nopCommerce has a wealth of features and capabilities designed to help you launch powerful e-commerce solutions. This page provides you with a quick snapshot of its features and capabilities. We have included all the necessary tools required to build a successful e-commerce store. We're always adding to the list of features for nopCommerce, so check out our Roadmap or contact us to find out what’s in the pipeline.

One key feature of the nopCommerce is its pluggable modular/layered architecture which allows additional functionality and presentation elements to be dynamically added to the application at run-time. This pluggable modularized architecture makes it easy to create and manage your web sites.

General Catalog Features

• Supports categories and manufacturers
• Categories can also be fully nested to any level desired (sub-categories)
• Products can be mapped to more than one category or manufacturer
• Products can be mapped to more than one category or manufacturer
• Anonymous checkout
• Support for kit products (e.g. Build your own computer)
• Multilingual support
• Multicurrency support
• Measure weights, measure dimensions
• Real-time currency exchange rates (ECB)
• SSL support
• Export to XML
• Fully 100% customizable design using templates
• Configurable list of allowed countries
  • For registration
  • For billing
  • For shipping

Product Features

• Product attributes (e.g. color, size)
• Supports multiple images per product
• Auto image resizing
• Downloadable products supported
• Text options on products (e.g. require initials for monogrammed products, require text name for product customization, etc)
• Support for simple products (e.g. a book) or products with variants
• Support for sale prices
• Product search
• Featured products, sale products or new products
• Inventory tracking
• Disable buy buttons for specific products
• Product specifications (e.g. processor, memory, graphic card)
• Compare product feature (if enabled)
• Breadcrumbs

Marketing & Promotions

• Ability to assign design on category, manufacturer or product (unique design per category/manufacturer/product)
• Supports related products
• Marketing manager (campaigns)
• Customer groups can be marked as free shipping
• Customer groups can be marked as tax exempt
• Supports discounts
• Supports coupons
• Discount amount can either be a fixed value or a percent off. e.g. $10.00 off or 20% off
• You can specify a start date and an end date when the coupon is valid
• Discounts can be assigned to products
• Discounts can be assigned to categories
• Discounts can be assigned to whole order.
• Discounts can be filtered by a customer role
• Volume discounts (Tier prices)
• Recently added products page. RSS.
• Recently viewed products page
• Free Shipping Option
• Customers can review & rate products (if enabled)
• Require administrator approval of product reviews for all reviews
• Product review helpfulness (“Was this review helpful for you?”)
• Search Engine Friendly URL's
• Automated URL Re-Writing
• Every product, category and manufacturer page can have their own custom search engine meta tags, page title
• Customize default SEO meta tags
• Store news items supported. News RSS. News comments
• Polls supported
• Store blog supported
• Forum supported
• Supports affiliate programs
• Froogle (google base) product feed
• Google XML site map
• Customizable email templates
• Completely customize the layout & appearance of any category, manufacturer, or product page
• CMS Topics
• Breadcrumb trail for easy site navigation
• "Store is closed" feature

Shipping Features

• Integrated for real-time shipping rates from: UPS, USPS
• Calculate shipping by order total
• Calculate shipping by order weight
• Calculate shipping by country & total order weight
• Free shipping over $X
• Supports warehouses
• Specify all orders as free shipping
• Admin defined shipping methods (e.g. Ground, Next Day, 2nd Day, etc)
• Specify all orders as free shipping
• Support for download products
• Support for "no shipping required" products (e.g. services)
• Admin defined shipping methods
• Customer groups can be marked as free shipping

Tax Features

• Apply tax by country
• Apply tax by state
• Apply tax by zip
• Strike Iron tax provider
• Individual products can be marked taxable or tax-exempt
• Tax classes supported by product (e.g. goods, services, alcohol, etc)
• Customer groups can be marked as tax exempt
• VAT support
• Allow store owner to specify which tax based on: billing/shipping/default/shipping origin address
• Allow store owner to specify whether prices include tax
• Allow customer to choose tax display type (incl/excl tax)
• Allow store owner to specify tax display type (incl/excl tax)
• Allow store owner to specify whether shipping is taxable
• Allow store owner to specify whether shipping prices include tax
• Allow store owner to specify whether to hide zero tax
• Allow store owner to specify whether to hide tax in order summary when prices are shown tax inclusive

Payment Methods, Gateways

• Cash On Delivery payment method
• Accept Purchase Order.
• Accept Checks / Money Order.
• Accept all major credit and debit cards
• Store can be set to authorize only, or auth-capture credit card mode. You can then capture payment at shipment if desired
• Real-time or offline credit card processing
• Manual gateway (just collects order & payment information for offline processing)
• 2Checkout
• Authorize.NET
• CDGcommerce
• eWay (Australia)
• Google Checkout
• Moneybookers
• PayPal Standard
• PayPal Website Payments Pro (Direct and Express)
• Paypal PayFlow Pro
• PSI Gate
• Worldpay

Customer Service Features

• Allow customers to register/login by email or by username
• Wish list
• Customers can view their order history and order statuses
• Customer has an address book
• Customizable Order Emails
• Multiple billing and shipping addresses per customer
• Customer roles (groups)
• Time zone support
• Built-in forum
• Password recovery
• Several account registration/activation types
  • Automatic registration (no approving)
  • Email validation during registration
• "Email a friend" feature
• Compare product feature (if enabled)
• News RSS
• Recently added products RSS.
• Image capture on login/registration.
• Contact Us form
• Installation wizard