20 Reasons to switch to osCommerce. Reason 5 - Idea to market, maintenance, updates

[osCommerce-Official]

Day 5 today. Or rather night 5. The day was so busy that this text is being written at night.

This one is very important.

For a business, a real business, watching the expenses is very important. Having an online store means creating one and then maintaining and developing it further. There's always some amount that it costs to build a new website.

With osCommerce it starts from $0, since osCommerce is free as such, and so are a number of Apps from the App Shop.

Of course on top of this can come custom design, custom development, paid apps from the App Shop, and still it will be cheaper than building a similar shop in the likes of Adobe Commerce (former Magento), Shopify, or ShopWare.

What's also important, it will likely be faster to build, since a lot of business-proof features come with osCommerce.

Once an online store is up and running, comes the period of further development and maintenance. It is the most natural rule of running a business - as your business grows, changes, and improves, so shall your online store grow, change, and improve.

A lot of the changes can be implemented by the business themselves (advanced user or in-house IT department). This means any idea or change request can be implemented QUICKLY and CHEAPLY. Even hiring a 3rd party development team will require less time for implementation.

So maintaining an online store is cheaper with osCommerce.

But it is also quicker to see how ideas get implemented online. A friend had once worked for a major international business that created some amazing vacuum cleaners. She complained a number of times how creating a new landing page required a planning request to be filed several months prior to it going live. With osCommerce, she could have done it herself in half a day perhaps. Being able to change and adapt is super important for every online business to win the competition.

Talking about changes, what about updates? What about osCommerce core updates, and what about osCommerce Apps updates? Well, as soon as the changes are implemented in the back end, and as soon as developers follow guidelines and implement any and all code changes accordingly in the widgets and modules and Apps - it should be possible to update all other parts of the system without any problem automatically via osCommerce connection with its App Shop.

[patrocine]

The reality is that 99% of businesses invoice only between €5,000 and €10,000 per month. If I can't get oscommerce to integrate into the day-to-day running of the company, I'm sure I'll lose the client and the contract won't be renewed.

As a Support, I am interested in having long-term clients, increasing the client portfolio without losing any, charging a fair fee of €50 per month and having all clients happy.

It is very difficult for a company to change its billing program and this is the only condition that I put on it if you want me to do a merkaplace, if you do not use it for billing and have it 100% synchronized in stock, I will not accept the job.