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Zen Cart 381
Zen Cart
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author(s)
Zen Ventures, LLC
Developer(s) The Zen Cart Development Team [1]
Stable release 1.3.9d / June 3, 2010
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Online store management system
License GNU General Public License
Website http://www.zen-cart.com/
Zen Cart is an online store management system. It is PHP-based, using a MySQL database and HTML components.
Support is provided for several languages and currencies, and it is freely available under the GNU General Public
License.
Zen Cart branched from osCommerce as a separate project. Beyond some aesthetic changes, the major differences
between the two systems come from Zen Cart's architectural changes (e.g. a template system) and additional
included features in the core. Among the modules already included are a Gift Certificate/Voucher module which
allows to create, send and manage the digital coupons. A module to sell downloads (pdf or other media files) is
included as well. The release of the 1.3.x series further differentiated Zen Cart by moving the template system from
its historic tables-based approach to one that was largely CSS-based.
Features
Zen Cart's default installation provides everything needed to maintain a shopping cart web site, however no warranty
is given that the software fulfills its purpose. Products, pricing, shipping, newsletters, sales etc. are managed by the
store owner through the administration area. The shopping cart is set up to receive payments from major credit cards
and several payment gateway services are also provided.
The following is a list of some of the key features of Zen Cart as stated on their website:
• multiple language support
• multiple customer modes
• unlimited category depth
• multiple sales and discounts
• multiple display modes
• XHTML 1.0 compliant template system
• extra pages
• multiple ad banner controller
• multiple shipping options
• multiple payment options
• newsletter manager
• discount coupons
• gift certificates
• featured products
• quantity discounts
• phpBB integration through external module