Easy Help Zen Cart Tutorials™

The zen cart website has a great wealth of knowledge. But, for real beginners, even a "simple" tutorial can be confusing and you really do need to have a certain threshold of understanding before you can follow them through. They can also be somewhat difficult to find if you are a beginner and do not know the correct terms to use in a search. We offer these "made over" tutorials in the hopes that they will help beginners.

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Admin Menu Guide
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Admin Menu Guide - Configuration Admin Menu Guide - Catalog

Admin Menu Guide - Modules

Admin Menu Guide - Customers

Admin Menu Guide - Locations/Taxes

Admin Menu Guide - Localization

Admin Menu Guide - Reports

Admin Menu Guide - Tools

Admin Menu Guide - Gift Certificate/Coupons

Admin Menu Guide - Extras

Banners
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How to Turn Off All the Banners in Zen Cart

How to Set Up a Banner Ad in Zen Cart

How to View Statistics For My Banner Advertising Zen Cart
Categories & Products
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How to Add Categories and Sub Categories in Zen Cart

How to Add Products to Zen Cart

How to Add Sizes, Colors, etc. to Your Products to Zen Cart

How to Move a Product From One Category to Another to Zen Cart

What is MIXED ON/MIXED OFF? in Zen Cart

How to Deactivate a Product in Zen Cart

How to Delete a Category in Zen Cart

How to Move a Sub-Category From One Category to Another in Zen Cart

How to Remove the Date Added From the Product Info Page in Zen Cart

How to Remove the Date Available From the Product Info Page in Zen Cart

How to Remove the "X Units In Stock" From the Product Info Page in Zen Cart

How to Remove the Shipping Weight from the Product Info Page in Zen Cart

How to Remove the Model Number From the Product Info Page in Zen Cart

How to Turn Off Reviews in Zen Cart

How to Add a Sold Out Icon to Your Sold Out Products in Zen Cart

How to list a Product in More Than One Category in Zen Cart

How to Customize the Previous/Next Navigation on the Product Info Page

How to Create a Special for a Product in Zen Cart

How to Create a Featured Product in Zen Cart

How to Add Meta Tags to Categories in Zen Cart

How to Add Meta Tags to Products in Zen Cart

How to Set the Number of Products per Product Listing Page in Zen Cart

How to Turn Off the Manufacturers Name from the Product Listing Page

How to Turn Off the Model Number from the Product Listing Page

How to Add Manufacturers in Zen Cart

How to Add Quantity Discounts in Zen Cart

How to Turn Off the Product Price from the Page Title in Zen Cart

What Determines if a Product is "New" in Zen Cart

How to Change the Order or Turn Off the Product Name on the Product Listing Page

How to Change the Layout Style from Rows to Columns on the Product Listing Page

How to Change the Order or Turn Off the Product Image on the Product Listing Page

How to Change the Order or Turn Off the Add to Cart Button on the Product Listing Page

How to Change the Order or Turn Off the Quantity on the Product Listing Page

How to Set the Number of Columns per Row on the Product Listing Page

How to Set a Check to See if Sufficient Stock is Available

How to Enable/Disable the Sub Categories Image on the Product Listing Page

How to Enable/Disable the Top Categories Image on the Product Listing Page

Coupons & Gift Certificates
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Coupons--How to Create Them & How Customers Can Redeem Them in Zen Cart

How to Set Up Gift Certificates in Zen Cart

How Gift Certificates Work in Zen Cart

Can a Customer Use Two Gift Certificates on One Order? in Zen Cart
Customers
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How to Turn Off the Email Salutation Required in Create Account in Zen Cart

How to Require Acceptance of Terms & Conditions at Checkout in Zen Cart

How to Require Acceptance of Privacy Policy During Account Creation in Zen Cart

How to Set Up Customer Referral Tracking in Zen Cart

How to Create a Discount Pricing Group in Zen Cart

How to Turn Off Date of Birth Required for Create Account

How to Make Date of Birth Optional for Create Account

How to Add More Order Status Options in Zen Cart
Define Pages
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How to Change the Page Titles of Page 2, Page 3, or Page 4 in Zen Cart

