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December 15, 2008 by Efficient Entrepreneur  
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Zen-Cart Ranking: 5 percent Fluff, 80 percent Meat and Potatoes, 15 percent Gold

Zen-cart is one of my favorite shopping carts available on the free market. It’s a Free shopping cart that you need to have loaded on your server. This shopping cart was started almost 5 and a half years ago by a few dedicated programmers who wanted to take the previous master of free shopping cart, OsCommerce and bump it up a notch.

Zen-Cart’s Meat and Potatoes: Zen-Cart offers an easy-to-use yet very effective shopping cart. The installation is simple and straight-forward. The cart works out of the box, but even a minimal knowledge of coding can really make this cart an ace.

  • Use Paypal or Authorize.net to accept Credit Card Payments: Paypal and Authorize.net are the 2 most trusted payment processors available on internet today.
  • Simple item addition, shipping selection, category creation, sell downloadable products,
  • Lots of cool features like: # of guests & members online, Newsletter integrated into the cart, Customer testimonials and specific product reviews, contact us form and more.

Zen-Cart’s Gold: A huge community that not only provides a useful forum that helps you work through all your programming dreams and hick-ups, but also supplies some great add-ons and templates. Easily incorporate all the coolest aspects of the most professional shopping carts. These are some of my personal favorite add-ons: Google Checkout, Live Chat, Easily import all your stock with an Excel file, Tell a friend and an Order Exporter designed for drop-ship shop owners.

But the aspect that really stands out at Zen-Cart’s most amazing feature is called “Developers Toolbox”. I don’t know why every open-source product out there doesn’t include this tool. This tool alone is your flashlight in the darkness that is coding. Anything funny happening on your site, like random text that you want to get rid of, is found instantly in the code. Developers Toolkit then gives you the exact path to the file. You then download it, edit it in a text editor, re-upload it and your problem is solved. Brilliant aspect, and this is the only open-source program I’ve found that has this feature.

Zen-Cart’s Fluff: Zen-Cart seems to have been originally designed for someone looking to distribute music, so there are a few features that just take up space if (like the hundreds of users) you are not selling music.

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