrible to work with, especially the editor is a pile of crap.
Also, it's backend module lacks a lot of features, eg. modifying an order, making an manual order eg. if a customer phones an order in.
It also lacks serialnumer management.
Maybe usefull for a hobbysalesman selling healing stones or stockings, but thats about all.
osCommerce 2.3.1 is a horrible piece of software. No theming support and the module system is barely worth mentioning. The code is messy and you have to hack away at core files to achieve even simple customisations. I had the misfortune of having to build a production shop using this crap and it was a nightmare from start to finish. Avoid it at all costs! If you are building a simple store use OpenCart instead.
This is a horrible piece of rubbish.
ZenCart is modeled on this and has lots of security issues.
Thank you for offering the admin-view of Oscommerce 2.3.1. I've been using Oscommerce since 2005 and developed some excellent PHP skills because of Oscommerce; it requires a lot of customizations if you want to differ yourself from the "default" style and feel.
I wanted to see what 2.3.1 was all about, to see if it was worth trashing my countless customizations.. it isn't. 2.3.1 looks (nearly) identical to my classic 2.2 (with RC updates & security patches).
Fooey to all of these people below griping about Oscommerce - it's one of the most versatile & easy to use shopping cart systems available. Earlier this evening I gave Magento, Prestashop, etc. all a test drive and they're all bloated & have such nonsensical features/navigation compared to Oscommerce.
I'm quite happy with my ancient, legacy version of Oscommerce. I will be keeping an eye on OSC to ensure I'm up-to-date security-wise, but other than that; there is no need for Oscommerce to change. It's perfect as-is!
After spending some more time with adjusting an old installation:
Too many files nested in too many folders, no proper separation of code and layout (have to search through the thousand files to find the HTML tags you want to change and "hack" the PHP code, which is then lost on a new version installation), use of deprecated HTML, no proper and simple theming function/support, impossible to update from a very old version. It's faster to add all the products again and ask your customers to re-register, than to add the database updates which don't work anyway in the end...
Looks like the typical open source attempt of nerdy, self-absorbed Linux coders that don't understand what the average users want and need.
Too complicated too install, administrate, update. Also, PHP-Nuke-like three-column layouts were never "in".
it's real that osCommerce has been dead for many years.
But was the best.
I have already 172 e-shops on osc,
But you have to rewrite some piece of code.
When i am ready i will use the opencart
but in this script too you have to write some code,
you have to make your own bridges between versions.
OsCommerce is in soft words not designed well, this can be used only for very very simple shopping cards with products that dont require any options or attributes such as size or color or other variants. I am trying to setup a website for client and its very difficult to do this with osCommerce. One of the biggest and not to be rude but stupidest problems I've seen in it is if I try to add color attributes it is very difficult, there is no way to create a set and copy over to other product, after I tried several add-ons that did not work one did but still would not even show them in alphabetical order which makes it seem very unprofessional since that is a fairly easy to program. The images are not even resized with GD or other way. Anyway I seen they are coming with improved version, but its not stable yet, and I think Im done working through this mess of OsCommerce and looking to try another solution...
OSC is very powerful eCommerce system as lots of free modules are available. Also coding is very easy to customize.
Osc is actually obsolete. I refused to believe that the software came without any templates.
The concept of tableless is far from osc.
¿Templates? ¿Layouts? ¿What is that?
After some work I installed STS (a module for osc to use templates), but OSC needs a serious rework.
The version 3 continues on Alpha stage since I remember.
After some bad experiences, I tried with Zen Cart. It suprised me that Zen Cart and Osc were actually so similar. Later I find out that they shared the same core code, BUT there is a lot of work in Zen Cart. Zen Cart is superior in many ways to osc. I gave up and I'm giving a chance to ZC.
This is probably the worst piece of crap i have ever used... The code architecture is more than terrible, it is torture for whoever has to touch it (everyone who wants to extend the core functionality via plugins).
