OpenCart Reviews

OpenCart the way to go

Comments: 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.

Pros:

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!

Cons:

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.

Maximize Your Online Store Potential with OpenCart

Comments: OpenCart is a comprehensive e-commerce software solution that helps businesses create and manage online stores. It offers a range of features, including product management, order management, and customer management, and has a user-friendly interface that makes it easy for businesses to set up and manage their stores. OpenCart also offers customizable options that allow businesses to tailor the solution to their specific needs. While it may be complex for some users and have limited support, it is an affordable option for small businesses looking to create and manage an online store.

Pros:

OpenCart is an e-commerce software solution that helps us to create and manage our online stores. OpenCart has a user-friendly interface that makes it easy for us to set up and manage our online stores. It offers a wide range of features, including product management, order management, and customer management, making it a valuable tool for businesses of all sizes. Also It offers customizable options that allow us to tailor the solution to our specific needs. OpenCart is an affordable e-commerce solution, making it a good option for small businesses on a tight budget. Worth for money.

Cons:

Sometimes it can be complex and overwhelming if you don't have any prior experience. Increasing more tutorials will may able to solve this issue.

Simple and cheap e-shop system for small e-shops without marketing support.

Comments: This product works well for my low and middle class e-shops which offer limited number of products, mostly in the same category, with a smaller budget for running and promotion.
For the more advanced needs, this system cannot offer enough functions and there is not enough resources for customers.
Free version is too simple. For some results, paid themes and plugins are needed. Then e-shop may generate some income.

Pros:

OpenCart is not as demanding as other e-shops in terms of resources. It doesn't use server sources as high as other apps. You can run it on standard on a shared hosting. There is fairly simple interface so it is easy to setup a shop, very simplified. It can be used by beginners. Simple UI on the back-end and fairly descent front-end makes it easy to use. Easy backup.

Cons:

Very hard to update or modify. It can just break down and not work even if you roll out backup of the previously working site. SEO is terrible even with paid plugins. To make addresses and descriptions work is so hard. Never made it to work completely as it would on standard shops Magento, or Wordpress. One-page shopping is not working well even with paid plugins. Marketing options are very limited and hard to find, such as follow up emails, up-sell, cross-sell, promo codes, tracking. E-shop are used for selling primarily so one would need to offer as much as possible to clients, similar products, suggested products, to give reward points and to send customized offers. Discounting options are not working well in case client changes anything or finish shopping in a few steps. (75% of shopping carts with free shipping lose their function and have to be edited manually) There are no easy integrations, such as Zappier, MailChimp, login via social network accounts etc.

Best eCommerce Product

Pros:

All modules can be configured and if there is a module that I have a problem with, I can intervene with php. In addition, many hosting companies have ready-made opencart services and this makes my job easier. The options in the cargo module are very suitable for our country, for example the "pay at the door" option. Being open source and free is one of the features that attracts me. Lastly, their reports are very useful to me. Because it is very diverse and understandable

Cons:

A little weak on SEO. Pages can have multiple URL addresses at the time of design. To prevent this, I need to develop with PHP.

Thumbs up to OpenCart

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

Pros:

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

Cons:

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

One of the best ecommerce carts

Pros:

Easy to setup, easy to rank, easy to customize. Great feedback from the community, being and active and responsive community. We were able to develop one online shop with easy and great performance

Cons:

Not being the most developed online cart system it has his drawbacks, many upgrades and modules are not developed for opencart. Depending on your needs and expectation you should consider more options, depending on what you need.

Excellent Interface

Pros:

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

Cons:

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

A very good option for a free online store

Pros:

Opencart is a very powerfull software that has a lot of users who use it for online shops. You can relly on Opencart for a lot of traffic, being very reliable and with a good design for the administrator. The templates are widely available and not only on the main website, they are developed from third parties.

Cons:

Opencart does not have all the option out of the box, as the big ecommerce software have, but they are really good for niche and hip stores

Free Shopping Cart

Comments: It's free, easily implemented.

Pros:

Nothing beats free. Easily integrated. Popular.

Cons:

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

Rapid implementation and a lot of optional modules

Pros:

OpenCart is very easy to deploy and includes a lot of great features out of the box. There is a great number of additional plugins available via the marketplace to extend this functionality.

Cons:

Very few cons in regard to the purpose we have selected OpenCart for. Email handling could be improved to avoid potential spam ratings, etc for the system.

