OpenCart

Vorteile

As a developer, I like the Model-View-Controller design pattern, it's easy to seperate things and understand the code, as well as reuse different controllers or models through the development of new extensions, as a result it's easy to make what it looks like native extensions, without breaking the software functionality if you follow the coding standards already used by the OpenCart developers. I think that the OCMOD system is the most intelligent way to extend OpenCart's functionality and I admire the developer who invented it. As for the UI, it's easy to use because all sections are seperated and grouped on the left column menu. Moving from other platforms to Opencart or moving from older OpenCart versions to newers is very easy especially from v2 to v3. From a user's point of view, OpenCart is like using an app, it's that easy. Labels and hints make it easier for new users to adapt as well as new customers to buy.

Nachteile

Even though OpenCart is stable since the beginning, I think we need more functionality that other platforms are having and would be nice if we could move them to OpenCart too. Not major functionality, but different minor things that will improve the workflow of an e-commerce owner, such as a summary page that will show products missing images, products with broken images, categories with no products, products with no descriptions or products missing translations etc. I think in the era of Javascript it would be nice if we could convert some pages that the administrator spends a lot of time to AJAX functionality or even Single Page Application so that we can make more and massively in less time. Although, that would break some 3rd party extensions obviously.

Vorteile

One of the things that I like the most about OpenCart is the multitude of options available for tailoring it towards my business needs. I have found that many of the modules and extensions that other e-commerce software solutions charge for are included out of the box with OpenCart and for free. For the extensions that are not included out of the box, they can usually be found in the OpenCart marketplace either for free or for a nominal price that allows even startups to realize a profit on their business even faster.

Nachteile

One of the things that I like the least about this software is the filter function for products in the admin area. Rather than allowing for products to be filtered by a single identifying keyword within a title, you have to remember the beginning word of the title and continue to add keywords in order to help filter down to a manageable number of products fitting the criteria you are looking for.

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Vorteile

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.

Nachteile

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.

Vorteile

It is very easy to understand admin panel even for non-developer person

Nachteile

Opencart 3 Is little bit slow. Otherwise it is very good

Vorteile

OpenCart is a very decent software that offers extensive features for both digital and physical marketplaces, if you are selling tangible or intangible items there are various categories you can use. A wonderful community behind it to support you thorugh it and make things available that were not necessarily available before. It is also a really decent way to collect funds and allow your clients a decent experience to implement your own commercial marketplace of any sort of product.

Nachteile

I was not fond of the design, or the lack of real support at times. The community is very helpful but the developers themselves are not very responsive. I ended up using a different eCommerce software.

Vorteile

The themes are good and the functionality is great.Their Model-View-Controller(MVC) makes development way cooler as one can analyze and edit code easily. Upgrades are easy to implement. It is not also resource hungry as other e-shops.It is also easy to backup.Built in extensions are also easy to implement and help in making a powerful e-store.

Nachteile

It is a bit difficult to use if you are a beginner. Fewer plugins as compared to other systems.The bugs are a bit difficult to work on.The filtering of products is a problem

Vorteile

Its user friendly, has community support available and has great 3rd party integration. it also supports over 20 payment systems.

Nachteile

lack of scaleability mainly, but wasnt a big issue for us.

Vorteile

Open cart is a brilliant solutions for e-commerce. However is not still update and don't have enoughe integrations with other tools so it make it useless.

Nachteile

The easy to use and is affordable in the setting up

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Vorteile

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

Nachteile

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.

Vorteile

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.

Nachteile

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.

Vorteile

Everyone loves free, but when free delivers with excellent results, that's even better. I've been using OpenCart for a variety of projects over the years and it just keeps getting better. Very good at payment processing and inventory tracking as well with their inventory management extension/add-on.

Nachteile

It could do more for fraudulent order tracking/management.

Vorteile

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).

Nachteile

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

Vorteile

Website administration is easy-to-use and non-technical clients can easily find what they need. Great basic set of features making setup of website fairly easy to get going. And of course the best part of OpenCart, it's free to use as open-source software.

Nachteile

Extensive customization can get costly with extensions. Some security issues with some of the extensions, so choose wisely. Outdated templates/themes. Not a good choice for larger shops as it will slow down considerably.

Vorteile

Its easy to use and you do not need specific training to start with. Mostly its click and go.

Nachteile

There are not many options to integrate it with all payment processors.

Vorteile

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.

Nachteile

Customization of OpenCart is required web development skills .

Vorteile

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

Nachteile

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.

Vorteile

Open Cart is an open source content management system. The development of the websites is an easy task using open cart. It is best for the development of E-Commerce websites.
These type of organization is best for medium-sized E-commercer sites. It is improving itself more and more and many users are adopting it.

Nachteile

It is for the medium sized users and hence it is light weight. These does not allow the search engine optimization at the next level. It also does not support full functionality in inventory.

Vorteile

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.

Nachteile

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

Vorteile

OpenCart is easy to install, easy to deploy and easy to update. Modules/plugins are readily available to provide pretty much all the functionality you could want. The dashboard/user controls are easy to negotiate and quite intuitive to figure out without extensive study.

Nachteile

Since I run a "captive" online store for the company, the ability to integrate with third party product providers is critical. OpenCart has limited ability to do this.

Vorteile

The solution is very good and covers many pain points and functionalities required for running a simple online store.

Nachteile

It has few limitations the tech stack mainly is not very scalable

Vorteile

you can customize it.

Nachteile

I've been in ecommerce for 8 years on the admin side and this is by far the most difficult CMS I have ever used and thats including a system that was purely code. There are so many ways to get to the same thing but have seperate functionalities. then if you install a theme you have to go through the theme help. honestly a disaster.

