AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS - ChronoPay B.V. a leading Online Payment Services Provider, announced today that it has become the official corporate sponsor of osCommerce, the leading open source online shop e-commerce solution.

osCommerce offers a wide range of out-of-the-box features that allow online stores to be setup quickly and with relative ease. It is available for free as an open source based solution.

Founded in March 2000, osCommerce has since matured into one of the premiere shopping cart solutions in the world, currently powering more than 10 000 live shops around the world. The osCommerce solution continues to reach new heights in software development, moving towards an e-commerce framework solution that is not only easy to setup and maintain, but allows store administrators to quickly customize and launch their Online stores. The success of osCommerce has been accelerated by its large, active webmaster community, in which members share ideas and assist each other in development.

"ChronoPay strongly supports the osCommerce project," said Ido Schiferli, ChronoPay's European Marketing Manager. "The osCommerce shopping cart combines a rich feature set and powerful online shopping cart functionality, which will allow our store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimal effort and with no software costs, license fees, or limitations involved. When combined with the ChronoPay payment module for osCommerce, which is easy to integrate, our merchants are able to rapidly and economically launch their online shops".