While the historical timeline of e-commerce dates back over 50 years, open-source e-commerce platforms are still a relatively new and expanding technology. Yet, since the growth of online businesses is constantly increasing, open-source e-commerce platforms are quickly improving their adaptive usage and performance abilities to adhere to the progressive shift. Although there are quite a…
Although Numinix has a web design team that specializes in many of the leading e-commerce platforms available, we would like to show you how two of our most popular open-source store management systems — Zen Cart and WooCommerce — compare based on design. We know that you want to take your business to the next…
PHP is an open-source scripting language embedded into website HTML, and PHPMailer is a popular component for handling tasks such as email submission and registration forms. Recently, the PHPMailer project received reports of a security bug, which could endanger Zen Cart sites using previous versions* of PHPMailer. The bug is suspected to allow malicious users…
Originally Zen Cart was written to support linked products in Salemaker. However, the original code was buggy and in version 1.3.9h the core Zen Cart developers decided to restrict salemaker to master category IDs. Fortunately, we’ve come up with a simple workaround to get linked products working again with Salemaker. Just follow the simple steps…
According to the latest Monetate Ecommerce Quarterly update, shoppers are increasingly using smartphone and tablets to purchase, with the number of purchases going up from 26% in 2015 to 30% in 2016. However, the number of purchases being made on desktops is still noticeably higher at 70% (to 20% smartphone and 10% tablet). Smartphones in…