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Thursday, July 1, 2010

Gift Wrap for Zen Cart now has images, text descriptions

Filed under: That Software Guy, Zen Cart — thatsoftwareguy @ 9:15 pm

If you use Gift Wrap for Zen Cart, you can now have textual descriptions or images of your wrapping paper.

For instance, here is wrapping paper displayed using images:

and here is wrapping paper displayed with text descriptions:

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Better Together for osCommerce 3.0 Updated

Filed under: That Software Guy, osCommerce — thatsoftwareguy @ 10:51 am

There was an issue with category determination in Better Together for osCommerce 3.0.  Please update if you are using this software.  Note that Better Together for osCommerce 2.2 was not affected by this update; only osCommerce 3.0 users need the fix.

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Table Discounts for Zen Cart now does tiered discounts, case discounts

Filed under: That Software Guy, Zen Cart — thatsoftwareguy @ 7:59 am

Table Discounts for Zen Cart now has the ability to do both tiered discounts and case discounts.

  • Tiered discounting discounts items with by applying specific discounts to specific counts of products within a single order. If you want one price for the first 10 items, another for the next 20 and another for the next 50, look at tiered discounts.
  • Case discounting only discounts groups of items in specific numeric quantities. If you want to offer special prices for groups of 6, 12 and 24, but no special prices for other multiples, look at case discounting.

Tiered discounts were added to Table Discounts in version 1.1.  Take a look at some examples of tiered discounting and case discounting for Zen Cart in the help page.

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Gift Wrap at Checkout for Zen Cart 1.3.9

Filed under: That Software Guy, Zen Cart — thatsoftwareguy @ 7:49 am

Two fixes were posted to this module (Zen Cart 1.3.9 version only) yesterday – get the latest update from the Free Software Add Ons area.  This update affects Zen Cart 1.3.9 only; Zen Cart 1.3.8 is unchanged.

Not using this mod?  Take a look at the Gift Wrapping at Checkout for Zen Cart help page.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Sale Ending/Special Ending for Zen Cart

Filed under: That Software Guy, Zen Cart — thatsoftwareguy @ 3:28 pm

I wrote a mod for Zen Cart in response to this tweet by Jason Billingsley which shows the end date of a sale or special on the Zen Cart product info page.  Take a look at Sale Ending/Special Ending for Zen Cart.

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Beanstream INTERAC® for Zen Cart

Filed under: Uncategorized — thatsoftwareguy @ 8:37 am

If you’re a Canadian merchant using a Zen Cart, I encourage you to try the Beanstream INTERAC payment module for Zen Cart.   It has recently had a few bug fixes to deal with the differences in data various banks would send back, so if you tried it before and it didn’t work, please give it another shot.

Friday, May 7, 2010

Cross Sells using Zen Cart Better Together

Filed under: Uncategorized — thatsoftwareguy @ 7:27 am

Better Together now supports cross selling without discounting!

Some people wanted to do “Better Together” type pairings without the discounting – so I added “Cross Sells” to Better Together 2.3.  If you’re using the setup() function to configure Better Together, just use an “X” instead of “%” or “$” in your linkage statement (add_prod_to_prod, etc.).  If you’re using Better Together Admin, it’s built in to version 3.1 (a $10 upgrade if you’ve already bought Better Together Admin).   The cross sells are shown on the product info page in a new centerbox called “Items you may also be interested in.”

If you use Checkout Candy, these cross sells also appear on your shopping cart page and checkout shipping page!  It’s a great way to increase the value of every order.

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Zen Cart Quantity Discounts, Better Together Tax Setting Change

Filed under: That Software Guy, Zen Cart — thatsoftwareguy @ 8:00 am

Yet another tax handling option for tax included Zen Cart stores is now available for Quantity Discounts and Better Together.  Re-Calculate Tax = VAT is a setting which has been requested by shops which display prices with taxes included, such as those in the UK.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Table Discounts for Zen Cart

Filed under: That Software Guy, Zen Cart — thatsoftwareguy @ 9:15 am

Do you like Quantity Discounts for Zen Cart but wish you had the ability to set different price breaks for different categories?  Do you wish you had the ability to offer different price breaks to different customer groups?  Or the ability to create groups of products which have their own price breaks?  Or the ability to discount by manufacturer?  Then Table Discounts for Zen Cart is something you should look at.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Automatic Add to Cart for Zen Cart

Filed under: That Software Guy, Zen Cart — thatsoftwareguy @ 9:31 am

A lot of people like the idea of automatically adding one item to the cart when another item is purchased, so I wrote Automatic Add to Zen Cart to address this need.

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