• Lesson Index:
• Overview
• Yahoo Stores
• Signing Up
• Granting FTP access
• Granting Store Access
• Security Key
• Yahoo ID Password
• Using PayPal
• Changing PayPal
• YStore UPS Tools
• Process Orders
• Yahoo Store Notes
• ZenCart for Merchants
• Open Close Store
• Update Products
• Customer Welcome
• Order Confirmation
• Fulfilling Orders
• Statistics Reports
• Database Backup
• Backup Plugin
• Clean Admin Log
• Tasklist Summary
• ZenCart for Developers
• Sideboxes and EZ Pages
• Editing EZ Pages
• Template Overrides
• Suggestive Sell
• Graphical CSS Buttons
• Configure Shipping
• Sales Tax
• Installing PayPal IPN
• Email Notifications
• Patching ZenCart
• ZenCart Notes

Setting up an eCommerce Website

Yahoo Stores Merchant Solution

Yahoo Stores is a very popular eCommerce platform. In the lesson index on the left, you will find various tutorials on working with your Yahoo Store. For Yahoo Stores, you will need to go with Yahoo web hosting. Learn More about Yahoo Stores

ZenCart Open Source Shopping Cart

If you want an open source alternative to Yahoo Stores, consider ZenCart which is a free open-source shopping cart software that you can integrate into your own web hosting. See lessons in the left menu under ZenCart for Merchants and ZenCart for Developers. Learn More about ZenCart

The ZenCart tutorials are based on ZenCart 1.3.7 assuming using PayPal IPN as the payment method. I prefer ZenCart over osCommerce for the reasons mentioned here. ZenCart is a open-source software that and can be freely downloaded. In order to use this solution, you webhost must support PHP server scripting and MySQL database. The exact requirements are here. You can view some of the live eCommerce shops built on ZenCart.