OpenCart reviews

OpenCart the way to go

Opmerkingen: I have had a tremendous experience... I can build my website the way I want, and once I pay for a OpenCart plugin, or theme, I add it to my box of tools that I can permanently use on any of my other sites. The initial setup can be a little daunting, but once you've built your first site, it's fantastic. The plugins and themes are very well priced, and the support is great. OpenCart have addressed previous security flaws in their software, and https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/ scanned my site and gave it a clean bill of health. I recommend the 'Pavilion - Responsive OpenCart Theme by ThemeBurn | ThemeForest' as you do not need to know how to write a single line of code. It's responsive (re scales automatically) , so you do not have to worry about how it will look on a pc or mobile phone, and you can do almost anything you can think off. Granted that there is a HUGE learning curve, but it gets better as you learn how to work with the theme.

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You control everything, and you can find plugins to add functionality you do not have... It is great if you want full control, and I have never found there is something I want that I cannot do without a plugin or a tweak here and there. Support is great and often the developers who create the plugins will help you install the plugin for free after you buy it. They normally even do small tweaks for free, and add extra functionality at a minimal cost. Yes, there are many ready built eCommerce platforms like shopify and squarspace, but you will have to pay a monthly hosting fee, including monthly plugin rental. If I could buy a plugin once off on shopify, I would perhaps reconsider, but most plugins are rental only. Shopify has a lot of features, but it does not have everything most people need. So you going to end up renting a lot of extra plugins. Take 10 different plugins on shopify, at a monthly cost of approx $20 each, and you 're going to pay $200 on top of your shopify costs. It all adds up. Bottom line, if you do not mind a learning curve, and you want to keep costs down in the long run, along with full control, OpenCart is the way to go!

Minpunten:

Like most software, there is a learning curve. It can be painful all at once, but the more you use OpenCart, the better it gets.

Open cart

Pluspunten:

OpenCart is a powerful and flexible e-commerce platform that can be customized to meet the needs of a wide range of businesses.

Minpunten:

There pricing is expensive along with there templates

Opencart is a free ecommerce solution that works well

Pluspunten:

Opencart has a lot of plug ins to make the store look how you want. It will also integrate well with many other pieces of software.

Minpunten:

Since it's free, the support was not necessarily there. Can take some getting used to before you learn how it does things.

"A comprehensive and scalable eCommerce solution"

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OpenCart is a great CMS for creating eCommerce stores. It's really easy to use, includes multiple payment integration tools, and has a multitude of features that makes your store more user-friendly. It is very simple to deploy both domestically and on servers, and it is quick and simple for both administrators and consumers.

Minpunten:

Not found any complicated issues, it's a wonderful CMS tool.

Thumbs up to OpenCart

Opmerkingen: OpenCart is suppose to be a tryout but I ended up sticking to the platform. I am happy and would strongly recommend to you.

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I heard about OpenCart from a friend and I decided to try it out but I didn't expect it to blow my mind. An open source online store platform that's free and all its functions and features works great. I love the fact that I could control and operate it. Highly customizable has so many add ons. I ended up sticking to OpenCart

Minpunten:

The platforms fine. I am impressed and i do not have any dislike.

Built your online store using Opencart

Opmerkingen: It is Perfect

Pluspunten:

my website is built using opencart, one of the best ecommerce platform on the net, it is easy to use and implement and plus its Free and opensource. Opencart is build using PHP with tons of free and paid extensions and modules to choose from.

Minpunten:

advanced features need to be purchased from third party developers, some features must be already incorporated into the opencart core.

In opencart this wonderful application that can be use for inventory that can access any one online

Opmerkingen: Inventory online

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i like this because this is a mysql back end data then with a front end php that easy to understand can be also having a features updates automaticallt

Minpunten:

I think we need more graphical report that can be delivered to each client so they can understand easy

Free Shopping Cart

Opmerkingen: It's free, easily implemented.

Pluspunten:

Nothing beats free. Easily integrated. Popular.

Minpunten:

Could have better template support. Competitors have a wider range of plugin support and better, more comprehensive page builders.

