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e-Start Your Web Store with Zen Cart [Paperback]

Goh Koon Hoek (Author)

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This book will show you how to use the free and open source Zen Cart shopping cart software to set up and run your own online store. Written in a step-by-step manner and accompanied with numerous screen shots, you will learn to use the latest version (1.3.7) of Zen Cart to: * set up an online store on your local machine for testing and familiarizing yourself with the software. * use an assortment of marketing tools and techniques to attract and retain customers. * set up online and offline payment options to make purchases easier for customers. * set up multiple shipping options to meet the delivery demands of customers. * install additional language packs and define multiple currencies to cater to customers from different parts of the world. * ... and many, many more.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Ok for beginners, but could have been better, July 29, 2007

By	Stephen Britton "tech writer and web developer" (A quiet suburb outside NYC, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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If you are completely new to Zen Cart, like having a printed manual to help guide you, and have some extra money, this book is a nice way to get started. But if you already know your way around Zen Cart, don't even bother.

The author provides a guided tour of Zen Cart's admin panel. This book is huge and does a great job explaining how each feature on the admin menu works, like adding and organizing the product catalog and managing the customer database. It also explains how to connect Zen Cart to the various payment systems, like PayPal and Authorize.net.

However, the book does not provide sufficient information on how to edit the design templates and leaves it up to reader to poke around the numerous configuration files to figure out how to change Zen Cart's default design. There are no "getting-started" tutorials. Fortunately, if you want to learn how to change the look and feel of your Zen Cart project, there is a very helpful Zen Cart developer community and the Zen Cart website does have information on editing templates.

Still, it would be have nice if there was just a few pages explaining Zen Cart's templates. Hopefully, there will be other Zen Cart books in the future that will cover design more than this guide, which is nothing more than a thick printed help file.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Zen Cart Book, March 25, 2009

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Do not attempt to set up your Zen Cart without this book. It is just fantastic. It contains essential details about every aspect of Zen Cart explaining what some books assume you should know and therefore do not address. I liked the details and what happens if you do "this or that" when setting up. Even if you are completely new to open source as I was, this book explains enough to make set up, if not relatively easy - it will make it very understandable. It will preserve your sanity. Definitely worth every penny!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Comrehensive and practical guide for using ZenCart, June 4, 2008

By	FlyingPolarBear (Fullerton, CA USA) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE)

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This is great, it helps me understand how to configure the important practical aspects of the online store. This guide is not written for nerds, so I know that some of the programmer whiz kids will be disappointed that it doesn't contain obscure source code and cryptic command lines. Instead it has deep content on the everyday configuration items, like adding products and shipping options, the customer order workflow, as well as a advanced topics. Although this guide is written for the general audience, it IS very comprehensive. This kind of good documentation is a rare find in the open source community, but here it is. Well worth the money.

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