When you install osCommerce with one click, we install the current, maintained release of osCommerce 4 (never the old 2.x line, which is no longer maintained). The store is ready to trade: the storefront, the admin, a sales channel at your website's address and an administrator account for you.
Sign in to the admin
- Open Sites and choose the website.
- Press Sign in to osCommerce at the top of the page. You can also open the Applications tile on the website's overview.
- The Sign in to osCommerce card shows the admin Address (your website followed by
/admin/) and the Username, which is an e-mail address.
- Press Show password, copy it, open the address and sign in.
Every time the password is shown it is recorded in your account's activity log. Change it inside osCommerce after your first sign-in.
Before you take your first order
- Store details: your store name, address and the e-mail address orders are sent from.
- Currencies and taxes: the currencies you sell in and the tax rules for where you sell.
- Shipping and payment: switch on the shipping methods and the payment modules you use, and enter your own payment provider account in each payment module.
- Products: add your categories and products, or import them with osCommerce's own import tool.
What we look after
The website runs on a PHP version and settings tuned for osCommerce, with its scheduled tasks running for you. The installer is removed once the store is set up, so nobody can run it again over your store. You can add automatic osCommerce updates to the website: each update is made in a quiet hour you choose, after a fresh backup, and is rolled back on its own if your storefront stops answering.