A personal greeting can set the tone for your customers shopping online.  In a default installation, the customer greeting is shown as “Welcome Guest! Would you like to log yourself in? for visitors (guests) to your Zen Cart store, as shown here:

Once logged on, the greeting is personalised for the customer:

Turn on or off the Zen Cart Customer Greeting

To set your store to Maintenance Mode:

1. Log in to your Zen Cart store Admin.
2. From the Configuration menu, select Layout Settings.
   
3. Select Customer Greeting – Show on Index Page to edit.
   
4. Select either 0 to turn off the greeting or 1 to turn on the greeting on the Zen Cart store home page.  Next, click the Update button to save your preference.
    

Change the Zen cart Customer Greeting

1. Open the index.php file located in the /includes/languages/english directory.
2. Find this section of code:

   define('TEXT_GREETING_PERSONAL', 'Hello <span class="greetUser">%s</span>! Would you like to see our <a href="%s">newest additions</a>?');

3. and modify the define statement as needed.  For example:

   define('TEXT_GREETING_PERSONAL', 'Hi <span class="greetUser">%s</span>, nice to see you again. Thanks for shopping with us today!');

   ** Be sure to keep the single quote marks in your new define statement.
   

4. Save the modified index.php file to your override folder.  This will be /includes/languages/english/CUSTOM/ where CUSTOM represents the name of your current template folder.

This example assumes your Zen Cart default language is English.  Adjust accordingly to suit your language settings.

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