eCommerce with Zen Cart!
Posted April, 2021
Do you have a few places you deliver to that have higher shipping costs? You can handle this by having multiple shipping modules, but another option is to use my Zen Cart Shipping Surcharge plugin, and just add a visible surcharge to the order.Posted March, 2021
I have been busy building search and filtering capabilities for clients. Some of this work is described in my page Zen Cart search customizations.Posted March, 2021
Due to the ever evolving behavior of spammers, I have updated Zen Cart Delete Spam Customers to run multiple queries to find fake accounts.Posted February, 2021
Seasonal Centerbox now can be configured from your Zen Cart admin.Posted January, 2021
Disabled Products Report allows you to easily review all of the disabled products in your store.Posted December, 2020
Does your store offer downloads? Here's a nice fix.
--> PHP Fatal error: 1064:You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''5
WHERE orders_id = 12656
' at line 3 :: UPDATE zen_orders_products_download
SET download_maxdays = 0,
download_count = '5
WHERE orders_id = 12656
AND orders_products_download_id = 25334 ==> (as called by) ...
Posted November, 2020
Seasonal Centerbox allows you to show randomly selected products from a specific category in a centerbox on your home page.Posted November, 2020
The first patch release to Zen Cart 1.5.7 was released at the end of October 2020, with a follow on patch in late November. Several dozen important fixes and improvements are included; see the Zen Cart 1.5.7b Release Notes and the 1.5.7 Known Bugs List.Posted October, 2020
Preview Email helps you style your HTML emails. But what if you need to test a content change to the most commonly customized email, the checkout (order confirmation) email? In the past, you had to go through the time-consuming process of entering a new order for each test. Now there's Test Checkout Email. Test Checkout Email will take any order you specify and re-send the order confirmation email for that order to you, running it through the sameorder:send_order_email() function that sent the original email.
Posted September, 2020
My Search Helper plugin can really improve search performance - but it is configured using code, which is not practical for many storeowners. To solve this problem, I created Search Helper Admin.Posted August, 2020
If you want to show all orders in a specific status in one place on your admin dashboard, this plugin can help. Take a look at Orders in Status Dashboard Widget.Posted August, 2020
If you want to test how your direct email (sent via Admin > Tools > Send Email, or perhaps by Zen Cart bulk email) look, you can now use a test input file which will be displayed by Preview Email.Posted August, 2020
Zen Cart has no direct mechanism to track accounts receivable, but if you have clients who need to pay you for transactions outside your shopping cart, Make a Payment could be a good solution. It allows your customers to use your cart's existing payment methods to send you money.Posted July, 2020
Want to send email to people who have purchased specific products during a specific date range? I have built a tool that can do this for you - it's called Zen Cart bulk email.Posted June, 2020
Zen Cart 1.5.7 is now available for download. Boasting hundreds of improvements and bug fixes, and full PHP 7.4 compatibility, you should be planning your upgrade as soon as possible, especially if you are running Zen Cart 1.5.5 or below.Posted June, 2020
Discounts are great, but reward points can be a powerful tool to build loyalty while deferring the costs. My Zen Cart Rewards Points module lets you implement a loyalty rewards plan using a schedule set by Frequency Discounts.Posted May, 2020
Preview Email helps you tweak your HTML emails from the admin panel. When I first created this mod, it only did the Welcome and Checkout emails; now it does the rest of the Zen Cart emails.Posted May, 2020
Tired of typing in customer address information by hand to your labelmaker or shipping program? Take a look at Zen Cart Copy Shipping Label.Posted April, 2020
I have made some recent changes to Zen Cart Order Total Edit to allow it to handle multi-currency carts.Posted April, 2020
If you've ever wanted a quick look at the database schema for a site, but not wanted to go through the trouble of accessing phpMyAdmin, View Schema can help. It produces a report in your admin that shows you every table in your database.Posted March, 2020
I just did an update to the Zen Cart Changed Files report to show 0 byte files (which are likely failed uploads) in red for easy identification.Posted March, 2020
Missing Images reviews the image setting for each of your products, and reports on the images which cannot be found. It's a great auditing tool to help you improve the look of your store by finding and fixing your missing product images.Posted February, 2020
