Are there any template overrides in the Admin area?
At the present time, there are no overrides for core files in the Admin area. If you wish to change admin functionality, you will have to edit the core files directly. &n
- 2006-10-08 - Similar Articles

Can a customer use 2 gift certificates at a time? How?
A customer can enter as many Gift Certificates as they want on the checkout_payment page or gift-certificate redemption page, and then apply what ever portion of their Gift Ce
- 2006-09-01 - Similar Articles

Can I skip the shipping selection page when shipping is free?
Set all products as free shipping in by editing each one and setting the button in the middle of the product-info/edit screen. Then enable the free shipping module.. This wil
- 2006-08-30 - Similar Articles

Getting 500 or 406 or 404 or 403 errors when submitting product updates in admin pages
Symptom: When updating product details (or EZ-Pages content and other areas), when certain keywords are used in the content, an error message similar to the following may ap
- 2008-08-01 - Similar Articles

How can I restrict my employees to just maintaining products and processing orders, and stop them from changing configuration settings?
At the moment Zen Cart gives all Admin users access to all functions, though this will be subject to review for Zen Cart 1.6. Until then, there is a 3rd party add-on, Admin Pr
- 2006-10-19 - Similar Articles

How do I add a category, subcategory or product?
Creating a category Login to your admin panel, point your cursor at Catalog in the top menu. Choose Categories/Products from the drop down menu.On the next page click the new
- 2007-04-18 - Similar Articles

How do I add a new category?
Open the Admin, point your cursor at Catalog in the top menu. Choose Categories/Products from the drop down menu.Click the new category button. On the next page fill in the c
- 2006-08-06 - Similar Articles

How do I add a subcategory?
Open the Admin, point your cursor at Catalog in the top menu. Choose Categories/Products from the drop down menu. Click the folder icon for the category you wish to add to. On
- 2006-08-06 - 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 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 add quantity discounts to my products?
Admin -> Catalog -> Products Price Manager - Select the product - Edit - click the "add 5 blank discounts" button - fill in the details - Update
- 2006-08-07 - Similar Articles

How do I change or reset my Admin Password? (I lost it)
1. If you can log in to your Zen Cart admin using another account, please do so, and reset/modify the other admin password as needed via Admin->Tools->Admin Settings
- 2006-10-10 - Similar Articles

How do I configure for Canadian Taxes?
Vendors operating in Canada need to accomodate numerous tax configurations to support proper tax collection on sales to customers in provinces where they are registered to sel
- 2006-11-20 - Similar Articles

How do I configure the taxes? (US state sales tax - single rate)
FIRST, set your store's zone properly:Admin > Configuration > My Store > ZoneChoose your country and zone from the lists provided by the edit button.Here is an exampl
- 2006-10-04 - Similar Articles

How do I delete a category?
Open the Admin, point your cursor at Catalog in the top menu. Choose Categories/Products from the drop down menu. On the new page, click the "X" icon (red) on the ri
- 2006-08-07 - 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 free shipping for orders more than $XX?
Open your Admin, point your cursor at Modules on the top menu, choose Order Total from the dropdown. Then select Shipping from the list. If the module is not installed click t
- 2006-08-30 - 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 put my Documents in their own Menu Sidebox?
Please see this link:Documents in their own sidebox
- 2007-07-31 - 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 Banner Ads?
by Ajeh You can control your banners in Admin> Tools> Banner Manager. You will see that you can add delete and edit the banners at will. To add a new banner, click th
- 2006-08-30 - 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 set up PayPal IPN to return to my store automatically?
Detailed setup instructions can be found here:  http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/PayPalIn brief, as an answer to just the question mentioned as the title of this ar
- 2007-01-19 - Similar Articles

How do I set up the basic Credit Card module, used for Offline CC order processing?
There are several payment modules in Admin> Modules> Payment. Many of them are for payment-gateways where the customer's credit card is authorized automatically while th
- 2007-07-31 - Similar Articles

How do I set up the Zones Shipping Module?
By default, the module comes with support for 3 zones. This can be easily altered with a coding change by editing the Zones Shipping Module file (If you make this change and y
- 2007-08-26 - Similar Articles

How do I set up VAT?
Contributed by wilt UK Tax, First of all although it will help UK customers enter their address you do not need to add counties to the database to get the tax to work. Heres
- 2006-08-30 - Similar Articles

How do I turn off Reviews and/or Tell A Friend?
Product Information PagesYou can enable/disable various options at the per-product-type level:1. Open your Admin.2. Put the cursor over Catalog on the top menu.3. Choose Produ
- 2006-11-20 - Similar Articles

