osCommerce

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Overview
osCommerce is a free, open-source application for running an online store.The state of its development listed on this page dates from July, 2005; it may have progressed significantly since then.

Related Pages

 * osCommerce:
 * osCommerce tables
 * ZenCart is a shopping cart system derived from osCommerce; it is also free/open-source, but apparently more measures have been taken towards user-friendliness in the setup.

Evaluation
Minor annoyances:
 * No admin-authorization system; you have to use http access control, or roll your own
 * Appears to need register_globals to be enabled in PHP, which is a security risk

There doesn't seem to be a way to import data from (e.g.) QuickBooks, unfortunately.

Text displayed on the site can in fact be edited via osCommerce's web interface; you have to read what the default text on the front page says. The text settings are intermingled with PHP code, however, which may be daunting for some users.

Reference

 * home page

Links

 * Tech Solutions can interface osCommerce and QuickBooks (not clear whether they can do this for other people or just their own hosted clients); see this correspondence for some details.