Zen cart is a shopping cart application most probably used for e-commerce sites. The shopping cart is PHP based and back-end by MySQL database and HTML components. Support is given for number of languages and currencies, as it is an open source shopping cart so obvious it is available at free of cost. Like other open source carts it is also distributed under GNU (General Public License).

Zen cart divided from osCommerce as a separate shopping cart project in 2003. On the far side some inventive changes made the major differences between these two shopping carts. Zen cart’s template system and additional included features make this application more attractive. In addition, Voucher and Gift certificate allows an user to create, send, and manage digital coupons. There is one more important module included in Zen Cart, which allow to sale downloads PDF and other media files as well.

Through administration panel user can manage the required and the most important operation of e-commerce site such as products/services, shipping cost, sales, newsletters and so forth. Actually the default installation of this cart provides every required thing, which an important part to maintain a shopping cart site. In terms of flexible online transaction zen cart is specially set up to accept payments from major credit cards through the merchant’s choice of many available payment gateway options, couple of payment gateway services are already built in with this application

The customization of zen cart is really easy, however,  it depends on the users skills and available resources as well. On the other hand for more advanced customization users should have the strong knowledge of HTML, PHP, CSS, and MySQL, however, there are many developers available, who provides zen cart customization services  in cheap cost.

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