Ease of Use

Opmerkingen: OpenCart works well for small businesses whose product availability are limited. It can't offer enough resources for customers in large businesses as it should. It has a free version that is too easy to operate, paid plugins are needed to generate some incomes. OpenCart has so many features that are included in it's default set-up, themes and lots of add-ons. I recommend OpenCart for small businesses if they're looking to boost sales.

Pluspunten:

It's very flexible and easy to customize' It's easy to understand and operate. Good marketplace to buy extensions for good prices. OpenCart is very affordable for all business sizes. Easy installation and setup. It has a continues upgrade in system features.

Minpunten:

It has a laborious upgrade process. It has limited functionality back-end search and filters. It has limited and hard to find marketing functionalities.

Few things to know about OpenCart

Opmerkingen: If you are a beginner then you must try OpenCart to bring your business online and generate revenue.

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1. It is an open source ecommerce development platform which allows bringing small scale as well as medium scale businesses online within just few clicks. 2. It provides all the basic features to run and organize an effective online store which can be used easily and doesn't require much of technical expertise.

Minpunten:

1. Being an open source platform it is more likely to be vulnerable from external threats such as code injection and similar. 2. Although it provides all the basic features but sometimes I feel like it lacks a bit of features such as event management application as well as it doesn't provide access to its code files in order to build one.

Develop your own store without coding

Pluspunten:

It is more simple than what I thought. Must check it if you are planning to create an online store. Wide variety of features, add-ons. Configure on local host and at least explore it once.

Minpunten:

Haven’t yet configured on online server but so far haven’t found any issues on local server. Must give it a try.

my clients love this platform to build their e-commerce stores

Pluspunten:

OpenCart is a great platform to build an e-commerce store and my clients love it too. I am amazed by OpenCart, it has everything that my clients need to run their e-commerce stores fluidly. The platform is not too complex so even the new comers can easily get up to speed with this toolkit. It's the perfect solution for any e-commerce business that wants to start with a sleek, modern store design and at no extra cost.

Minpunten:

So far OpenCart has been an amazing platform for us. So, no cons for OpenCart

Opencart a great online shopping platform

Opmerkingen: Since opencart is open source we have found that we have full control as to how pages are deigned and how items are layed outr on our pages. We are not constrained in this regard. Where we have to invest more is on security of teh website as the website grows.

Pluspunten:

Opencart is a fairly simple platform to use to set up an online shopping platform. It has not required too much server space so its main advantage is it is lighter on the hosting package requirements compared to its peers with the same functionalities and costs. We have also found that the learning curve for this platform is not as steep as for others as it is made with the developer novice in mind.

Minpunten:

We have been advised that the platform creates copies of pages. For anyone who understands SEO this is a negative as it reduces organic SEO ranking. We found this out when having an SEO audit done. Otherwise we are happy with everything else.

For the amateur and the professional

Opmerkingen: OpenCart is regarded as quite the savior for newcomers to the e-commerce industry - this was (is) at least the case for me. The system gives you a solution that is ready-to-use straight out of the box. Through the admin panel, you can change numerous settings including advanced banner setup, pages setup, payments, categories and the lot. If you are curious on how to change the code and customize it exactly to fit your needs, the files are neatly organized in your FTP program so that a newcomer will intuitively know which files changes what. This also leads me to the real beauty of OpenCart - the community and the extension store. The community is superb. If you have any issues or obstacles on your way learning programming and OpenCart, the forum will answer all your questions and lead you on your way. If you do not want to program or design yourself, you can utilize the extension store which is filled with high-quality solutions that you can easily install through your admin panel. I have used OpenCart for years, and I can't see anything equally easy-to-use-yet-highly-advanced that is going to replace it anytime soon. Amateur or pro - just try it, you'll like it. Did I also mention that it is free(!)?

Pluspunten:

The flexibility and the customization while still being easy to use and understand. It is also mobile friendly.

Minpunten:

The extension market - while still providing a whole lot of quality solutions - is still suffering from some low-quality publishers as well as duplicators who are stealing from others. More policing is needed.

Manage OpenCart as per your requirements.

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1. OpenCart provide you complete environment to manage your products. 2. You can customize OpenCart as per your requirement. 3. You can edit OpenCart functionality if you have good web development skills . 4. Product listing , creation of product details , adding captions is easy. 5. Disable product , enable product is great features. 6. It has complete shopping cart features.

