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CRE Loaded An Improved osCommerce

July 16, 2009

Filed under: website development — Tags: , , , , — Denise @ 12:04 pm

In the past decades and until today the Internet is one of the powerful tool that change the way we live and view life.  It is a communication tool that bridges people across the globe as well as a business tool that have been proven to be very effective especially in the marketing business side.  Websites are the gateway to the World Wide Web. Through the websites we can get connected to the Internet and the people on it.  With the benefits that the Internet had brought us, and it has also influenced people that in the business and economy industry to use it as powerful tool to deliver and communicate their messages to their market and it gave rise to the e-commerce. E-commerce is basically doing business transactions online, such transactions are buying and selling of products and service and it is considered as a sales aspect of a business.

Innovations in the field of Internet technology had give way to e- commerce applications and systems. These are e-commerce systems that are embedded in business websites with the objective to deliver convenience of online shopping. This systems are also known as shopping cart systems.  There are a lot of shopping cart systems that are available today, and most of them are open source.  One of the popular open source shopping cart systems is the osCommerce which features a rich shopping cart functionality that allows merchants to set up, run and maintain online stores with less effort and at no costs or limitations.  CRE Loaded is a shopping cart solution based on osCommerce and can run on any LAMP (Linux, Apache, My SQL, PHP) web server.

CRE Loaded is similar to osCommerce, but an improved version. For it has more features installed such as Easy Populate which allows user to populate your database from a spreadsheet file, coupon codes, administrator access levels, template system and an affiliate manager. And because it is much similar with osCommerce, CRE Loaded has one of the osCommerce template systems installed, it allows you to integrate a design into the system and control which information boxes shows on the left and the right columns.

CRE Loaded is like Oscommerce but with many more contributions installed. Some of the nice contributions it has are Easy Populate which lets you populate your database from an Excel file, coupon codes, administrator access levels, template system, and an affiliate manager.CRE Loaded also has one of the Oscommerce templating systems installed
which allows you to more easily integrate a design into the system and control which information boxes show on the left and right columns. CRE Loaded has an extensive variety of features, an aggressive release schedule and a number of developing partnerships and an active international community of users and developers that support its customers. CRE Loaded are available in three versions Standard,  Pro and B2B. The standard version is free and the Pro version has adds better product attribute support and credit card encryption while B2B version has a separate pricing level support, affiliate program, multi-vendor shipping and much more.

UK SEO Agency supports and can manage shopping cart solutions on websites that we build. Whether it is an osCommerce, CRE Loaded, Zen Cart  or Magento system UK SEO Agency can help you install and manage these systems that will meet your online business objectives.

Zen Cart Another Disciple of osCommerce

July 15, 2009

Zen Cart carries the tag line “the art of e-commerce” and it is a user friendly opensource shopping cart solutuion which is  based on osCommerce, it has an extensive variety of features but has gone a on its own path. Installation of contributions from osCommerce to Zen Cart is possible. And Zen Cart has great features that includes product attribute managers, template systems, html editor for your regular web page content, built in coupon code system and its payment features allows you to select credit cards you accept. Zen Cart works on PHP and MySQL web servers.

Because Zen Cart is based on osCommerce, it has a similar menu set up but the default set up does not look like a typical osCommerce installation. The difference of Zen Cart from osCommerce is that its main Admin screen has a dashboard type approach that views the major e-commerce activities, unlike with the osCommerce which has a list of admin options. On the business point of view having the dashboard type approach is probably a good thing for it it gives you an immediate access to your major activities. However, on the admin’s point of view you need to navigate through on the long drop down menu list to access the various administrative options, this may be a bit overwhelming especially for novices.

With Zen Cart you get everything you need to maintain a professional, robust shopping cart website for your products. It is ideal for small or start up businesses and you do not need to have to be an expert with computers to manage a Zen Cart shopping cart all you need are the basic computer skills for it is a ready to go solution right out from the box. However, if you decide to go beyond the box features you may invest on programmers to customise your Zen Cart shopping cart to suit your business needs. The Zen Cart website also offers support forum as well as documentations. If you have experienced the powerful features of osCommerce , then you will be amazed of what will Zen Cart can offer.

osCommerce An E-Commerce Solution

July 14, 2009

Filed under: website development — Tags: , , , , — Denise @ 10:57 pm

E-commerce is one of the most successful and effective business strategies used by most companies as an extension of their business using the Internet.  And it  has emerged to be the strongest form of  Internet Marketing strategy. Web design and ecommerce has become a vital component of the Information Technology industry.  Shopping cart solution is the most important aspect of e-commerce for it is the tool used to manage online transactions such as order processing and reporting.

osCommerce is an open source shopping cart e-commerce solution that contains both front-end and and an administration tool back-end which can be easily installed and configured over a web- based installation procedure. And it runs on  PHP and MySQL servers.  And because it is an open source solution it is being distributed at no cost. osCommerce provides the basic functionality that every online businesses needs. And beyond its basic functionality, osCommerce can be customised by installing additional modules or custom code to meet your specific business needs.

osCommerce is the basis for both Zen Cart and CRE Loaded e-commerce solutions, thus making it more simple and having less features compared to both.  osCommerce runs well though and can meet almost all the basic needs of any online business. osCommerce is back-end functionality for Administrators and front- end functionality for its customer.

The following are the features of osCommerce:

- Automatic online based installation and upgrade procedure

-Support dynamic pages

- Administration or back- end functionality

-Customer or Front- end functionality

-Product Functionality

- Accepts numerous offline and online payment processing

- Shipping Functionality

- Flexible tax implementation

osCommerce is a simple shopping cart solution that can meet your basic e-commerce needs, it is not a shrink- wrapped application for those who needed to be spoon- fed nor it is difficult as to have it from scratch. Although osCommerce is equipped with the basic functionality of a shopping cart solution it also has some shortcomings and extensibility. One of the advantages of   applications is the nature of their development process for it allows other users to contribute codes to improve and enhance the system. And osCommerce is not an exception for there are over 2,000 user contributions available. This is critical in creating solutions for loopholes of the systems and fixes some serious issues on payment gateways.

However on the security viewpoint, default installation of osCommerce should not be used in a production environment without being customised. Why is that so? Because there is no admin login authentication protection which is usually available on most authentication systems. Such situation can make your business vulnerable to malicious users.  However, there are modules available to fix such issues. osCommerce is ideal for start up business that engage in order processing.

UK SEO Agency supports and manages ecommerce systems such as osCommerce. And we provide web design and development embedded with ecommerce solutions that are tailored to your business needs.

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