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Clearly this is good news because until recently, the only means a business had of selling to customers in regional, national or even international markets was to set up an expensive mail order operation or open additional locations. E-Commerce is an ideal solution as it allows you to reach all potential customers for your product or service while also automating much of the sales process.
 

The goal of the osCommerce project is to continually evolve by attracting a community that supports the ongoing development of the project at its core level and extensively through contributions to provide additional functionality to the already existing rich feature set.

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The iHTML Merchant Mall is specifically designed for Internet Service Providers and Application Service Providers that are implementing a large number of stores. With a powerful web-based store management area, you can add a new store in seconds. A new hosting customer can even create and setup her own storefront on her own. The Mall allows for an unlimited number of stores to be setup on a single server. The individual stores in the Mall have the same feature set as the iHTML Merchant 2.0 Enterprise edition. Stores can become part of a portal-like store directory, or can be independent with their own domain name. When creating a new store, a mall manager can set up billing options and define the feature set that will be available to the store owner. Preset billing plans can also be created to provide for even faster creation of stores. Stores can be automatically billed their hosting fees, thus automating much of your client management process.

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• Promotion Code
  • Promotions codes can be created in the admin, to take off a certain percentage of the total order cost, before shipping & taxes.
    
    
• Gift Certificates
  • Gift certificate products can be created. When purchased, a code is emailed out & shown on screen. A user then shops normally, and on the basket page enters this code. The certificate amount is then deducted from the total order amount.
    
    
• Tangible/ Intellectual Products
  • Normal, tangible products require shipping info to be entered. If the product or all products being ordered are marked as non-tangible, then shipping information is not required to be entered.
    
    
• Real / Not-Real Products
  • Real products are products that can be added to a shopping basket. At times, it is useful to add a discontinued product in the product listing, to let people know that it was discontinued, etc. If a product is marked not-real, then it will show in the product listing as all the other products do, but the add to basket button will be missing.
    
    
• Faster Response Times
  • The source files have been fully optimized to make as few database connections as possible.
    
    
• User Tracking
  • Users can be fully tracked as they move through the store. A listing shows each action a user makes, for example, a line might read "User is browsing the Specials category", or "User is adding the Managers Special product to their basket"
    
    
• Thumbnail Columns
  • A variable can be set to specify how many products should appear across each row, on the product thumbnail pages
    
    
• Product Thumbnails
  • The code that displays the thumbnail page product images & related product images looks for an actual thumbnail image file in a mirror of the product image directory. If no real thumbnail exists, it will display the full sized product image, with smaller dimensions. Thumbails can be set to be automatically created by the server, and placed in the thumbnail directory, when product images are uploaded through the product admininstration interface.
    
    
• Product Thumbnails Contrainted by either Width or Height
  • The original coding only allows filling in of the width based on the given height, and not the other way around.
    
    
• Retail Price Strike Through
  • If the selling price is lower than the retail price, the retail price is shown in red with a strike through, with the sale price below it. If the retail price is lower than the sale price, or nonexistent, then only the selling price is shown on both the thumbnail & show product pages.
    
    
• Attractive Basket Page
  • The basket page has been heavily reworked. The subtotal, shipping, grandtotal, etc, rows are all in the same table as the products. Shipping information has been removed from the basket page, and put on its own page. There is a variable which toggles whether a user will be prompted to enter their shipping info as soon as they press the add to basket button, ie before they even see the basket page, or whether they go directly to their basket but must click on a "click here to update your shipping info link", before being able to checkout.
    
    
• American / Canadian / World Customers
  • The store can be set to allow only American, only Canadian, only Canadian and American, or world wide customers. Original coding only allows US & Canada, or world wide. If it is US only, only the United States country is shown in the country select box. As well, the provice and postal code text disappears.
    
    
• Reworked Location Details
  • The original Merchant code only shows the two letter US state & Canadian provice codes, on the shipping information section of the basket page. Ours has been reworked to show the full US state or Canadian province name. The original coding used a select box for the state & country, on the shipping info page. When you press recalculate, your selected state & country are added as the first & selected entries in the select boxes. Then, a static list of countries & states is included for the rest of the box. And, like wise, the state/province would be duplicated at the top of its list as well. In our code, we have made the code that populates the drop down select boxes for state & country dynamic, and only one entry will appear for each state or country. On the detailed billing/shipping info checkout page, the original coding used a large text line, for the two state fields. It was populated with the two character state/province code. This would lead many users to retype the state, using its full name. This would lead to them being redirected to the basket page, with the "location details have changed" message. Our coding shows a drop down select box, instead of the text area. The select box shows the full state/province name. This prevents people from accidently being redirected back to the basket page, making things more complicated for them. A flag can also be set to disable changing of the state, zip, and country on the checkout page, making them explicitly return to the update shipping page to modify this information. Again, this is to prevent accidently redirects to the basket page with location details changed messages.