Zen Cart is killing me!
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I have taken on 2 separate zen cart projects in the past year and a half or so.
One of them is about 80% complete and has been in a holding pattern since November. The other may wind up being scrapped altogether. Let's just say I'm not in the least bit upset about it.
I'm not sure how other eCommerce systems work, but Zen Cart really is pretty difficult to grapple with. Especially coming from my Wordpress background where everything seems so logically structured. I bought myself this book: http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Cart-A… and forced myself to read through it and that helped a bit, but mostly I just google my questions and look on their support forums.
Starting a few months ago I decided that I just wanted going to do any eCommerce work unless it was through something like Big Cartel, Foxy Cart, etc...
Setting up a custom eCommerce system has proven for me to have too many variables that can cause a project to go South. Part of that is the eCommerce system itself, but also part of that is the fact that clients are often uneducated on how much work it will take on their part to manage an online store.
Maybe it's me. Maybe it's Zen Cart. Or maybe it's the clients. But I don't think Zen Cart has helped at all.
Hopefully these shared experiences will help you guys in the future.