Can a product be listed in more than one category?
Yes. If you haven't created it yet, set up the product that you want to be listed in two or more categories. Go to the category in which you put that product (Admin > Catal
- 2008-02-01 - Similar Articles

Can I have products be BOTH physical/shippable AND virtual/downloadable?
You have Products, Downloads and some Combo Products ... First, let's make sure that you have Products setup correctly ... Do you use Always Free Shipping or 0 weight to mea
- 2009-10-22 - Similar Articles

Can Zen Cart support user groups discounts? I need a shoppping cart that can handle many user groups (premium/regular/club etc) all with different discount rates. Can it do this? I also want a shopping cart that can have validated XHTML, does Zen Cart?
Yes. You may review the list of Zen Cart Features here:http://tutorials.zen-cart.com/index.php?article=116
- 2006-10-10 - Similar Articles

Download delivery methods explained
For downloadable products, there are several ways of delivering downloadable content to your customers, depending on your hosting configuration.You can find these options in A
- 2007-11-10 - Similar Articles

How do category product-type restrictions work?
Category "restrictions" ONLY restrict which product-types you can use to CREATE NEW products within said category.  If a category is restricted to a certain pr
- 2006-10-08 - Similar Articles

How do I add attributes to my products?
by Ajeh - Linda McGrath There are 3 parts to attributes: Option Name Option Value Attribute on the product Defining Option Names: Admin -> C
- 2007-01-31 - Similar Articles

How do I add downloads to products? make products downloadable?
NOTE: CHECK OUT THE IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT DOWNLOAD SETTINGS, near the bottom of this article ... Downloads are handled as product attributes.So, FIRST you should familiarize y
- 2007-12-01 - Similar Articles

How do I add more than one image of a product? I want to have a main image and also one or two other images that show more parts of a particular product. How/where do I add additional images to a product page? Thanks!
Check this article:http://tutorials.zen-cart.com/index.php?article=58
- 2006-10-10 - Similar Articles

How do I add multiple images to a product?
by: Ajeh - Linda McGrath A product owns 1 filename ... Note: the base image name is the original image name loaded for the product.The concept of multiple images is best
- 2007-12-13 - Similar Articles

How do I disable the category/inventory counts (the numbers beside the category links)?
Open your Admin. Put your cursor over the Configuration in the top menu, choose My Store. Locate the "Show Category Counts" option.  Turn it off.
- 2006-10-10 - Similar Articles

How do I enable the "Customers Also Purchased" display?
1. You need to have purchases in your store first ... where customers bought "this" product along with "another" product.2. Set this > 0 --- Admin->C
- 2007-12-07 - Similar Articles

How do I offer coupons for my customers to redeem?
If you want to offer a coupon, you need to first enable the coupon system:Go to: Admin->Modules->Order Total->Discount Coupons (ot_coupon).  If it's not already
- 2008-03-19 - Similar Articles

How Do I reset the Downloads Counter for a Purchased Product?
"I sell a digital product and a customer misplaced his download. Is there a way to update recent purchase and simply add two or three more downloads?"Sure ... Admin-
- 2006-09-05 - Similar Articles

How do I set a default Tax Class for new-products?
Is there a way I can get it to select a certain Tax class automatically from Tax Class to Products Price (Net): i.e. without having select the Tax in admin via entering produc
- 2006-08-30 - Similar Articles

How do I set up "Music" products for audio-previews?
1. Create your Music Genres2. Create your Media Types (these are the allowed file-extension types you will use for uploading files)3. Create your Record Companies4. Create you
- 2007-11-26 - Similar Articles

How do I set up Gift Certificates?
To sell Gift Certificates in your store, you need to create them as specific products (according to special requirements, outlined below):1. In the Admin, make a new category
- 2007-09-10 - Similar Articles

How do I set up metatags for my site, or per-product for search engines to find?
Zen Cart is built with a feature to have separate meta tags for each Category and Products -- separate from the ones on general pages. CategoriesTo define meta tags for a Cate
- 2007-07-18 - Similar Articles

How do I turn off weight from my product descriptions
Firstly let's be clear about the difference between a product listing and product info. When you see a number of products listed together, that's a product listing. When you c
- 2007-01-07 - Similar Articles

How do I write a Privacy Policy?
TIPS ON CREATING A PRIVACY POLICY In addition to seeking professional legal counsel for your business, you may want to check out the following websites for assistance in sett
- 2009-04-16 - Similar Articles

How does the Product Notification system work?
To Enable/Disable the Product Notification SystemGo to Admin->Configuration->Customer DetailsChange the setting for "Customer Product Notification Status" on o
- 2006-11-20 - Similar Articles

Image Preparation - How-to
Original Article By: RYKI've seen several posts where people obviously aren't quite sure about the best way to set up their images, so I thought I'd put this together, and if
- 2006-11-20 - Similar Articles

Is it possible to order fractional quantities?
There are two setups required in order to allow customers to purchase in quantities less than 1:1. Change a setting in your admin:  Admin->Configuration->Stock->
- 2008-01-31 - Similar Articles

My HTMLAREA or HTML editor is not working
If HTMLarea or any other editor is not "running" even though selected, it is because the javascript files for the editor are not being loaded properly, either due to
- 2006-09-05 - Similar Articles

My images are distorted/fuzzy/squished, help?
Your images are distorted because the images sizes are set to fixed dimensions, both height and width, and if your images are not the same ratio they will appear distorted. T
- 2006-10-12 - Similar Articles

My products are being displayed with a different price then I set!? If I set someting at $2 it ends up listing at 2.22. I have set that prices should not show with tax, I haven't set any tax rates yet.
Chances are that you have changed your currency settings, and your "default" currency is not set to a value of 1.0.Please visit Admin->Localization->Currencies
- 2007-06-11 - Similar Articles

Ok when i set a attribute to an item like a color that must be specified and I enable the Required button on the attribute it is letting customers add items to the cart without giving a required attribute. What could be causing this??
"Required" is only for "text" input fields. (Hence the description of "Text Required").To force selection of an attribute, you need to:a. add an
- 2007-06-11 - Similar Articles

What files are used to edit both the way a product displays in the category listing and the product description page?
This is handled in many ways.  There are administrative "switches" under Admin->Configuration-> ..... a) Layout Settings, b) Product Info,  c) Produc
- 2006-10-10 - Similar Articles

What is a "Linked Product"?
A linked product is a product that is set up to display in more than one category.This means that you only have to edit that product in one place in order to have changes take
- 2006-10-10 - Similar Articles

What is the difference between Salemaker and Specials? Both seem to be ways of reducing prices.
Salemaker is used to create a policy for reducing prices and then applying it to a group of (or all) products. You would use this to set up your 20% off January Sale for examp
- 2007-11-16 - Similar Articles

When do New Products become Old?
See this updated FAQ.
- 2007-12-17 - Similar Articles

Why am I seeing images for other products on my product pages?
Problem: On my product pages, I'm seeing images from other products showing under my product description.  Why? How do I change this? Cause: The "additional image
- 2007-12-13 - Similar Articles

Why aren't my downloads activating after checkout?
Downloads are not activated until payment has been received. So, if your customer pays using the "offline credit card" module, you DO NOT have the payment ... all you have
- 2009-03-04 - Similar Articles

Would like to set up individual shipping charges per item. That is, Item A will cost $25.00 per item to ship and Item B would cost $30.00 per item to ship. How can this be done?
The per-weight shipping module can be used for this.1. Turn on the Per-Unit (perweightunit) shipping module in Admin->Modules->Shipping2. Now manually edit *each* produc
- 2007-10-03 - Similar Articles