osCommerce

colin firth asked:


If you have an online store and use QuickBooks for accounting, you’re probably spending a number of hours in manually rentering all your online orders into QuickBooks®. Once the order is in QuickBooks®, the task is only half complete. You now manually update your inventory, re-key information (or copy and paste) to create the shipping label and process the payment. This entire process can take hours if you have several orders a day.
eCommerceConnector for QuickBooks® is developed to cut down your order processing time from hours to minutes. eCC seamlessly connects your Online Store with QuickBooks®.
eCC can be easily installed on your desktop and comes with a simple module for your online store (X-cart, Pinnacle Cart, osCommerce or ZenCart). Once installed, eCC automatically downloads your online orders onto your desktop and you can synchronize this data with your QuickBooks at the click of a button.
eCC also lets you process payments offline using Paypal, Authorize.net or QuickBooks Merchant Services. Better yet, you can even generate shipping labels (USPS or with Endicia Dazzle).
Add on the eCC inventory synchronization module and you can easily synchronize your inventory between your online store and QuickBooks.
Support & Requirements:
eCC supports X-Cart 4.0 & higher, osCommerce MS1, MS2 and osCMAX, Zen Cart 1.3.0 to 1.3.8 and Pinnacle Cart and it requires Window NT/2000/XP/Vista, QuickBooks Pro/Premier 2005 or later (US & Canada), QuickBooks POS Basic/Pro version 5.0 or higher.
To learn more about eCC and download a free 15-day trial, visit www.webgility.com or send an email to sales@webgility.com

gerrybrice asked:


Just because osCommerce is the most popular merchant account software doesn’t mean it’s the best solution for your online business. Agree or disagree? Do you find osCommerce to be overrated? A lot of high risk merchants adopt osCommerce as their primary merchant account solution because of so many advantages. But, knowing osCommerce is open source (hence the name), there will always be loopholes before merchants can actually find it functional for their specific business needs.

OsCOMMERCE BUGABOOS

So what are the likely monkey wrenches that might pop out once you start using osCommerce? For those having second doubts, you may be justified. Consider:

1. There are way too few templates in the osCommerce solution. If you attempt to tinker with the stylesheets, it would take a lot of time and a developer’s help to be able to accomplish the best template for your needs.

2. Merchants may be vaguely aware of “attributes”. In order to take full advantage of the limited attributes system, merchants will need to get a good developer to modify it. Otherwise, osCommerce’s shopping cart may not be the best solution to use.

3. Even osCommerce’s administration area isn’t keen on password protection. However, this is remediable by simple research on the site and discussion with your developer.

4. As osCommerce is heavily dependent on the contribution of programmers worldwide, even product catalog capacity needs to be modified. osCommerce’s solution won’t suffice for big scale catalogs unless it has been altered to adopt new products that the server can handle.

Based from these loopholes, we can tell that a lot of osCommerce’s capabilities are dependent on the software developer who is responsible for the alterations and extensions in the system. osCommerce is so powerful but without the ability to customize it to your merchant account’s needs, it loses its potential to provide a cheap (or free) and efficient credit card processing solution.

THE SWEETER SIDE OF OsCOMMERCE

Now what makes osCommerce absolutely attractive for low risk and high risk merchants alike? Hands down, it beats other solutions simply because it’s free! You can download the software, add-ons, and modifications grais. Also, osCommerce was being utilized by online merchants all over the world since March 2000, so it’s pretty much universally trusted.

Although osCommerce’s main weakness is the great necessity to modify the attributes, it is also its biggest strength. Its flexibility for customization as well as the capacity to support several languages and accept many international currencies make it the best open source merchant account software around. Security, user-friendliness, and a strong developers’ community support also add up to its usability.

osCommerce’s features can easily be checked out on their website. It lists down general functionality, set-up or installation, design, administration, customer, product, payment, shipping, and tax functionalities. Indeed, low risk and high risk merchants may only realize the full potential of osCommerce as shopping cart and card processing tool only when they pick out the features that would seamlessly work with their business –- then, enlist the help of developers for further customization and expansion.