Vorteile

It’s feee and has quite a bit of functionality out the box.

Nachteile

It’s not as widely used as Wordpress so many other apps have developed a plugin for Opencart yet.

Vorteile

It's a very straight-forward and easy to use platform. It's dedicated to e-commerce, so don't expect much on the CMS division. There's a ton of extensions you can download for free or a fee, which are easy to install. It's really fast, lightweight and easy to maintain.

Nachteile

Not so good in terms of upgrading and extending. You might find it difficult to go beyond the offered extensions and features.

Vorteile

Manage an online store in this system - a pleasure, because it is just for this case. It is possible to create reports, analyze customer behavior and much more. A strong Russian-speaking community, that is, you can quickly get an answer to any question. Let's just say, although I'm an IT specialist, but I've never dealt with CMS and site configuration before. And then I tried OpenCart and was able to appreciate it.

Nachteile

The downside of CMS is the impossibility of creating any other sites, except for online stores. And also there are many technical problems: remote pages are poorly indexed, sometimes duplicate files are created, and so on.

Vorteile

The easy to understand code;
The extensibility of the app;
It is relatively lighweight;
The forum comunity;

Nachteile

The integrated marketplace in opencart 3.x;
The integration of the twig templating system into opecart 3.x;

Vorteile

Facilità di uso e tanti plugin e funzionalità a disposizione

Nachteile

Alcuni aggiornamenti sono lenti e molte volte non compatibili

Vorteile

OpenCart est un outil open source pour mettre en place votre site de vente en ligne

Nachteile

Les projets générées avec OpenCart, sont liés à OpenCart donc difficile de de réadapter le projet à un autre générateur de projet OpenCart

Vorteile

La flexibilité offerte pour personnaliser les boutiques en ligne ainsi que la robustesse de sa gestion des produits sont des points forts indéniables

Nachteile

La gestion des extensions peut parfois être complexe, avec des variations de qualité entre celles-ci.

Vorteile

It is open source
Easy to customize
Huge developer community
Easy to setup
Full control over data

Nachteile

Doesn't have a huge plugin marketplace like shopify
Non-tech person can't customise this platform

Quite outdated in few features.

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Vorteile

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!

Nachteile

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.

Vorteile

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.

Nachteile

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

Vorteile

Usamos opencart para un ecommerce hace 4 años.
Sencillo CMS para el desarrollo de tiendas online.

Nachteile

Hoy en día hay soluciones más potentes, opencart no ha sabido evolucionar al ritmo al que evoluciona el sector ecommerce. Hoy en día no consideraría opencart para ningún proyecto ecommerce.

Vorteile

Seo friendly.
Easy to install and setup.
Continued upgrades.
Easy for develop custom solutions.
Great community.
Great marketplace to buy extensions for good prices.
Infinite Payment gateways.
Infinite Shipping Gateways.
Email Marketing Tools.
Insightfully Reports.
Users and Role Administrations.
Discounts, Sales, Coupons, Rewards Points.
Products Reviews.
Multi Language. Multi Currency.
Mobile Ready.
Marketing Tracking Tools.
Affiliate Program Tool.
And more...

Nachteile

OpenCart's core upgrade processes are often laborious, but the OpenCart team seems to be working on this, and often offering solutions that allow you to take these weak points to disappear in a short time.

Vorteile

It's free, what's not to like about an open-source shopping cart platform. It's extendable with modules, and can be made to be pretty powerful.

Nachteile

The modules, more particularly, that there are no coding standards or screening processes in which developers must go through before a paid module is put up for sale on the marketplace.

Vorteile

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.

Nachteile

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.

Vorteile

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

Nachteile

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

Vorteile

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.

Nachteile

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

Vorteile

Opencart is great for teamwork and order processing/organization. You can customize this application to your needs.

Nachteile

I do a lot of job submissions, and copy-pasting all the details out of OpenCart slows me down, especially when it comes to transferring customer shipping details. If an order is improperly labeled by anyone in the team, it can be hard to track down. I would love to see a tab that shows most recent job changes in order to find things recently mis-labeled.

Vorteile

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

Nachteile

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.

Vorteile

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

Nachteile

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

Vorteile

Nothing beats free. Easily integrated. Popular.

Nachteile

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

Vorteile

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.

Nachteile

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

Vorteile

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.

Nachteile

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.

Vorteile

Ready to use e-commerce software.
Just install and upload your product information and publish your store to world wide.

Nachteile

The support from the vendor should be improved. Improve documentation for better way to how to do it.

Vorteile

A virtual store with lots of integration options, safe and very fast is what we always need. Do not think that all are like this, but many customers who make use of it always look for this. This can handle in a professional manner and with highly accepted language in the PHP market.

Nachteile

Some payment types have not yet been programmed for the platform, we still depend on programmers to program Brazilian payment solutions, but there are already several that can already be used. I believe time may come more.

Vorteile

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

Nachteile

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

Vorteile

It packs with a lot of important features and installation is quite straightforward

Nachteile

Upgrading from version to version might be a pain sometimes

Vorteile

If you have even a modicum of coding knowledge and want to launch an ecommerce platform in a short amount of time, Open Cart is a great base for beginners. As a coder I prefer writing custom ecommerce platforms. But, some clients don't want to spend the time or money waiting for a custom platform. Thise customers get Open Cart. Plain and simple, this software is my go to base to help clients launch their store in the most time and cost effective manner.

Nachteile

Installing updates is a bit of a challenge. I recommend waiting a few months after each software update so their coders can work out any bugs and connectivity issues.

Vorteile

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.

Nachteile

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

Vorteile

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.

Nachteile

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