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How Our Priority Support Works

October 12, 2011By
How Our Priority Support Works
Zen Cart Consulting guarantees our total commitment to our clients’ projects, unrivalled communication with our clients before and during the implementation process, as well as timely and cost-effective project delivery.

But what happens after the project implementation and rollout?

Zen Cart Consulting offers its clients our very fair and generous ‘Priority Support Plan’ (PSP) – clients only pay for Support on a time-used basis, rather than being billed a monthly Support Contract fee.

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What Our Friends Say About Us..

October 31, 2013By
What Our Friends Say About Us..
Zen Cart Consulting has been supporting thousands of Store Owners for years – in fact – we have over 100 years of Zen Cart expertise in our company!

We care about our Clients – and we are really gratified to learn that our Clients, our Friends, feel the same way.

Here are just a few of the warm emails we receive from our Clients who value excellence and know that we bust our asses every day to provide them the best Support in the business

“Thank you Zen Cart Consulting. You guys are great. I also can’t thank you enough for resolving our problems so quickly. Your expertise allowed us to conduct uninterrupted business during that time. You guys are my web guys for good reason. Thank you again” – Paul G, CEO – HR Racing

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Display Latest Blog Posts On Your Zen Cart?

October 8, 2013By
Display Latest Blog Posts On Your Zen Cart?
A lot of Zen Cart Store Owners also have a WordPress Blog – usually – linked off their Zen Cart Main Page

But what if no-one sees that you have a Blog?

Our new module – XWP-Posts allows you to display any number of your latest Blog posts in a Zen Cart sidebox

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How About A WordPress Alternative To Zen Cart?

October 2, 2013By
How About A WordPress Alternative To Zen Cart?
Most people know that WordPress is by far and away the most popular blogging platform in the world. In fact, as of August 2013, over 100 million websites use WordPress for their blogging solution.

But WordPress is only for creating and publishing Blogs – not for selling products, right?

Wrong! Sure, we are heavily invested in Zen Cart and apps like Zen Cart are a great and flexible way to have a web store that is both affordable and easy to maintain and customize but…

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Make More Sales ! Enhance Your Curb Appeal With A Professional Template

September 11, 2013By
Make More Sales ! Enhance Your Curb Appeal With A Professional Template
Creating a successful Online Store basically comes down to 2 things :

  • Having products that people want to buy
  • Having a really attractive looking site to attract and engage potential Customers

Put another way – selling the best widget in the world is less likely to succeed if your Store looks amateurish or plain ugly

Zen Cart, unfortunately, comes supplied with a particularly ugly and out-of-date 3 column template – the Classic template – which says nothing more to clients than -

“I have no idea what I am doing and I don’t want to spend any money to make my site look professional”

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“Do we need to upgrade to latest Zen Cart?”

September 10, 2013By
“Do we need to upgrade to latest Zen Cart?”
An increasing number of Zen Cart sites are being hacked and used for all kinds of sinister purposes.

We have seen hacks attempting to steal credit card numbers, launch Denial of Service Attacks, taking over Zen Cart Admin profiles and locking out existing Store Owners amongst many hundreds of others.

It is almost impossible for any Store Owner to tell if they have been hacked, although, one type of hack does make itself visible in the Extras->Record Companies menu

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* New XProductEmails Module – Specfic Emails For Specific Products

September 9, 2013By
* New XProductEmails Module – Specfic Emails For Specific Products
We are pleased to announce the release of our new module – XProductEmails, which lets you create specific order confirmation emails for any product

Use case scenario – your store might be selling a Magazine Subscription and you might want to send out an email thanking customers for purchasing a subscription to that magazine.

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Mandatory New USPS Module

August 27, 2013By
Mandatory New USPS Module
USPS has updated their Shipping Module, effective July 28, 2013 and all Store Owners need to have their USPS Shipping Module upgraded to the latest version.

Your customers will see errors and will not be able to check out using USPS if you do not upgrade

As with all modules, there is a one hour accrual to a Priority Support Plan (PSP) account per module required

New Module – XFreeStyle – Lets Customer Pay Variable Amounts

August 13, 2013By
New Module – XFreeStyle – Lets Customer Pay Variable Amounts
XFreeStyle allows Admin to assign specific products to have a price field that the customer can enter an amount in, rather than normal Zen Cart pricing.

Use cases might be – you need to bill for a service or product where the fee or price is variable – such as – a shipping overage charge; maybe you need to bill a client for a Project Deposit; maybe you are a Charity soliciting variable donation amounts

Zen Cart fixed product pricing will not permit the flexibility required in these scenarios

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New PayPal 2048-bit certificates

August 1, 2013By
New PayPal 2048-bit certificates
Paypal will discontinue supporting 1024-bit key length certificates and will migrate to 2048-bit certificates before the end of 2013.

Many merchants are getting email notices from PayPal that PayPal is migrating to 2048-bit SSL certificates between July-December 2013 and are asking us if there is any effect on their sites or any actions that they need to take -

** Please note – The architecture of Zen Cart is unaffected by this change and no action is required either by the Store Owner or by us.

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