Things every New Zenner needs to know

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Originally Posted by geovino

Can you tell me how to set shipping for the item?

It's actually two products and you can find them here http://www.clingythingylabels.com/home
We will be selling them for $7.95 a pack. If possible, can you make it an item that get's suggested when you are buying something else? It's a great add on item that we can slip into any order with no additional shipping expense.
SHipping for the these items alone should be $1.50 for one to three packs, $2.50 for 4-12, and $3.50 for 12 -24.
The owner of this site, whose product it is, gave me permission to take any artwork etc. I wanted off her site for our use.

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This question doesn't really belong in this thread, and should really be in the Shipping & Payment Modules but, if I understand you correctly, you want to have free shipping on this when it's purchased with anything else (use the Cross Sell mod from the downloads for "suggesting" it) and shipping by quantity if bought alone. Are the shipping charges on this item different to your other products, and are you intending just to tell the customer "The total shipping is $xx" ?

If that is the case, and the answer to both questions is yes, then I think the only way to achieve that is by coding.

The logic is straightforward - examine the cart; if a product belongs to a certain group (which you could identify by adding a single letter to the beginning of the item model no) use a specific shipping module and then total up the individual shipping costs for display to the customer as a single shipping amount.

The coding is totally beyond my ability!

I'd like to see the database structure. At least a complete list of tables and fields.

Open your database using phpMyAdmin, navigate to your Zen Cart database, scroll to the bottom of the main page and click data dictionary.

There's also a fair amount of documentation for the database schema.

How to change background colors of side boxes. I am using nightfall template from the download templates given here in the forum and I edited the font style and font color, and sizes but I can't find how to change the background color of sideboxes

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Originally Posted by armie

How to change background colors of side boxes. I am using nightfall template from the download templates given here in the forum and I edited the font style and font color, and sizes but I can't find how to change the background color of sideboxes

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Find .sideBoxContent in the stylesheet.css

You should be able to change the background color there

Thanks! for the reply. I will do that and let you know the updates.

As you have used Miva Merchant I must ask you if there is a way to import a comma dilimated catalog in Zen similar to Miva, It sure would speed up the process? Also I see alot about templates and customization throughout the forum but most of which is thoroughly confusing. Is there a simple way to create a photoshop PSD file and slice it into the Zen cart I want my end users to see. Maybe even a dreamweaver type wysiwyg editor that would make creating a template easier( less code) for us php novices...

There is an add-on, Easy Populate, that allows you to maintain your product information in a spreadsheet and import/export it in tab delimited files.

You could build a template using a WYSIWYG editor such as Dreamweaver, but you would actually need to know more about Zen Cart and PHP than you would by following the advice in the forum, since you would have to insert all the PHP yourself to call the various Zen Cart functions.

Dicing and slicing Photoshop layouts is a way of working that was normal back in the old table-based layout days, but Zen Cart (happily) has moved beyond that to an XHTML/CSS architecture. That doesn't mean that Photoshop isn't still useful for creating the graphical elements and that slices aren't used any more, but the whole approach is much more surgical and less image heavy than it used to be, with images being placed selectively into containers rather than defining the page structure.

I just received an email offer for "The Comprehensive User Manual for Zen Cart."

But, if it is based on the answers provided in the Zen Cart FAQ's and this Forum then it will be a total waste of money!

After weeks of attempting to find a straight answer I am still puzzled and frustrated. There are just no down to earth, basic intructions for using this shopping cart.

Not once could I find an answer to the simple question of "How do I add a product to the Zen Cart catalog??????" I had Cube Cart up and even found a button in it which says "Add Product" without having to search through hundreds of pages talking about templates, setting up a database, and coding and still did not find an answer.

Is there someone who can provide such basic instructions to new users of Zen Cart? :blink:

Thanks