What is Zen-Cart?

Designed for Online Merchan
Zen-Cart programmed for online entrepreneurs in their open merchan easier to display their products and commodities in order to easily promote and introduce their products to prospective customers. Although they have no knowledge of web programming language altogether.
Appropriate slogan, Zen-Cart is truly a work of art in running an online business (The Art of Ecommerce). Designed as an ecommerce application which is free, user friendly, and online shopping open source systems. These systems remain and are still experiencing development by a group of "addicts" online businesses, programmers, designers, and consultants who think that online business (ecommerce) needs to be done in its own way. Some solutions are offered more impressed as a complication of the programming exercises in response to the needs of its customers and online businesses (e-preneurs). While the Zen-Cart to place the needs and merchan online shoppers as the principal basis of this application creation. Similarly, in the installation process, the application of other online stores can be installed almost impossible without having an adequate programming skills. While the Zen-Cart is easy to install even by people without programming skills even websites.
Designed for the online shopper
Zen-Cart will provide an online shopping experience that is very impressive to your customers. Leads them to see and examine the products that you display, providing some lists that might be very interesting for them through promotional programs and special offers.
Once the desired product was inserted into shopping bags, the shopper will conduct a three-stage process of payment (checkout) is easy and safe.
The first stage, delivery and billing address displayed in the customer data entered during registration (sign up). At this first stage, they were asked to determine the pattern of delivery. Here they are free to choose the pattern of transmission such as to order them. At this stage they can find out the cost of shipping. Zen-Cart applications also have inherent (built-in) facilities muliple shipping methods, and computing facilities online in realtime shipping rates, such as UPS, USPS. Merchan also can provide a flat shipping rates, payment facilities COD. It could also add another delivery option that can be regulated solely by the owners of the merchan.
The second phase, they were asked to determine the pattern of payments for what they want. There are two types of popular online payment patterns that have built-ins in the application of Zen-Cart, namely AuthorizeNet and Paypal. So that the shopper is free to choose alternative payment patterns that are available to suit his. Merchan can also add other payment options, such as: money order (can be modified into a payment by check or money orders), until the payment through bank transverse offline and online. Zen-Cart also includes an e-commerce application that has received certification from PayPal. That is, the owners of the merchan who use the application can accept PayPal payments through PayPal.
The third stage, shipping address, shipping patterns, and repayment pattern described and shoppers were asked to review the orders. Before pressing the confirmation button, a shopper can modify these data. Customers can also leave a special message to the manager of merchan which can be written on the form their groceries.
After confirming customer orders, invoices orders will be immediately sent to the email to the email shopper and merchan owners. Many things we need can be met by Zen Cart application.

    The process of preparation and the installation program that is very easy.
    Adjustments and modifications are very easy
    Some functions that can be automated. As a specific task and confirmation of orders.
    Process simple customer navigation
    Applications promotional and marketing programs that have built-ins. Such as coupon discounts, shopping vouchers, newsletters and product notification programs that help the shopper to keep up-to-date about the products they gandrungi.
    Making discount programs per-product, product whole general discount, discounts per product group, and determination of quantity discounts based on spending.
    No less powerful are, appliances SEO (Search Engine Optimization), control of meta tags per product, will make your products easily absorbed by the big search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, and search engines (search engines) other.
    Protective equipment and system administrator's password security administrator folders that are reliable and easy.
    Very supportive for multi-language websites, multi-currency, and tax structures.
In summary, the Zen-Cart will provide a memorable online shopping experience for your customers.
Designed for the Web Designer
Zen Cart provides an opportunity for web designers to create an online store that is easy and always up-to-date with new features. Provide friendly service that can be used at every level of industry and business with an integrated enrichment practices.
One key secret behind the power of Zen-Cart as the shopping cart is, the power and ease of manufacture template codification of "abstract" in terms of appearance. This gives ample room to move your clients to make rapid adjustments and perfect on their sites display features as needed.
For Developers and Hosting Providers
The developers can perform cutting edge solutions based on standards of modern technology in Zen-Cart. The combination of PHP server technology with the ability to select from a variety of databases and back-end, producing software that is flexible and can be adjusted and modified as needed.
The minimum standards recommended for servers that can run Zen-Cart is: PHP 4.3.2 or higher, Apache 1.3.x and MySQL 3.23.x or above; PHP 4.3.2 or higher, Apache 1.3.x and MySQL 3.23 . x or higher.
The philosophy of Zen-Cart
Zen-Cart Idealism is simple:

    Maintaining destination online store owners to always keep in mind all the time.
    Makes everything possible to be used in a simple way.
    Listening and responding to the views and input from our users.
    Continue to expand the database and server options.
    Trying to become the perfect shopping cart.
We just want to provide a shopping cart program is fast, easy and available to anyone under the GPL license. Zen-Cart development team encourage the members of our community and invite anyone to become part of our community, to provide input and discuss the various online solutions to do business.
Furthermore, our team always intended to open communication with our users about what is going on, our goals, plan releases and launching new versions, as well as to ensure that we have implemented important features and promote a profitable business for online store owners.