How to Use osCommerce for an Online Business
Setting up a shopping cart for your online business can be overwhelming at first. However, if you decide that using osCommerce is the right choice for your website, your stress should ease up a bit. Since osCommerce is a free open-source code, many programming enthusiasts have spent precious hours improving and customizing it so that you don't have to.
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Instructions
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Install osCommerce and setup your preferences. The shopping cart is simple to use. You don't need any technical expertise to be able to operate the website. You really only need to be able to navigate a web browser and have some business sense.
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Check your email messages for copies of sales receipts sent to each customer. Compare these amounts with the credit card sales receipts to make sure your sales total are correct and that you haven't missed a sale. Also, if you have any customer service questions, you can set it up so they are forwarded to your email address as well.
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Check to see is online shopping in your store at that moment. With osCommerce you can even see what page they are on, if they have anything in their shopping cart and whether they found your website through a referring website.
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Run your orders. It's time to get the orders ready to ship out. Copy and paste the shipping addresses into a Word document that prints out labels for your packages. Print off a packing slip to include with the shipped item and change the order status to "Processing." Click "Update" and move on to the next order.
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Look over your reports. You can set up osCommerce so that you can view reports on "Products Viewed" and "Product Purchased." This allows you to view the two and see if you need to make any changes in pricing or description. There is also a Monthly Sales/Tax contribution report you can install. This can be a big help when it comes time to fill out your tax report, since you can import it directly into an Excel spreadsheet.
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Add a new product: simply stay logged in and open "Products/Categories" and "Add a new product."
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Customize your cart. OSCsolutions.net is one of several companies online who specialize in customizing and helping business owners run their osCommerce shopping cart. If you have a question about your osCommerce cart, read through additional information from the official osCommerce site.
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