Zencart Website Development

Zen Cart is another online store management system. It is an easy to use, open source shopping cart software. Instead of responding to users’ needs, some shopping cart solutions are difficult programming exercises. Zencart website development puts the merchant’s and shopper’s requirements first.

Various shopping cart software packages are nearly impossible to install and use without IT domain knowledge, Zen Cart can be installed and setup by anyone with the basic web site building and computer knowledge. Zen Cart is basically PHP-based, using a MySQL database and HTML components.

Zen Cart provides everything which needed to maintain a shopping cart website. Products, shipping, newsletters, pricing, sales etc are managed by the store owner via the administration area. The shopping cart is set up to receive payments from major credit cards, debit cards via the merchant’s choice of several available payment gateway services; some are built-in or simply added with free add-ons.

Salient features of Zencart e-commerce

• Multiple customer modes
• Unlimited category depth
• Multiple sales and discounts options
• Multiple display modes
• XHTML 1.0 compliant template system
• Unlimited extra pages availability
• Multiple ad banner controllers
• Newsletter manager
• Multiple payment options
• Discount coupons
• Gift certificates
• Featured products
• Quantity discounts
• PhpBB integration through an external module
• Multiple shipping options