Zen Cart Tips and Tricks

Ever wanted to put a ‘new’ sticker on your product pages? Well here’s what you do; Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve just put the finishing touches to a new directory for sites powered by Zen Cart. The only conditions for submitting a site is you must have the Powered by Zen Cart text and link in the footer of your site.

The directory is completely free and you don’t have to link back to this site, but it would be nice if you did. Take a look at the Powered by Zen Cart Directory

One great aspect of Zen Cart is the flexibility to change configuration options. Whether it be the number of new products to show on the front page to how the product listing page displays the products.

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After posting about getting site search data from Zen Cart it reminded me of a great tip.

The site search function on Zen Cart is not great with plurals and singular words. For example if you have a product titled Dog Coat and a visitor searches for Dog Coats, that product will not show up in the results. Silly I know. I have mentioned it to Zen Cart developers. So a good way to get round this is to use the plural (Dog Coats) in the product title then work the singular spelling into the product description. “This fantastic dog coat….”.

By doing this the product will show up whether the visitor searches for the singular or plural spelling of a product.

If you haven’t got any sort of stats gathering program on your site then you should. Stats are very important, especially when it comes to selling stuff online. I’m a huge fan of Google Analytics. A) It’s very in depth and b) it’s my favorite price; free!

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