Zen Cart Event Designer module

This tool allows you to create holidays greetings, make scheduled product description changes like adding announces/releases/news, store decoration, sale promotions. The possibilities are limitless...

Combine multiple Event Designer events on the same page and achieve even greater effect.

Just setup an Event and let Event Designer take care of the rest!

Event Designer Benefits and Advantages:

• Add intelligence to your store
  Increase the sales by implementing new ideas with less efforts. Make carefully-timed announcements and product changes. Store marketing initiatives work without your constant concern: the event is setup once, runs steadily and turns off right in time, delivering ease of use and management
• Run The Right Sale Every time
  Show sale message when sale is active - no more useless outdated sale initiatives.The right technology can simplify your daily activities
• Special Events for Every Occasion
  Events can be prepared days, weeks, or months in advance. By controlling both data and time, you can prevent undesired messages: your store will never greet visitors with New Year in the middle of February
• Make Your store stand out easily
  Want a very unique in style and design, yet marketing-efficient store - Event designer is a "must-have"
  Improve the communication between a Store and customers - it improves the overall perception and receptiveness of your store
• Time-sensitive announcements are easy
  No more embarrassing expired offers or seasonal greetings! Initiate announcements immediately or pre-schedule them ahead of time. You control when the event is allowed to begin and when it must stop. A convenient calendar interface appears for easy date selection
• Save time managing your store
  Limited time and resources to get the job done and keep the store running? By preparing events ahead of time, Event Designer reduces the burden of frequent administration and management. Do your administration when it suits you, rather than at the busiest times of year
• Comes with more then 25 premade Holliday Events out of the box !
• it just works!

How Zen Cart Event Designer module works:

1. Create new Event. Set the required options like Start/End Time, Period(Periodicity), Event Type etc
2. Paste Event Identifier code(that will be assigned to created event) into any place on your webpages (product descriptions, content pages and regular php pages)
   Identifier will look like this: <!---Holiday--->
3. Check the results!

Event Designer looks for the created Event Identifiers and replaces them with action. Events will be shown as scheduled in event options.

Typical usage scenarios:

• Run specials on weekends (you can announce about sales, time-limited discount coupons etc.)
• Run specials on holidays (let your visitors celebrate their holidays with purchases from your store)
• Run sales on store special days ("It's Gardeners' Day today. Save 10% on best Holland tulips" as a way to respond to customers' evolving needs)
• Display special characters on Christmas, St.Valentines Day or any other popular theme, providing your customers with a wonderful shopping experience
• Integrate third-party services that run occasionally (during limited time or some special days only)
• Show greetings to your visitors that depend on time (Good morning, Good Afternoon)
• Decorate your store for limited time (flowers blooming in spring, leaves falling in autumn...)
• Add "special touch" - catch the attention of anyone who comes into your store
• Run "Today Only" specials
• Run Monthly, Weekly, Daily special sales
• Use Macros Functionality (replace some text in multiple places of your store at once)
  • Add Product-specific announcements, news, specials on product details page
  • Include external resources (files, URL's) right on product details page
  • Call user PHP function each time page is accessed (start/stop based on time)

Live example (refresh this page to see sample event):

Latest improvements:

• Added ability to activate/deactivate coupon code automatically
• Added events samples for store decoration
• Events rescheduling enabled monthly and yearly
• Added sample template
• Performance improved

Featured Stores Using This Software:

• http://www.magneticone.com/store/
  We use it for our own store right now

Technical Requirements for Zen Cart Event Designer module:

• Zend Optimizer 2.6+ or ionCube Loader (files are encrypted)
• Several other minor requirements
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