Reloading is slow and can kill conversions. One Page Responsive Checkout (OPRC) is just what it sounds like: the entire checkout process occurs on one page, with a modern layout and functional process that can increase your store’s conversion rate. OPRC is packed with features that improve the usability of the checkout process and make…
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Enhance Your Store’s Search with Zen Cart Search Reloaded
Keep customers on your site longer and please the search engines by enhancing your cart’s search function. Use the Zen Cart Reloaded Search module to improve your search results, boost your conversions, and offer your customers a better user experience. The default Zen Cart search function is limited in that it matches the product’s attributes…
Read moreRe-Enabling Autocomplete for the Admin Login in Zen Cart v1.5.0
For added security, the Zen Cart developer’s removed the autocomplete functionality for admin accounts requiring all admins to have to memorize their passwords. Combined the with 15 minute timeout and required password changes every 3 months, this can be quite annoying. It would have been nice if they made this optional… Anyways, getting the functionality…
Read moreChanging 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 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…
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