what is zen cart ?
Zen Cart is a PHP based e-commerce shopping cart platform . Built on a foundation of osCommerce GPL code with MySQL Database , Zen Cart is an easy-to-setup and run online store. Zen Cart is for selling online. Zen Cart is completely customizable ecommerce.
Zen Cart runs from your own web server, which means you are fully in control of all its features and capabilities.
Features
- its free to use
- zen cart is easy to install
- it have multiple customer modes
- Admin can add unlimited product and unlimited category depth
- multiple sales and discounts
- zen cart have unlimited pages as like CMS
- zen cart have multiple payment plugin like PayPal Express Checkout , 2Checkout , Stripe , Square payment
- zen cart have multiple shipping plugin like UPS XML , Canada Post , Big Royal Mail
- zen cart have discount coupons plugin like Ceon Custom Order Surcharge/Discount , Shipping Discounts
- gift certificates
- zen cart support multiple language
- zen cart is completely manageable and customizable
Technology
Server side Language : PHP
Database : MySQL
Frontend : HTML , CSS , JavaScript
Is Zen Cart free or paid ?
Yes zen cart is completely free under GNU General Public License , one can customize code and re use it as base of other script as well under GPL , in short zen cart can be free to run, study, share, and modify the script.
Who using Zen Cart ?
As per stats , more than 20 k website use Zen cart
Is Zen Cart a CMS ?
Yes it have in built CMS but it is made as E-Commerce Platform , Admin can add pages as required ,
Does Zen Cart require coding ?
Yes it require coding if anyone want new features which is not in zen cart features or plugins . zen cart have 2107 plugins which cover almost all functionality which one require in making E-Commerce . to customize the Zen cart need experienced developer in PHP , MySQL , html , CSS , JavaScript