Tyrone Shum asked:


Over the next few weeks I will be reviewing the different plugins available for e-commerce users who want to keep their Wordpress blog and want to integrate a shopping cart to their site. Today I am reviewing the eShop Plugin by Quirm. Recently I installed a copy of the latest eShop plugin, version 3.0.0 onto a test site to trial the store before allowing it to go live. I was pleasantly surprised how simple eShop is and well integrated into Wordpress. The HELP section in the administration proved to be quite helpful and I was able to get the shop up and running within 30 minutes. PROS OF ESHOP PLUGIN Allows For Featured and Special Products Most ecommerce sites have this ability and it’s a good thing eShop implemented this module. It allows us to feature any products and promote any products on special. Simple Ordering System I’ve run Zencart and OsCommerce for various e-commerce stores in the past and they are somewhat quite advanced and definitely not for the faint hearted. The first time I used those stores it took me almost a week to learn how to use them. The admin section of eShop is basic and simple to use, showing the most important menu that we want to know when a customer has purchased a product from us - the order page. It has pending, awaiting payment, shipped, active and deleted options to mark the order and allows you to add comments in each process (a very handy field to have when tracking orders) Google Feed Base This is a plus, since most e-commerce sites don’t utilise Google Feed as much as they should. It’s very similar to RSS feeds, though instead of having posts and content syndicated into the Feed, it allows products to be syndicated and helps promote your store products on Google. Customised Layout or CSS Styling New in this version is the ability to customise your layout of the store and I know that this is very handly for me. It’s especially handy when your blog is customised and you want to keep similar colours and fonts consistent through the shopping cart. CONS OF ESHOP PLUGIN Limited Payment Methods and Payment Gateway Integration For beginners using eShop, having Paypal, Payson and cash maybe enough to sell your products. Though when you are dealing with customers wanting to pay directly with their credit card, only has cheque or money order facilities, or wants to directly transfer money into your bank account, then eShop is lacking in this area. I hope they will be adding more payment options in the near future. Unable To Print Invoices From Admin If you don’t have Paypal or Payson and only accept cash via eShop, there is no function for you to print an invoice and send to the customer. Even if you needed a hard copy one as a packaging slip and one for invoicing, eShop doesn’t have that facility. If they add this function later on I hope it will automatically create an invoice in PDF and email it to the customer. No Sales Reports Reporting in eShop is lacking and there’s no where to see your overall sales on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. It’s important to know how much business is coming in from your shop and most e-commerce software has at minimum a sales report function. Unable To Edit An Invoice If An Error Has Been Made By A Customer or refund an item If a customer at no fault chooses the wrong item by mistake then it should be simple to edit the order and update it to the correct item. eShop doesn’t allow for this and furthermore there is no option in admin to offer refunds if a customer decides to cancel. The process becomes tedious because you have to delete the order and either start again or the order is completed deleted when you just want to refund a customer. How Would I Rate eShop? Overall eShop has a lot of pros and can benefit a first time user allowing them to sell some of their products online. An important aspect that I believe they need to improve on is to offer more payment gateway options. Though, there are still a lot of developmental issues to overcome to get it up to comparable e-commerce solutions such as Zencart and OsCommerce. I would still stick with fully functional e-commerce solutions over eShop if I have hundreds of products to sell and a large database to manage and run the Wordpress blog separately.

Martin Wann asked:


