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.

The success of osCommerce is secured by a great and active community where members help one another out and participate in development issues reflecting upon the current state of the project.

You are more than welcome to contribute to the success of osCommerce by helping out in the realization of the project, by participating in the forums, by donating to the team developers and sponsoring the project, or just by spreading the word!

PrestaShop is a full-featured, cross-platform eCommerce shopping cart application for the Web 2.0 era. Open-source and Web-based (PHP5), PrestaShop is customizable, stable, and “weighs” only 2.2MB for a quick and easy installation.

On the back end is a full-featured back-office application to manage your online business (including inventory, orders, shipping, and customers) in real-time.

On the Web, you provide your customers with a fun, personalized online store, to which you can add a variety of functions (“modules”) such as:

- Special deals (such as price reductions and gift coupons)
- Payment with Paypal™
- New products
- Top sellers
- Text-message alerts for new orders and inventory levels

Further Reading & Resources

For a simple and intuitive guide to creating a successful online business with PrestaShop you might want to check out John Horton’s brilliant PrestaShop 1.3 Beginners Guide.

If you’re interested in learning how to develop themes for this eCommerce platform then check out Hayati Hashim’s PrestaShop 1.3 Theming Beginner’s Guide, both books are published by Packt Publishing.

A few of the key benefits of FishCart® include multiple parallel catalogs, multiple languages, timed sales, Associate ID tracking, and Web based catalog maintenance. The order output of FishCart® can be adapted to an existing order processing system so in place administrative systems are not impacted.

It’s main features include the following:

- Configurable product catalog includes catalog pages and a block to display product categories.

- Flexible product creation system. Create normal products by default. Add fields to store additional product information using Drupal’s CCK system.

- Flexible product attributes system. Create user selectable attributes for your products that modify the price, SKU/model, and/or weight of items as the customer adds them to his or her cart.

- Single page checkout. All checkout information gathered on a single screen composed of configurable checkout panes.

- Automatic account generation (anonymous checkout). Accounts and emails are automatically generated based on the customer’s e-mail address.

- Simple order processing.

- Simple order creation and editing. Easy to create orders manually for customers, adding products, shipping prices, etc. from a single screen.

- Integrated payment system that acts as a bridge between acceptable payment methods (check, credit card, cod, etc.) and payment gateways (Cyber Source, Authorize.net, PayPal, etc.).

- Activity logging. Enable logging to see all the changes made to an order, including payment processing.

- XML import/export allows you import products, attributes, orders, and customers from your old store into Ubercart.

Zen Cart’s default installation provides everything needed to maintain a professional shopping cart web site for an unlimited number of products.

Products, pricing, shipping, newsletters, sales and more are managed by the store owner through the administration area.

The shopping cart is already set up to receive payments from any major credit card and several popular payment gateway services are included.