Minpunten:

Customization of OpenCart is required web development skills .

Free Comprehensive E-commerce Softwarre

Opmerkingen: I lie it very much and used it for my websites temporarily

Pluspunten:

It is an optimized for only e-commerce so It is so fast in terms of loading time of a website especially when it is compared to wordpress. So it does not need so much ram to upload your website .

Minpunten:

Its moduls or attachments are so restricted. If you wouldlike to make special project, sometimes you cannot find out right attachment or modul.

Popular, open source and not too complicated - worth a try

Opmerkingen: Shifted to OpenCart from an aging Prestashop. Gave a try to other software along the way. OpenCart, which is just about right in everything. OpenCart is easy to set up, it is lightning fast (you will see how important this is sooner or later), it has a million extensions which are not too expensive. From my experience, OpenCart is also quite easy to learn and manage on my own. It is definitely not perfect, but better than the immediate competition if looking for cost effective though feature-rich eCommerce solution. Bottom line: Recommended. At least give it a try and place on your shortlist.

Pluspunten:

- very fast; - a LOT of extensions, most inexpensive; - easy to learn the basics, not impossible to learn even more.

Minpunten:

- lacks the fancy plugin management of Prestashop; - bulky updates; - some say bad customer support, but no personal experience in this regard.

Opencart is the best Store Management System ever.

Opmerkingen: I have been using OpenCart for the last 1 year.It is very easy to integrate and manage your online store using OpenCart. It has a variety of designs which looks professional.Even it can be edited with out much effort for a developer.

Pluspunten:

It is very easy to manage your online store using OpenCart. It gives many designs which is easy to integrate and manage. All the pages from product listing to checkout looks professional and even we could edit it in the back end.It is the best open source Store Management System I have ever used.

Minpunten:

At first, it takes some time to get familiarized with the functionality. And the folder structure is little complicated.

Excellent Interface

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OpenCart is very easy to set up and it is user friendly. It has quite a straightforward interface and you can literally do everything without much challenges from creating pages up to adding products. It is easy to integrate with other payment systems and different shipping options. It also has a good catalog functionality and good features features for order processing

Minpunten:

It is very difficult to customize some features on OpenCart and you are forced to use the theme.

Great, full featured opensource cart with thousands of addons

Opmerkingen: I have been developing with OpenCart for 5+ years now and a lot of my e-commerce clients are using it and getting great sales because of it. It is easy to use for the non-techie once everything is set-up. It has a large set of features in the default set-up and there are thousands of extensions/add-ons available and thousands of themes, what's not to like.

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Easy to install and set-up Ease of Use Good support community Thousands of add-ons Thousands of themes

Minpunten:

Release cycle is random and not thought out Difficult to upgrade unless you

Review for website

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this is the most helpful open license website everything is perfect i like that software

Minpunten:

everything is perfect i like that software

OpenCart is a great eCommerce platform

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MVC structured and multiple plugins available to download and use.. and it's all FREE!

Minpunten:

Upgrading is not an option at the moment, to upgrade to new versions you have to kind of start from scratch

Awesome Experience. I am working with you since 2014

Opmerkingen: First of all, This is OpenSource Free software and Its helps to set up store within few hours

Pluspunten:

I liked all the things everything was made brilliant and now in 3x marketplace installation easier now to explain to our clients

Minpunten:

Control over the Read Write Permission to admin and catalog folders and Restric to the Third-party software control over the certain files to be changed by OCMOD

Opencart for your online business

Pluspunten:

Opencart is one the best free CMS in today's era. If someone who wants to make online presence of his/her business one can choose opencart with ease & undoubtedly. It has a huge list of pros but i'll mention few of them which i like the most Its development cost is far less than its competitors Its light weight & super fast. It has user friendly & easy to manage. It has many built in shipping & payment methods. It has live 24/7 support & huge community of developers. It has large list of free modules & themes.

Minpunten:

Even though its very valuable product at 0 cost but it has few of the cons. Its security is quite vulnerable because of free modules over the internet. Not suitable for large scale business Cache management is quite difficult.

Easy to organize small amounts of products

Pluspunten:

Very easy to use. You update all page information in the backend. Truly excellent

Minpunten:

It is perfect for what I need. I am aware that OC has it's limitations when dealing with big stocks