Every webstore owner should take online store solutions for updating hundreds and thousands of products. They has to be edited quite often, thus making your store flexible and up-to-date. Large and medium stores have a lot of products with similar descriptions, however you have to go over each product separately and edit every piece of text manually. This is how it used to be. Now, you may automate this time-consuming operation using Macro System by MagneticOne. This module allows you to change similar parts of text in product descriptions just with one click. It is especially useful if you are the owner of a large store with lots of products: the module will help you to change parts of multiple product descriptions at once. Want to find out how it works? This module creates a macro, where you enter Database Field, Language and Macro Body (text block you want to manage). So, when you edit macro body, the old text is replaced by the new one.  While you edit part of text in one place, it is updated on all pages automatically. You don’t need any special skills or technical knowledge to set up and to start using the module. The functionality of Macro System not only allows you to replace the text, it also gives you the ability to find the text you need to change. So you will not have to look through hundreds or thousands of product descriptions in your online store to find the one you want to edit. This feature is similar to Find and Replace tool in text editors. You can change text in one place rather than following around looking for products content. If you have more than one product description language, this module will give you the opportunity to select the language you would like to edit. You may choose whether you want to make text replacement in all languages or only specific one. So you can select the language you would like to edit, make your changes, save them and repeat for as many languages as you would like. It is up to you.  Sometimes you need to make some changes to all products descriptions on your store, e.g. – due to the time change, alteration of trademark, supplier or other general modifications. That means short of clearing the whole store. With Macro System module you will not have to go over each product and change its content manually. It will take a moment - you will modify your product descriptions in just a few clicks. Another feature of Macro System is the ability to change the text duplicated in multiple product descriptions. Some products have very small difference in descriptions. This module allows you to change the duplicated text easily, with few simple steps. Change the text on one and it will automatically be updated on the others. There is no need to change the text for each product anymore! As you see, Macro System module combines rich functionality with high performance. Just think what a huge advantage you can gain from using this powerful tool. The more aspects of your store are automated the more time is left to pay attention to your business. Don’t waste your time – get this module to manage specific parts of products content now. Want to know more about Macro System Module and try it out? Follow the link: … Macro System for osCommerce… Macro System for X-Cart… Macro System for CRE Loaded… Macro System for Zen Cart - based Stores.

Rakhi Chowdhary asked:


Shopping Carts Solutions an integrated shopping solution, a new way that lets your customers to make orders, purchase online, manage shipping…

Today every growing business tries to be customer centric and I am very sure that business entropy will increase if your customer retention rate goes low. In this article I will discuss all about shopping cart and shopping cart software solution. With plethora of internet, staying at the top of your field has become arduous and it takes a lot to remain or reach at the top position. Looking back at the decade of shopping, there were no online store and customers had to walk to the store, spend time there browsing through the catalogue, deciding products, and then the product was passed into the shopping cart (trolley), order was placed and finally checkout and payment processes were carried. Then everything was manual, all entries were made manually and pricing were calculated on hands. In present scenario - With online shopping cart you can shop from your home or your office; just need internet connection and all yours processing finalized in a minute. This online storefront with integrated shopping solution provides a platform for selecting and purchasing your favorite products.

Shopping Carts is selecting products online for purchasing. Ecommerce is complete online store for shopping where from placing orders, tracking orders and managing account all are maintained.

The interface of online stores are designed for users and it is really easy to browse, collect, place orders and make payment but behind the curtain the scene is sophisticated, it needs round the clock maintenance for smooth functioning of your ecommerce store. The current study says that abandonment rate of shopping cart ranges from 25% to 75%. Being a SEO executive and strategist I have analyzed lots of ecommerce websites, studied its web analytics funnel visualization report, it shows that most of the visitors exit at the initial step (after Login or Registration), these visitors drop out at proceeding steps, and very small percentage reach the final checkout. I would say that funnel conversion rate is very low for these ecommerce websites / shopping carts if the funnel steps are not properly set.

I would like to share what all I have inculcated through my experience, reasons for shopping cart abandonment are:

High Shipping Cost: This can be inversely managed by increasing product cost and reducing shipping cost.

Security and Privacy Problem: Providing very transparent privacy statement and high level security for payment gateway.

Lot of essentialities and billing formalities: Non essential information should be not be made mandatory, other formalities can be filled at the after checkout.

Poor Navigation: Your shopping store should respond quickly, check that your site does not take enough loading time. Search should be simple and checkout process should not be very lengthy. Clients should be notified after payment is done and visitors who wish can easily navigate back to make more shopping without time wastage.

Remember, your ecommerce website should be simple so that it entices your customers to come again for shopping. All the shopping cart segments should be integrated and should be streamlined for its smooth running. Elements of consideration are: a ecommerce shopping cart (storefront with shopping cart), a merchant account, a database server (this stores all information about customer and all your storefront products and services), a web server (hosts your website and provides all information about your product at the web browser’s request), a catalogue, legacy system, control inventory, reporting tool and secure payment gateway. Hosting of your online storefront or ecommerce website is of first consideration. Depending on your storefront hosting you choose shopping cart software, all depends on the software and your website hosting compatibility.

There are different shopping cart software available for your storefront from which you can choose. Either you can Buy a shopping cart software product, or join a service (template service build your store).

Choosing shopping cart software is the key business requirement for online shopping business solutions.

