What is Zen Cart?
Create a shopping cart offering physical or digital products; offer payment via a number of gateways; manage fulfillment. It is an open source shopping cart written in PHP using the LAMP stack.
Zen Cart is a tool in the Ecommerce category of a tech stack.
Zen Cart is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Zen Cart's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Zen Cart?
Companies
Developers
4 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Zen Cart.
Zen Cart Integrations
PayPal, Stripe, Shopify, WooCommerce, and Weebly are some of the popular tools that integrate with Zen Cart. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with Zen Cart.
Zen Cart's Features
- Shopping cart
- Product information management
- Open source
- Customer accounts
- Payment integrations
- Shipping integrations
Zen Cart Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Zen Cart?
Shopify
Shopify powers tens of thousands of online retailers including General Electric, Amnesty International, CrossFit, Tesla Motors, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Foo Fighters, GitHub, and more. Our platform allows users to easily and quickly create their own online store without all the technical work involved in developing their own website, or the huge expense of having someone else build it. Shopify lets merchants manage all aspects of their shops: uploading products, changing the design, accepting credit card orders, and viewing their incoming orders and completed transactions.
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is the most popular WordPress eCommerce plugin. And it's available for free. Packed full of features, perfectly integrated into your self-hosted WordPress website.
PrestaShop
PrestaShop is written in PHP, is highly customizable, supports all the major payment services, is translated in many languages and localized for many countries, and is fully responsive (both front- and back-office).
OpenCart
It is an online store management system. It is PHP-based, using a MySQL database and HTML components. Support is provided for different languages and currencies. It is freely available under the GNU General Public License.
WordPress
The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
