For stores that can't afford to stand still. Everything in Maintenance Essentials, with three hours of hands-on work a month, answers the same business day, and a quarterly health check: we go through your error logs, PHP compatibility, page speed, and accessibility, and send you what we found and what we'd fix. When it's time to upgrade Zen Cart, you get 40% off.
Compare the maintenance plans| Option | Store Monitoring | Maintenance Essentials | Maintenance Plus |
| Price | $9.99 a month | $49 a month | $129 a month |
| Paid annually (two months free) | $99.90 a year | $490 a year | $1,290 a year |
| Best for | Knowing the moment something goes wrong | Steady care for a running store | Busy stores that need more time and faster answers |
| Uptime monitoring with alerts | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SSL certificate and domain expiry alerts | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Zen Cart security alerts for your version | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Security patches and bug fixes applied | No | Yes | Yes |
| Updates to our plugins and Library-listed plugins | No | Yes | Yes |
| Monthly backup check | No | Yes | Yes |
| Hands-on time included | None | 1 hour a month | 3 hours a month |
| Response | Alerts only | Next business day | Same business day |
| Quarterly health check | No | No | Yes |
| Zen Cart upgrades | Quoted | 15% off | 40% off |
Every plan: cancel anytime, effective at the end of the period you've paid for. Included hours don't carry over to the next month; extra work is billed at our hourly rate. Upgrades, new installs, and new plugins are quoted separately. After you subscribe, open a support ticket on myZenCartHost.com with your store's address (and, for the maintenance plans, your access details: SSH, or cPanel or FTP, and an admin login), and we'll set everything up.
These plans work for any Zen Cart store, wherever it's hosted. Not sure a plan is right for you? Compare all our maintenance options, including pay as you go.
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