E-commerce Solution part 1- using OSCommerce Shopping cart

If we speak about free shopping cart software, any comparison review would mention OSCommerce as one of the best-known open source software for online business.

OSCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution that offers a wide range of out-of-the-box features that allows online stores to be setup fairly quickly with ease, and is available for free as an Open Source based solution released under the GNU General Public License.

Having a very good programming knowledge, patience and huge amount of free time, one can expect to turn OSCommerce into a feature-rich, working system.

The main problem, however, is the same as for any other free online storefront platform: all modules are developed by different people and conflicts between the poorly tested components are very common.

Today, OSCommerce has been taken to the next level, moving towards an e-commerce framework solution that not only remains easy to setup and maintain, but also making it easier for store administrators to present their stores to their customers with their own unique requirements.

Following is a list of Positives and Negatives of OSCommerce.

Positives:

License fee - Free

Number of products in catalog - Unlimited

Storefront customization

Multi-language support Products, store interface

Extended product specifications Extra fields

Negatives

SEO Tools Not available

Live Chat Not available