If your shop is running on a CRE Loaded platform, you should know that there is a security exploit reported: using a simple trick as a URL change allows any malicious user to access protected pages in the admin area without an admin password!
It’s been reported that all  CRE Loaded versions before 6.4.0a are exploitable.
In order to check if you are among the ones affected, change the URL /admin/login.php to admin/orders.php/login.php. If you can see your order histories, here is the security fix:

Edit the admin/includes/application_top.php file

Find the line:

$PHP_SELF = (isset($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) …

Here is the list of the most interesting osCommerce add-ons recently released:

Cool Shopping Cart in Header – it will remove osCommerce images from header for shopping cart/my account and replace them with a nicer shopping cart, number of items in cart and total amount. If the customer removes all items from their cart, the cart image will go back to appearing empty
Shipping Quote/Estimation in Shopping Cart (AJAX) – provides a shipping quote infobox within the Shopping Cart, based on Weight/Postcode. It makes no difference whether the customer is registered, or …

Everyone with a website knows that, things can sometimes go wrong. Sometimes it is with the code, the server or the network. And if we are talking about an eCommerce website, let’s say an online shop, any downtime means money. Money you lost.
Fortunately, there are services to alert you when there is a problem with your website. And you can quickly react or check with the tech support in order to minimize the downtime. And the loss.
One of this services is Uptime Robot. First of all, it’s totally free! Very …

If you are searching for a shopping cart (eventually for The Best shopping cart ), zippycart.com offers you a very useful comparison tool. There are no open source carts listed here, but you can consider if one of these suits your needs.
Prices are starting from $19.99/month (plus one-time setup fee) and you cand compare the shopping cart look & feel, features like printable shipping labels, email marketing or mailing lists, coupon codes, wish lists, affiliate advertising tools, but also daily back-up and restore option, tech support, etc.
Here is …

Wordpress is becoming more & more flexible every day, no longer is it just a blogging platform. Now, by simply activating a plugin, you can transform your blog into a fully functional eCommerce store, ready to sell your products. Here is the list of best Wordpress eCommerce plugins, both free and paid:
1. WP-eCommerce (free) – the most popular eCommerce plugin, has been downloaded over 300,000 times so far. There’s a free version & a gold version, both also working with WP-MU. Main features:

We are pleased to announce that WordPress has won the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. WordPress has won this Award for the first time in the past four years, earning itself a place in the Hall of Fame category for the Award next year.
Wordpress is finally being recognized for its evolution from a blogging application to a full fledged Web content management system. Packt also declared MODx and SilverStripe tied for the first runner up position in this award.
Also, Wordpress was named …

After the article Best add-ons for osCommerce, we come with another list of useful contributions that will help your osCommerce to save your time, upsell, increase conversion,  generate statistics and improve the design of your pages:

Buy_Two_Module – allows you to bundle 2 products in order to sell more. In the product A page you’ll have a recommendation box to buy product A + product B together at a discounted price. This module shows also how much you save buying the 2 products together than separated, and when you click the …

The success of osCommerce is secured by a great and active community (3286 new uploaded files to Community Add-On Packages only in 2008) where members help one another out and participate in development issues reflecting upon the current state of the project. Here is a list of the best add-ons (and free, of course!):

Ultimate SEO URLs – This contribution builds on the cName & pName code to give an even more flexible, search engine friendly, and cross server compatible SEO URLs
Easy Populate & Products Attributes – Makes it simple to …

So, you decided to start a business over Internet. Choosing a good web host straight from the beginning is very important for the success of your business. Below you will find 10 steps to guide your web hosting choice:

Figure out what you want in a webhost first. Do you just want one to play around with and have one for your friends and family or do you want one for your local business or to create a way of making money online? Free web hosts will be fine to play …