Basic shopping cart

[stevesh]

I'm trying to replace the "middleman," the shopping cart provider who charges me a bundle for what they provide, and who (I believe) may have something to do with my recent severe drop in sales.
I'd like to use my existing site, if possible, yet use some of Z-C's functionality to collect and pass a customer's info to the processor.

That's the rub. Zencart isn't designed to be a 'backend' for an existing site. If you're losing sales with your existing host, it would probably be to your advantage to just switch everything to Zencart, anyway. You can leave your existing site up and running while building the Zencart version in a subdirectory and when it's ready, move it to the top of the domain. Info on all this, and much more, can be found in the Zencart FAQ's.

[dbltoe]

I've done my basic Zen-Cart setup on my server (GoDaddy offers setup of Zen and I've installed it using their basic installation) and gone through the basic configurations setup.

This is not advised from any source other than the Zen Cart site.
More info and the download link at https://www.zen-cart.com/index.php