Every ecommerce site has its shopping cart and thus needs a merchant account and payment gateway. I believe these two are basic necessities of any online store for allowing credit card payment. Let be brief the main points that you should know before proceeding to shopping carts.

Merchant Account: This allows to process credit card information. Different types of merchant accounts are available to suit your business needs. Most popular merchant accounts include wireless, telecheck, mail order or phone, e-commerce. Ecommerce is the fastest growing transaction segment.

Payment Gateway: payment gateway processes this credit card and shipping information and real time information over a secure network connection.

A company that validates your credit card information in real time is electronic gateway or payment gateway. Few most widely accepted gateways are: Paypal (Globally), Verisign (Globally), 2Checkout (Globally), WorldPay (Gloablly), Authorize.Net (US), CyberSource (US), Moneris (CA), Protx (UK), EWay (AU); some others are Chronopay, Westpac, BluePay, viaKLIX, eMatters, plugnpay, eway, goemerchant.com, skipjack, MiraPay, netaxept, DirectOne, nab, NETBANX, Network Merchants, Nochex, DeltaPAY, eProcessing Network, protx, egateway, SECPay, paymate, Gotmerchant, ANZ, beanstream, Payjunction, TECHNOCASH, MiraPay, GoDaddy.

Payment gateway main motive is to provide secure channel for credit card information transfer. Basically the credit card information is encrypted and sent to respective bank for verification, these are of highest priority, no detail is stored in between.

You may be having now in mind how to create your merchant account and have your payment gateway??? Not mandatory to have one’s own, you may use merchant service providers’ shopping cart solutions for your ecommerce websites.

Type of Gateways:

Currently there are 3 main gateway interfaces available:

COM based gateway interface: Most of the COM based gateway company requires installing the DLL software on your hosting server, and also checks for your SSL certificate.

XML Transport gateway interface: XML Transport gateway companies do not require DLL installation but checks for you SLL certification instead uses Windows server installed facilities.

Form based gateway interface: This is most common gateway as does not require any software installation, very few companies ask for SSL certification.

The main advantage is that COM and XML gateways are integrated with your store and thus no redirection to external server but the drawback also lies that since the transfer is over the internet to payment gateway makes this less reliable.

Types of Shopping Cart

Merchant Service Shopping Carts

Have you set up a new business, do not have merchant account and payment gateway??? Still looking…. There are merchant services shopping carts available for new businesses with very less queries at the initial stage. Once you start your business at the initial stage there are very less orders that increases gradually, so merchant will get you licensed . It proceeds somewhat like this: it collects and stores your client’s information and takes you to its payment gateway and merchant account.

The main problem is the fee that gateway company charges. Apart from the set up fee, transaction cost is also high making the over all gateway an expensive one. Another major drawback is that client’s credit card statements will contain merchant service not your company name. There is admin login section for all sort of updation – add, delete, edit, and manage products and other information. The HTML code generated by the cart is inserted in the respected pages, once the visitor clicks on the link (button), visitor is redirected to merchant site where visitor needs to enter card detail and personal details.

Hosted Shopping Carts

Small and medium sized businesses need not worry!! Yes, they can have hosted shopping cart for those not having enough resource to go with integrated shopping cart solutions for their ecommerce websites. The hosted shopping cart solution has an administration area for entering product information. The generated HTML information code is inserted into the product page. The website visitor is redirected to another site to fill a form with information that is CC to the website. There are certain carts that provide configurable user interface so that it looks as corporate website.

The most important point to be noted is that in hosted shopping cart solutions the website owner uses ones own payment gateway and merchant account; this provides your client with credit card detail with your company title not the title of merchant service. For increasing sale this shopping cart service becomes cheaper, this may be fixed transaction charge for higher sales compared to per transaction.

Fully Integrated Shopping Carts

Fully integrated (Trunkey - a comprehensive shopping cart solution provided by one provider) shopping cart provides completely configurable user interface and other interesting features. This needs some programming knowledge so that you can better manage and handle its modules and use the extra features provided. Provider of On the ecommerce provider server the software data and web pages are hosted. Examples: Yahoo Store, Bigstep, Merchandizer, etc. these include form based built in payment gateway.

