# Zen Cart

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/zen-cart/  
**Website:** https://zen-cart.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Zen Cart is an open‑source e‑commerce platform that enables merchants to build and manage online stores. It offers a flexible, modular architecture with a wide range of extensions, themes, and payment integrations, supporting both small businesses and larger enterprises. The community‑driven project provides extensive documentation, developer guides, and support forums, allowing developers to customize and extend functionality through plugins and custom code.

## Kin Score — 16.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-10-31 under rubric 0.25.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 53.6 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 45.2 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform)**: 9.8 (matched via fallback).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | na |
| Operation Distinctiveness | na |

## APIs (1)

- **Zen Cart API** — Zen Cart provides a RESTful API for managing store data, though no machine‑readable specification is published.

## Security (1)

- **Zen Cart Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

e-commerce, open-source, php, shopping-cart, community, platform

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/zen-cart/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.