Category: Zen Cart

I have added an optional feature to Zen Cart 360 Sales Reporting (link) which shows recent direct deposits on the admin dashboard.  Update admin/index_dashboard.php, and at the end of the file, add this block of code:

<div id="colthree" class="col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-4 col-lg-4">
<div class="reportBox">
<div class="header"><?php echo "Recent Direct Deposits"; ?> </div>
<?php
require_once(DIR_WS_CLASSES . 'currencies.php');
$currencies = new currencies();
$orders = $db->Execute( "SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_DIRECT_DEPOSIT . " ORDER BY deposit_date DESC LIMIT 5");
while (!$orders->EOF) {
?>
  <div class="row">
  <span class="left">
    <?php echo substr($orders->fields['name'], 0, 20); ?>
  </span>
  <span class="center">
     <?php echo $currencies->format($orders->fields['amount']); ?>
  </span>
  <span class="left">
     <?php echo $orders->fields['deposit_date']; ?>
  </span>
</div>
<?php
$orders->MoveNext();
}
?>
</div>
</div>

Zen Cart Coupon Single User has been upgraded so that you can now restrict a coupon to any email address on a single domain, not just a single email.

So for example, if you want to permit a coupon to only be used by customers with a “@BigClient.com” email address, you would create a coupon code starting with “@BigClient.com”, such as “@BigClient.com_save_ten” or “@BigClient.com-half-off”.

There’s a bug in Zen Cart 1.5.5 that causes the State dropdown not to be correctly populated when you set Configuration->Customer Details->State - Always display as pulldownto true in Admin->Configuration->Customer Details.  It causes your State dropdown menu to look like this:

even though the value of State has been set.

You can see the root cause of this error in the Chrome Javascript debugger.  Right click and select Inspect, then click the Console tab, and you’ll see the traceback for the error.

The root cause of the error was that the stText element id was removed from the default template Zen Cart 1.5.5, an attempt to modify that DOM element failed, and stopped JavaScript processing.  The fix was straightforward; just check for this element’s existence before updating it.  You can pull the fix from Github and apply it to your Zen Cart 1.5.5 site, or hire me to do it.

My Zen Cart 360 Sales Reporting mod has just been released.   If you receive payments by direct deposit from customers who don’t check out using your cart, or payments in another way outside the context of your shopping cart, you can use this mod to track your per customer sales reporting including these figures.

When coach Ryan Waggoner asked me about the lifetime value of my average customer, I was embarrassed to say I didn’t know!  So I added Lifetime Customer Value to the Zen Cart Admin->Customers page in this pull request.  The change is now in the 1.5.6 branch, but it can be easily backported to any 1.5.x version of Zen Cart.  It’s a great way to get visibility into the activity of all you customers, and especially your most valuable ones.

Got this from a client in Hawaii:

Scott,

I continue to be impressed with your use of innovative communication systems, especially those custom designed for customers dealing in bioresources!

While I was doing hours of Zen Cart meditations, your messenger flew into the office.

We were a little offended by the fresh avian “software” downloaded on the desk but I did get the message…

Aloha,
Ed

Zen Cart Discount Chooser (also known as Free Gift Chooser) is a great way to create cross-selling promotions (Buy product A, get product B at a discount) for your shopping cart.  However, because the configurability of the promotions has so many possibilities, I was never able to create a module like Better Together Checkout Candy for Zen Cart, which notices that A is in the cart and prompts the customer to buy B.

Because I recognized that customers needed some sort of promotional mechanism, I created Big Upsell for Zen Cart, which shows the available offers on the Shopping Cart and Checkout Shipping pages. Using Big Upsell, in conjunction with Discount Preview (which shows the discount once the customer has purchased all the components of the promotion), allows you to more effectively promote the discounts you have created.