The only real problem is, that there is no real alternative with such a big community behind it.
soooo its a dilemma, i really dont understand why people fork this piece of junk (like zencart, xtcommerce and all the other copies) instead of writing a clean plugin-friendly shopping cart.
osCommerce has been dead for many years. Do yourself and your company a favor, do not use osCommerce. Pick a solution from this decade.
osCommerce takes a great deal of PHP work just to get it to the point where many of the other open source ecommerce packages start. While the community is active, the actual core development is almost non-existent (two+ years between recent releases). In 2000 when it was originally release I bet this was the best thing since sliced bread, and would have been more than acceptable as an ecommerce solution, but as of 2009 this beast needs to be shot and put out of its misery. The internet, eCommerce, and the average web shopper have come a long distance in the last nine years. Of course if you are a developer then use osCommerce, job security.
osCommerce is simply great. We have been working on this for 3 years. It gave us a lot - we got lots business opportunities. Our big thanks to osCommerce founder and contributors. It has changed our business - we are really grateful.
Unless you are a top notch PHP programmer, Oscommerce is the worst shopping cart ever. Definitely not for newbies or non-programmers. Of course oscommerce lovers would argue on this. Anyway ask any e-commerce owners and they would definitely tell you the best shopping cart is the one which is highly customizable and highly robust but all I can say is that oscommerce isn't one (again unless you are a PHP freak). The addons and modules require you to strip the bloody scripts apart all over the shop. Even the forum support sucks with thousands of unresolved issues. My advise if you are not in a hurry to set up an e-commerce store, go learn PHP or buy a well-designed shopping cart script or sadly pay someone to design a shopping cart for you. If budget is your biggest constraint and your do not mind a simple mediocre layout with easy adjustments and pre-installed configurations, which is "as it is", try Prestashop or Opencart. But then again both support and contributions are limited. It's your call.
Sorry but oscommerce is rubbish...
Don't get me wrong, if you want a simple shop set up, it is perfect, but if you need to customize it (modules ecc..) then you will end up crying and yelling because the code architecture is terrible (to install an addon you cannot simply push install to auto-install it, you often need to perform core-hacks wich is c.a.t.a.s.t.r.o.p.h.i.c.a.l. for any cms.. (i recommend strongly a complete rewrite wich adopts strong conventions and mvc)..
osCommerce has been around for years, and it's a well known e-commerce CMS. osCommerce allows you to easily add products and categories, manage orders, add payment and shipping modules, and more.
The one current drawback to osCommerce is its primitive look and feel. Also not to mention you need to do quite a bit of manual editing with the design and layout.
However, the new osCommerce v. 3 has some improvements for the design and layout, such as template selector, and also ability to select the layout of boxes.
I believe that they will make osCommerce more modern in a newer release version.
Why is this the only viable open source ecommerce solution? Most others including cp, X, osC, Freeway and Zencart are derivatives of osCommerce often with just a template layer added. Take a look at the code, and just imagine trying to maintain it. All you need to add is meatballs and sauce and you would have a great dinner! Seriously the code is terrible. It is about time for a new, engineered, open source PHP ecommerce platform. Any takers?
We have been using osCommerce and its different 'flavors' since May 2002. Have worked with over 750 online stores since then. Online stores of our customers vary from home-based crafts to international companies with multimillion turnover. And it looks like osCommerce is one of the best Ecommerce solutions for such small to medium businesses! The flexibility is the key of course.
Ive installed oscommerce in 2 websites for my customers but when trying to modify the application I noticed it was not as simple as I thought it would be. Thanks! Cristina
I started off making my site with osCommerce. It certainly is easy to install and get a good working site. Easy to design compared to others. However, the features availabl weren't as robust as ZenCart. I opted for ZenCart in the end and am very happy with it.
We have put much consideration into re-building our commerce site using osCommerce due to the flexibility is offers in customization. We are not using it now and I am paying the price in conversions with the ability to tailor things as I see fit. We are going to make the move and are very exciting. Thanks to all that support this board, it is a wealth of great information and has been incredibly helpful to us in making the right choice for the future. Keep up the great work!!!
Have been using oscommerce for several years now. Easy to install and there's a great community. Admin interface is intuitive and there are lots of useful features. There are lots of modules available, but the mods can be difficult to install as you need to modify the PHP, sometimes extensively. The more mods you've installed, the more difficult it becomes of course. Upgrades can also be a nightmare as again you have to get into the PHP. I haven't had any performance issues on the servers I use.
its very complex and usefull e commerce script.it has got a lot of hacks and information. But script code is very complex .if you want to change and adapt this script.its very hard for you.
Can be a little confusing when changing template designs, there are some contributions that help with this like STS, but could be better. All in all a good ecommerce package.
