osCommerce has attracted a large growing e-commerce community that consists of over 188,200 store owners and developers who support each other and extend osCommerce Online Merchant with add-ons being contributed on a daily basis. To date there are over 4,900 add-ons that are available for free to customize osCommerce Online Merchant online stores and to help increase sales.

osCommerce Online Merchant is an Open Source online shop e-commerce solution that is available under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved.

With over 8 years of operation, osCommerce has built a showcase of over 14,000 online shops that have been voluntarily added to the live shops section, and powers many thousands of online shops worldwide.

Everything you need to get started in selling physical and digital goods over the internet, from the Catalog front-end that is presented to your customers, to the Administration Tool back-end that completely handles your products, customers, orders, and online store data.

The services provided to and from the community have guaranteed the success of osCommerce, which include the community forums, bug reporter, knowledge base, and development workboard.