Zen Cart

Zen Cart is an open-source shopping cart program that merchants install themselves to manage a web shop. A group of shop owners, programmers, designers and consultants builds it. Its stated aim is to put shop owners' and shoppers' needs ahead of complicated programming.

What Zen Cart offers

• Product catalogue — tools for managing items and product details.
• Order management — handling the orders that come in.
• Easy installation — designed to be set up with basic web and computer skills.
• Community support — a forum and FAQ where users can ask for help.
• Project donations — visitors can contribute to the project.

Who it works with

Independent merchants and small shop owners who want a self-hosted, on-premise store, along with designers and developers who build for them.

Key facts

• Licence type: open source
• Deployment: on-premise
• Support: user forum