Great option for needing customized ecommerce

Comments: We needed to be able to bolt on many additional services that were enabling our e-commerce capability. OpenCart has great API functionality that allowed us to do this.

Pros:

This was used with my past company and our team really enjoyed some of the "open-source" nature of OpenCart versus other competitors (such as Magento).

Cons:

It isn't as robust in an enterprise standpoint as other options. However, I think the pro that I mentioned far outweighs this.

The best e-commerce platform

Comments: I gained many things but most important I improved my programming skills

Pros:

It's easy to use and really fast. You can easily build a shop with thousands of product without paying a flrtune on hosting. It is SEO promising with built in SEO customization. Its also an independent framework by itself which I found pretty interesting as I am developer as well. Last but not least there is a big community supporting it.

Cons:

Sometimes in a hurry on publish new releases which leads to bugs. And forum members (some of them) can be really aggressive .

Great, full featured opensource cart with thousands of addons

Comments: 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.

Pros:

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

Cons:

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

OpenCart Review

Comments: Overall it is good e-commerce application for online shops with very ease effort.

Pros:

This is one of the best opensource e-commerce product available in market. we can do lot of customization stuff using the plugins. Administration and Maintenance is pretty painless one. It has good graphical user interface for managing the products. Installing the software is straight forward and easy.

Cons:

Few plugins are quite expensive and upgrade is painfull. It requires, lot of learning curve to understand the products.

The best free / open source shopping cart for pure e-commerce

Pros:

Free, integrates with many other platforms, choice of hosting providers

Cons:

There isn't really a fully featured option for subscriptions. CMS / block / page editing would also be a nice addition.

It works but ....

Pros:

how easy it is to install, configure and get around

Cons:

The fact that you often hae to go play in the php coding

Simple eCommerce Script

Pros:

I am running a successful store using opencart from past 5 years, extra modules can be easily installed using vqmod.

Cons:

I am on 1.5 and struggling to get my data on 3.0. I wish there could have been a easy way of upgrade from 1.5 to 3.0

A good CMS for an online store

Pros:

On this platform, I was making my first online store. Having learned the order of prices, I refused the services of specialists and decided to do everything myself. The project is still working and OpenCart has become my reliable assistant. The main thing that I want to note, the system is easy to learn and free (there is a paid version, but this one will be enough for your eyes to start).

Cons:

Over time, the functionality of the free version begins to be missed. As they say, hunger comes with eating.

The first online store on the free engine

Pros:

This platform simply saved me at a time when I was still a student, I was studying Web technologies and I did not have the money for a paid engine. Having considered the options, I decided to stop at creating an online store. Maximally saving at the start, I soon learned to bring projects to the international level.

Cons:

Free version is a good solution at the initial stage, when you just go through training. But, starting a serious project, it is not even worth considering as an option.

Opencart is a free ecommerce solution that works well

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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

A great alternative

Comments: Thoroughly enjoyed working with OpenCart so far, and look forward to seeing continued development on the platform in the future.

Pros:

Very user-friendly, and easy to implement – feedback from clients and developers alike has been hugely positive since we added OpenCart to our eCommerce offering.

Cons:

Not as fully-featured as some of the other open-source alternatives available in the market, but not as bloated as them either.

Excellent for a start up e-commerce store

Pros:

Open cart is a great cms /e-commerce application for a quick online store set up. The back end is easy to learn and has all the functionality one requires to operate a profitable online store.

Cons:

Customisation is not straight forward as far as creating your own themes and store designs. The application comes fit with great templates that can be used in the interim.

Great solution for free and open source e-commerce platform

Pros:

- Its completely open source, and you can leverage anything on top of that - Includes most of the features needed for running an e-commerce software - Provides more customisable options - Extensions are great

Cons:

- Default themes are very old in techniques - Need a developer to modify the module and make according to our own

Works fast and stable

Pros:

We have created several client online stores that run CMS OpenCart. The main advantage of OpenCart is that it consumes much less server resources than other CMS. This ensured stable work, despite the fact that more than 1000 products are sold on each of the sites.

Cons:

Deleted pages continue to be indexed by search engines for a long time. Once the deleted page continued to be indexed for another 8 days, and we received daily calls from users who could not access the page.

Opencart is the best Store Management System ever.

Comments: 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.

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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