The fist solution is to use “Down for maintenance page”. Simply you log in to your control panel and select Configuration > Website Maintenance > Down for Maintenance. You can turn on here Down for maintenance page.

Alternatively, you can set your store to showcase mode. To do so you go to your admin panel then Configuration > My Store > Store Status and choose 1 or 2 depending upon whether you want visitors be able to see your store with process or not, either way they will be unable to make purchases.

First you have to have your Google Analytics account. If you do not have one, go to http://www.google.com/analytics/ and sign up.

Let’s go to your Zen Cart files. The file we are interested in is located here:
../included/templates/YOURTEMPLATE /common/ tpl_footer.php

This file is included in the bottom of each page of your website. You just edit this file and add your Google Analytics JavaScript code on the bottom of this page.

1. Log into your Authorize.net account.

2. Click on the ACCOUNT tab.

3. In the second section SECURITY SETTINGS – click on API LOGIN AND TRANSACTION KEY, then follow the steps to create these two items.

4. Log into your Zen Cart store admin.

5. Go to Modules > Payment.

6. Click on Authorize.net AIM (NOT SIM), then click the button to install the payment module.

7. You will now see few boxes in which you have to provide information from authorize.net. Copy and paste your API Login and your Transaction Key from authorize.net account.

8. In Zen Cart admin, there is a box that asks for your hash code. You have to type there any code you would like (for example name of your online store without spaces).

9. Read all the other specs of the authorize.net payment mod and change things as necessary. In most cases you don’t have to change there anything, however be sure to click on Authorize/capture = TRUE.

10. If you want to test your payment process select test mode.

11. Save your authorize.net settings in the Zen Cart admin.

12. Go to your authorize.net account, then again click on the ACCOUNT tab. Click on the MD5-HASH link and enter here the code you put into your Zen Cart store.

13. Click on the ACCOUNT tab and under SECURITY SETTINGS, you can turn on and turn off TEST MODE.

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If you have any questions you can contact our Zen Cart specialist (go to contact us page and use a contact form or visit Zen Cart Developer page).

To assign attributes to multiple products in Zen Cart – log in to Control Panel of your store:
admin -> catalog -> option name manager (set up a name, for example: “color”)
admin -> catalog -> option value manager (set up values for example : “blue”, “green”)
admin -> catalog -> attributes controller (add attributes to one product, then a table will appear, the last option in the table is “copy to category”. This option allows you to assign attributes to multiple products in Zen Cart.

Creating a custom template for Zen Cart is not easy if you have never worked with this ecommerce software before. The structure of a Control Panel of Zen Cart is not user friendly, and sometimes very confusing. However, it is very powerful software, so Royal Deer Design uses it to create ecommerce websites. This post is a first post about Zen Cart in our blog, and we are going to continue posting tips and tricks for Zen Cart developers. Stay tuned!

To assign attributes to multiple products in Zen Cart – log in to Control Panel of your store:
admin -> catalog -> option name manager (set up a name, for example: “color”)
admin -> catalog -> option value manager (set up values for example : “blue”, “green”)
admin -> catalog -> attributes controller (add attributes to one product, then a table will appear, the last option in the table is “copy to category”. This option allows you to assign attributes to multiple products in Zen Cart.

Creating a custom template for Zen Cart is not easy if you have never worked with this ecommerce software before. The structure of a Control Panel of Zen Cart is not user friendly, and sometimes very confusing. However, it is very powerful software, so Royal Deer Design uses it to create ecommerce websites. This post is a first post about Zen Cart in our blog, and we are going to continue posting tips and tricks for Zen Cart developers. Stay tuned!