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What are the Main Features of Zen Cart?

We build most of our eCommerce websites with ZenCart - a powerful open source shopping cart system.  Your zen cart site will have the following features:

Global E-Commerce Ready

  • multiple language support
  • multiple tax support
  • multiple shipping methods
  • multiple currency support
  • multiple payment methods

Categories and Products

  • unlimited category depth
  • physical merchandise
  • downloadable virtual products
  • products can reside in multiple categories
  • product options as dropdowns, radio buttons, checkboxes, and text input

Customer Retention Tools

  • periodic newsletter in plain text or HTML
  • order status emails and records in the customer account
  • referral tools
  • gift certificates

Promotions, Sales and Discounts

  • individual special prices
  • global sale reductions
  • category-wide sale prices
  • discount coupons
  • customer group discounts
  • quantity discounts
  • one-time charges
  • minimum and maximum purchases per product
  • prices by attributes

Powerful Administration Tool

  • configure your minimum and maximum values, image sizes and customer details
  • choose which layout settings to use for the spotlight listings
  • pick which details to show on your product details page
  • edit your policies pages with HTML (if desired)
  • add, delete, move, link or copy your products
  • create and manage your product attributes
  • manage product reviews, featured products, specials and storewide sales
  • shipping and payment module installation and management
  • price and taxation control
  • banner advertising controls
  • newsletter creation and sending
  • content management tool, easily add new content pages

Customer Status Modes (select one of these)

  • unrestricted shopping (everyone can view products and prices)
  • must register to view prices
  • must register to view prices and products

Catalog Status Modes (select one of these)

  • showcase mode without prices
  • showcase mode with prices
  • normal shopping mode
  • down for maintenance mode
  • showroom only

ZenCart is fully supported on PHP4.x and PHP5.x - which is included as standard in most Linux/Unix hosting accounts. If you need a  host for your new shopping cart website, we can do that for just $15 per month.

 

Check out a Demo of the Zen Cart Admin System

You can have a play with a demo installation of Zen Cart - in particular, you can log in to the admin system and see how it all works.  You might want to watch our Zen Cart tutorial videos as well  this will give you a clear idea about how to use Zen Cart.

Zen Cart Admin Demo

Log in with the following:

Username - admin
Password - demo

WebCare's Zen Cart Tutorial Videos

 

If you would like to talk to our Zen Cart project manager, to talk through the features of Zen Cart and how it will work for your business, just call us on 1300 656 902 and ask for Ursh!