osCommerce or Open Source Commerce is a
software program pertaining to online-store management, transactions
taking place therein, exchange of goods, receipts and payment of cash
and such other tasks that relate to buying and selling of products
between two institutions or an institution and one or more individual.
Hence, basically osCommerce is an e-commerce software program.
The osCommerce software has over 13,000 live websites using the
program. The number for the same is increasing day in and day out.
osCommerce takes advantage of the benefits of Tableless web design and
includes a number of social networking tools. After the major re-write
of osCommerce to incorporate an object-oriented backend, a template
system to allow easy layout changes and inclusion of an
administration-area username and password definition during installation
was added to it.A lot of focus is being rendered on bug fixes,
framework improvements and introduction of new Applications in order to
perfect the software.
