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While Zen Cart provides all the pieces you need to sell online, there are some things it does not do:

- It does not provide CRM functionality beyond a list of customers and their billing and shipping addresses.
- It does not provide ERP or accounting functionality, beyond recording orders and products sold. Costing data, FIFO or LIFO stock management and things of that nature are beyond the scope of what it does.
- It does not provide [ERP or accounting functionality](/user/running/erp/), beyond recording orders and products sold. Costing data, FIFO or LIFO stock management and things of that nature are beyond the scope of what it does.
- It does not provide blogging functionality, although you can create new pages and manage content as needed.

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Zen Cart offers basic inventory management (quantity in stock), with related settings like whether to allow checkout when stock is not sufficient to fill an order. See [tracking inventory](/user/running/stock/) for more details.

Note that full cost-of-goods sold (COGS) tracking is not part of Zen Cart, and would require an external system, such as an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tool.
Note that full cost-of-goods sold (COGS) tracking is not part of Zen Cart, and would require an external system, such as an [Enterprise Resource Planning (or ERP) tool](/user/running/erp/).

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### Can Zen Cart sell products with variants?
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While Zen Cart provides full ecommerce functionality, it only provides basic [stock management](/user/running/stock/).

You will need to integrate with an external ERP if your stock handling and cost tracking needs to beyond what Zen Cart provides. Some options are:

- [Salesforce.com](https://salesforce.com). A [basic integration for Salesforce](https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2217) is provided as a plugin.

- [Quickbooks](https://quickbooks.intuit.com/). Integrations for Quickbooks are provided by companies like [QBI](http://qbisoftware.com/) and [Webgility](https://www.webgility.com/).

- [Atrex](https://www.1000years.com/) can import Zen Cart data.

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At the current time, Zen Cart does not track the stock of individual product variants (a t-shirt's stock of large versus medium, for example). There are commercial modifications that address this requirement however, such as
the [Products' Options' Stock Manager (POSM)](https://vinosdefrutastropicales.com/product_extra_files/options_stock/readme.html).

## What LIFO stock tracking or ERP?

Zen Cart does not provide ERP functionality that some larger businesses may require. Please see [ERP](/user/running/erp/) for ideas.

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