When you are a customer browsing a website, you probably do not differentiate a special from a sale. Why would you, they are exactly the same thing right? Not as far as Zen Cart is concerned. The default is that only specials display in their own listing and all sales items display inside the regular…
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How to Add Backorder Support to Your Zen Cart Store
As your store grows and you have to manage a larger inventory, you’ll often find items are out of stock as you await new stock from your suppliers. You can either set Zen Cart to disallow checkout when items are out of stock and potentially lose a large number of orders, or you can display…
Read moreHow to Make an Inactive Coupon Active in Zen Cart
Note: This article discusses a known bug in Zen Cart that is present in all versions up to and including version 1.3.9g. Hopefully after reading this, the Zen Cart team will implement this simple fix. Today a client was trying to re-enable one of his old coupon codes that had expired by simply changing the…
Read moreCorrecting Session Issues in Zen Cart After Upgrading
Zen Cart upgrades, particularly 1.3.9, often have changes to how Zen Cart handles sessions. This can cause login issues, add to cart issues, and problems to any other functionality that relies on sessions. Symptoms The two most common issues are with adding to cart and logging in. With adding to the cart, even when you…
Read moreHow to put only specific Zen Cart pages down for maintenance
Whenever you can, you should be using a development installation to test and make changes to your website before moving the modifications to your live store. However, if for some reason you absolutely must work on your live store, you may want to put only the area of the website you are working on down…
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