Off-the-shelf applications refer to software products that can be purchased to build common functionalities such as content management systems, shopping carts etc. It refers to ready-to-use software applications that can be customised to build stand-alone applications or can be integrated with existing solutions. It is a term for software that is ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. The best part of having off-the-self applications is that they can be implemented easily and quickly because extensive programming is not required.

At Software Services UK, we also offer our client off-the-self applications by integrating and customising the various open source packages to suit their individual needs. Some of the various open source packages that we have customised to suit different business requirements in past few years are:

SHOPPING CART APPLICATIONS
Shopping cart applications enable creation of online store fronts that enable customers to browse through products and book them online. These applications cater to all the functional requirements of a store front from managing product details to booking and processing online orders.

Moreover, some of the shopping cart applications that we have customised at our end are: FishCart: FishCart is an open source e-commerce system for products, online payments and online donation management, written using PHP. It can run on MySQL, Postgres and Solid SQL database engines and supports multiple platforms such as Linux, BSD and Windows.

osCommerce: osCommerce is an open source online store management software written using PHP and MySQL. Using the shopping cart functionalities of osCommerce, store owners can easily setup, customise, run and maintain their online store front.

BULLETIN BOARD APPLICATIONS
Bulletin Board applications can be used to set up bulletin boards and discussion forums. These applications include separate modules for Administrators to create and manage forums, Moderators to moderate views posted by users and Users front end interface where users cab browse through and post comments on various discussion topics.

Some of the bulletin board applications that we have customised as per client's needs are:

phpBB: It is an open source bulletin board package based on PHP and MySQL. The key features of phpBB are: Multiple language interface, Private or public forums, Powerful search utility, Private messaging system, Support for HTML tags within messages, Message formatting with various font styles and sizes, Email notifications for replies to messages.

vBulletin: vBulletin is a powerful, scalable and fully customisable forums package for websites. It is written using PHP and has a MySQL database.

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