I spent a whole afternoon installing and modifying osCommerce only to discover that the person who designed the database thought that osCommerce was the only program allowed access to it. A little thought, like naming the tables with a prefix like maybe osc_ would have meant that the installation didn't write over every table in my mysql database with their generic names. language - customer - and the cms that I was using suddenly stopped working. Definitely my fault for not investigating this fully before I installed osCommerce, but I can assure you it will never happen again. A definite -10 out of 5.
We are making osCommerce, Zen Cart and CRE Loaded stores for several years. osCommerce is the best solution for not professionals. Its code is simple for understanding. But if you need more functionality try CRE Loaded. It is based on osCommerce but has a lot of extra useful features.
The best e-commerce package out there. Great community support. Just one issue - The checkout process is too complex and requires too many steps for the consumer. GeographyIsHistory.com
I've worked with osCommerce a few times and was pretty impressed. osCommerce is an excellent shopping cart. As with all open source software, you have access to the source code and the freedom to customize the store to meet the individual needs for any web site. There are also hundreds of modules contributed by the open source community to add even more functionality, connect to payment gateways, customize shipping methods and much more.
Allready made more then 100 oscommerce shops. Never had problems or complains. Super to customize and even better to use. Oscommerce is the best.
From a project point of view osCommerce is every good about open source, an enormous library of add-on modules, a very active forum community, and a large install base. The core application is sound and with some time and effort the code is not very difficult to figure out. On the down side the architecture is a little dated as much of the presentation is intertwined with the logic. There are a few add-on templating system which help to ease that issue. I've also worked with some of the other options for eCommerce and feel that all things considered osCommerce remains the best choice.
osCommerce is hands down the best open source ecommerce package yet. I was a bit frustrated with the way you can customize your templates but there are two main contributions that make this process much easier. A couple of templating contributions I can recommend are STS www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1524 and BTS (a little more complex but it allows you include PHP in the templates - good for integration with wordpress) www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1263 Peace!
osCommerce is the most powerful and reliable open source shopping cart system on the Web. Hundreds of our customers have only the best responses of this shopping cart system.
oscommerce has SE component, you can make it SE friendly too by modification in the basic cart, we use chronopay as our payment processor, its well supported by it.
There is SE component in oscommerce, you can make oscommerce SE friendly by modification of the basic cart. We use chronopay as our payment processor, its well supported by their system.
For those looking to sell products online. Here you go with Oscommerce. Easy to install and configure. All I have to say is free and will get the job done. http://soulposter.com
osCommerce is our e-commerce solution since 3 years. and it will go on...
osCommerce is probably the best ecommerce solution available. Design custommization can be tricky, but when you get to know it, literally anything is possible. We had great success with it. Lots of contributions (modules) allow almost any functionality you can imagine. That's why our web development company has chosen to offer customized osCommerce to be its main e-commerce solution for clients.
Oscommerce is really good *but* it really should be search engine friendly 'out of the box' without any contributions/addons. Also, a true shop keeper will want to follow-up with customers. The newsletter in OSC is too boring and non-customizable.
I have a love/hate relationship with oscommerce. Pros: it is FREE plus has tons of addons that you can get for almost everything you could need. You can ask any question relating your oscommerce store and you will get a fairly quick response from the large oscommerce community at their forums. Cons: a witch to integrate the free addons. They are written by different folks but sometimes these addons don't work well with each other or you wind up spending hours changing the core files. Then when there's a new oscommerce update, you might not be able to integrate your changes easily, or worse, you'd have to start all over again. Plus, IMHO I would like an autoresponder feature/addon integrated with oscommerce (instead of the bland and limited newsletter it comes with), which you could use to do followups with your customers/subscriber. Just my two cents!
Is it possible to us a oscommerce style site for an online retail store? How easy is it to set up for a merchant account. The site we have we did through go-daddy just as a banner site but now we want to have our own store. Poeple recommended Xoop's any comments? Thanks
great but i dont know how install...sorry for my bad english, i am Brazilian, you help me for instalation. please.Thanks
I've worked with osCommerce a few times and was pretty impressed. I'd imagine it's probably a bit much for most applications, but the ton of features also makes it a usable option for many different users. I think it really shines when you build a site with it in mind, rather than work it into an existing setup.