I just created a guide to Zen Cart Version information and Zen Cart Logs. There's also a page on white screen problems called Zen Cart Blank Screen.Posted February, 2020
If you make use of the builtin Zen Cart Quantity Discounting system, which discounts bulk purchases of a single product, I can help you copy discounts on one product to every other product in the same master category. Rather than doing each product, you can do one product and then press the copy button! Take a look at how I copy Zen Cart Quantity Discounts.Posted January, 2020
If you make use of the builtin Zen Cart Quantity Discounting system, which discounts bulk purchases of a single product, I can help you display these discounts on your listing pages. Take a look at how I show Zen Cart Quantity Discounts on the product listing page.Posted December, 2019
The Zen Cart documentation site is being refreshed! Although the old Zen Cart documentation URL will still be used, the documentation is now in Github so that more people can contribute. There are sub-sites for Zen Cart storeowner documentation and Zen Cart developer documentation.Posted November, 2019
Zen Cart Manufacturer Discount now allows you to discount only the base price (product's price) of a product, rather than the final price, which includes the prices of all attribute settings.Posted October, 2019
Audit allows you to easily find and fix anomalies in your database, such as items with a master category of 0. Try Zen Cart Audit and see what it reports on your database.Posted September, 2019
Are you tired of getting Russian spam sent to your Zen Cart via your Contact Us page, and fake accounts created by bad guys? My clients were, so I built Zen Cart Jerkblocker.Posted August, 2019
Default Attribute for Zen Cart is the latest of my mods that has been added to the Zen Cart core for release 1.5.7. But don't worry! If you are running Zen Cart 1.5.5 or 1.5.6, I have simplified the install so it's much easier.Posted August, 2019
The following modules have been updated for the Phoenix Community release of osCommerce:Posted July, 2019
The Zen Cart team has released a high priority patch for all versions prior to Zen Cart 1.5.6c (which was just released). My support clients get this patch immediately. If you don't get support from me, you need to install this patch yourself.Posted July, 2019
Fix Company resolves an issue in some versions of Chrome which autofills the Company Name field with the year of birth stored in the cache of a user's browser. If your Zen Cart address book is filled with company names which are 4 digits long, the Zen Cart Fix Company contribution can clean them out.Posted June, 2019
Love your desktop template, but want to be mobile-friendly too? I have a solution for that. Check out Zen Cart Responsive Template Fallback.Posted June, 2019
Bad guys never sleep! I have noticed an uptick in spam account creation in Zen Cart. If this is happening to you, use my Zen Cart Delete Spam Customers contribution to easily remove junk accounts.Posted May, 2019
Sometimes, you just need to tweak the line items on an order. Whether it's to meet a price commitment you made offline, or because some detail on the order changed, it happens. Order Edit is a great mod, but some things aren't completely under your control with it - which was why I created Zen Cart Order Total Edit.Posted April, 2019
Some Zen Cart storeowners have a sales or customer support team. I created a page to show some modifications I have done in support of this model. Take a look at Zen Cart Sales Rep Management.Posted April, 2019
Many products are subject to restrictions in certain jurisdictions. For example, live plants, live animals, alcohol and firearms often have restrictions on where they can be shipped. If this applies to your Zen Cart, take a look at my Zen Cart Shipping Restrictions page.Posted March, 2019
I just did an update to the ZenCart Changed Files report to prevent the creation of error logs when a folder isn't readable. (Later Addition: I also added the ability to ignore specific filetypes to shorten the report.) It's in the Plugins area.Posted February, 2019
I have always found it confusing that when you go into the Zen Cart Products Price Manager (Admin > Catalog > Products Price Manager), the fields on the screen appear to be editable but they're not. So finally I fixed this issue! My fix will be available in Zen Cart 1.5.6b, but you can merge it into your fileset at your convenience; it's in this Github pull request.Posted January, 2019
A lot of my mods needed PHP7 updates. You can see the complete list of Zen Cart mods and PHP7 to see if your favorite mod is ready.Posted January, 2019
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