nopCommerce v1.00

nopCommerce is proud to announce the release of first version 1.00.
nopCommerce is focused on providing a robust e-commercce application that is stable and highly usable.
nopCommerce is a open source e-commerce solution that is ASP.NET 3.5 based with a MS SQL 2005 (or higher) backend database.

Feature List:

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
Multi-lingual
Multi-currency
  
Product Features:
Supports discounts
Product search
Supports related products
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
Featured products, sale products or new products
Inventory tracking
Customers can review & rate products (if enabled)
  
Shipping Features:
Calculate shipping by order total
Calculate shipping by order weight
Product weight, and dimensions (L x W x H) can be used to calculate shipping costs.
Supports warehouses
Specify all orders as free shipping
Real time shipping rates (planned)
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
  
Tax Features:
Apply tax by state
Apply tax by country
Individual products can be marked taxable or tax-exempt
Tax classes supported by product (e.g. goods, services, alcohol, etc)
  
Search Engine Features:
Every product, category, and manufacturer page can have their own custom search engine meta tags
  
Payment Methods, Gateways:
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
Manual gateway (just collects order & payment information for offline processing)
2Checkout
PayPal Standart
PayPal Website Payments Pro
Google Checkout (planned)
  
Customer Features:
Customer can view order history
Customer has address book
Multiple billing/shipping addresses per customer
  
Etc:
Use custom receipt templates
Customizable email templates
Completely customize the layout & appearance of any category, manufacturer, or product page
Recently added products page
Recently viewed products page
Store news items supported. News comments
Supports affiliate programs

Hi, I am very interested. How I can join to development team?

You can join to our dev team. But we've several questions to you. Please check your email.

Thank you

So this was the start of it all?

When and from where did you get started and thinking "I can do better". Please add some history.

ajhvdb wrote:
nopCommerce was started as most of existing open source projects. I decided to open my own online store two years ago (August 2008). But I had not enough money to purchase a good eCommerce software (> $5,000), so I decided to write my own eCommerce application (in-house application). But after three months of development I decided to release it as an open source shopping cart. Then Ben ('nopCommerce team | retroviz' forum username) joined nopCommerce team and did a lot of contribution to the project (thanks, Ben, and thanks to all other contributors). On August 2009 I decided to leaved my full-time job (software developer) to continue nopCommerce development and hired two guys for customization services. This is a short history =))

Thanks for this info.

May I ask where the name "nop" comes from? In Holland it means "almost nothing" i.e. "I bought this cd almost for nothing. Very cheap.." :)

ajhvdb wrote:
Just three letters. But you can select any abbreviation here  =)))
P.S. any... except 'Not Optimized Properly' =)))

nopCommerce team | a.m. wrote:

Lol

I like Nearly Office Puppy, which makes absolutely no sense...