Introduction

osCommerce Online Merchant is a free online shop e-commerce solution under continuous development by the open source community. Its core features allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with absolutely no software costs or license fees involved, and with no programming or technical knowledge needed.

The success of osCommerce Online Merchant is secured by a dedicated team that focuses on the core features, and by an active community of store owners and developers that focus on additional features. To date, the community has provided over 5,000 add-ons that are available for free, that extend on the core features of osCommerce Online Merchant to meet the needs of individual store owners.

osCommerce Online Merchant is built with the powerful PHP web scriping language and uses the fast MySQL database server for the online store data. The combination of PHP and MySQL allows osCommerce Online Merchant to run on any webserver environment that supports PHP and MySQL, which includes Linux, Solaris, BSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows environments.

osCommerce was started in March 2000 and has since matured to a solution that is powering many thousands of live shops around the world.