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ZenCart: Develop an Advanced Plugin Without Overwriting Core Files
At Activo, Inc. we have a few products that integrate between ZenCart and other systems. Recently, we went through the exercise of rewriting our Activo ZenCart POS (RunIt) Integration plugin so it will...
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Authorize.net changes Transaction ID field – ZenCart passes tests
Just a quick note that Authorize.net will be upping the limit on the transaction id field. Apperently, they are close to reaching the limit of the field type, so they are adding digits to the field –...
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Looking Ahead: ZenCart ver 1.4
The ZenCart developer team seems to be hard at work and preparing to deliver a new version of ZenCart: ver 1.4. The core developers posted a roadmap brief for version 1.4 back in September of 2007....
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ZenCart and Magento for eCommerce
Anyone who is involved with an online shopping cart and was considering open source solutions probably stumbled upon two major ecommerce providers: ZenCart and Magento Commerce. ZenCart is an evolving...
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Is Magento Commerce the new Joomla?
If you are in the open source eCommerce industry, you probably heard about the new kid around the block: Magento Commerce. If you follow the industry news, you know that since its announcement back in...
View ArticleA list of CMS and eCommerce systems that officially support jQuery
Last updated: December 7th, 2008. Recently, jQuery – the agile JavaScript Library – has reached a tipping point. Here is a list of CMS and eCommerce systems that our clients are most interested in and...
View Article2009, the year of Open Source Software
We are lucky to live in our times. No, it is not fun going through (steep) downturn economy. But it is exciting to see the changes that such a recession will bring. One of the exciting changes that I...
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Open Source eCommerce: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!
A few days ago I read Karry Watson’s article titled Open Source E-Commerce: Twelve Promising Programs. Karry provides a good overview of the current state of open source eCommerce options for online...
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The Case for ZenCart: Supporting the Long Tail of eCommerce
While Zen-Cart is one of the best open source ecommerce platforms it has plenty of deficiencies, however I recently understood that it will always be able to keep its niche and therefore always have a...
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