--- title: "OpenCart Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of OpenCart. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if OpenCart is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/ecommerce/opencart-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [eCommerce Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/category/4340-ecommerce/) / [OpenCart](https://www.softwareadvice.com/ecommerce/opencart-profile/) / OpenCart Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/ecommerce/opencart-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/ecommerce/opencart-profile/alternatives/) # OpenCart User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.3/5 - Total reviews: 153 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.2/5 - Customer support: 4.1/5 - Value for money: 4.5/5 - Functionality: 4.1/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 78 reviews (51%) - 4 stars: 49 reviews (32%) - 3 stars: 23 reviews (15%) - 2 stars: 1 reviews (1%) - 1 star: 2 reviews (1%) ### Most mentioned pros - I found the overall experience was good, its easy to navigate around the system, its easy to manage inventory and OpenCart has the ability to be flexibly customised. - 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. - 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. ### Most mentioned cons - lack of scaleability mainly, but wasnt a big issue for us. - I was not fond of the design, or the lack of real support at times. - A little weak on SEO. ## OpenCart customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 153 (page 1). ### Built your online store using Opencart - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Lichaa T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Business Supplies and Equipment - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It is Perfect #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons 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 - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Dominic D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Inventory online #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros 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 #### Cons I think we need more graphical report that can be delivered to each client so they can understand easy --- ### Opencart is a free ecommerce solution that works well - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### Free Shopping Cart - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: ZAiN R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It's free, easily implemented. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### 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. #### Reasons for choosing OpenCart I didn't. Woocommerce is more comprehensive. --- ### Ease of Use - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Daniel E. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons 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 - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Vikas G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. If you are a beginner then you must try OpenCart to bring your business online and generate revenue. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons 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. --- ### Working with OpenCart from last 3+ years. Developed many extensions for extend functionality. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Faizan M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Ready to use e-commerce software. Just install and upload your product information and publish your store to world wide. #### Cons The support from the vendor should be improved. Improve documentation for better way to how to do it. --- ### Virtual store system full of new functions - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Matheus A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons 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. --- ### Want to open basic ecommerce platform qucikly? - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Danny D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Games - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons 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. --- ### A very good option for a free online store - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Kyle B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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 --- ### Great eCommerce software, but better options are available - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Ben G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My experience with OpenCart was hit-and-miss, whilst it seems to focus more towards physical items, it does also work fine with digital. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons 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. #### Reasons for switching to OpenCart BoxBilling is a smaller community and therefore offers more direct support, and has more features suited for digital billing and eCommerce. --- ### Great option for needing customized ecommerce - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sean C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Real Estate - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### Decent self-hosted e-commerce solution for small shops - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. For a basic e-commerce website for a small shop, OpenCart can be a decent solution for self-hosted. Clients are always happy with the easy to use administration and find intuitive. As a developer, its been fairly easy to modify code. I typically recommend other software over OpenCart, but overall it's a decent platform to start out with. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons 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. --- ### OpenCart an easy and secure way to do business online. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Rizwan Q. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Its easy to use and you do not need specific training to start with. Mostly its click and go. #### Cons There are not many options to integrate it with all payment processors. --- ### OpenCart review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Vinh V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: International Trade and Development - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It packs with a lot of important features and installation is quite straightforward #### Cons Upgrading from version to version might be a pain sometimes --- ### Feature rich CMS with alot to do! Security could be better - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Shikhil S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. - Easy to manage products - Setting up a store in no time - Selling products online - Accepting payments online #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros - Made for small and medium e-commerce shops - Alot of features - A number plugins available to do almost any tasks - The latest version enables customizations without much loss during updating #### Cons - Security can be proved. OC is often a subject to malware attacks and credit card scammers - Community can be stronger like other CMSs like Magento/WordPress --- ### Open Source CMS - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: November 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. open cart is great as it is free i.e open source and is growing its business more and more with the passage of time and is always highly recommended for the beginners who wish to start their own E-Commerce business. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons 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. --- ### The best e-commerce platform - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Stavros D. - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I gained many things but most important I improved my programming skills #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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 . --- ### One of the easiest stand-alone options - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Tim C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Civil Engineering - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. OpenCart is my favorite open source option for e-commerce applications when the circumstances are appropriate. I've installed, setup and administered it for several clients and had minimal after-installation problems. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons 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. --- ### Great, full featured opensource cart with thousands of addons - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Simon P. - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2016 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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 --- ### Review for website - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Business Supplies and Equipment - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: November 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros this is the most helpful open license website everything is perfect i like that software #### Cons everything is perfect i like that software --- ### OpenCart is a great eCommerce platform - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Hesham M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros MVC structured and multiple plugins available to download and use.. and it's all FREE! #### Cons 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 - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Rahul J. - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered First of all, This is OpenSource Free software and Its helps to set up store within few hours #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I liked all the things everything was made brilliant and now in 3x marketplace installation easier now to explain to our clients #### Cons 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 - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ayub A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons 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 - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Oren M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: October 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Very easy to use. You update all page information in the backend. Truly excellent #### Cons It is perfect for what I need. I am aware that OC has it's limitations when dealing with big stocks ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/ecommerce/opencart-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- OpenCart Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice