How is Zen Cart different from other marketplaces?

Originally based on OSCommerce, though it diverged in 2003 Zen Cart is a free, open source shopping cart for setting up eCommerce websites.

Why Dropship with Zen Cart?

Zen Cart has a lot of opportunities to tweak and customise it, and has a low cost of entry (as free and open source software), letting you build precisely the right solution for your business.

Pros and Cons of Zen Cart DropShipping

You can choose to subscribe to Zencommerce either monthly or yearly, or you can make a one-time payment for a standalone license. Once you’re subscribed, you don’t need to worry about servers and so on – they take care of that part. There is extensive amounts of support available on the Zencommerce website, with access to customer support via phone, online and through their videos on YouTube.

Pros:

• Free and open source.
• Strong user community.
• Flexible and customisable.

Cons:

• Customer support is purely community-based.
• Complex and technically-orientated, requiring development experience to manage.
• Need to find and configure your own server, etc.