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Choose the Zen Cart host who can help you maximize your bottom line. That’s A2 Hosting! After all, page load speeds impact every thing from your SEO rankings, bounce rate and even your conversion rate. You know our Turbo Servers can make your cart really perform. You’ll also want to use our Performance Plus service. Performance Plus can help you maintain your site’s speed during traffic spikes by doubling your CPU cores and adding an additional GB of RAM to your account. That way your promotion and sales efforts won’t go to waste when you experience surges of traffic.
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What is Zen Cart?
Zen Cart is a PHP/MySQL based shopping cart software that’s free and one of the most reliable carts available. Zen Cart has been around for over a decade and has over 100,000 active users, so its obvious they must be doing something right. Zen Cart software is primarily designed for those who want to enter the online business market and create their very own online web cart. Even beginners can easily start up their own online business thanks to the help of Zen Cart. Customers of a web store will benefit as well. Unlike other available options, Zen Cart’s software can be used for free without the need for a license.
Not only is Zen Cart easy to use, but it’s extremely versatile as well. Upon logging into the admin area, you will find 11 different management categories, with each one having countless sub categories, such as shipping regions, production options, tax parameters and much more. Don’t get overwhelmed though because only a fraction of these options will ever be used. Overall, the setup of Zen Cart is highly organized. Even if you have little PHP knowledge you will be able to customize their shop or website cart into anything you like. The sky is the limit. On the other hand, those who are not technically inclined can always choose from countless professional templates.
Zen Cart Features
A decent amount of features are offered when you begin with Zen Cart. The hundreds of different customization plugins and integrations is what really makes their solution so unique. You can literally add an infinite number of products and categories to your shopping cart. Shipping options can be defined by weight, zone and item. You also have the option of choosing from many different shipping services, as well as payment options. Banners, newsletters, coupons and gift cards are all a possibility with Zen Cart. The built-in marketing tools allow you to track and analyze your website or store visitors.
Colors, fonts, headers and logos can be changed and customized with very little effort. While visiting Zen Cart’s website, you will find over 200 free templates that you can choose from. Most of these free templates even have their own built-in forums and periodic updates. If you don’t want to choose an entire template and want a little more customization, you can always choose from many different template alterations, such as headers, rotating image sliders and home page options, just to name a few. There are many paid-version templates available as well.
Add Ons and Additional Features
Listing all the plugin options would literally require writing a book. We’ll share a quick overview of them. Both easy populate CSV and bulk order management tools are available on Zen Cart. As far as language goes, you can choose Hebrew, Chinese, Polish, English and more. Marketing tools include Facebook integration, event calendars, Google map placers, contest features (such as “enter to win”), coupons, newsletters and hundreds of more integration features.
The pricing tool options are pretty versatile as well. These options include dual pricing, newsletter discount, group pricing and price sensitive discounts, to name a few. Shipping avenues include UPS, USPS, FedEx and a few more. You’ll discover very few software solutions offering this many different shipping modules. The sidebars of your templates can be customized with Twitter feeds, live chats, shipping estimators, recently viewed items and even dynamic filters. Zone plugins can be used to set international tax parameters, international zones and provinces.
Payment Options
Zen Cart gives you the ability to use Authorize.net, FirstData and Paypal. Zen Cart will also accept COD, money orders and even cash. As always, credit cards can be used as well. As a website store owner, you will also be able to choose what kind of credit cards to accept, such as Visa, MasterCard, AmericanExpress and Discover. International payment options, include Australian Bankcard, Solo, also known as Switch or Maestro, and JCB.
What Exactly Is Zen Cart’s Support Team Like?
In addition to the Zen Cart Web Hosting help you’ll receive from our Guru Crew Support team, Zen Cart’s has one of the most active forums out of all other services. Thanks to the 100,000 registered users that Zen Cart has, you will be able to get your questions answered in no time. These forums are categorized accordingly as well. Zen Cart even has its very own Wiki page which offers step-by-step information on how to accomplish many different tasks such as installation, customization, upgrades, security and much more. This is probably the best place for new users to visit for help.
They also have their own FAQ page that includes hundreds of questions and answers, most of them regarding troubleshooting issues. You can also read the 390-page user manual for additional help. An e-book version of the manual is available as well. There are plenty of Zen Cart tutorials on YouTube that are really helpful and go into great depth.
Zen Cart is hands down one of the best cart solutions available for those who are seeking an affordable, versatile and secure platform for your online shop or business. Everything that a business owner could possibly need is condensed into this single solution. Our Zen Cart Hosting in addition to our fast solutions means you’ll get the tools needed to create a successful online cart for your business.
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Setup your Zen Cart software with a single click using Softaculous in your control panel. It couldn’t be easier or faster to get your site up and running! You’ll automatically get an email notifying you when a new Zen Cart version becomes available. You’ll be able to log into your control panel and update your Zen Cart install with a single click, so you get the latest features and the most secure settings!
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Additional Zen Cart Hosting Software Alternatives & Options
Magento
Magento is the eCommerce software solution and platform trusted by some of the world’s top brands. Use Magento and trust this extremely popular solution can help you grow your online business.
WooCommerce
A freely available WordPress plugin that makes it easy to create an eCommerce site. WooCommerce offers a number of extensions for enhanced functionality and beautiful themes.
OpenCart
OpenCart is your fast, user-friendly and responsive eCommerce solution. OpenCart offers an intuitive control panel to ensure you have complete control over your store.
AbanteCart
AbanteCart is a free, PHP-based ecommerce platform. AbanteCart provides the perfect ecommerce solution specifically designed for small to medium-sized online businesses.
WHMCS
WHMCS is a comprehensive management, billing and support software solution for Web Hosting automation. WHMCS puts you in control of everything including signups, terminations and account provisioning.
