Maida’s Belts & Buckles (Zen Cart)

Maida's Belts & Buckles

Website: www.maidasbelts.com

Technologies: Zen Cart e-Commerce Platform

This site was developed and abandoned by another web developer.  Reveille corrected many programming flaws, and put the website back into full production.

Some features of this website are:

• Flash rotation of photos on home page display featured items
• Ability to request custom information on certain products (initials on belt buckles as an example)
• Real-time interface to back-end credit card processor
• Email list signup
• Wish Lists
• Social media buttons

Zen Cart is an offshoot of the osCommerce platform that has many nice features that were left out of osCommerce such as informational sub-pages, featured products, and more.

Custom Information When Adding To Cart

One nice feature in Zen Cart is its ability to gather additional custom information when placing items in the shopping cart.

In this instance, initials to be engraved on a belt buckle.

Flexible Product Options

Zen Cart also has an easy to setup product options module that lets you define prices and weights to add or subtract from base product values.

In this example, we're defining options for belts.

Discount Coupons

Since the first e-Commerce platform was introduced, website owners have been able to define discounts of various kinds. In the example at left, Zen Cart has a powerful discount coupon module.

Products Viewed Statistics

A nice feature of Zen Cart is its Products Viewed administration page. From these statistics you can determine the popularity of your various products, and determine if they need to be featured more prominently or maybe offer a discount.