Which shopping cart to go with?? Points to ponder – Costing: The investment you put in, hosting

Shopping cart software is the common online storefront business solution. There are myriad e-commerce solutions available with varying features, design, security so that you can customize based on your requirements and specifications. With open source software solutions, osCommerce shopping cart solution there are slew of customizable shopping cart solutions available. The open source ecommerce software products are available that are very easy to setup, configure, administration. So before going with a particular solution Payment gateway or shopping cart just be clear about your requirements. There is another storefront solution, Watson shopping cart system (developed in Switzerland) is a new shopping cart or trolley that has unique database and uses audio advertising system of the internet for online shopping.

Anantait asked:


There are variety of exclusive shopping cart software available on internet today, but selecting the right shopping cart software can be a daunting task. A ready to use shopping cart can not be a perfect solution to your business by itself alone, it generally needs customizations. In order to launch the website and keep it running without any hassle, one must seek external ecommerce website development help, as it is worthwhile to have experts do the application integrations and modules installation. Most businesses are looking for an affordable ecommerce website design, and a majority of them are finding the most suitable option for a free shopping cart is OSCommerce. OSCommerce is most popular and successful shopping cart software for many ecommerce businesses. There are numerous modules, contributions available for OSCommerce shopping cart. Choosing an open source shopping cart generally brings benefits like standardization, drastic cost cuts, and scalability with itself. OSCommerce is most scalable and most trusted open source shopping cart software and has been deployed on over million websites. Additionally, there are modules, contributions developed for almost all functions relating to ecommerce. It is therefore immensely scalable. One must take advantage of this perfect solution while you opt for your ecommerce website development. With appropriate planning, development for Ecommerce Websites can Help You immensely. You can promote and increase sales of product lines. You can also generate new sales leads. With customized OSCommerce development you can also Integrate distributors & procurement. There are so many ways that you can customize OSCommerce store design and optimize it to Increase brand awareness. On a sidenote, Oscommerce is an amazingly versatile ecommerce solution - it is not designed for look and aesthetics from the start, so you generally needs to mould the default look into something that would complement to your business. Oscommerce doesnt come in a visual look that is pleasant, because it is evident that almost all of the business owners who are going to use it for their estores will be wanting to change its design to suit their business and vision. Actually, applying a visual design that will go well with your customer base is important in that, it increases customer confidence, and brand name recognition. OSCommerce fits most choices perfectly. By it’s very nature it can be adapted and expanded to meet the needs of your business. The shopping cart software itself is totally web based, with it’s online control panel you can add new products and process orders from different locations all in real time. The admin interface is designed to be very simple and easy to use, and does not require any technical knowledge. Additional features such as cross sell, discount coupons and gift vouchers, affiliates system, newsletter system and many more can be added to maximize each sale and it can be integrated with the payment service providers like authorize.net, 2checkout, WorldPay and others, to accept online payments. OSCommerce has plenty of modules, OSCommerce module installation is a tedious task if you have specific requirement. It is important to use the right module and build a dynamic ecommerce website based on OSCommerce shopping cart. Even a basic osCommerce website is feature rich and provides a stable, reliable ecommerce solution but with dozens of different OSCommerce modules installation, you can get a highly usable and dynamic website. The administration area of the website is highly intuitive and easy to learn. When it comes to ecommerce website design, OSCommerce by it’s very nature allows us to create a website that looks exactly how you want it too. You must find ecommerce website development experts who can develop you custom functions you require, add new and improved features or added convenience. Search Engine Optimization, Gift Vouchers, Rewards, Management Reporting Tools, Cross-Selling modules, Download able products such as images and MP3’s, in fact anything you can think of, OSCommerce can be customized to meet you business needs.

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Whites Destiny asked:


“Open source is a set of principles and practices on how to write software, the most important of which is that the source code is openly available”

The free software movement was launched in 1983. In 1998, a group of individuals advocated that the term free software be replaced by open source software (OSS) as an expression which is less ambiguous and more comfortable for the corporate world. Software developers may want to publish their software with an open source license, so that anybody may also develop the same software or understand how it works.

Benefits of Open Source Software:

Low Cost

NO need to buy expensive server software licenses or renew. The service includes all required software, and never required any additional software.

Efficient Working

The major reason is it is virus free. Also it works fine with lower configuration hardware. You will not require to take higher configuration hardware.

