Category Archives: Zen-Cart

Zencart + Free Shipping USA Shipping Module

By Joe | Published: August 31, 2010
Many websites offer free shipping in the USA. The default shipping module for zencart does not allow a store owner to easily handle it. In the configuration of the shipping module, you set the desired country (USA) to display free shipping to, and any of the other options that are available in the standard freeshipper [...]
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Zencart + Price Breaks + Easy Populate

By Joe | Published: February 21, 2010
Here is another update to the popular add-on for Zencart called Easy Populate. For those unfamiliar with Easy Populate, it’s a fantastic add-on for Zencart. Easy Populate allows user to create comma separated values (.csv) files to editing the list of products in their Zencart installation. A user recently emailed me requesting an additional feature [...]
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Zencart Custom Session Length

By Joe | Published: February 21, 2010
Lately, I have been developing a few modifications for Zencart. One of things I have noticed during the development process, is my shopping cart being lost while typing code and then refreshing the page a little while later. This was no big deal. Just go in add another product, and test again. Then, I got [...]
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Zencart reCAPTCHA Contribution Mod

By Joe | Published: February 8, 2010
One of the few options to try and combat SPAM on your zencart install, is to try and implement a CAPTCHA text/image on your contact us page. I recently updated a contribution I  created several months ago. This reCAPTCHA contribution will add configuration fields to the database for your api key and password, color theme [...]
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Zencart + UPS XML Dimensional Support

By Joe | Published: February 4, 2010
One task I have put off from switching from osCommerce to ZenCart shopping cart platform, was updating the UPS XML contribution.  For those familiar with the shopping cart system, you know by default they only support standard UPS shipping. The cart figures shipping all the items together in one box. However, some products can’t be [...]
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Zencart Related Products

By Joe | Published: December 14, 2009
Zen-cart is an excellent open source ecommerce shopping cart system. One of the features I like about Zen-cart is that once you understand the templating structure, writing plugins becomes pretty easy. One of the features I enjoyed using with osCommerce, was a plugin for creating a related products box below a displayed. The plugin was [...]
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Zen Cart Easy Populate

By Joe | Published: July 26, 2009
I recently was switching a online store from using osCommerce to Zen-Cart, and realized how nice it is to have the Easy Populate add-on. For those not familiar with the Easy Populate add-on, this allows you to download the product data from your online store into a CSV file.
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