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Zen Cart – The Complete Shopping Cart Software Solution

Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The ecommerce web site design program is developed by a group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be, and should be, done differently.

Online shop design and layout

Zen Cart comes with a built in a basic template but it’s highly likely you’ll want a store layout and design a bit more in keeping with the style you want to present to the public. If you have some IT skills you can alter and edit the default template or dozens of high quality freely downloadable templates can be found in the Zen plugin library and online.

Checkout and Payment Gateways

Zen Cart has a number of popular payment gateways built-in and with a bit of configuration you can start accepting online payments fairly quickly. If the payment module you want isn’t included and you need to integrate a custom gateway module, there are hundreds of community-contributed payment modules to select from in Zen Cart’s plugin library.

Zen Cart Store Management

A Zen Cart is store is managed via a backend management interface.

The administration pages contain a complete suite of software configuration and layout options inluding product creation, product image uploads, product variation options, customer and order management and far more.