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WordPress Product Display for OpenCart 3.0
Posted December, 2017
Product Display for OpenCart was just updated to support OpenCart 3.0.2017 July to December
AutoBackup for Zen Cart
Posted December, 2017
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.ShipWorks for Zen Cart
Posted November, 2017
If you are using ShipWorks for Zen Cart 1.5.5, you will need to make the changes which are detailed in this blog post.Zen Cart Table Discounts
Posted October, 2017
This video demonstrates the creation of quantity discounts, where
you pick the products that build the discount.
It uses
my mod Table Discounts.
MailChimp updates
Posted October, 2017
Zen Cart Kitbuilder: Product Bundles and One-Click Buys
Posted September, 2017
More options for you to sell a bundle and make a bundle! My new Kitbuilder for Zen Cart module is the latest entry in my series of Zen Cart Bundling options. Kitbuilder allows you to build "kits" of related products (without attributes), which are all sold together with a single click.
Kitbuilder even comes with a kit marketing plugin that allows you to show off your kits in a centerbox on your home page.
Zen Cart Search
Posted September, 2017
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
Posted September, 2017
Zen Cart Discount Chooser has had some new features added at the request of customers:- Add Group Selection per discount
- Allow the order of sort for discounted-item selection to be changed
- Allow some items to be marked as "preferred discounted items."
Zen Cart Frequency Discounts
Posted August, 2017
Frequency Discounts just got an update to integrate it with Edit Orders v4.0.Zen Cart Google Shopping
Posted August, 2017
Want to get in front of customers who are already looking for products like yours? Google Shopping is a great option for your marketing spend, and I can get you going with the Google Shopping module for Zen Cart.Note that Google Shopping replaces Google's older offerings "Google Froogle" and "Google Product Search," which have now been deprecated. The data for Google Shopping is managed in Google Merchant Center.
Zen Cart Free Shipping Recalculation
Posted August, 2017
Offering free shipping for larger orders is a great way to encourage your customers to buy more. But what if you also offer order discounts, such as Coupons, Better Together offers or Group Discounts? The order's value can easily fall below your free shipping threshold, but you will still give free shipping.The Free Shipping Recalculation mod solves this problem. It recomputes your free shipping threshold based on the subtotal after discounts.
Zen Cart Product Bundles and Final Price Discounts
Posted August, 2017
If you sell a bundle ... you can make a bundle! Suggestive selling
of related products that work well together is a sure-fire way to
increase sales and profits for your store.
This video demonstrates the creation of product bundles (groups of individual products) that can be sold as a discounted group with a single click in Zen Cart, using my mods Discount Chooser and Extended Family.
Both Discount Chooser and Extended Family have been updated to support (respectively) "Copy to Family" and "Select All." Hopefully these updates will help build your customers' baskets!
WordPress Product Display
Posted August, 2017
I have created some WordPress plugins to allow you to easily show
products from your cart on your WordPress blog.
They are now available on the WordPress Plugin Site.
Creating a blog is a great way to build
credibility as an expert in your product space, and these
plugins make it easy for you to show off your products without having
to build blocks of HTML code by hand.
Zen Cart Dropshipping
Posted July, 2017
Dropshipping is a business model where instead of holding inventory yourself, you contract with a third party who ships it directly to your customer. If you're interested in dropshipping with Zen Cart, take a look at this video. You can also read more about the topic on my Zen Cart Dropshipping page.Better Together Marketing Text for OpenCart
Posted July, 2017
Better Together Marketing Text for OpenCart, which automatically displays relevant OpenCart Better Together offers on the product page, has just been released for OpenCart 2.3.0.2.
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