eCommerce with Zen Cart!
Posted December, 2018
The new release of Zen Cart is ready for action. You can read more about Zen Cart 1.5.6, or you can just download it and start selling! And if you're running a prior version, of course I'd be happy to update your Zen Cart for you.Posted December, 2018
*** Updated: my FAQ is no longer online since we updated the Zen Cart documentation.Posted December, 2018
ZenCart Coupon Single User has been upgraded so that you can now restrict a coupon to a single domain, not just a single email.Posted December, 2018
Zen Cart Product Customization is a specialty of mine. I had a customer who told me his current web developer (I won't name this industry standard competitor) said that adding a per product conditional message would be "a big can of worms" and "harder than you think."Posted November, 2018
ZenCart MailChimp and ZenCart Newsletter Discount have been updated as follows:/logs folderPosted November, 2018
ZenCart Better Together Admin and ZenCart Combination Discounts Admin have been upgraded so that they interoperate with PHP7.Posted November, 2018
Zen Cart Preview Email allows you to to view the HTML emails your cart produces, so you can easily fine tune the layout.Posted October, 2018
The Zen Cart 360 Sales Reporting mod extends the "Best Customers" Report (Admin > Reports > Customer Orders-Total) to includePosted October, 2018
The ZenCart Big Files report allows you to easily see your largest files. This can be useful if you are running out of disk space and need to figure out the cause.Posted September, 2018
SysCheck is back! I originally wrote this module to help shopowners determine if their 1.3.8 ZenCart installations were secure, but I recently updated it to do more checking and look for more bad-guy activity. When used in conjunction with the ZenCart Changed Files report, it can make an investigation into a site compromise go more quickly.Posted September, 2018
My Find Duplicate Models mod is very useful for stores that have a unique model number requirements (because of external systems like Webgility). But if you get a large list of products that need to be updated, it can be a very time consuming process. For those people, I created CSV Model Update. Update the model number for as many products as you like, all from a CSV you created in Excel or with a text editor.Posted August, 2018
I'm pleased to announce that I am partnering with Mark Sanborn, the creator of RocketShipIt, to provide integration services for people who want to use RocketShipIt but need help.Posted August, 2018
Google Chrome made a change recently which resulted in a lot of websites showing "Not Secure" in the address bar - even if they have SSL certificates! Is your site one of them? Take a look at Does your Zen Cart appear Not Secure?Posted August, 2018
Do you want to add Sellbrite to your business so that your Zen Cart based business becomes a multichannel selling machine? Take a look at my Zen Cart Sellbrite Integration.Posted July, 2018
I met up with Rekha Srivatsan, the product manager of Salesforce Essentials on Twitter, and responded to her survey about SMB use of Essentials. We wound up talking after that, and she thought my story was so interesting she wrote it up on the Salesforce blog. Thanks, Rekha!Posted July, 2018
Lots of people have enjoyed my Quick Quantity Update mod, which allows a single item's quantity to be changed with one click - but some people need more. For those people, I created CSV Stock Update. Update the in stock quantity for as many products as you like, all from a CSV you created in Excel or with a text editor.