This section contains tutorials on the usage of ZenCart for eStore owners, on the configuration of ZenCart, and on the development customization of ZenCart.

Using ZenCart

Store owner should know how to turn on/off the store, upload products and email customers. These are all done through the admin user interface.

As part of running a ZenCart store, one have to learn regular maintenance tasks such as backing up the store and cleaning logs on a regular basis.

Blogadr.com has some ZenCart tutorials linked here for store owners on the use of ZenCart.  Here are some of the more useful ones that most store owners will need to know.

• Adding New Products
• Adding a Product Categories

Configuring ZenCart

There are many ways that ZenCart can be customized in look and functionality. For example, the sidebars can customized as to whether you want them or not. Similarly, for the reviews and tell-a-friend features. You can also configure what you want shown on the front page and the checkout success page. You can configure whether you want free shipping feature and the behavior when stocks are low.

Customizing ZenCart

The default look-and-feel of ZenCart may not be what you want. You often want the look and style of the ZenCart shopping cart to be like your website. Hence you have to "skin" the ZenCart "theme" or template to make the ZenCart shopping cart look the way you want -- and not just for the home page, but all all the customer-facing pages (such as the ones listed here). This requires some knowledge of HTML, CSS, and PHP.

Many developers have created modules (or mods) that extends the functionality of ZenCart. Some of the ones that might be useful are listed here.

ZenCart Update Notifications

If you maintaining a ZenCart shop, you should sign up for ZenCart update notifications so that you can be informed of new versions and of security holes found.