Zen Cart | |
Logo Size: | 150px |
Logo Caption: | The Art of Ecommerce |
Author: | Zen Ventures, LLC |
Developer: | The Zen Cart Development Team |
Operating System: | Cross-platform |
Genre: | Online store management system |
License: | GNU General Public License |
Zen Cart is an online store management system.[1] It is PHP-based, using a MySQL database and HTML components. Support is provided for numerous languages and currencies, and it is freely available under the GNU General Public License.[2]
Zen Cart is a software fork that branched from osCommerce in 2003.[3] [4] Beyond some aesthetic changes, the major differences between the two systems come from Zen Cart's architectural changes (for example, a template system) and additional included features in the core.[5] The release of the 1.3.x series further differentiated Zen Cart by moving the template system from its historic tables-based layout approach to one that is largely CSS-based.
As support for Zen Cart dropped in recent years, many third party companies are creating Zencart plugins and modules that can help users solve problems like installing reCAPTCHA v3[6]