AFCommerce is a full and complete online store with both a storefront and administration area, which can be easily installed, configured, and maintained over a web-based interface. Version 2 may truly be the best shopping cart solution in the world with an insane number of features and a complete custom development environment that may be used as a shopping cart, as well as, being a spring board for new applications and unique customization.

The source code is extremely easy to customize and add to. The purpose of the AFCommerce project is to break the standard for commerce solutions started by other ecommerce communities that are overly complicated and complex to configure. AFCommerce runs on the powerful PHP scripting language, the reliable Apache web server, and the popular MySQL database server. AFCommerce is able to run on any PHP 4.2 or higher enabled web server running on Linux, Solaris, BSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows environments.