If you are looking to expand your business to sell your products online, its quite possible that you will find it difficult to find a better e-commerce solution that matches your business model. Since your site will be completely built up on the e-commerce solution you choose, its highly possible that the e-commerce solution is not going to change. So you need to consider various features of the e-commerce solution you want to use with utmost care else you might be spending lot of money changing your e-commerce solution.
With the revolution of Open Source trend, lot of e-commerce solutions are created and are available for free. To help you choose the best e-commerce solution, I am going to write a series of blogs covering some best Open Source e-commerce solutions available. In each blog, I introduce you a new e-commerce solution that you can get for free and try your hands on before you decide to go with it.
As part of this series, the first e-commerce solution we are going to cover is osCommerce Online Merchant, which is a popular Open Source online shop e-commerce solution. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality allowing one to setup, run and maintain online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees or limitations.
Thousands of add-ons are available for free allowing you to customize osCommerce Online Merchant to suit to your business model helping in increasing sales.

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osCommerce Online Merchant has a catalog front-end and an administration tool back-end which makes it a complete online store solution. These features can be easily installed and configured over a web-based installation procedure.
Some noticeable features of osCommerce Online Merchant are:
- Multilingual support with English, German, and Spanish available by default
- Template implementation allowing layout changes quick and easy
- Support for shippable and downloadable products
- Generate statistics for products and customers
- Multicurrency support with automatic update of currency exchange rates
- Allows various offline payment processing (cheque, money orders etc.)
- Allows multiple online payment processing (PayPal, 2CheckOut, Authorize.net etc.)
- Can disable certain payment services based on a zone basis
- Flexible tax implementation with different tax rates for different products in different states and countries
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