Reliability

Almost all software releases contains bugs. When a bug is spotted in proprietary software, the only people who can fix it are the original developers, as only they have access to the source code. Open source software is different. As a large number of users can access and change the code, bugs tend to be more visible and more rapidly corrected. One of the slogans of the open source movement is that ‘given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow’

Customization

Closed source applications can only be customized or adapted by the original vendor. Open source applications may be customized by anyone with the requisite skill. Thus, open source software can be readily adapted to meet specific user needs. Even if you cannot program yourself, it is easy to post a feature request on an open source software project’s home page. If you would like something added or customized urgently, you can generally pay an appropriately skilled software developer to do it for you.

Translation

With access to the source code it is easy to translate the language of the software interface. Large closed source commercial software vendors are usually unwilling to translate their products into less widely spoken languages, as the market for them would be too small to guarantee profit.

Easy Learning From Examples

If you are interested in programming, open source code provides an excellent resource from which to learn, and open source projects provide a practical environment in which to test your skills. Just watching the development process can provide an education in itself. If you choose to submit code to an open source project, it will generally be checked and commented on by experienced programmers. Once you have convinced the project community that your code is of appropriate quality, you may be granted full committer rights yourself.

Large Community and become a part of it

By adopting open source software you become part of a community of users and developers who have an interest in working together to support each other and improve the software. The extent to which you engage with this community is up to you, but you may obtain the intangible benefits of goodwill if you do.

There is leading software and development providers who offer a range of powerful Open Source Software that provide zero risk, cost effective functionality. Rather than the expensive and risky approach of building a bespoke site from scratch First Rate uses a proven base system and simply plugs in proven modules as required.

Popular Open source Software:

• Oscommerce – Ecommerce Application

• Zen Cart — Ecommerce Application

• Joomla — Content Management System

• TYPO3 — Enterprise Level Content Management System

• X-Cart — Ecommerce Application

• Cs-Cart — Ecommerce Application

• Wordpress – Blog System

• phpBB – Discussion Forum

• Drupal - Content Management System

• Moodle – Learning Management System

• phpNuke – Content Management Portal

• mambo – Content Management Portal

Regards,

Whites Destiny

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Tyrone Shum asked:


Additionally, the benefit of having a Wordpress blog integrated with your e-Commerce system, is that it helps to increase your search engine rankings. With higher search engines rankings, your Internet business will be found much quicker and also help with becoming an authoritative site.How To Integrate An e-Commerce System With A Wordpress Blog?Luckily for us, most e-Commerce systems have a special add-on package which has been developed by experienced programmers. At this point, I would recommend you hire a web developer to install or modify an e-Commerce system because it will can save time for you to focus on other important business tasks. Though I will explain to you how it generally works with some systems I have test:Magento: This is a relatively new e-Commerce system that is taking the e-Commerce Open Source market by storm. It’s very user friendly and is very powerful, just like how Wordpress has been very successful for many Internet businesses. Magento has an add-on extension called Lazzymonks Wordpress Integration 2.61, which allows Wordpress to be integrated with their system. You can easily access Wordpress from Magento’s administration as well and would save you the hassle of logging out of Magento and logging into Wordpress.OsCommerce: This system has been around since March 2000, which shows a long history of e-Commerce development for them. OsCommerce also has an add-on which is quite easy to install - the Wordpress Integration. Unfortunately this add-on does require you to log onto Wordpress separately. Once you have installed Wordpress with OsCommerce you will be able to still post your articles as normal and all the posts will be integrated into the OsCommerce theme you choose.ZenCart: This is the system I have been using for many years for many of my clients and own e-Commerce shops. It is easy to set up the Wordpress On Zencart add-on with a few installation files to upload. Though, I found it wasn’t matching the style of the shopfront at first with this basic add-on. I did hired a programmer to modify some files which generated a good result in the end.With many Internet businesses seeing the growth of web users searching on blogs and search engines today, it would be unfortunate to see you lose sales because you did not have a blog integrated with your e-Commerce shop. There are great benefits with having both these systems integrated into your Internet business and someday e-Commerce with integrated blogs will be the new community called e-Blogging.Read how you can promote your eBlog: eBlogging 101: Getting Your Internet Business To Stand Out From The Crowd