ZenCart Plugins! Get an Award-winning Solution Using Them

This article pens down for you some of the top-notch plugins or extensions available in Zencart and using which eCommerce owners can accelerate their website's success.

With nearly hundreds of add-ons or plugins available for a ZenCart based stores, owners or developers are left with massive scopes for customisation. Now, the concern is about which ones to use when there is a flood of options. Of course, you need only those plugins that you can relate by looking at the current scenario of your website i.e. the aspects that are missing or need to be improved. While ZenCart community comes with noteworthy plugins, this article just sticks to the few which are most used and appreciated by developers for their exceptional utility.

#1 Column Layout Grid

This is definitely for organising the product listings or the displays well. The plugin gives the website’s product pages a clean look with a grid layout. Row layout that is native to most of the frameworks including ZenCart looks clumsy and boring for the shoppers. So, column grid format is better to showcase products, especially when you have a great number of products.

#2 Image Handler

Well, this plugin is essential or a prerequisite for every eCommerce site as it eases up the work of developers in setting and placing images all over the webstore. It works along with the default ZenCart functionality when installed and some of its functions include enhanced display, background with color coordination, Image Magick to resize images on page requests, watermarks, fancy hover effects and so forth.

#3 Lightbox

This add-on contributes to the display of a large number of product images. With its use, all the large product images are displayed on the same page within the lightbox. Thus, there’s no requirement for different pop-up windows to display them and hence make product navigation easy.

#4 Sitemap XML

An effective add-on for ZenCart, it provides a proper sitemap for the site, so that Google and different search engine spiders can crawl your website easily and index it subsequently.

#5 List Price

This plugin allows the developers or website owners to list the price input for each product, in the product page, order info, invoice, or purchase history.  It can even allow display on the advanced search results. Further, retailers can also modify their language files to make them read MAP or MSRP in place of list price.

Using Zencart for your eCommerce venture? Make sure you deploy these quirk plugins to enhance the site’s functionality to a new level and keep your customers more satisfied and poised with all a smooth shopping experience.

Jonathan Paul is an avid writer, a dedicated and hard-earned web developer at PHPProgrammers, a visionary web and eCommerce development company that offers retailers and clients to hire ZenCart developers at the most reasonable quotations in the industry. You can follow more of his informative posts and studies on Zencart and other platforms from the Facebook page.