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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

It is Perfect

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

It's free, easily implemented.

Nothing beats free. Easily integrated. Popular.

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

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.

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).

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

My online store growing day by day. Thanks to Opencart. Custom development is not very expensive. And Support is very friendly and when ever I ask question they answer promptly.

Free, open source and it is very easy to find its developers. Support is very friendly and when ever I ask question they answer promptly.

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

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

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.

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.

I used Open Cart for 3 years and have found it great for creating my online store, many of the features are free but there are some small upgrades that have small costs.

cost

huge learning curve

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.

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

This is a great free engine, which you can understand without knowing the programming languages. Convenient, and most importantly clear interface, easy installation, a lot of training materials. Great program for creating an online store.

Many of my colleagues complain that it is impossible to work with OpenCart without having a programmer on the team. But I do not agree with this!

I am running an online shopping website with OpenCart.

I have been using OpenCart for last 6 yrs or so and I find it very easy to use and also very easy to customize according to your requirements. You can add plenty of free plugins and themes to it and also some paid themes and features also available.

Some features of plugins are not compatible with new versions of OpenCart which is kind of disappointment.

Very good

Open cart is a great store management system. It's a open source software and lots of websites are using this software. I am as a software developer got a chance to give support to my client who are using open cart tool for their e-commerce websites. It's a good software essy to implement new themes and customisation according to client need.

As this is a open source software so some time you may be in a queue to get the customer support , because this is a very popular software.

The engine for those who like and I want to save money on the launch of an online store. It's better to invest in promotion, especially for newcomers. This engine will ensure your business a quick start and this is what you need at the start. I recommend to try.

It is necessary to spend a lot of time to understand from scratch, but will save money. The basic version has a number of limitations, but this is not critical at the initial stage. Then you can change the tariff.