My Zen Cart Configuration Settings eBook allows you to see all the configuration and layout settings in Zen Cart in one searchable place. Buy my Zen Cart configuration e-book. It is sure to save you time, and it’s only $5!
I added more examples today to the timing your Zen Cart discounts page. The latest example: offering a discount at a particular day of the week during a specific time window. Enjoy!
Recent versions of Zen Cart Edit Orders (4.3.1, for example) will get the wrong total for orders using my discounting mods (such as Better Together) when they edit an order. The order is too low by the amount of the tax on the discount. For example, at a tax rate of 7%, a discount of $25 would produce an order total that was $1.75 too low – for example, $506.50 instead of $508.25.
The fix is to change the function process() in the code file in includes/modules/order_total (e.g. includes/modules/order_total/ot_quantity_discount.php for Quantity Discounts) as follows:
if ($this->calculate_tax != 'VAT') {
$order->info['total'] -= $od_amount[$key];
}
to
if (!IS_ADMIN_FLAG) {
if ($this->calculate_tax != 'VAT') {
$order->info['total'] -= $od_amount[$key];
}
}
If you are a heavy user of specials, take a look at ZenCart Specials Import. It allows you to import a CSV of Zen Cart Specials (rather than creating them one by one in the admin panel).
When I created Buy Both Now and Buy The Set for Zen Cart, I never took account of the possibility that templates would use the CSS buttons feature, which is available in Admin->Configuration->Layout Settings.
I have updated the help for these mods to show how they can be adopted to use CSS buttons too. It’s easy – for Buy Both Now, just modify
includes/functions/extra_functions/checkbbn_pi.php
and change
$bbn_string_end = '<input type="image" src="' . $button . '" alt="Buy both now" title="Buy both now" /></form>';
to
$bbn_string_end = " " . zen_image_submit($image, "Buy Both Now") . "</form>";
and similarly, for Buy the Set, just modify
includes/functions/extra_functions/checkbts_pi.php
and change
$bts_string_end = '<input type="image" src="' . $button . '" alt="Buy the set" title="Buy the set" /></form>';
to
$bts_string_end = " " . zen_image_submit($image, "Buy the set") . "</form>";
A customer reported that the Zen Cart Buy Both Now demo wasn’t working. Upon investigation, I discovered that although my local tests were working, the installed product wasn’t working on the test site because the test site was using SSL. This issue has been fixed in Buy Both Now version 2.4a.
Backups are important, but who wants to do them manually? Zen Cart AutoBackup automates the process, so you can rest easy knowing your backups are taken care of.
AutoBackup uses your hosting service’s cron facility, so it runs without any manual intervention needed. You can set retention periods for backups so that a certain number are kept for every daily backup, every weekly backup and every monthly backup.
You’ll need to make a change to
admin/shipworks3.php
to get ShipWorks working in Zen Cart 1.5.5. Remove their copy of the function
validatePassword()
and replace it with
function validatePassword($plain, $encrypted)
{
$zcPassword = zcPassword::getInstance(PHP_VERSION);
return $zcPassword->validatePassword($plain, $encrypted);
}
Search has long been a pain point for ecommerce vendors. Take a look at some of the ways I have addressed search in Zen Cart, including creating custom pages for frequent searches, adding fields to the products table to permit searching, using jQuery, and designing custom sideboxes.
Zen Cart Discount Chooser has had some new features added at the request of customers:
Discount Chooser is now an even *more* powerful way to create “Buy <n> get <m>” style discounts!