Zen Cart is a Windows application for setting up the shopping cart on your e-commerce website. Issuing gift certificates and coupons is possible with this tool as well.

Installation and usage

It is necessary to have a domain and a website to begin integrating Zen Cart. There are simple e-commerce stores available for download such as OpenCart.

After unpacking the included ZIP package, users are instructed to upload all the extracted files on the FTP. Apache server 2.4.43 and newer is required. Moreover, the oldest version of supported PHP is 7.3.19.

After copying the files to the server, you can access the tool through the web-browser based interface. There are options for applying different visual templates to the shopping cart as well as changing the font and color of the text.

Building multi-page check-out experience is possible with this utility. Users can add a secure payment module for entering the credit card number and other personal information. Flexible settings for fees, discounts, group pricing, coupons and other shopping features are available.

Plugins

You are able to add more options to the software by integrating plugins from the officially supported library. A wide variety of shipping, marketing and pricing modules can be installed. Moreover, you can download templates for the buttons and other visual elements of the cart.

Features

free to download and use;
offers users a shopping cart functionality for the website;
there are settings for price and stock indicators;
supports secure transmission of credit card numbers;
compatible with all modern versions of Windows.