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osCommerce - Website development

OSCommerce is an Open Source online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved. BUT it is or can be complicated and it's power may make you hungry for more and we can help you.

You can have a basic OSC installation set up for you. Click here for more details.

Graith Internet have done a lot of work customising OSC and adding features for Organic Catalogue, Drum-Stop, Active Mobility and many other companies. We've won a awards for some of our developments.

osCommcerce Concerns

But isn't osCommcerce really old? I hear it's got security problems and isn't very good if you need high search engine ranking...
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osCommcerce Support Contract

If you've got an OSC site, but your expertise is more in the business area than web technologies, you could gain peace of mind with a support contract that guarantees responsive support and will let you get little fixes or changes done without any additional paperwork. We use Basecamp to ensure resilient communications.
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Improving those Cross-Sales

If you've got a good OSC site, you can improve the revenue from it by getting your customers to buy other products once they're interested in one of yours. It's called Cross Selling. CRELoaded has a good Cross-selling addon but the admin page is really poor. More...

osCommcerce Add To Cart

If you've got an osCommcerce website where your customers can be expected to buy lots of products at one time rather than just one or two, then why not make it easier for your customers and don't force them to look at each product and then buy each product and then go back to buy some more.
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VAT Exemption for osCommcerce

This osCommcerce Addon allows you to collect and check VAT numbers from EU Countries.
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Google Analytics

If you run an osCommcerce website, you may want to take advantage of the free tools Google gives to Webmasters to help them analyse the customer experience.
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Stock Control

Ajax has enabled database updates to become a lot lot easier and we've used Ajax to create a stock control admin page for osCommcerce.
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Sitemap

If you've got an osCommcerce store, you need a sitemap to help Google and other Search engines monitor your site.
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Wedding List

If you sell the sort of items people might buy to give as wedding presents, you would do more business by adding a Wedding List Registry.
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osCommcerce Hack

There has been a recent increase of attacks on OSComerce websites. Hackers exploit a vulnerability in the admin pages that is usually used for uploading product pictures to the /images directory. Several PHP files are uploaded there and are then executed. Server information such as the database configuration and sometimes credit card orders are displayed and captured.
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Multistore osCommcerce

If you sell a wide range of products, your search engine ranking may be diluted if you put them all together on the same site. Putting them on a number of sites may involve too much admin work to be worthwhile. That's why Graith Internet have developed a multistore version of osCommcerce.
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Integrating Components and Contributions

We can help if you want help integrating modules or components for osCommcerce.

There are thousands of useful (and useless) add-ons for osCommcerce, but adding them to your site may be beyond the ability of most website owners. We can help and offer a cheap weekend service for this.

Shipping Modules

Although the OSC Support network provides hundreds of Shipping and Payment modules, it's sometimes impossible to find just what you're looking for. We've written numerous shipping modules to ensure our customers charge the correct postage for the goods they ship. UK postage for large packages to remote islands costs a lot more than the mainland, so a postcode based shipping module is very useful. Drum-stop use it - click here to see it in action.

If you want a shipping module for international delivery using Citylink, click here.

Payment Modules

Graith Internet have written a number of payment modules (and was the first in the world to create code for Google Checkout on osCommcerce - though it isn't a payment module), Worldpay and Pay4Later modules are available here.

Google Base and SEO

Google Base used to be known as Froogle. It's the search results you get when you click the "Shopping" link at the top of the Google Search Results. Google has a special free service for people that run e-Commerce sites like osCommcerce. If you supply your product details to them in a specified format on a regular basis, your products will appear in this search and your site will be ranked more highly as a result. More....

SEO No ModRewrite: Some shared servers (including the ones we provide) don't allow webmasters to run Mod-Rewrite because of the load it places on the server. If you can't use Mod-Rewrite or would like more control over the URLs you have, then this modification is for you.

Telephone Order System for osCommcerce

If you have an osCommcerce website but you also have customers ringing up to place orders, this system will give you an efficient way to place the orders.

Customer Export

Export your customer data from osCommcerce for Newsletter use. More...

Custom OSC Invoice for Stationery

osCommcerce has an invoice page which you can print out for inclusion with your goods. One customer has improved the handling of orders by getting printer paper with two shipping labels on and then getting Graith Internet to modify the invoice page to include the shipping and postage marks in the right place.

New Designs for osCommcerce

Graith Internet have produced many custom designs for osCommcerce. We can design something great or we can work from an existing design to make a new osCommcerce site that's unique to you.

Database Import

Setting up OSC when you've got hundreds of products is tricky, time-consuming and error prone. We can take multiple electronic data sources and convert them. These include Access or Excel databases, text exports or Word documents. These may need to be provided on CD-ROM if they're large. Data conversion will be done locally and then uploaded to the database.

Custom Details Page

If the standard details page doesn't display the details in the format you want, we can modify it to your requirements. You might want multiple pages to display al the information and you might want a printer friendly page too.

How did you find us?

If you place adverts in other media or on other websites or make efforts to improve your search engine rankings, you might want your customers to tell you where they heard about you. This OSC modification does exactly that.

Catalogue Request

If you produce a paper catalogue, here's a special facility to allow your custmomers to order it.
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Floorcraft

Floorcraft

This was a bespoke e-commerce site having problems customising. We converted it to OSCommerce maintaining the same look and feel and functionality but providing more features and possibilities for the future.