Zen Cart Shopping Cart Software

Zen Cart is a cost-free and open source shopping cart software. As with all open source software Zen Cart's source code is allowed to be freely modified and even redistributed by users. The code for Zen Cart is a fork of another shopping cart application plug-in known as osCommerce, and is meant to be less difficult to use and configure by those not so technically inclined. Zen Cart is maintained by a small, but focused community who are making regular improvements to the software program.

Do not be bother with the installation process - if you've ever set up WordPress successfully this should be a cake walk.

Zen Cart is designed to make it effortless to set up product listings, pricing and payment options and also act as a content management system (CMS) for all other aspects of your e-commerce web page. This makes the usual tasks of managing a website more user-friendly and simpler to understand for many who are not necessarily web designers or programmers. A very active help forum will help you to solve any problem you may have.

Nowadays all users can modify their website with a help of many high quality Zen Cart templates available from various websites on the web. Use of Zen Cart templates will allow the site owner quickly change the design of their website to better suit their personal requirements. One of the advantage of top quality Zen Cart templates is that site owners can eliminate the need to hire a web designer to tweak the basic layout to suit the particular type of product presentation. Other benefit is that Zen Cart themes are easy to install.