We used OS Commerce for our KVM switch store. We had it customized back and forth, using the Ultimate SEO URL's to make the site search engine friendly (check out the urls to see it in action). It was nice being able to change everything to our specific shopping cart needs too.
osCommerce is an excellent shopping cart with an unusual feature. It's free! As with all open source software, you'll have access to the source code as well as the freedom to customize the store to meet the individual needs for any web site. Not only that, there are hundreds of modules contrbuted by the user community to add functionality, connect to payment gateways, customize shipping methods and options, and more. It's also a full featured shopping cart offering an easily navigable site for your customers, secure credit card transactions through SSL, and a well rounded administration area to customize and maintain your store.
I has few clients use oscommerce, it's great project. The only thing is it's little too powerful.
Great great script .. not very flexible about content management but this is not his job, Very secure and many contributions.. A very good solution for your shop .. i'm a fan ;o)
Great tool! Works very good!
Wow, the best open source shop with many contributions - but I wait for the next version with table-less design...
Awsome e-commerce software.
I'm running several shops with osCommerce while helping others to keep it running. It is very easy to set it up and bring it online, but if you want to have some aditional features (like real thumnails instead of browserscaled pictures, affiliates, a look different from default, autologin for users or some more payment-modules), you have to hack the code, mostly the core-files. It is defenetely in need to have someone with basic programming skills at your side to help you with this excellent solution if you want to run a fulltime-store. But it works also very well out of the box.
On the whole I have been quite happy with osCommerce. Just keep in mind that you may need to download and install quite a few contributions (hacks written by other users) before you get your store to function the way that you would like it to. If you are on a shared host then it may be good to check out their policy on the PHP register_globals flag, as the standard osCommerce distribution requires it to be on. Although, like every other issue that I have come across so far, there appears to be a hack for this too. I have found the user driven support for the system to be very good.
We've been using this for our online business for about 6 months now and we couldn't be more pleased. osCommerce is very usable out-of-the-box, and you can expand and update it later. We had a pretty much stock install at first. From the time I first got the package to the time I launched the site was about 1 week (but I have a day job, so that was just in my minimal free time). And the stock install is very serviceable on it's own. Since then I've installed 10 or so community contributions to add all kinds of cool features like - automatic Froogle submission, visitor statistics, search engine friendly URLs, category tabs (a la Amazon), and several other cool shipping/payment enhancements.
I am downloading oscommerce now, and while I can't vouch for it yet, I can say that zencart wouldn't work because it wanted PHP Safe Mode
Although it has taken me longer to get started than expected, I wanted a system that could grow with my business and OSC is the best system for that.
I had to do some customization work on this package for a client (add credit card info and some other features). The code is a NIGHTMARE. Tho it is a nice ecommerce package with a lot of options. This was not made to be extended easily. I have a bachelor's in computer science and the first thing they teach you is OOP princicples. IMO the oops of this is either horrid, or nearly non-existent. But if you don't have to mod it, try it out!
I started off with OSCommerce but are running Zen Cart for about a year. Zen Cart's code is much more structured and clearer making it easier to customise modules. OSCommerce is still good though so I guess it is a matter of preference.
good. good. good
I'm currently using OSCommerce for the homepage at the end of this comment. Overall it is a well balanced product, especially good because it is free and open-source. Most other solutions are expensive and clunky. My major complaints are based around lack of support for templates and decent styling and a complete lack of any security features for the admin area. A htaccess solution is not acceptable when all other sites offered have well engineered security features. The lack of templates makes styling the product very time consuming and I had to get into the code to fully hack my own styles. After a long battle I gave in to most of the default style. As a result 90% of all oscommerce site (that I have seen) all look the same. On the plus side, it is very easy to add products, catagories and modules to. It is well supported on its homesite and there are many third party modules and add ons for it. However, some of these modules require you to hack the code, so make sure you back up at all times as some of the code didnt seem to work when I tried certain 'fixes'. All in all when compared to the other Open Source solutions, OSCommerce certainly rises above.
Nice product; made some testing on IIS, works quite good but didn't test all the features until today
Tried downloading and installing both osCommerce and Zen Cart. I expected Zen Cart to be by far the easiest to work with, but even the installation itself was far more difficult than that of osCommerce. The interface of osCommerce is also much less cluttered. Don't believe that hype about Zen Cart - osCommerce is so much better (IMHO).
Very nice. Payment options in the default install seem to lack somewhat, but Im going to try it.
I am a lecturer researching CMS - e-commerce open source products. I can confidently say, osCommerce is the best solution that I have tested. Excellent product, very easy to use, I will definitely be demonstrating this to my students.