What is osCommerce?

May 7, 2008

osCommerce (for Open Source Commerce ) is a powerful e-commerce and full-featured online store-management software program. It uses the Apache web server, PHP language and mySQL database and is available for free under the GNU General Public License. Websites created with osCommerce can be easily maintained and administered by a non-technical person using the Administrative interface and a web browser.
Source: Wikipedia

In laymens terms - osCommerce is tool that allows you to sell your products online, accept payments from Credit and Debit cards, manage product stock, and add new or modify existing products - without any technical knowledge whatsoever.

osCommerce is free to use, and to install. You can get more information, or download the source code here: download osCommerce.

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