A list of features of Zen Cart™

• Allows customers to shop your store 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
• Easily keep your products/catalog updated – no HTML coding required to add, delete, or modify products.
• Works on the popular combination of PHP and MySQL technologies.
• Secure – no one but your administrative personnel can access your customer/catalog data.
• Merchandise pricing options – single and multiple items can be put on sale. Sale options include percentage-off, fixed amount off, new price, etc. Sales can include or exclude product attributes. You can add or exclude a discount from a special. You can put a whole category or the entire store on sale.
• Products can be marked as free or Call for Price.
• Script can be both wholesale and retail.
• Minimum or maximum quantities and units – you can sell one per customer, or require at least four and in multiples of two. You can set requirements on a per-product basis.
• Quantity discounts can be configured per-product for varying pricing levels or quantity levels.
• Product attributes can be added, either as radio buttons, checkboxes, drop-down lists, text boxes, file uploads, file downloads, and more. Attribute options can upcharge the price of an item, and an item can have its price completely controlled by attributes. Attributes can be configured as read only so as to provide a features list.
• Attributes can show image/color swatches.
• You can send administrative emails on most customer shopping activities to various administrators as desired. Email addresses are protected from abuse, as they are not displayed on-screen. The Contact Us page can be configured to support multiple destinations, such as sales, technical support, webmaster, and so on.
• Multiple items can be added to the shopping cart by simply entering quantities and clicking Add.
• CVV2 card verification number support is available for compliance with most merchant agreements. This feature is enabled/disabled in the Admin.
• Shipping options – multiple carriers are supported, including hold for pickup, free delivery in an area, and most major couriers and postal services.
• Customer access control – you can set up your shop to only allow customers access to pricing or pricing but not buying until after being authorized by an administrator. You can restrict them from browsing at all too, if desired.
• Search options allow you to search for products based on name, description, metatags, price, and more.
• Meta tags keywords and descriptions can be controlled at the per-product level, all from the administrative interface.
• Automatic detection of search engine spiders.
• Intelligent generation of metatags content for search engines.
• Built in WYSIWYG page editor for modifying non-database pages.
• Tight security on password handling, login/logout, and more.
• HTML-style email supported.
• Email can be sent via sendmail, smtp, or smtp-with-authorization.
• Shipping estimator allows your customer to get an idea of their shipping costs prior to checkout.
• Coupons and gift certificates are easily handled both by customers and administrators.
• Customer group pricing allows groups of users to receive a set discount amount at checkout.
• Shipping rate, large package handling to give fine-grain control over shipping services.
• Tax rates, tax zones, etc easily configured in the Admin area.
• PayPal™ IPN and many other popular merchant services supported.
• Customers can write product reviews (approvals can be required by an Administrator).
• Low stock notifications to administrator when inventory is getting low (level can be configured).
• Scalable from small shops to larger shops with hundreds of thousands of products.
• Multiple language support.
• Multiple currency support.
• Many more options available.