How to Change the Browser Bar and Breadcrumbs Titles of Page 2, Page 3, or Page 4 in Zen Cart

How to Add About Us Page to Configuration - Define Page Status

How to Add About Us Page to the Sitemap

Error Messages / Troubleshooting
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Zen Cart Error: Catalog Images Directory is Not Writeable in Zen Cart

Common Error Message 0 ERROR_DB_NOT_CONNECTED in Zen Cart

Error: Catalog Images Directory is Not Writeable in Zen Cart
EZ Pages
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How to Create EZ Pages & Tips for Usage in Zen Cart

How to Turn Off the Left and/or Right Hand Column on EZ Pages

How to Disalbe the Header on an EZ Page

How Do I Turn Off the EZ-Pages Header Bar?

How to Customize the EZ-Pages Header Link Separator

How to Customize the EZ-Pages Footer Link Separator

How to Disable the Footer on an EZ Page
Footer
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How to Turn Off "Your IP Address" in the Footer in Zen Cart

How Do I Remove the Gift Certificate FAQ & Discount Coupons Links From the Footer Menu in Zen Cart

How to Customize the Facebook and Twitter Footer Links in Our Free and for Purchase Zen Cart Templates

How to Add Important Links Into the Footer in Our Free and for Purchase Zen Cart Templates

How to Remove the Twitter and Facebook Links in the Footer of Our Free and For Purchase Zen Cart Templates
General
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Zen Cart Top 10 Most Asked Questions

Zen Cart Tip: Top 10 Must Have Add-ons

How to Change the Weight From Pounds to Kilograms in Zen Cart

How can I find out what version of Zen Cart or PHP or MySQL I'm using?

How to Backup Your Zen Cart

How to Backup Your Database Using PHPMyAdmin Zen Cart

How do I change or reset my Admin Password in Zen Cart? (I lost it)

How to Add Common & Custom Site Wide Meta Tags in Zen Cart

How to Add a Favicon to your Zen Cart Site

How to Cleanup Debug Log Files Zen Cart Site

How to Use Zen Cart as a Showcase / Gallery / Portfolio Site

How to Reset or Update Your Store Counter in Zen Cart

How to Increase All Prices in Your Store Globally in Zen Cart

How to Decrease All Prices in Your Store Globally in Zen Cart

How to Decrease/Increase the Prices for All Products from a Manufacturer in Zen Cart

Glossary
Glossary of Frequently Used Zen Cart Terms
Images
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How to Add Multiple Images to a Product in Zen Cart

How to Turn Off Additional Images in Zen Cart

Why Do I See Images for Other Products On My Product Pages? in Zen Cart

Why Do My Product Names Show Twice? in Zen Cart

Why Are My Images Distorted/Fuzzy/Squished? in Zen Cart

How to Change the Size of Your Main Product Image on the Product Info Page in Zen Cart

Installation
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What are the Server Requirements to Run Zen Cart?

How to Install a New Zen Cart Template

How to Install a SQL Database Patch

First Steps in Setting Up Your Zen Cart Store - 1. Basis of Product Tax

First Steps in Setting Up Your Zen Cart Store - 2. Basis of Shipping Tax

First Steps in Setting Up Your Zen Cart Store - 3. Select HTML Editor

First Steps in Setting Up Your Zen Cart Store - 4. Image Sizes

First Steps in Setting Up Your Zen Cart Store - 5. Customer Details

First Steps in Setting Up Your Zen Cart Store - 6. Shipping/Packaging

First Steps in Setting Up Your Zen Cart Store - 7. Email-Options

First Steps in Setting Up Your Zen Cart Store - 8. Gzip Compression

First Steps in Setting Up Your Zen Cart Store - 9. Manufacturers

First Steps in Setting Up Your Zen Cart Store - 10. Credit Cards

First Steps in Setting Up Your Zen Cart Store - 11. Payment

First Steps in Setting Up Your Zen Cart Store - 12. Shipping

First Steps in Setting Up Your Zen Cart Store - 13. Setup Taxes

First Steps in Setting Up Your Zen Cart Store - 14. Setup Currencies

First Steps in Setting Up Your Zen Cart Store - 15. Setup Languages

First Steps in Setting Up Your Zen Cart Store - 16. Setup Categories

First Steps in Setting Up Your Zen Cart Store - 17. Load Products
Languages, Localizing, Currencies & Taxes
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How to Add Currencies to Your Zen Cart

How Do I Use My Currency Instead of US Dollars in Zen Cart?

