Why to Integrate Zen Cart with Content Management Systems

Zen Cart is very good for running an online shop but then when your organization has a website running a CMS- Zen cart has the flexibility to integrate your online shop to any popular content management system.

Reasons for Integrating Zen Cart with Other CMS

·         Benefit of Single Signin: Giving single sign-in, users can use both CMS and Zen Cart after login.

·         Increasing the Scope of Your Store: If you already have Zen cart shop planning to add a blog where users can write & read articles then WordPress will come to your mind. But the major challenge here is to integrate your store with WordPress. In that case, Zen Cart Developers can be the only help.

How to integrate with various CMS?

Integrating with Joomla

If you are using Joomla Website Development you have a number of choices to enable ecommerce functionality. And the best one is using the VirtueMart component. There are two options to have it done: Either use Zen Cart as a wrapper or develop a component based on Zen Cart.

Drupal

With the wide range of modules available for Drupal integrating it with Zen Cart requires a single sign-on facility. Once this module is installed and configured, creating Zen Cart categories and products from Drupal is a breeze.

WordPress

WordPress is an extremely powerful and widely used open-source blogging platform with wide community of developers and users. Although there are some shopping cart plugins for WordPress there are no full-blown features.  But then after downloading the plug-in WordPress on Zen Cart install it on the web server with two options:

1.       in an environment where you have a working WordPress installation and

2.       When you have not installed WordPress.

Following these tactics would help you integrate the both in a manner that users think that the store and shop is the same site.