Archive: oscommerce

It may be obvious but after a discussion in the office we decided to put together a simple guideline for getting into e-commerce. This is a list of things that you need to do in order to start selling from your own web site. Get a Domain Name These are so cheap yet so fundamentally [...]

So now that everyone uses Google Shopping, Google are making life difficult for the merchants and they all have to jump through hoops. The current push from Google is enforcing some things that are very difficult for small companies to conform with :- * EAN Numbers – This is the BIG one, Google are making [...]

Ecommmerce Leeds Did you know you are #54 for ecommerce leeds on Google? This is only one of several keywords we have detected driving traffic, and potentially revenue, to your web-site. A bit of informative spam there. To be honest we didn’t know this. We have not really gone into geo targetted SEO. Some of [...]

Grass Seed Store – Migration from OSCommerce with Custom Functionality The Grass Seeds Store wants to migrate away from OSCommerce to Magento in order to improve stock management. They also need to maintain DEFRA compliance and have custom reports generated to do so. The custom reporting was based on the sales of seeds. The Grass [...]

Stage Gear – General Site Improvements Stage Gear needed a number of aspects of their OSCommerce site improving, including the look and feel, the addition of SEO URLs to improve site ranking, improving search on the site and adding basic Facebook integration. Stage Gear Stage Gear is a company that specialise in retailing sound and [...]

Over Board – Migration to Magento from OSCommerce Over Board wished to move away from OSCommerce due to limitations encountered while using OSCommerce. Using Magento allows the company the flexibility they desired. This project involved implementing a new site design as well as importing data from the old OSCommerce site. Over Board Over Board are [...]

Just an update for any PHP developers in and around the Leeds, Bradford and West Yorkshire region: Edmonds Commerce are still looking for skilled and enthusiastic PHP developers to join the team. Our focus is entirely on e-commerce which is an exciting and challenging field for the right kind of person. We expect our developers [...]

Migrate your osCommerce, CRE Loaded or Zen Cart store to Magento for as little as £1280. Get in touch today and we can discuss your particular requirements and help you at every step of the way in your migration to Magento, without a doubt the best open source ecommerce platform available today. If you are [...]

If your osCommerce checkout starts behaving badly and bits of info seem to go missing eg billing address then you should definitely try this fix before you tear your hair out completely. Most osCommerce installs store session information to a MySQL table called (suprisingly) sessions. Sometimes (I have only seen this twice on umpteen osCommerce [...]

If you are having a weird problem with your payment modules not saving the configuration when you edit them via the admin, try this to see if it fixes it: in admin/modules.php find: PLAIN TEXT PHP: while (list($key, $value) = each($HTTP_POST_VARS['configuration'])) { and replace it with PLAIN TEXT PHP: //while (list($key, $value) = each($HTTP_POST_VARS['configuration'])) { [...]