# Integrate Zen Cart

## Overview

Integrate Zen Cart to be able to process payments through the 2Checkout platform in over 200 countries and more than 100 currencies.

Zen Cart provides a complete package of solutions to different aspects of online business (features like billing, product display, multi-language options, different currencies, etc.).

## Availability

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Before you are able to start accepting payments, you need to request and finalize the activation of your live account by completing a form, and provide information that will help us verify the business and identity of the individuals involved in your business.
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Zen Cart integration is available only for 2Checkout accounts that handle their own tax and invoice management ( **2Sell** and **2Subscribe**).

## Zen Cart Settings

Perform the below set of instructions in your Zen Cart account to integrate it with 2Checkout.

1. Download the 2Checkout payment module from [GitHub](https://github.com/2Checkout/zencart-2checkout).
2. Upload the files to your server under your store’s directory.
3. Log in to your Zen Cart admin panel.
4. Navigate to *Modules* and click on **Payment**.<br>

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5. On the *Payment Modules* page, select **2Checkout API**, **2Checkout Convert Plus**, or **2Checkout InLine** and click on **Install Module**, as shown below.<br>

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6. Enter your 2Checkout information:
   * your **Seller ID.** The Seller ID is your 2Checkout **Merchant Code**, and you can find it in the [2Checkout Merchant Control Panel](https://secure.2checkout.com/cpanel), under [*Integration → Webhooks and API*](https://secure.2checkout.com/cpanel/webhooks_api.php).
   * your **Secret Key. Y**ou can find it in the 2Checkout Merchant Control Panel, under *Integration → Webhooks and API*
   * your **Secret Word.** The Secret Word is your 2Checkout **Buy-Link Secret Word** and you can find it in the 2Checkout Merchant Control Panel, under *Integration → Webhooks and API.*<br>

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7. Under *Test Mode* select **No** for live sales or **Yes** for test sales.
8. Click **Save Changes.**

## 2Checkout Settings

1. Log in to your [2Checkout Merchant Control Panel account](https://secure.2checkout.com/cpanel).
2. Navigate to [Integrations → Webhooks & API ](https://secure.2checkout.com/cpanel/webhooks_api.php)section.<br>

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3. Enable the **IPN webhook notification**.
   * Go to *Integrations → Webhooks & API*
   * Scroll down to the **Notifications** section and
   * Enable the IPN webhook
   * For the *Payment notification type* field, select **IPN or Email Text & IPN**, and then click on the **Configure IPN** button.
   * On the ***IPN settings*** page, click on the **Add IPN URL** button, input the IPN URL available on the configuration page in Zen Cart and select the SHA 2 / SHA 3 hash.<br>

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   * Enable all triggers and response tags.

## About Zen Cart

[Zen Cart](https://www.2checkout.com/online-shopping-carts/zen-cart.html) is an eCommerce and online store management software. It is PHP-based, using a MySQL database and HTML components, and supports both physical and digital products as well as services.​

[Zen Cart](https://www.zen-cart.com/) truly is the art of e-commerce: free, user-friendly, open-source shopping cart software. The eCommerce website design program is developed by a group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think eCommerce web design could be and should be, done differently.


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