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When customers arrive at your osCommerce site, they may often have a question about your registration process. To become familiar with the perspective of a potential new customer, you should know the process they follow to login. The following article explains how new users register into the osCommerce site. How New Customers Register in osCommerce Read More >

You can track your osCommerce website statistics with Google analytics. osCommerce has a built in function that allows you to add Google Analytics code to your site. The image to the right shows what the code looks like before adding the Google Analytics code. Below are the steps to add your Google Analytics to your Read More >

When you install osCommerce, you will have a Contact form by default set up for your shop. The Contact form provided works well, except, there is no validation preventing robots from filling the form out. This article will explain how to secure your website contact form using the Simple Captcha Add-On. Download the captcha module Read More >

Not all e-commerce shops have only one manager, so it is sometimes necessary to have multiple logins. Fortunately, osCommerce does provide this option. This article will explain how to add or delete Administrators in osCommerce. Creating or Deleting Administrators in osCommerce Creating an Administrator NOTE! On your first login to the Administrator section you will Read More >

In this guide, we will walk you through setting up the per item shipping module in your osCommerce estore. This creates a standard shipping price for a an item, that is added to the total for each item you purchase. As an example, if an item has a shipping price of $5.00, and you purchase Read More >

In this guide we will walk you through the installation and setup of the Flat Rate shipping module in osCommerce. This lets you provide one standard shipping price for customers in a specific tax zone that purchase products from your osCommerce powered store. For example, you can charge a flat $3.00 rate for anyone in Read More >

After you get the background styles and the #bodyWrapper styles setup the way you need it. you can set up your Footer styles to match them. The image to the right shows what the osCommerce site looks like with the background and #bodyWrapper styled for the “Sunny” osCommerce theme. The footer by default has the Read More >

Once you have changed the background image of your osCommerce site, you will want to customize the body of the webpage. The snapshot to the right shows what the osCommerce site looks like with no background for the content area for the “Sunny” theme. You see the website background through it. To style this we Read More >

Once you have the theme changed to your satisfaction, you can add a background image, footer image, and more. In this article, we will learn how to change the background in your osCommerce website. Create a background image Take a snapshot of your osCommerce site and open it with a Photo editor. In this tutorial Read More >

In this guide we will walk you through installing and configuring the Paypal module in osCommerce, which lets you accept Paypal payments. Paypal is one of the most common tools for accepting money, with millions of users. This module does not require users to have a paypal account to check out, and it will allow Read More >

After creating categories and products in your osCommerce, you will want to have them organized. You do not have to worry about the order or where they were originally created as you have the ability to transfer them around from within the admin area. Follow the instructions below to learn how to move categories and Read More >

Taxes are often a necessary part of your online business. osCommerce has tax section in the Administration back end that allows you to setup taxes from most anywhere in the world, and if it’s not listed, you can also create new zone. The following tutorial shows how find then setup a tax within the osCommerce Read More >

When you are setting up your osCommerce appearance, you will want to upload your own logo to your site. This article will explain how to upload a custom logo to your osCommerce site. Below is the default logo for osCommerce. To upload a logo that will fit correctly, the store logo must be in PNG Read More >

In this guide we will show you how to add a product attribute to your osCommerce website. This allows you to add additional options to an existing product. For example you can sell a T-shirt and add more options, such as colors, and let customers choose from a drop-down menu. You can also add additional Read More >

Once you have the osCommerce Theme Switcher configured and you have the jQuery version updated, you can proceed with installing themes to your osCommerce site. The default theme is shown in the snapshot to the right. OsCommerce is different from other ecommerce software in that you use the jQuery Theme Roller theme builder from jQuery. Read More >

As you work with your added categories and products, you may eventually have the need to remove obsolete or discontinued items as opposed to rearranging them. Follow the instructions below as we discuss how to remove them from within the osCommerce admin interface. How to remove categories and products in osCommerce Log into your osCommerce Read More >

Using the Banner Manager within osCommerce allows an administrator to manage existing banners, add new banners or delete unwanted ones. The managing portion of the interface includes being able to view the banners outside of the store interface, view existing banner statistics and edit the details of the saved banner. The following tutorial describes these Read More >

When installing the Theme Switcher on your osCommerce site, you will encounter errors regarding the jQuery files not being found. Please see the snapshot to the right. This is because when the osCommerce was released, the version was changed. This article will explain how to update your osCommerce to the newest version of jQuery. The Read More >