Horrendously coded, rubbish admin interface, outdated (no releases in 2 years).
Zen Cart may appear to have more features out-of-the-box than some of the newer carts, but beware -- it will not scale well, it is a nightmare to develop for (and if you do, upgrades will become an additional headache), and the hacked and unorganised nature of the code is a recipe for bugs and security holes. If you are running a business, you will not want to get locked-in to something this fragile and potentially insecure.
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rock solid!
love it! Been using ZC for years. I have tried/played with magento and prestashop but no where near the features, stability and community of ZC!
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its material you provided is too good.keep it up!
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Zencart is the best, its so robust, strong, stable, it doesnt needs much knowledge of php and sql, i have tried 20 other shopping carts but zen cart is the best.
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Dudes, I was looking for a free (as in freedom) solution for e-commerce when i ran into Magento... It really surprised me! It has a nice and coerent interface for the backend and a lot of options, especially about the management of the discounts, which can be higly customized (and that were my main source of unsatisfaction toying around with Virtuemart)! I suggest everyone to give it a try!
Anyway, I think ZenCart is a quite good product, but it lacks the features which I need to manage promotions... I need a per-user, per-product-category, management of them and no one except Magento seems to do that!
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I spent a good 6 months researching which cart to use for my site and without a doubt Zen Cart is the best!!!
Yes the standard template is pig ugly but designing for ZC is a piss of p*ss once you have read how too!!!!
It is the hard working code that runs in the background that makes ZC so powerful and robust. You'd be a fool not to give it a try!
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I am using Zencart and Its ok but with the learned knowlegde it would go for osCommerce. Its the same, but with more crap in the code.
But the big plus is, more add-ons and more backup of businesses like TNT or other big company's.
Yes the community is great, but designing is a pain in the ass and hardcore. It took me as a noob 50 or more hours to learn how to program the code to dutch, and redesigning all the buttons. With a free template that is.
Designing a own templated is even worse. This is ofcourse for all free cms software.
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before the introduction of virtuemart it was the best around.
Still it has many option that vm has not but the default template is really ugly and in almost 5 years it didn't change...
I guess this is one of the main reasons that discourages new users
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I agree zen cart is ugly with the default template, but that is just the looks on the outside. If you know how to dress it up, it is really awesome!
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Having used ZenCart for a year now, I'm even more impressed with it. This is a SMART ecommerce system. There's only one little complaint I have: I'd like to be able to specify quantity for each of the attributes (for better inventory control.) For large stores this might be an issue. Otherwise ZenCart is really comfortable to work with. I love it.
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agree!! Zen cart is ugly!
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Ugly! A re-design should be considered soon!
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I love my ZenCart shop! I don't think this system is for newbies, but it's a whole lot of fun for pseudo-geeks. Yes, there's a learning curve. But this system is so flexible once you've got the hang of it! The community is awesome. I've found more info in the forums than anywhere else. I really love the ordered file structure of ZenCart that allows for customization. The shop itself is sooo nice to work with. There's tons of add-ons, and I'm using nearly a dozen of them that are very helpful workshorses I couldn't do without. I'm very glad I went with ZenCart. They provide good solid content... it's up to you to add the glamour.
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it's ok, but way too ugly!
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In my oponion, Zen Cart is the best so far!
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