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8 Best Premium Zen Cart Modules

Ecommerce Website Development - Zen Cart

If you are running an Zen Cart store, you already know that it opens up the possibility for installing numerous modules and plugins that help you boost the performance of your web store. This post is meant to help with the frustration of choosing which module to use.

We have compiled a list of must-have modules that are fundamental for running a successful eCommerce store with great user experience.

1. Ajax One Page Checkout (Quick Checkout)

Ajax One Page Checkout makes the checkout process of any Zen Cart store as simple and fast as possible. The module supports any known payment method and guarantees compatibility with any shipping method. Ajax Quick Checkout can integrate with zen cart social login module and is mobile-friendly.

2. Recover Cart Sales and AbandonedCarts

Recover Cart Sales and AbandonedCarts is designed to solve the problem of shopping carts that have been left without checking out. It sends automatic or manual notification emails with a discount hook to clients. The email can be sent days after the customer abandons their cart and the email template is modern and customizable enough to fit your campaign perfectly.

3. Zen Cart Socials Login

Zen Cart Socials Login gives you a quick and easy login by skipping the standard login process and the need for remembering another email or password. You must have an account in the store before use it to login.

4. Wordpress Integration

Wordpress is a straightforward way to quickly start publishing articles and Wordpress Integration is a plugin which allows integrating your WordPress into your shop. It will form a unified body.

5. Aggregated Product Reviews

This has become one of the widely used Zen Cart modules these days due to its amazing functionality. With the revolution in the e-commerce industry, the customers have adopted more advanced strategies while shopping online from a particular website. Before purchasing any product, the customers evaluate reviews or feedback about that item over the web. With the help of this module, you will provide them with the facility to evaluate the products on your shopping website instead of looking somewhere else which definitely takes the customers away from your online store. Positive reviews about the products available on an e-commerce website help drive more potential customers and increase the revenue. This module can be easily integrated and works seamlessly.

6. Advanced Promotion

Attract customers with advanced promotions like 'Buy X product get Y product with 30% discount', 'Each 2nd shirt for 50%', 'Get 10% off if placed more than 3 orders before', 'Buy 3 products and get 50% off for the cheapest' and many more.

Nowadays customers are literally flooded with discounts and it's difficult to impress them with regular Zen Cart onsale deals. This Zen Cart discount module adds 10 new discount actions to help you provide customers with really catchy promotions.

7. Zen Cart - Apache Solr Integration

If your store is a big site with many attributes options...You must use it. This is a big suggestion from us because it's very powerful in the search, filter action and optimisation speed load for the web page.

Solr is highly reliable, scalable and fault tolerant, providing distributed indexing, replication and load-balanced querying, automated failover and recovery, centralized configuration and more. Solr powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites

Read more: http://lucene.apache.org/solr/

8. Responsive Template Package

You can easy to found a responsive template package free on internet and you can install it for your site.