Zen Cart Review

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Zen CartZen Cart is an open source e-commerce solution based on the PHP programming language and a MySQL database. The Zen Cart home page provides a great overview of the project. Not only does Zen Cart offer a very long list of features, the system is designed with both store owners and web developers in mind. There's no sacrifice of usability or power.

What Features Do I Get With Zen Cart?

You get everything you need to maintain a professional, robust shopping cart web site for an unlimited number of products. Products, pricing, shipping, newsletters, sales and more are managed by the store owner through the administration area. The shopping cart is already set up to receive payments from any major credit card and several popular payment gateway services are included. For a more thorough breakdown of Zen Cart features, visit the web site.

Will I be Able to Install and Maintain My Own eCommerce Web Site with Zen Cart?

Yes! The great thing about Zen Cart is that anyone with basic computer skills can manage their own shopping cart. Zen cart is ready to go right out of the box. Installation is automated and the administration area is very user-friendly. All you need is a merchant account. One caveat: unless you want your store to look exactly like hundreds of others that use Zen Cart, invest in some professional web design services to customize the look and feel of your web site.

What Kind of Customer Support May I Expect When I Use Zen Cart?

There is some basic self-help available in the Zen Cart support forum as well as satisfactory documentation on the web site. You may that customizing your shopping cart will require professional assistance.

Why Wouldn't I Want to Use Zen Cart?

Other than personal preference, purchased solutions will have better customer support and more targeted solutions may be available for certain industries.

Zen Cart Resources

E-commerce Guide Review - Interesting article about osCommerce off-shoots, Zen Cart and CRE Loaded.

Zen Templates - Basic web design templates for Zen Cart.

Zen Cart Templates - More expensive templates for Zen Cart.

Submitted by ucvhost on February 1, 2010 - 6:13am.

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Submitted by jem777 on December 4, 2009 - 4:33am.

Many people find it really very convenient to use.
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Submitted by affzone1 on October 24, 2009 - 9:20am.

Zen Cart is one the most popular, free, open source shopping cart options available. Generally Zen Cart is considered to be a superior extension of osCommerce with improvements in coding practices such as better separation of code and display that make it more intuitive and easier to extend and customize.
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Submitted by mobilenter4 on October 18, 2009 - 7:21am.

It is powerful cart software. On the Zen-Cart website there are hundreds of documents for everyone from developers to regular non-programmers. There are documents on adding products and options, setting up shipping, changing the home page and custom pages, customizing newsletters and tons more. Much of the entire setup is self-explanatory enough using an internet browser, but it's always good to have a reference.
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Submitted by priplow on October 14, 2009 - 1:33am.

It is a very user friendly shopping cart software. Installation was fairly straight forward. As with most shopping carts, it comes with an out of the box skin and configuration. This seemed to be serviceable, although the skin wasn't terribly attractive and it seemed like a lot of options were turned on, making the interface a bit cluttered for my liking.
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Submitted by john andy on October 3, 2009 - 11:52pm.

When searching for a merchant account provider remember to do some research on the company and try to get some positive opinions about the merchant account provider you are planning on doing business with. Not every merchant account provider can provide you with the perfect solution to fit your needs. Due to the competitive market these days when you do find a reliable merchant account provider make sure that the rates you are offered are appealing.

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Submitted by Mcdaddy on October 1, 2009 - 5:14am.

You will definitely be needing an account merchant. It's the safest way to have a purchase online.
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Submitted by mobilenter4 on September 29, 2009 - 12:11pm.

Zen Cart is a PHP/MySQL open source shopping cart. It is completely free, and comes with source code which you can freely modify. The software is developed by a community effort. The code is based on the popular osCommerce shopping cart.
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Submitted by m00n1 on August 8, 2009 - 1:49am.

Interesting take on Zen Cart. Not sure I agree with all your comments but insightful nonetheless.

Here's another interesting review: http://www.shopping-cart-reviews.com/articles/Zen-Cart-Review.aspx

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