Ecommerce business to customer and business to business
CRE Loaded Ecommerce Shopping Carts CRE Loaded
Stands for Chain Reaction Edition of OScommerce. Conceptualized back in the late 90's by Salvatore Iozzia, it has become one of the major shopping cart players in the ecommerce arena. CRE took some 100+ contributions as well as some of it's own source code and enhanced OScommerce. Version 6.2+ is developed to be compatible with PHP5 and MySQL 5, according to their development team. CRE is limited to the capacity of 20,000 items.
EOS - eCommerce Online Store
EOS Cart is out pacing the CRE Loaded project. We are now recommending developers and template designers SVN checkout the alpha release for evaluation and contributing towards a more successful shopping cart experience. Some of the hot items on this cart include:
Customer Management
Customer Group support included
Customers now have separate default addresses for contact, shipping and billing.
Account creation with auto generation of PCI Compliant passwords *
Admin Order Management
Order Editor uses gateway modules to return accurate shipping results in real time.
Order Editor uses gateway modules to allow real time authorization and capture of funds. *
RMA functionality available from customer's Account Page AND Admin order processing system.
Taxation system improved to allow for postal code specific application of taxes on per zone basis *
Multi-package and freight shipping support *
Multiple shipping point management using a single shipping module set for improved maintenance *
MCrypt support - optional, but required for full functionality
EXIF support - optional, but required for full functionality
FTP support - optional, but required for full functionality
Sockets support - optional, but required for full functionality
The follow configuration settings can be set in the php.ini, httpd.conf or in the .htaccess, but they must be set as:
register_globals - must be on
safe_mode - must be off
session.auto_start - must be off
magic_quotes - must be off
file_uploads - must be on
allow_url_fopen - must be on
register_long_arrays - (PHP 5 only) must be on
SOAP support - (PHP 5 only) must NOT be compiled into PHP
readline support - must NOT be compiled into PHP
Do you support any other types of servers?
Officially, we do not support any other servers or configurations.
However, there have been reports of people successfully running CRE Loaded Pro B2B business to business ecommerce shopping cart on a WAMP server. This is a server running the Windows operating system with Apache Web Server, MySQL and PHP.
CRE Loaded Cart Packages Pro 6.2
CRE Loaded Pro 6.2
Introduced in 2006, The PRO shopping cart introduces over 100 OScommerce contributions.Some of these include:
CRE Sub Products Selection
Designed to aid in sales of products with options that are seperate inventory items and require Quantity on Hand (QOH) and model number assignment for fullfillment.
Easily create sub products when editing any product
Sub products have, Name, Model Number, Qty, Price, Image values
Order handling is not modified in any way for sub products, sub products are treated as normal products during checkout and order viewing functions
Sub products are hidden when out of stock
Sub products can be put on special
Sub products can be used in conjuction with attributes
Bulk Attribute Manager
Designed to manage massive amounts of attribute option values in the admin.
Dedicated page for managing attributes
Allows for showing or hiding each attribute option's values
Removes mysql load on product edit page
Reduces mysql load when editing attributes
Navigation back to product or list when done
Remember which option group are shown throughout admin session
Multiple Product Manager
Copy, move or delete multiple products between categories
Delete allows for delete link or delete product action
Product Extra Fields
Create a list of values to display on product pages
Credit Card Encryption Manager
Enable and Disable of encryption of Credit Card info in orders
Encryption is handled outside of payment module logic, any module can be used with encryption
Credit Card data can be removed after an order is processed
Credit Card Blacklist
Keep a list of Credit Cards that will be failed during the checkout validation
Specials by Category
Set all the products in a category on special at once.
Set all the products from a manufacturer on special at once.
Remove one or all special items via per item admin
View products on special in any category or by manufacturer
New purchases come with one hour of live chat support and up to 90 days of email support according to their marketing material. Store owners can purchase additional support after the 90 days.
Algozone video demonstration installing creloaded template
Basic video demonstrating howto install a creloaded template