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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Laravel PHP Framework

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/ALaravel is a free, open source web application PHP framework.N/A

    OpenCart

    Score4 out of 10
    N/AOpenCart is an open-source eCommerce platform. It features support for unlimited categories and products, multiple currencies and languages, shipping, payments, and mobile access.

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    Laravel PHP FrameworkOpenCart
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    Laravel PHP FrameworkOpenCart
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Laravel PHP FrameworkOpenCart
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    Open Source
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Laravel PHP FrameworkOpenCart
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of Laravel PHP Framework and OpenCart
    Feature
    Laravel PHP Framework
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    Ratings
    OpenCart
    8.7
    8 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Product catalog & listings00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    Product management00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Bulk product upload00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    Branding00 Ratings7.77 Ratings
    Mobile storefront00 Ratings9.98 Ratings
    Product variations00 Ratings7.27 Ratings
    Website integration00 Ratings8.07 Ratings
    Visual customization00 Ratings8.16 Ratings
    CMS00 Ratings10.07 Ratings
    Online Shopping Cart
    Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Laravel PHP Framework and OpenCart
    Feature
    Laravel PHP Framework
    -
    Ratings
    OpenCart
    8.0
    8 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Abandoned cart recovery00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Checkout user experience00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Online Payment System
    Comparison of Online Payment System features of Laravel PHP Framework and OpenCart
    Feature
    Laravel PHP Framework
    -
    Ratings
    OpenCart
    9.0
    8 Ratings
    7% above category average
    eCommerce security00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Laravel PHP Framework and OpenCart
    Feature
    Laravel PHP Framework
    -
    Ratings
    OpenCart
    6.8
    8 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Promotions & discounts00 Ratings8.37 Ratings
    Personalized recommendations00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    SEO00 Ratings5.06 Ratings
    eCommerce Business Management
    Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Laravel PHP Framework and OpenCart
    Feature
    Laravel PHP Framework
    -
    Ratings
    OpenCart
    8.1
    8 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Multi-site management00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Order processing00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Inventory management00 Ratings7.67 Ratings
    Shipping00 Ratings8.07 Ratings
    Custom functionality00 Ratings8.86 Ratings
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    Laravel PHP FrameworkOpenCart
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    CodeIgniter
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Symfony
    Score10 out of 10
    Shopify
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    IBM Digital Commerce
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Laravel PHP FrameworkOpenCart
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (21 ratings)
    9.9
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
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    Usability
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Laravel PHP FrameworkOpenCart
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    I would say that Laravel is not a suitable framework for high-frequency, high-volume, real-time interaction or processing millions of records in batch operations. It shines for standard database web applications (CRUD, Admin Panels, etc.) and is a fantastic multi-developer framework.
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    OpenCart
    OpenCart is best suited for business owners looking to sell their products online. Building an OpenCart website requires no or minimal coding knowledge. Being a self-hosted system, it is not recommended for people who have no hosting plan or have no experience in hosting websites so it would be better to go with another platform that is hosted elsewhere.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • Laravel utilizes the best possible PHP standards and coding practices.
    • Laravel uses many widely-accepted community libraries and builds upon them, rather than re-inventing everything.
    • Laravel has many components available from the community and is extremely easy to build custom components for, either with custom code or by integrating existing third-party PHP libraries.
    • Laravel is flexible enough to power pretty much any kind of application I can imagine.
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    OpenCart
    • OpenCart is well suited in cases where our eCommerce web development clients want a very specific design with very specific shopping cart functionalities.
    • OpenCart is very flexible in its native ability to work with a wide variety of payment processors and payment gateways.
    • OpenCart makes it both fast and easy to setup and configure a new shopping cart website, especially if you use one of the pre-made templates.
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • Laravel is updated regularly, which is great. However, in order to get the latest features, use the newest 3rd party libraries, have the most current security updates, and ensure that the newest features of PHP are usable, you have to continuously upgrade your Laravel application. This costs time and money, obviously, and if you don't stay on top of the updates you will quickly fall behind. This is the case with any open source software, but it needs to be considered for any team considering using Laravel or any other software.
    • Because of the size of the Laravel community, there are a LOT of 3rd party libraries. Some of these are great, some are less than great. Sometimes it's difficult to evaluate the quality of a library, making it difficult to trust many libraries. Developers need to be cautious and thoughtful when considering using new software.
    • Because of the rapid development of the Laravel framework, the size of the community, and the simplicity of being able to publish content online - it is very easy to find documentation, tutorials, or other "advice" that is not up to date, or that has outdated information.
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    OpenCart
    • It's a very buggy platform. Although OpenCart developers release new versions time to time after fixing bugs every version of OpenCart has a different type of bug.
    • It should increase the security of the platform.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Open Source
    Laravel PHP Framework has continued to exceed my expectations. It supported me in the development of a high quality and stable web application that is mission critical for the organization. I cannot imagine wanting to use any other tool for web development. Documentation, unit tests, and numerous integration options make using Laravel PHP Framework a natural choice.
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    OpenCart
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    Usability
    Open Source
    As I mentioned earlier Laravel PHP Framework has lot of in built feature as well as there is vast set of packages available to add the features in your application. It has very large community who can help when you feel stuck somewhere. This is why this rating is justified.
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    OpenCart
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    Supporting unit testing is bigger plus point in Laravel than any other framework. Developing with Laravel is much easier. Other frameworks have value in market, but Laravel has taken the lead in popularity among PHP developers in recent years. The large community supports you if you have problems. Using Laravel, integration became easy with third-party libraries, but it was costly too.
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    OpenCart
    Honestly, when consulting my clients, I would always recommend WooCommerce over OpenCart. Although I've had clients that had existing OpenCart websites and they were fairly happy with them, making additions/changes/customizations from a developer standpoint was not the easiest compared to other systems. For very large shops, I always recommend Magento over anything else.
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • Positive: Our delivery time for PHP application is faster than usual.
    • Positive: Developers are happy and they write better code with their usual development tools. No tool-upgrade necessary.
    • Negative: Initial delivery took 6 months extra and had to rewrite project several times.
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    OpenCart
    • Clients loves the design which is easy to integrate to; you can integrate multiple themes.
    • Overall user experience is good, so number of conversions is good.
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