How do I Change the Character Set to be Non-English in Zen Cart?

How Configure Taxes (US state sales tax - single rate) in Zen Cart?

How to Set a Default Tax Class in Zen Cart?

Products are Displaying a Different Price then I Set in my Zen Cart
Main Page
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How to Add Your Images to the Main Page Slider in Our Free and for Purchase Zen Cart Templates

How to Add Featured Products to the Main Page in Zen Cart

How to Set the Number of Featured Products Shown on The Main Page in Zen Cart

How to Add New Products to the Main Page in Zen Cart

How to Set the Number of New Products Shown in Center boxes in Zen Cart

How to Add Specials to the Main Page

How to Set the Number of Specials Shown in Center boxes in Zen Cart

How Do I Show the Categories on the Main Page? in Zen Cart

How to Turn Off Breadcrumb Navigation on the Main Page in Zen Cart

Newsletters / Email
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How to Send a Newsletter in Zen Cart

How to Send a Products Notification Newsletter in Zen Cart

How to Send an Email to All Customers in Zen Cart

How to Send an Email to Your Dormant Customers in Zen Cart

How to Change the Logo in HTML Emails in Zen Cart

How to Increase Conversion by Adding a Coupon Code to the Welcome Email in Zen Cart

How to Increase Conversion by Adding a Gift Certificate to the Welcome Email in Zen Cart

Security
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How to Rename Your Admin Folder in Zen Cart

Secure Your Zen Cart Store by Removing Extra Folders

Secure Your Zen Cart Site by Using SMTPAUTH or SMTP as Your Email Transport Method

Secure Your Zen Cart Site Set Configure Files Read-Only

Secure Your Zen Cart Site Delete Unused Admin Accounts

Secure Your Zen Cart Site With Admin Password Security

Secure Your Zen Cart Site by Protecting Admin Access

Secure Your Zen Cart Site Disable "Allow Guest To Tell A Friend"

Secure Your Zen Cart Site Remove the Print URL Feature From Your Browser

How to Enable SSL Protection (with a Shared Certificate) in Zen Cart
Shipping & Payments
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How Do I Enable Free Shipping for Orders Over $XX? in Zen Cart

How to Bypass the Checkout Shipping When Shipping is Free

How Set Up Per Item Shipping Rates

How Remove the Shipping Weight from the Product Info Page

How to Make an Entire Category with Existing Products Always Free Shipping in Zen Cart?

How to Restrict Shipping to U.S. Addresses Only in Zen Cart?

How Set Include the Shipping Estimator on the Shopping Cart Page

Help! My Payment Methods Aren't Showing at Checkout in Zen Cart?
Shopping Cart
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How to Turn Off Display Cart After Adding a Product in Zen Cart

How to Replace the "MyCard" Images with My Credit Card Images in Zen Cart

How to Turn Off or Customize the "Weight: 0lbs" in "Total Items: 1 Weight: 0lbs Amount: $XX.XX" on the Shopping Cart Page in Zen Cart

How to Add Instructions or Text to the Shopping Cart Page in Zen Cart

How to Include the Shipping Estimator on the Shopping Cart Page

Sideboxes
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How do I remove and/or re-arrange the sideboxes in Zen Cart?

How to Change the Width of the Sideboxes in Zen Cart

How to Change the Name of the Categories (or any) Sidebox Heading in Zen Cart

How to Customize the More Information Sidebox in Zen Cart

How to Change the More Information Sidebox Header in Zen Cart

How to Change the Names of Page 2, Page 3, or Page 4 Links in More Information Sidebox in Zen Cart

How to Add a Facebook Like Box to Zen Cart

How to Turn On the Header Search Box in Zen Cart

How Do I disable the category/inventory counts (the numbers beside the category links) in Zen Cart?

