The success of osCommerce is secured by a great and active community (3286 new uploaded files to Community Add-On Packages only in 2008) where members help one another out and participate in development issues reflecting upon the current state of the project. Here is a list of the best add-ons (and free, of course!):
- Ultimate SEO URLs – This contribution builds on the cName & pName code to give an even more flexible, search engine friendly, and cross server compatible SEO URLs
- Easy Populate & Products Attributes – Makes it simple to populate your OSC store with products without using the web interface at all. It also lets you download all your products into a csv file, edit them in the spreadsheet of your choice, and reupload them to update your products, changing prices, categories, quantities, etc.
- Simple Template System – Lets you create simple HTML templates to customize the look and feel of OSC. You simply create an HTML page that looks the way you want it to and put in placeholders for the various elements wherever you want to position them.
- Discount Coupon Codes – Create coupon codes for your customers to use for discounts on orders. Discounts are applied before tax and are displayed as one order total line for each applicable tax class. You can configure whether to display the order subtotal including the discount, or before the discount is applied.
- Purchase Without Account – Allow your customers to choose one of the following options at checkout time: proceed directly to checkout (no account creation), create a new account or login to existing account.
- Order Editor – easy to install, it allows you to add products to an existing order, reliably update order totals, insert coupons & discounts & extra fees, update tax on individual products, edit product information on individual orders, update product quantities, product prices, and more.
- ‘On the Fly’ Auto Thumbnailer using GD Library – Dynamically generate your product image thumbnails on the fly. It works with GIFs, JPGs and PNGs, produces much smaller thumbnail file sizes (saving bandwidth), maintains the proper ratio of your pics, and does not create any extra files on your server.
- Separate Pricing Per Customer – Allows you to assign customers to seperate groups and then give different pricing per product for each group.
- X-Sell – Cross-sell allows you to link products to each other to upsell/suggest items customers might also wish to purchase.
- Recover Cart Sales – This report will show you carts that are unsold so you can see what was at least added and then passed on for whatever reason. The report allows you to select how many past days you will view. Info also includes the customer name, phone number, email address, what items were in the cart, the cart total and you can contact all of them by the press of a button.