ZLIG CMS & Ecommerce Platform
ZLIG is a private CMS and ecommerce platform designed to power modern, multilingual and multi-market websites from a single system. It combines content management, product catalog management, ecommerce, customer accounts, quotes, shopping carts and other business tools into one integrated platform.
ZLIG was created by Martin Bourdages and has been continuously developed and refined by Martin and his team for more than 26 years. During that time, the platform has evolved through multiple generations of web technology while maintaining the same core purpose: providing a reliable foundation for content management, ecommerce and day-to-day business operations.
Unlike commercial CMS platforms, ZLIG is not available to the general public and is not distributed as a downloadable or hosted product. It has been developed around the real-world requirements of the websites and businesses using it, with new capabilities added as those requirements evolve.
ZLIG currently powers websites including Aptika USA and Aptika Canada, allowing the same platform to manage different domains, countries, languages, currencies and content while maintaining a common technical foundation.
ZLIG Features
- Multi-domain – Manage multiple websites and domains from the same platform while allowing each website to have its own content, configuration and market rules.
- Multi-language – Publish localized content in multiple languages with language-specific pages, products, URLs and metadata.
- Multi-currency – Support different currencies and pricing structures for different markets and websites.
- CMS and ecommerce – Manage pages, articles, products, categories, manufacturers and ecommerce functions from a unified system.
- Database-driven Cart, Quote and Wishlist – Shopping carts, quotations and wishlists are stored in the database, allowing them to persist between pages and customer sessions.
- Product catalog management – Maintain detailed product information, pricing, availability, images, documents and market-specific content.
- Customer accounts – Provide customers with persistent accounts, order information and other account-related services.
- Search engine friendly – Supports clean URLs, metadata, canonical URLs, structured data and multilingual SEO requirements.
- Integrated business tools – Ecommerce functions can be connected directly with internal order, quote, purchasing, inventory and customer-management systems.
- Responsive design – Designed to support desktop, tablet and mobile visitors using the same application and content.
Built for Real-World Ecommerce
ZLIG was created around real ecommerce operations rather than as a general-purpose website builder. The platform can adapt its behavior according to the website, market, language, currency, customer and product being displayed.
Because the CMS, ecommerce system and business applications share the same platform, information can move directly between the public website and internal systems without depending on multiple disconnected applications or third-party plugins.
A Private Platform
ZLIG is developed and maintained as a private platform. There are no public downloads, subscriptions, themes or plugin marketplace. New functionality is added when it provides a practical benefit to the websites and businesses using the platform.