Integrating a live chat ability into Zen Cart is now a simple task with the release of our new Olark Live Chat Widget. This module installs in only a few minutes and requires no core edits unlike other live chat mods available for Zen Cart. Most other add-ons are very robust and complicated or have…
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Changing the Charset in Zen Cart 1.3.9 to UTF-8
Regardless of whether you use accented or non-English characters in your descriptions and page content, setting up Zen Cart to use UTF-8 is recommended for the majority of stores. Today online shopping is globally accessible and from time to time you will get a customer whose name contains accented characters. In order to make these…
Read moreCreating USPS Shipping Labels with Zen Cart
Until recently, there have been no solutions which allow easy integration between Zen Cart and USPS. This issue is primarily caused by USPS not allowing postage paid labels to be created through their own API but through the APIs of two different private companies: Endicia.com and Stamps.com. It’s a shame because you can do everything…
Read moreHow to display attribute images on the Zen Cart shopping cart page
Although Zen Cart supports defining an image for a product’s attribute (i.e. different colors of t-shirts for a color attribute), once you add the product to your cart, only the default image will display. Although you could hack the shopping cart page as per instructions in the Zen Cart forum, a simpler approach is to…
Read moreFedEx Announces Official Retirement Date for Ship Manager API
I’ve got good and bad news. We told you before that FedEx is planning to retire their Ship Manager API (Direct Connect) and require all customers to migrate to the new Web Services API. Now they have said that date will be on June 1, 2011. If you do not upgrade your module to the…
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