Zen cart is Php based prominent, free open source ecommerce solution for shopping carts. Source code can be completely customized by anyone as per requirements.
It branched off from the open source oscommerce shopping cart in 2003 when designers acquainted new structural progressions with the code. It’s been developing after. As an open source, Zen Cart is developed and kept up by a network of volunteer developers, designers and entrepreneurs around the whole world with the aim to provide free open source software solution for shopping carts. Currently there are more than 0.1 million users of Zen cart around the world.
Zen cart is good choice for those wishing to have just an ecommerce store on web but it may not be a good choice for sophisticated designs. Some good and bad features of Zen Cart are given below to have an overall picture before making selection.
Good Features
- Free to download and free plugins
- Easy to install
- Supports infinite number of products
- Full support of Standard marketing tools like newsletters, banner ads, gift cards etc
- Community support is very strong like forums, tutorials and FAQs
- Fully customized backend
- Customized plugins with strong forum support
- Provides basic reporting like products viewed, products purchased, stock status and customer orders
Bad Features
- Requires hosting
- Poor SEO compatibility and performance
- Low quality mobile integration
- Updating the version remove all kind of custom coding
- Overwhelmed admin interface without proper design
- Poor design and aesthetic of free templates
- Customization requires advanced programming Php, JavaScript or HTML
Zen Cart is usually preferred by small retailers or medium size business owners for whom design is not a big issue but all other offers features required for a small ecommerce store are offered by this ecommerce software without compromising reliability and compatibility.
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