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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 a 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.

Zen Cart's default installation provides everything needed to maintain a shopping cart web site. Products, pricing, shipping, newsletters, sales, etc. are managed by the store owner through the administration area. The shopping cart is set up to receive payments from major credit cards via the merchant's choice of numerous available payment gateway services, some built-in or easily added with free addons.

Just a few of Zen Cart's features...

• easy installation
• multiple customer modes
• unlimited category depth
• multiple sales and discounts
• multiple display modes
• XHTML template system
• unlimited extra pages
• multiple ad banner controller
• multiple shipping options
• multiple payment options
• newsletter manager
• discount coupons
• gift certificates
• featured products
• quantity discounts

Zen Cart branched from osCommerce as a separate project in 2003. Beyond some aesthetic changes, the major differences between the two systems come from Zen Cart's architectural changes (for example, a template system) and additional included features in the core. The release of the 1.3.x series further differentiated Zen Cart by moving the template system from its historic tables-based layout approach to one that is largely CSS-based.

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