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Zen Cart™, the Shopping Cart Designed for Online Merchants

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

Some shopping cart “solutions” seem to be complicated programming exercises instead of responding to users’ needs, Zen Cart™ puts the merchants and shoppers requirements first. Similarly, other shopping cart software programs are nearly impossible to install and use without an IT degree, Zen Cart™ can be installed and set-up by anyone with the most basic web site building and computer skills.

There are hundreds of shopping cart programs available, but none come close to offering the level of options, features and support available with Zen Cart™. Even the commercial programs have a hard time competing.

Designed with shoppers in mind.

Developers and designers love it.

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phpShop is a PHP-powered shopping cart application. It is released under the GNU General Public License. The primary purpose of phpShop is to provide a simple shopping cart solution that is easy to customize to suit any purpose. phpShop has less features that many other shopping cart applications, but is generally easier to customize. All that is required to effectively customize phpShop is a basic knowledge of HTML, PHP, and SQL.

phpShop Features

Over the years, the developers have been tempted to cram just about every feature ever thought of into phpShop. However, a final decision was made to keep things simple and to not extensively increase the feature set. Thus, the developers have limited themselves to maintaining a stable set of features in the code base. The current list of features are as follows:

Use of CSS-based themes

Easily integrated with Dreamweaver for layout design

Shopping cart per visiting shopper

Minicart visible for shoppers as they browse site

Simple search tool for finding products

Category based navigation of store

Show current specials

Sales statistics

Order management and processing

Manage multiple order status types

Update order statuses

WYSIWYG editing of product descriptions

Unlimited number of products

Display products in thumbnail and full size

Unlimited number of product categories

Unlimited number of product attributes

Able to display multiple prices per product

Pricing based on shopper groups

SKU based product listings with SKU’s at the product attribute(s) level

Easy to use web based store administration

Database driven for dynamic store maintenance

Administrative user management

SSL template driven admin and storefront pages

Upload category, product, and store images via web browser

Multiple shipping addresses per shopper

Separate shipping and handling charge calculation

Customizable zone based tax calculation (city/state & country/region)

Ability to create shopper groups

Order management with customizable order status types

Email notifications of orders

Live credit card processing through payment processors

Shoppers can view orders with status

Ability to set tax rates for multiple countries, states and cities.

Shoppers registration

Shoppers have secure account access to view current and previous orders

Shipping address book for storing multiple shipping or billing addresses

Zone based shipping methods

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osCommerce has attracted a large growing e-commerce community that consists of over 176,700 store owners and developers who support each other and extend osCommerce Online Merchant with add-ons being contributed on a daily basis. To date there are over 4,700 add-ons that are available for free to customize osCommerce Online Merchant online stores and to help increase sales.

osCommerce Online Merchant is an Open Source online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved.

With over 8 years of operation, osCommerce has built a showcase of over 13,500 online shops that have been voluntarily added to the live shops section, and powers many thousands of more online shops worldwide.

Although osCommerce is still in its development stage, the available Milestone releases are considered to be stable with the following features:

General Functionality

Compatible with all PHP 4 versions

All features enabled by default for a complete out-of-the-box solution

Object oriented backend (3.0)

Completely multilingual with English, German, and Spanish provided by default

Setup / Installation

Automatic web-browser based installation and upgrade procedure

Design / Layout

Template struture implementation to:

allow layout changes to be adaptive, easy, and quickly to make (3.0)

allow easy integration into an existing site (3.0)

Support for dynamic images

Administration / Backend Functionality

Supports unlimited products and categories

Products-to-categories structure

Categories-to-categories structure

Add/Edit/Remove categories, products, manufacturers, customers, and reviews

Support for physical (shippable) and virtual (downloadable) products

Administration area secured with a username and password defined during installation

Contact customers directly via email or newsletters

Easily backup and restore the database

Print invoices and packaging lists from the order screen

Statistics for products and customers

Multilingual support

Multicurrency support

Automatically update currency exchange rates

Select what to display, and in what order, in the product listing page

Support for static and dynamic banners with full statistics

Customer / Frontend Functionality

All orders stored in the database for fast and efficient retrieval

Customers can view their order history and order statuses

Customers can maintain their accounts

Addressbook for multiple shipping and billing addresses

Temporary shopping cart for guests and permanent shopping cart for customers

Fast and friendly quick search and advanced search features

Product reviews for an interactive shopping experience

Forseen checkout procedure

Secure transactions with SSL

Number of products in each category can be shown or hidden

Global and per-category bestseller lists

Display what other customers have ordered with the current product shown

Breadcrumb trail for easy site navigation

Product Functionality

Dynamic product attributes relationship

HTML based product descriptions

Automated display of specials

Control if out of stock products can still be shown and are available for purchase

Customers can subscribe to products to receive related emails/newsletters

Payment Functionality

Accept numerous offline payment processing (cheque, money orders, offline credit care processing, ..)

Accept numerous online payment processing (PayPal, 2CheckOut, Authorize.net, iPayment, ..)

Disable certain payment services based on a zone basis

Shipping Functionality

Weight, price, and destination based shipping modules

Real-time quotes available (UPS, USPS, FedEx, ..)

Free shipping based on amount and destination

Disable certain shipping services based on a zone basis

Tax Functionality

Flexible tax implementation on a state and country basis

Set different tax rates for different products

Charge tax on shipping on a per shipping service basis

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