GLX Web Hosting offer you an easy way to get your online shop up and running fast! The steps required to get your online shop up and running are;

• Choose and Register your Domain Name.
• Select an Advanced Hosting Account.
• Choose your credit card payment provider. We recommend WorldPay for online transactions.
• Install OsCommerce from within your hosting control panel.
• Add your chosen payment provider to your OsCommerce installation.
• Configure the look and feel of your shop and add your products.

Following these steps will give you an online shop that can accept payments online.

Optional but Recommended extras are :

• SSL Certificate, this provides you with an https:// connection to your webpages encrypting any sensitive information passed through your site.

Oscommerce offer an open source solution to provide you with an easy to install and configure online shop presence that will not be expensive to get you up and running. Oscommerce can integrate many different payment methods; we recommend the World Pay system, but you can use the popular Pay-Pal product. Please contact us if you have any questions in relation to Ecommerce Hosting, our support are ready to help : 0870 067 7065

Oscommerce shopping cart system can be installed directly from your control panel without any expertise. Oscommerce has many great features:

Have a look at a demo.

Features

• General Functionality
• All features enabled by default for a complete out-of-the-box solution
• Completely multilingual with English, German, and Spanish provided by default
• Design / Layout
• Template structure implementation to enable:
• layout changes to be adaptive, easy and quick to create
• easy integration into an existing site
• support for dynamic images
• Administration / Backend Functionality
• Supports unlimited products and categories
• Products-to-categories structure
• Categories-to-categories structure
• Add/Edit/Remove categories, products, manufacturers, customers, and comments
• Support for physical (shippable) and virtual (downloadable) products
• Administration area secured with a username and password defined during installation
• Contact customers directly via email or newsletters
• Easily backup and restore the database
• Print invoices and packaging lists from the order screen
• Statistics for products and customers
• Multilingual support
• Multi-Currency support
• Automatically update currency exchange rates
• Select what to display, and in what order, in the product listing page
• Support for static and dynamic banners with full statistics
• Customer / Frontend Functionality
• All orders stored in the database for fast and efficient retrieval
• Customers can view their order history and order statuses
• Customers can maintain their accounts
• Address book for multiple shipping and billing addresses
• Temporary shopping cart for guests and permanent shopping cart for customers
• Fast and friendly quick search and advanced search features
• Product comments for an interactive shopping experience
• Foreseen checkout procedure
• Number of products in each category can be shown or hidden
• Global and per-category bestseller lists
• Display what other customers have ordered with the current product shown
• Breadcrumb trail for easy site navigation
• Product Functionality
• Dynamic product attributes relationship
• HTML based product descriptions
• Automated display of specials
• Control if out of stock products can still be shown and are available for purchase
• Customers can subscribe to products to receive related emails/newsletters
• Payment Functionality
• Accept numerous offline payment processing (cheque, money orders, etc.)
• Credit Card Payments Online can be accepted through several processing gateways. Accept Credit Cards Online Online Credit Card Payments Gateway and Pay-Pal Online Payments Gateway.
• Disable certain payment services based on a zone basis
• Shipping Functionality
• Weight, price, and destination based shipping modules
• Real-time quotes available (UPS, USPS, FedEx, ..)
• Free shipping based on amount and destination
• Disable certain shipping services based on a zone basis

You can begin by Signing up for Worldpay and contacting GLX Web Hosting