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Zen Cart Loyalty Reward Points – Better than Discounts?
I just published Zen Cart Reward Points, a new mod that allows stores to assign loyalty points to transactions, which can be redeemed later for merchandise. Unlike discounts, which reduce the bottom...
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Zen Cart 1.5.7
Zen Cart 1.5.7 was released on 6/23/20, and you can see from this Github graph all the work that went into it. The grayed out region at the top right shows the period during which 1.5.7 was developed...
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Zen Cart Documentation
The Zen Cart documentation site was refreshed as part of the 1.5.7 development process. The big changes are: Migration from phpBB syntax to Markdown.Documentation now stored in Github for easier...
View ArticleHow Amazon broke my little book club site
Warning: this is a tale of woe. My book group site is http://tampabaybookgroup.org. I created and maintained this site just by editing plain HTML for many years. I wanted to do something more...
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Search Helper Admin for Zen Cart
My Search Helper plugin can improve search performance by fixing typos and handling product name synonyms – but it is configured using code, which is not practical for many storeowners. To solve this...
View ArticleZen Cart to WooCommerce
Enough customers are asking me about WooCommerce that I thought I’d run an experiment and replicate my store in WooCommerce. The good folks at Cart2Cart are helping me with the migration, so big...
View ArticleZen to Woo basics: logging in
Zen Cart keeps logins in on the admin and storefront side as separate. So you can be logged in to the admin and processing orders, and either not logged in on the storefront or logged in (possibly as...
View ArticleSending Zen Cart bulk email
The ability to send email from your cart and have it be received by customers is critically important. Assuming you are already following best practices and not sending unwanted email, the best way to...
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Save for Later for Zen Cart updated
My Zen Cart plugin Save for Later has just been updated for PHP 7.3+. Save for Later allows your customers to set aside items that are in their cart so they can purchase a smaller number of items, but...
View ArticleZen Cart Template Fixes
The problem with templates is that they’re generally built once and then never updated. So if you have a template that was built with Zen Cart 1.5.5 (say), chances are it doesn’t have fixes that were...
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