Sunday, November 28, 2010

Zen Cart E-Commerce Shopping Car

Zen Cart is a absolutely free and open source shopping cart application. As with all open source software Zen Cart's source code is allowed to be freely modified as well as redistributed by users. The code for Zen Cart is a fork of some other shopping cart software plug-in called osCommerce, and is meant to be less difficult to use and configure by those not so technically inclined. Due to a small, but specific community Zen Cart get regular upgrades and maintenance.

Installation is fairly straight forward and smooth, if you have ever installed WordPress successfully this should be a cake walk.

Speaking about advantages of Zen Cart we can point out that this software is built to make it easy to set up product listings, pricing and payment options and also act as a content management system (CMS) for all other aspects of your e-commerce site. This may definitely help to maintain a web site and make it more user-friendly and simpler to understand for those who are not necessarily web-site designers or programmers. A really active help forum will assist you to solve any problem you may have.

At this time all users can modify their website with a help of numerous Zen Cart templates offered by numerous sites on the web. Use of Zen Cart templates will allow the site owner quickly modify the design of their site to better meet their individual requirements. Zen Cart Themes are simple to install and eliminate the need to hire a web designer to tweak the basic layout to suit the particular type of product presentation you prefer.

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