ZenCart

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computing: software: web applications: ZenCart

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Overview

ZenCart is a free, open-source application for running an online store. It is based on osCommerce.

Reference

Differences from osCommerce

  • Plusses
    • Runs with or without register globals on
    • More friendly managing of admin security
    • Supports multiple admin users, with different privilege levels

ZenCart and Quickbooks

ZenCart's target audience includes small businesses, many of whom also use QuickBooks and would like a way to exchange data between the two systems. Some considerable work has been done on this.

QODBC

Data in QuickBooks can be accessed via ODBC if you have the QODBC module (which is not, unfortunately, free).

QBI QuickBooks Import

The other major avenue appears to be a ZenCart module for Quickbooks, called QBI QuickBooks Import. The module costs $50. It apparently generates .iif files, which QuickBooks knows how to import.

Notes

  • When told to create the configure.php files and make them writeable, do not bother editing them; the web-based install overwrites what is in the file.
  • The "ZenCart" and "Sashbox" banners which appear down the sides and at the bottom can be turned off in the "banner manager" tool. Also, inside the "Layout Boxes Controller" tool are modules named "banner_box.php", "banner_box_all.php", and "banner_box2.php"; these probably/maybe have something to do with how/where banners are displayed (when there are any to display).
  • In the admin section, the username is case-sensitive. (Passwords are usually case-sensitive, but not usernames.)