Likelihood to Recommend 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.
Read full review I wouldn't recommend them to anybody because their support is getting worse and worse and their business processes require you to contact support whether you want to or not. You will be forced to contact support and then wait for days to get any meaningful response that's not a copy/pasted sentence from FAQ.
Read full review Pros 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. Read full review Super easy to implement SDKs across supported platforms that support modern interface paradigms. Real team members that provide backend support for merchant issues. We had issues addressed quickly and taken seriously whenever we needed anything. Help with navigating VAT transparently. We never worried that we were messing up in this complicated area of international sales. Great first line customer support reduces the need for an extensive customer support organization on our end. They dealt with all purchase related issues as well as lightweight technical issues (e.g pointing users to FAQs, update links, etc.). Read full review Cons 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. Read full review Analytics could support more flexible analysis of reported data and better custom events. More customization of the drop in purchase UI on the web without the need for a full custom site integration. Sometimes communication from their front line support staff has gone to the wrong address. Read full review Alternatives Considered 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.
Read full review We tried using Stripe before Paddle, but it was a pain integrating it and it lacked the licensing. Paddle allows us just to add a payment button and don’t ever think about payment methods, we don’t have to make a separate button for card payments and another one for PayPal. Paddle does all this in their checkout process.
Read full review Return on Investment 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. Read full review We wanted to grow faster, which was possible once we integrate recurring payment gateway. And we've got Paddle to do that. Read full review ScreenShots