Zen Cart is an extremely robust, poweful, and user-friendly open source shopping cart system that is a derivative of the extremely popular osCommerce shopping cart solution. Zen Cart is written in PHP and runs under a variety of platforms, and is as full-featured a solution as one might hope to encounter.
VMT enjoyes working with Zen Cart for a number of reasons, including:
- Template-based Solution - unlike its predecessor osCommerce, Zen Cart utilizes a templating engine that makes it easier to apply and update the overall graphical look-and-feel of your site with minimal effort.
- Enhanced Administrative Interface - easy-to-use adminstrative interface allows non-technical users to manage their cart with minimal training.
- Modules - Zen Cart has had hundreds of modules built for it to handle many common tasks and features, which generally makes implementing a site much more cost-effective since features often do not need to be custom built.
- Customizable - the open source license for Zen Cart and its modular design mean that it can be readily customized when needed to meet any need.
- Content Management - unlike many carts, Zen Cart has a simple CMS interface built-in.