eCommerce with Zen Cart!
Posted June, 2013
Zen Cart Better Together has been enhanced to allow you to discount more than one item when a particular item is purchased. It's called the One to Many feature, and it's new in Better Together 2.5.Posted June, 2013
Impulse Buy has been updated to handle the changes to array_rand() in PHP 5.2.10 and above. This affects users of the randomize() and add_impulse_items_from_cat() functions.Posted May, 2013
Save for Later now supports saving for later from the product info page.Posted May, 2013
The Zen Cart Free Gift Chooser Mega Module gives you the most important parts of the Big Chooser discounting module, along with a built-in admin panel. It is now ready for general release!Posted May, 2013
Zen Cart Manufacturer Discount now has a promotional page. It's a free download for people who have bought Manufacturer Discount! Not sure what a promotional page is or how to use it? Take a look at my documentation on Zen Cart Promotional Pages.Posted April, 2013
The Zen Cart Free Gift Chooser Mega Module discounting module gives you the most important parts of Big Chooser with a built-in admin panel. It's ready as a prerelease now and will be complete by the end of the month.Posted April, 2013
On my Admin Demo Shop (link no longer working) site, you can login (userid: test / password: test) and test the following admin mods:Posted April, 2013
At long last, I have ported Better Together Admin for osCommerce from the Zen Cart version of the mod.Posted April, 2013
British Columbia, Canada has a tax regime under which shipping attracts only federal sales tax, whereas products attract federal and provincial sales taxes. Yikes. Who thinks this stuff up?Posted April, 2013
I just love seeing people use Zen Cart Discount Preview! Take a look at these screenshots of people using Discount Preview to show off their Zen Cart Discounts.Posted April, 2013
Zen Cart Case Discounts is a new module which permits you to set a per product case size and associated discount. It's like tiered pricing in Zen Cart Table Discounts, with an admin panel.Posted April, 2013
Zen Cart Manufacturer Discount now supports the user exits exclude_category() and exclude_product(), making it easy for you to have a manufacturer discounting policy, but also have specific exclusions.Posted April, 2013
Here are a couple of examples of how to Build Kit Discounts using Zen Cart Big Chooser.Posted March, 2013
It looks as though PayPal (Website Payments Standard) can now handle osCommerce 2.3.x style discounting modules, although it does so in a very odd way. You can see osCommerce Big Chooser for an example.Posted March, 2013
I'm always looking for ways to improve my list of Advanced Configuration techniques for That Software Guy's Zen Cart Discount Modules.Posted March, 2013
A bug was found in BOGO Discount for Zen Cart, which will affect configurations using Discount Basis other than "No Restriction."Posted March, 2013
The marketing text for Zen Cart Big Spender and Zen Cart Big Chooser can be shown on the Product Info page of your Zen Cart; it may also be shown on the Shopping Cart (and Checkout Shipping) page by Big Upsell. And using the new set_support_prod() method of these discounting modules, a direct link to a product can be provided. (This was possible before set_support_prod of course; it just required more coding.)Posted March, 2013
Are you aware of all the Cross Selling options for Zen Cart? I have now listed all of the cross selling methods that can be used with my mods in one place. Hope it helps!Posted February, 2013
Most of my mods don't update the cart contents - there are only two exceptions. Auto Add, which has the ability to add an item when another item is added using the product info page. It is sometimes used for free items or items discounted using one of my other Zen Cart discounting mods.Posted February, 2013
Zen Cart already has a mechanism to restrict coupons to certain specific items. But what if you want more complex conditions - for example, two specific items (A and B) must be in the cart? The coupon is only applicable to a certain group?Posted January, 2013
Zen Cart Checkbox Cross Sell allows your customers to add additional items (cross sells) to their cart when buying another item. It uses the configuration from Better Together to make suggestions from a list of items without attributes. It's a great way to increase the value of each customer order.
