nopCommerce allows for you to have a built in shopping cart, credit card processing, catalog management, template customization, shipping calculation and other helpful tools that come standard with the program.  It is easy for new businesses to get up and running and yet it is powerful enough for larger businesses that do a lot of e-commerce to use the program with ease.

As an example, the nopCommerce version 1.3 was released in August of 2009.  It features the ability to add shipping charges, depending on the product.  You can also have many different payment options and you can have a “product active from date to date” ability, the ability to optimize your business performance, the ability to fix any bugs that come up, an IP black list and the ability to create new customer accounts.  The version released in June of 2009 allowed for tiered pricing or volume discounts, the ability to have a forum on your website, the ability to know which time zones are which, and flexible support for taxes, including VAT tax support, tax per state and whether or not shipping is taxable depending on location.  Customers are able to login or register by a username or an email address.

Links:

• nopCommerce web site
• nopCommerce demo
• nopCommerce download