The Texas Music Store
E-Commerce
The Texas Music Store is an online retailer of Texas based music. The Texas Music Store was in need of a full featured e-commerce solution that would lend itself to their business process. In addition to physical products such as CD’s, The Texas Music Store also needed the ability to handle downloadable content such as MP3’s. My dilemma was to develope a full featured e-commerce solution on a budget. In order to meet both the feature requirements as well as the budget constraints I decided to use open source software (osCommerce) as the platform.
Out of the box, osCommerce is a very full featured e-commerce solution, however it did not quite meet the needs of the client. In order to satisfy these needs customization was necessary. I added several features such as cross-promotions, coupons and gift vouchers, page creation tools, and many others features that enhance both the customer’s and store owner’s experience.