Included free-of-charge with all of our business-oriented hosting packages (starting at only $9.95/month) is the versatile, innovative online storefront builder and shopping cart software, Zen Cart™.

A shopping cart allows your website visitors to travel through your site adding products to a shopping basket and then complete the order upon "check out". The shopping cart keeps track of the items ordered and automatically calculates shipping, tax, etc., making it easy for your clients to make informed purchases. As it is becoming increasingly important for businesses in any industry to sell their products and services directly over the Internet, a convenient, reliable and secure shopping cart becomes essential to compete in the online marketplace.

LFC's e-commerce services also include Merchant Accounts for qualified applicants, Live Credit Card Processing and 128-bit SSL encryption, the highest form of widely supported Internet security native to all of LFC's hosting plans. It is now easier than ever for businesses of any size to sell over the Internet, without worrying about the technology behind the scenes!

The Zen Cart™ Model

Zen Cart™ is a user-friendly open source shopping cart software platform designed to provide a hassle-free experience for your customers. It is the online retailer's answer to convenient e-commerce capability as it offers an extremely intuitive, yet infinitely powerful model which allows you to create a versatile storefront that is customized to your needs and interfaces with virtually any payment gateway to process credit cards on-the-fly.

Click here to view a series of LFC Hosting / Zen Cart™ demonstration videos.

Click here for examples of storefronts that could be setup in a matter of minutes with Zen Cart™.

Zen Cart™ Features

Administration Tools

Zen Cart™ provides powerful administration features, including the ability to:

• Create and manage products including adding, deleting, moving or linking products and/or product pages through an easy-to-use content management tool
• Manage product reviews, featured products and special offers
• Provide multiple price, shipping and payment options
• Control banner advertising
• Create newsletters to cross-promote and encourage repeat purchase

Flexible Customer Modes

Zen Cart™ allows you to define customer access, including multiple options:

• Unrestricted shopping
• Registration required to view prices
• Registration required to view prices and merchandise
• Showroom only

Product and Category Control

Zen Cart™ provides superior cataloguing capabilities:

• Unlimited depth per category
• Products can be referenced in multiple categories
• Customized product options (like colors, sizes, etc.) can be selected via dropdowns, radio buttons, checkboxes and/or text input

Promotions, Sales and Discounts

Zen Cart™ is nimble when setting price structures, and features:

• Individual sale prices
• Global reductions
• Category-wide sale pricing
• Discount coupons
• Group discount pricing
• Quantity discounts
• One-time charges
• Minimum and maximum purchases per product

Global E-Commerce

Zen Cart™ is global e-commerce ready, offering support for many:

• Languages
• Tax structures
• Shipping methods
• Currencies
• Payment methods

NOTE: Before you can sell your products and services online, you must have the ability to accept credit cards. See our Merchant Account offerings for more information on accepting credit card cards, or our Live Credit Card Processing services for information on interfacing Zen Cart™ with your existing merchant account to achieve live, automatic credit card authorization and processing.

Shopping Cart Design Service

For those who would prefer, we also provide a very affordable professional shopping cart design and development service. Our programmers will design and develop a storefront that meets your specific needs and follows the same design scheme as your current site.

Alternatively, if your business is considering selling its products and services online, but does not currently have a website or is looking at redesigning its current site, LFC also offers an extremely affordable and professional website design and development service. Our skilled, experienced team can design an effective, appealing website for your business including a complete online storefront, for less than the total cost of a basic website with competing services.


Your competition is already selling its products and services over the Internet, opening a whole new market and significantly reducing overhead. If you are not already selling your products and services over the Internet through an online storefront, now's the time to start! It's easier than you think!

Please contact us with your specific questions about Zen Cart™ or request a free consultation on implementing a secure online storefront for your website!