How to Delete the Arrows Next to Categories (Category Counts are Disabled) in Zen Cart?

How Do I Remove the Gift Certificate FAQ & Discount Coupons Links From the Information Sidebox in Zen Cart

How to Change the Color of the Sidebox Headers in Zen Cart

How to Increase the Number of Manufacturers Shown in the Sidebox in Zen Cart

How to Increase the Number of Reviews Shown in the Sidebox in Zen Cart

How to Adjust the Number of New Products Shown in the Sidebox in Zen Cart

How to Show Your Documents in Their Own Sidebox in Zen Cart

How to Turn on the Header Currencies and Languages in our Free or Paid Zen Cart Templates
Site Speed
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Speed Up Your Zen Cart Site by Turning Off Category Counts

Speed Up Your Zen Cart Site by Disabling the Manufacturers

Speed Up Your Zen Cart Site by Disabling Downloads

Speed Up Your Zen Cart Site by Disabling Price Factor

Speed Up Your Zen Cart Site by Disabling Quantity Discounts

Speed Up Your Zen Cart Site by Disabling Attribute Images

Speed Up Your Zen Cart Site by Disabling Text Pricing by Word or Letter
Template Customization
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Anatomy of the Zen Cart Layout

How do I change the "Sales Message Goes Here" or "Tagline Here" text in Zen Cart?

How do I change the "Congratulations! You have successfully installed ..." Message? in Zen Cart

How to Remove or Change "Welcome Guest! Would you like to log yourself in?" in Zen Cart

How to Add a Background Image to Your Zen Cart Store

How to Change the Buttons or Create a New Button Set? in Zen Cart

How Do I Change My Browser Bar It Says "Zen Cart! The Art of ..."

How to Add Your Logo in Zen Cart

How to Align Your Logo to the Left in Zen Cart

How to Turn Off the Left or Right Hand Column in Zen Cart

How to Change the Background Color of Your Zen Cart

How Do I Change the Login Link to Say Login/Register in Your Zen Cart?

How to Turn Off the Category Icon on Product Info Pages

How Do I Change or Delete the Tagline Text Under the Logo in Zen Cart?

How to Add a Facebook Like Button to Your Product Pages in Zen Cart

How to Turn Off the Listing of Categories That Goes Across the Top of My Page in Zen Cart

How to Enable or Disable the Customers Also Purchased on the Product Info Page in Zen Cart

How to Add Your Logo to Invoices, Packing Slips, Etc. in Zen Cart

What is "template_default"? in Zen Cart
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Picaflor Azul specializes in zen cart design and development. Zen cart is a powerful user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. There are hundreds of shopping cart programs available, but none come close to offering the level of options, features and support available with Zen Cart.

Zen Cart Design

Picaflor Azul has been designing and customizing zen cart websites for over 5 years. Just take a look at our live zen cart design portfolio to see the incredible variety of design styles we can deliver. A full custom zen cart design will include all custom graphics, buttons/icons, custom layouts for product info, product layout, and shopping cart pages and more!

Zen Cart Templates

Picaflor Azul specializes in creating user friendly, easy to navigate, clean and beautiful designs for zen cart. Templates are a simple way to get a great looking professional web site in just a few minutes. Picaflor Azul offers a large selection of high quality templates that will make your ecommerce site shine.

Zen Cart Module Installation

Zen cart is a very powerful program, but sometimes you need some additional modifications. We can install and configure any zen cart module that you need to add functionality to your zen cart web site. If any zen cart design elements are affected by the module, we can customize the graphics and look to match your zen cart site.

Free Zen Cart Templates

We believe in giving back to the community and have contributed 22 free zen cart templates to the zen cart community. These templates are available for free download on our website as well as the official Zen Cart web site. We maintain support threads for all of the free zen cart templates on the official zen cart site (see the install.txt file for the thread url).