Zen Cart is a pretty good tool. I've used it several times and it's robust, flexible, and feature-rich. And of course being open source it's free. Personally, I think the templating system it uses is a bit of a nightmare, with various template files located in a rabbit warren of different directories and subdirectories. The entire process of trying to get your website to *not* look like the standard ugly Zen Cart template is very counterintuitive. This is also one of the reasons that upgrading Zen Cart is so painful, since you need to track down all these modified files and make sure they get put in the right places in the new version.
As an alternative, I highly recommend ?bercart, a suite of contributed e-commerce modules for Drupal. Customizing and configuring is much easier, as is adding additional features and functionality, since you have Drupal powering the whole thing. Like Zen Cart, ?bercart is based on OS Commerce, another open-source shopping cart. I've used it in one install so far, but I really like what I see. Community support is very good, too. Andrew Fox Webmaster Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco de Young Museum 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive San Francisco, CA 94118 415.750.3615 voice 415.750.3550 fax de Young Legion of Honor http://www.famsf.org On 1/12/09 12:24 AM, "Meira Josephy" <mjosephy at activatekulture.com> wrote: > > Depending what you need it for, you might consider zencart. It is an > open source product using php and mysql and has a strong group of > developers as well as a large user group. It has localization into a > number of languages, including Hebrew. It supports a variety of > payment and shipping methods. > > Like any product it has advantages and disadvantages, it has a fairly > straightforward interface for users to add products, add payment and > shipping methods and has a nice number of plugins and contributions > from community members that may already provide solutions for things > you would like to do. It scales fairly well too. > > It does not have as an intuitive templating system as joomla or drupal > and upgrading versions is a longer process, although not insurmountable. > > > Meira Josephy > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
