Why OsCommerce ?

Good question!

I have been using osscommerce since about 2004, I know it and I understand it’s limitations.  I have tried ZenCart, Cubecart, OSMax, and XCart and countless others and I always end up coming back to oscommerce.

In it’s out-of-the-box form oscommerce is next to useless, but it’s easy enough to add the bits I need to get it working correctly.

There are thousands of add-ons (called contributions) for oscommerce, some are very good indeed, some simply dont work at all, and some whist good are very complicated to install.

My experience will tell me which add-ons I need, and also that I should plan it in advance and add the most complicated contributions first.

I’m going to be working with oscommerce ms2.2, it’s a solid release and I’m familiar with it.  It’s important to ensure that all my add ons are made for MS2.2 or it will get messy.