I was building a shopping cart online and I came across two great technology or modules named as ZENCART and LARIS both have their advantages and disadvantages......the great thing about ZENCART is an open source online management system, supporting cross platforms and multilple cross domains.It is PHP-based, using a MySQL database and HTML components. Providing support for many languages and currencies, it is available for free under the GNU General Public License. Zencart gains it popularity with some extra cool features like GIFT CERTIFICATES and VOUCHERS......
some notable features includes:
Zen Cart's default installation provides everything needed to maintain a professional shopping cart web site for an unlimited number of products. Products, pricing, shipping, newsletters, sales and more are managed by the store owner through the administration area. The shopping cart is already set up to receive payments from any major credit card and several popular payment gateway services are included.
The following is a list of some of the key features of Zen Cart :
- multiple language support
- multiple customer modes
- unlimited category depth
- multiple sales and discounts
- multiple display modes
- XHTML 1.0 compliant template system
- unlimited extra pages
- multiple ad banner controller
- multiple shipping options
- multiple payment options
- newsletter manager
- discount coupons
- gift certificates
- featured products
- quantity discounts
- phpBB integration through external module