How do I use my currency instead of US Dollars?
There are two parts to configuring your currency settings. The first is whether you want to accept more than one currency and the second is adding the new currency. Begin by
- 2006-08-30 - Similar Articles

How do I use the Developers Toolkit?
Say, for example, you wish to change the welcome email text because you do not plan to use the "Product Reviews" feature, and don't wish it to be advertised to your
- 2006-08-06 - Similar Articles

I can't login to the Admin after installing Zen Cart
In most cases of difficulties logging in to the Admin area, the problem is one of: Admin pages won't show at all, or show without styling.In this case, try temporarily
- 2008-08-09 - Similar Articles

I moved Zen Cart to another server and now I can't log into Admin
I moved Zen Cart to another server and now I can't log into Admin. I receive the following message: Warning: session_start(): open(C:/inetpub/www/html/store/cache\sess_9c55d6
- 2006-08-30 - Similar Articles

I want to enable/disable the "New Products for [insert month]" or Featured/Special/Upcoming Products sections.
There is a "New Products for [insert month]" section on several pages, including Home Page, New-Products page, All-Products Page, (empty)Shopping Cart page, etc.&nbs
- 2006-07-25 - Similar Articles

Is it possible to turn off shopping cart line that says "Weight: 0lbs" in "Total Items: 1 Weight: 0lbs Amount: $38.95"?
Yes.Go to:   Admin->Configuration->Shipping/PackagingSelect  Display Number of Boxes and Weight StatusChoose the desired setting:0= off1= Boxes Only2= Wei
- 2006-10-11 - Similar Articles

Is there a way that I can check on what users with Admin access to my site are doing?
There isn't currently a Zen Cart page to do this, but each time an Admin page is called, the access date, admin ID, page accessed, page parameters and IP address are logged in
- 2007-03-16 - Similar Articles

Is there any way to generate a report on my banner advertising?
Banner statistics are tracked on an ongoing basis. When you open the Banner Manager, you can see the last 3 days' details on-screen.For more information, under the "Actio
- 2006-10-04 - Similar Articles

My Admin takes a long time to login, or my admin home page is very slow to load.
Updated article here:http://tutorials.zen-cart.com/index.php?article=81
- 2007-09-18 - 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 Payment Methods aren't showing up during checkout
During checkout, if your payment methods aren't showing up, go into Admin> Modules> Payment and check: 1. Is the payment module Installed? If not, click the Install but
- 2006-08-30 - Similar Articles

My prices are displaying $0 instead of the real amount
First, check your store from another browser, preferably on another PC. Perhaps there may be a cache/session issue which will take care of itself by flushing cache or letting
- 2008-08-30 - Similar Articles

Rich Text editor troubles (ie: HTMLarea, etc)
EDITORS NOT WORKING WITH YOUR BROWSER If you find that the HTML editors aren't working properly for you due to the browser you use, the easiest workaround is to turn off the
- 2006-08-30 - Similar Articles

Should I charge taxes? How much do I charge?
You should consult your local tax authority for tax advice as it relates to your business. For professional assistance or "creative" strategies, you may want to cons
- 2006-08-03 - Similar Articles

Warning: Your Admin login is not secure ...
If you are getting this note in your Admin area: "Warning: Your Admin login is not secure ... either you still have default login settings for: Admin admin or have not r
- 2006-08-30 - Similar Articles

What determines if a product is "New" (New Products for XXXXX Month)
There are settings in in Admin->Configuration->Maximum Values to determine "what" New Product means ...New Product Listing - Limited to ... Limit the New Produ
- 2006-11-20 - Similar Articles

What do the numbers in the admin "Counter History for last 10 recorded days" mean?
The counter counts two things: Session count is the number of 1st hits to your site based on unique browser sessions ... more or less this is 1st visit of the day NOTE: this
- 2006-10-05 - 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 GZIP compression, and why should I use it?
PurposeThe purpose of GZIP Compression: This causes pages to be compressed before being transmitted from server to browser, making the transmitted data smaller, thus speeding
- 2009-07-30 - Similar Articles

What is the meaning of the number in "minimum values" and "maximum values" during product-entry?
When Products are purchased... you can setup a minimum quantity and a maximum quantity as well as the units that they must be ordered in ... Minimum - the minimum num
- 2006-08-10 - Similar Articles

When I log into Admin, first page is slow or it just hangs forever.
FIRST ... is the slowness *only* for the admin area? If you also see the *same* slowness in your storefront, this FAQ does not apply to your situation. Slowness logging in to
- 2008-12-08 - Similar Articles

Where is the Admin / Back-end interface ?
You can access the Zen Cart admin area via your browser by pointing it to:http://WWW.YOUR_SITE.COM/admin/index.phpor, if you installed your site in a subfolder, like this:http
- 2007-05-11 - 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