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Zen Cart Review

Zen Cart OUR SCORE 86%
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our score 86%
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  1. What is Zen Cart
  2. Product Quality Score
  3. Main Features
  4. List of Benefits
  5. Technical Specifications
  6. Available Integrations
  7. Customer Support
  8. Pricing Plans
  9. Other Popular Software Reviews

What is Zen Cart?

Zen Cart is an e-commerce, MySQL/PHP-based shopping cart platform that is open source and is totally free. Its source code is completely customizable, which means that users can develop, modify, or tailor the program to fit their business preferences and needs. Its cost, however, does not reflect its quality because the program features powerful tools and services that make it one of the best shopping cart in the market. It’s even more popular than various commercial shopping carts out there. Being open source, Zen Cart is developed and maintained basically by volunteers; business owners, web developers, designers, and programmers from all over the world. It is a platform that came to life thanks to the common desire of many developers and programmers for launching a zero cost e-commerce service that anyone can install and develop, including people who don’t have much background in IT.

Product Quality Score

Features
8.7
Ease of use
8.5
Customer support
8.6
Value for money
8.6
8.6
TOTAL SCORE

Zen Cart features

Main features of Zen Cart are:

  • User access rules
  • Shopping cart
  • Ad & banner displays
  • Templates
  • Open source eCommerce
  • Integrations
  • Multi-product type inventory
  • Payment gateways
  • Product descriptions, images & pricing
  • Discount, coupons & code management

Zen Cart Benefits

Benefits

The main benefits of Zen Cart are its open-source nature, seamless integration capability, and the video training materials provided. Here are more details:

Open source

Zen Cart is offered free under the GPL2 license, but more than that, it is an open-source shopping platform. This allows users to completely develop, modify, and tailor the system based on their needs and preferences; and it would only require basic web development and IT expertise.  Zen Cart is continuously developed and maintained by the community and their collective efforts. By default, the platform is not the best-looking shopping cart but with some knowledge in programming and PHP, users can transform more than just its looks but also its entire front end aspects.

Seamless integration

Zen Cart can seamlessly integrate with many widely used gateways. This means that the users’ sites are ready to accept payment right after setting it up. There are built-in integrations available and there are also custom modules that could be implemented. Users can either choose from hundreds of payment modules that were contributed by the community or they can build one of their own. The platform is capable of running with hosting companies of any kind and it also allows users to utilize their very own domain name.

Training videos

For those who are interested in learning more about how the software works or for those who need help getting started, Zen Cart offers video-based training. Hosted by Geoff Blake, an award-winning presenter and trainer, the videos give users a clear picture on how the software and e-commerce in general operates.

Technical Specifications

Devices Supported

  • Web-based
  • iOS
  • Android
  • Desktop

Customer types

  • Small business
  • Medium business
  • Enterprise

Support Types

  • Phone
  • Online

Zen Cart Integrations

The following Zen Cart integrations are currently offered by the vendor:

  • PayPal
  • Olark
  • MailChimp
  • USPS
  • 2Checkout
  • LiveChat
  • API2Cart
  • Webgility
  • QuickBooks
  • Zendesk
  • Sage Pay
  • eMagicOne
  • Drupal
  • PaymentWall
  • WordPress
  • GetResponse
  • SAP B1
  • Shipwire
  • ChatPirate

Customer Support

Online

Pricing Plans

Zen Cart pricing is available in the following plans:

Free trial
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