ZingaShop Overview
ZingaShop Overview
ZingaShop is the e-commerce application of the Zingasuite platform. It lets you build and run online storefronts end to end: model your catalog, set prices, track inventory, take orders and payments, manage customers, run promotions, sell across external channels, and publish content pages, all from one portal.
The mental model
Everything in ZingaShop lives under your entity (your business account on Zingasuite). Within that entity you create one or more storefronts (websites). A storefront has its own domain, default currency, locale and country, and its own customer login. Your catalog, warehouses, price lists, tax setup, promotions and shipping rules belong to the entity and are shared across storefronts, while each storefront controls what it shows, how prices display, and how it looks.
At a glance:
- Entity level (shared): products, categories, brands, attributes, price lists, warehouses and stock, customers, customer groups, tax zones/classes, shipping zones, promotions, coupons, gift cards, sales channels.
- Storefront level (per website): domains, enabled currencies and languages, tax rates, shipping methods, CMS pages, blog, banners, menus, page templates, marketing widgets, and analytics/tracking IDs.
This separation means you can run, for example, a .com and a .in storefront off one product catalog while pricing, taxing and shipping each one for its market.
What you can do
| Area | Capabilities |
|---|---|
| Storefronts | Multiple websites, each with its own domain(s), currency, locale, country, timezone, logo, and live/preview control |
| Catalog | Products (simple, configurable, bundle, digital, subscription, gift card), variants, media, nested categories, brands, collections, attributes, tags, reviews |
| Pricing | Price lists per currency and website, offer vs. compare-at prices, quantity-break tiers, per-variant and FX-derived prices |
| Inventory | Warehouses, on-hand/reserved/incoming/available stock, inline/bulk/CSV editing, backorder and pre-order handling |
| Orders | Full order lifecycle, payment and fulfillment status, shipments, cancellations, refunds, invoices and delivery documents |
| Customers | Customer records, groups, addresses, a self-service account portal, and a shared identity spine with ZingaConnect |
| Selling | Multi-currency and multi-locale checkout, guest and registered checkout, subscriptions for digital and physical products |
| Promotions | Discount engine, coupons, gift cards, loyalty and referrals, plus storefront marketing widgets |
| Sales channels | Sync your catalog to Google Merchant, Meta Commerce, and Amazon |
| Shipping | Shipping zones and methods (flat, weight-, price- or quantity-based, free, or carrier-calculated) |
| Content | CMS pages, a blog, banners, navigation menus, a visual page builder, and editable page templates |
Digital, physical, and subscriptions
ZingaShop treats digital and physical goods as first-class. Physical products route through inventory, shipping and shipments. Digital products skip shipping and deliver downloadable files or entitlements to the customer's account. Both can be sold once or on a recurring subscription plan, with trials, billing intervals, skip/pause/swap options, and per-cycle fulfillment.
Multi-currency, locale and tax
Each storefront has a default currency and locale and can enable additional ones. Prices resolve from currency-specific price lists, so a buyer sees the right price in the right currency. Tax is configured per storefront using tax zones (by country/region/postcode), tax classes (Standard, Digital, Zero, and so on), and rates, with support for tax-inclusive pricing and digital-goods tax rules.
Working with ZingaShop
You manage everything from the Zingasuite portal at https://console.zingasuite.com. Most catalog and commerce objects can also be managed programmatically through the public API, so you can integrate ZingaShop with other systems or automate bulk operations. See the Developer API Reference chapter for endpoints and authentication.
The chapters that follow cover each area in detail. If you are setting up for the first time, start with Storefronts & Websites, then Catalog, Pricing, and Inventory, before moving on to orders, customers, and the growth features.