Thanks for that clarification :) Zen Cart's email templates are as basic as email templates get for software as cool and complex as Zen Cart. It is unlikely you will find an easier replacement system.
Having said that, if you're looking for some kind of marketing email template to go out at the same time as the welcome email that goes out from Zen Cart when an account is created, I recommend that you go to the Mailbeez website and find the section that deals with feature requests. Then make a request for what you're looking for and provide as much detail as possible (like what you want to accomplish with the email template you have in mind).
If enough people find value in that, then it might be something Mailbeez will consider creating and releasing at some future date. If not, then perhaps they will consider creating it for you for a fee.
In the meantime, my recommendation to you is that you go through your Zen Cart email templates and invest the time to customize each of them to your liking.
You will need to do this anyway in order for the Mailbeez emails to look like you want them to, because...while Mailbeez has its own templates that need to be tweaked and customized to your store, they also utilize your default email template from Zen Cart....so if your Zen Cart email templates are not customized to your liking, your Mailbeez emails won't be either (Mailbeez works with Zen Cart's email template system, it does not replace it)
Customizing your email templates (both in Zen Cart and Mailbeez) can be a little bit of a pain if you don't know your way around html, css, inline styling, and basic PHP, but it's well worth the time you will spend.
On the bright side, if *I* can figure it out, anyone can :) It just takes a little bit of time, effort, and a desire to have your store the way you want it.
If this type of file editing is beyond your ability and you're uninterested in learning how to do it - or simply don't have the time to learn it, my best suggestion is that you pay someone to do it for you.
But, if you go that route, pick someone who knows their way around zen cart or other PHP based software - you don't want to pay someone by the hour who takes a long time because they don't know what they're doing, and you don't want to pay someone by the "job" who's going to muddle through it and leave you with a hacked up mess.
I believe the forum has an area dedicated to this purpose (hiring someone to customize your cart, or a specific area of your cart (like email templates).
Good luck :)
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