osCommerce Add Ons
Once known as osCommerce Contributions,osCommerce Add Ons are code contributed by the osCommerce community that either changes or adds to the functionality of the core osCommerce product.
If you want an Add On installed, developed or modified, we can do it for you - email us for a quote.
Some people wonder why osCommerce does not add some of these to the core code. The answer is simple. The aim of osCommerce is to provide a stable and secure eCommerce solution that has the common tools needed to sell online. To support that outcome, the osCommerce team has resisted bloating the code with functionality that might not be needed. Why? The more functionality a solution has, the more programming code has to exist to support it. More code means greater maintenance effort, more bugs and more security risks. For the end user, it also means larger less SEO friendly web pages. So unlike other open source solutions, including the various osCommerce forks, that are hugely bloated and issue frequent updates to fix defects and security flaws, osCommerce is not only lean, it is stable and secure - making it the solution of choice for any serious small business.
In response to this sound strategy the osCommerce community has been able to contribute extra functionality that gives osCommerce users even greater options than built in features would. Why? Because there is more than one way to do something. So there is often more than one Add On to choose from. And the beauty is once chosen you can further modify it to make sure it fits you unique business model without fear you are going to have to rebuild it all next month when a new release comes out!
ozEworks as contributed to many Add Ons. But you won’t see that on the forums. We don’t do it as a company. Our policy is that it is up to the individual programmer as to whether they wish to contribute. We support individual effort in the spirit of open source.
