E-Commerce: is conducting a business, selling a product and collecting payments electronically. It is differentiated from a retail business in that a store front, bricks and mortar, are not required. It is also differentiated from a catalog business in that a catalog is not required. E-Commerce web sites offer a product on-line, offers a secure manner of payment processing on-line and delivers their products on-line or with a timely shipping method.

OS commerce is the package we suggest to our clients. It is the leading Open Source online shop e-commerce solution and is backed by a dedicated, strong, and ever growing community, and is released under the GNU General Public License.

The back end of OScommerce is capable of doing everything you need to run an on-line store from:

- Handling inventory

- Tracking shipping

- Automatically bill to merchant accounts

- Send mailing to customers

- Notify of specials and much much more.