Beautiful osCommerce Online Merchant v2.3.1

Beautiful osCommerce Online Merchant v2.3.1. We're proud to announce the quick release of osCommerce Online Merchant v2.3.1! This release is a maintenance release bringing bug fixes. osCommerce Online Merchant v2.3.1 Upgrade Guide. This upgrade guide is based on the osCommerce Online Merchant v2.3.0 release. osCommerce Online Merchant v2.3.1 is a stable production-ready release. Oscommerce MNK Online Merchant - is loaded with features osCommerce Online Merchant.

Features :

Although osCommerce is still in its development stage, the available Milestone releases are considered to be stable with the following features:

* General Functionality
o Compatible with all PHP 4 versions
o All features enabled by default for a complete out-of-the-box solution
o Object oriented backend (3.0)
o Completely multilingual with English, German, and Spanish provided by default
* Setup / Installation
o Automatic web-browser based installation and upgrade procedure
* Design / Layout
o Template struture implementation to:
+ allow layout changes to be adaptive, easy, and quickly to make (3.0)
+ allow easy integration into an existing site (3.0)
o Support for dynamic images
* Administration / Backend Functionality
o Supports unlimited products and categories
+ Products-to-categories structure
+ Categories-to-categories structure
o Add/Edit/Remove categories, products, manufacturers, customers, and reviews
o Support for physical (shippable) and virtual (downloadable) products
o Administration area secured with a username and password defined during installation
o Contact customers directly via email or newsletters
o Easily backup and restore the database
o Print invoices and packaging lists from the order screen
o Statistics for products and customers
o Multilingual support
o Multicurrency support
+ Automatically update currency exchange rates
o Select what to display, and in what order, in the product listing page
o Support for static and dynamic banners with full statistics
* Customer / Frontend Functionality
o All orders stored in the database for fast and efficient retrieval
o Customers can view their order history and order statuses
o Customers can maintain their accounts
+ Addressbook for multiple shipping and billing addresses
o Temporary shopping cart for guests and permanent shopping cart for customers
o Fast and friendly quick search and advanced search features
o Product reviews for an interactive shopping experience
o Forseen checkout procedure
o Secure transactions with SSL
o Number of products in each category can be shown or hidden
o Global and per-category bestseller lists
o Display what other customers have ordered with the current product shown
o Breadcrumb trail for easy site navigation
* Product Functionality
o Dynamic product attributes relationship
o HTML based product descriptions
o Automated display of specials
o Control if out of stock products can still be shown and are available for purchase
o Customers can subscribe to products to receive related emails/newsletters
* Payment Functionality
o Accept numerous offline payment processing (cheque, money orders, offline credit care processing, ..)
o Accept numerous online payment processing (PayPal, 2CheckOut, Authorize.net, iPayment, ..)
o Disable certain payment services based on a zone basis
* Shipping Functionality
o Weight, price, and destination based shipping modules
o Real-time quotes available (UPS, USPS, FedEx, ..)
o Free shipping based on amount and destination
o Disable certain shipping services based on a zone basis
* Tax Functionality
o Flexible tax implementation on a state and country basis
o Set different tax rates for different products
o Charge tax on shipping on a per shipping service basis

osCommerce Online Merchant v2.3.1

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