Posts Tagged ‘ online shopping cart ’

Some Incredible Features of ZenCart

Thursday, April 28th, 2011

Among so many shopping cart programs, ZenCart CMS is considered as the superior one because of its ease to use, features and price. This program is created by entrepreneurs and designers who understand the process of online selling from the starting till finish.

It has all functionalities and tools required for building a successful online store. Some of its important features have been listed below:-

1] Its installation is easy. It gets installed using built-in installation tool.
2] It features – supports multiple languages, supports multiple shipping methods, multiple currency support, multiple tax support, and supports multiple payment methods.
3] It supports all customer status modes like compulsory registration for viewing prices of products and services, unrestricted shopping, etc.
4] It has many controlling administration tools –
• Layout settings can be selected which is used for the spotlight listings
• You can decide which details you want to show on your product details page
• Your policies pages can be edited with the help of HTML
• Creation and management of your product attributes can be done. Add, delete, move, link or copy your products.
• Management of product reviews, featured products, specials and storewide sales can be done.
• Control on prices and taxation, banner advertising.
• Newsletter can be created and sent. New content can be added easily with the help of content management tool.
• Side boxes can be added, moved or removed with the help of admin tool
• Using Cascading Style sheets, you can change the colors, fonts and many other graphics.
5] There is a function of Customer Access Control by which you can set up your shop to allow customer’s access to pricing or pricing but not buying until they are authorized by admin.
6] Automatic detection of search engine crawlers.

Apart from these features, there are many other features of ZenCart Web Application. These are just some major features which ZenCart offers for Online Shopping Cart.

ZenCart v/s Magento

Saturday, March 26th, 2011

ZenCart is originally based on OsCommerce which is highly reliable comparatively, easy to use and understand with PHP structure. It is a nice option for the designers and programmers who have little knowledge of PHP. ZenCart includes all standard features and functionalities required to create an online shopping cart. ZenCart open source software was introduced in 2003.

While Magento is a free open source shopping store started in 2007. It is based on PHP5 coding standards. It is basically very cost effective for developing more of professional online shopping cart. It has many features which make it too complex and server resource intensive. The template system of Magento is better compared to other CMS and it has large number of high quality modules through Magento connect.

For creating website by Magento, the developer should have a sound knowledge of coding while ZenCart application can be used with less knowledge of coding. It is very fast and usable software.

Magento has many extra features like Google check out, Order editing, product import or export and many others. It is very easy to upgrade because of its excellent templating system and it stands at top for its cleanest coding amongst all other shopping carts.

In ZenCart, no license fees are required for installation purpose and it’s very stable platform for developing an online shopping platform.

Summarizing both, we can say ZenCart is sort of less complex and light weight compared to Magento but at the same time Magento is more flexible and usable.