osCommerce Modules: How to improve your site quickly and effectively
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Have you ever wondered how to optimize your osCommerce web shop? If yes, modules will greatly suit your needs. Many useful modules for osCommerce has been developed to help you in this regard including shipping and payment modules and numerous general function modules designed to enhance the functionality of your store.
Submitting osCommerce product information to the shopping comparison search engines such as Froogle, Google Base, Yahoo Shopping, Shopping.com, ShopZilla, BizRate, Edgeio.com, mySymon.com can be a daunting task for many merchants and managing the data feeds across many comparison sites can get very time consuming. There is a module, which simplifies the standard osCommerce multiple-page checkout procedure by combining all steps of the checkout process in one and the same page. It provides full support for login, registration, shipping and payment methods.
There are modules which can largely increase the website page rank. One of them can make it simple to import products in your osCommerce store without using the web interface. It allows you to create a CVS/XLS file that can be easily uploaded trough the web administration part of the catalog.
Updating product and category data in standard osCommerce based websites is extremely time consuming. You must open each product "one by one" just to update prices, inventory status, edit product names, change meta tags or even to simply update product photographs. Imagine how much time it would take for you to do a simple task such as changing product prices across an entire category within your osCommerce web shop. Now imagine a more complex task of updating not only prices for your products, but also product names, descriptions, urls & stock status. You’ll spend for this too much of your time! That’s why developers created modules to simplify and to make faster your tasks with your osCommerce online store.
Payment Modules give the store owner a way to interface with several established companies for credit card processing, as well as a few methods that simply store information on the local server for off-line processing. There are also modules available for handling cash, money order, and check payments, which do not involve an external merchant.
In addition to the default modules that come with osCommerce, there are many additions available for other merchant vendors. Here you will find a list of the most popular osCommerce modules and a short description of what they do http://www.magneticone.com/store/oscommerce.modules
Easy and intuitive osCommerce modules is time saving solution for you. osCommerce modules automate tasks for you without need for additional programming or formatting.
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Martin Wann, MagneticOne, Ukraine www.magneticone.com/store
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