Zen Cart Shopping Cart is state of the art technology allowing users and businesses to run their own online e-commerce store.
Zen Cart is free, opensource, user-friendly software.
| • Simple installation | • Unlimited categories |
| • Xhtml templates | • Unlimited pages |
| • In-built newsletter system | • Gift certificates, discount coupons |
| • Multiple display modes | • Featured and newly listed products |
| • 400 pages of step by step instructions | • Forum supporting users from around the globe |
| • Tutorials and faq from the Zen Cart website | • Multiple languages |
| • Multiple languages | • Multiple currencies |
| • Multiple shipping options | • Newsletter manager |
Zen Cart is written in PHP and requires a MySQL database.
Digital Pacifc has everthing you need to get your Zen Cart online store up and running including:
domain registration, hosting, email, php and mysql databases.
Zen Cart has a showcase section on their site that allows recently completed websites to post a link to their store. You can browse this section freely to see what other users have created and get a better understanding of Zen Cart itself. Be sure to add your shop into the Zen Cart showcase on completion. It's a great way to show new users what Zen Cart does as well as some free advertising for your newly created website.
Zen Cart is constantly being developed by a group of shop owners, programmers and designers. Updates are constantly being developed insuring only the best in security and keeping up to date with the changes of the fast moving internet.
Please Note: These installation instructions only apply for web hosting with Digital Pacific.
Step 1
Download the latest release of the software from Zen Cart.com.
Once the download has complete extract the files to your desktop.
Step 2
Go to filezilla-project.org and download the latest release of the software.
Install the filezilla ftp program on your computer. This program will enable you to upload these files to your web server.
Step 3
Open filezilla and login to your hosting account.
Host: www.yoursite.com.au
Username: username@yoursite.com.au
Password: Would have been sent to you via email from digital pacific.
Once you have entered your login information into filezilla click the quick connect button.
If you have trouble connecting to your server then check the host, username and password information you have entered are correct.
Step 4
Upload all files into your mainwebsite_html folder.
Step 5
Login to your ensim control panel www.yoursite.com.au/admin and create a new mysql database.
Video Tutorial: create a new mysql database tutorial
Step 6
The instructions from Zen Cart will now guide you through the rest of the installation process.
You can skip the first part of this document and start at "Creating the configure.php files"
Zen Cart Installation.
