Zen Cart is a user friendly shopping cart system that is constantly being developed with the feedback from shop-owners themselves. This makes it an amazing piece of software with a huge scope of possibilities available to anyone who wants to set up their own website.
The Website Angel chose Zen Cart as our choice of ecommerce software because of the flexibility that it offers to our clients. We can build simple to use stores to the more challenging membership only ecommerce stores all using Zen Cart.
We also like to make sure that with our standard Zen Cart website package we install all of the most important tools which will help you on your way to market domination within your field of service. Their are a lot of modules being produced for Zen cart so we also offer an installation service for existing Zen Cart website owners that just need a quick install of a new feature.
The features which we include automatically within our Zen Cart website packages are as follows:
* Simple SEO – This converts Zen Carts original URLS which are not exactly pretty into something that is more liked by search engines
* Google Analytics – It is important for any website to keep a track on the visitors coming to the website and how they got there in the first place
* Easy Populate – You may be supplied with a csv from a supplier so this feature makes it easier for you to upload products in bulk (saves hours and hours!!)
* Recover Cart Sales – One of my personal favorites as I always want to know why people do not proceed with a sale so this helps you keep track of this.
Of course Zen Cart does come with a lot of fantastic features anyway:
- Allows customers to shop your store 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
- Easily keep your products/catalog updated – no HTML coding required to add, delete, or modify products
- Secure – no one but your administrative personnel can access your customer/catalog data
- Products can be marked as Featured for specific highlighting/attention
- Minimum or maximum quantities and units – you can sell one per customer, or require at least four and in multiples of two
- Quantity discounts can be configured per-product for varying pricing levels or quantity levels
- Product attributes can be added, either as radio buttons, checkboxes, drop-down lists, text boxes, file uploads, file downloads, and more
- If you need to take your site offline for a period of maintenance, you can do it easily by posting advance notices, as well as a friendly Down For Maintenance page that’s also search engine friendly
- Shipping options – multiple carriers are supported, including hold for pickup, free delivery in an area, and most major couriers and postal services
- Showcase – you can set your store up to be simply a product showcase, without pricing at all
- Meta tags keywords and descriptions can be controlled at the per-product level, all from the administrative interface
- Automatic detection of search engine spiders
- Intelligent generation of metatags content for search engines
- Built in WYSIWYG page editor for modifying non-database pages
- Coupons and gift certificates
- Newsletter and product notification systems
- Tax rates, tax zones, etc easily configured in the Admin area
- PayPal™ IPN and many other popular merchant services supported
- Customers can write product reviews
- Scalable from small shops to larger shops with hundreds of thousands of products
- Track who’s online interactively
- Multiple language support
- Multiple currency support
- And lots more!