OpenCart vs PrestaShop

Likelihood to Recommend

OpenCart is great for web developers familiar with PHP who have clients who want very specific eCommerce functionalities. OpenCart is "open-source," meaning its source code is open to the public and downloadable and editable by anyone. This makes customizing its functionalities possible with nearly an infinite variety of possibilities. If you are not tech savvy and don't like to read documentation and configure advanced settings, then OpenCart is not the best solution for you.

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.Kim Murphy

Owner

Designz23Internet, 1-10 employees

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Prestashop offers a quick solution for companies who want a scalable solution in less time and with a low budget requirement. It's perfect for startup and pilot-projects. For example, it's very hard to put Prestashop in the middle of a multi-channel business due to security risks, difficult to exchange data from one database to another, API requests and more.

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Marco Casieri

Store and Project Manager

Blufin S.p.A.Apparel & Fashion, 1-10 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

OpenCart

PrestaShop

Product catalog & listings

Product management

Bulk product upload

Branding

Mobile storefront

Product variations

Website integration

Visual customization

CMS

OpenCart

PrestaShop

Abandoned cart recovery

Checkout user experience

OpenCart

PrestaShop

eCommerce security

OpenCart

PrestaShop

Promotions & discounts

Personalized recommendations

SEO

OpenCart

PrestaShop

Multi-site management

Order processing

Inventory management

Shipping

Custom functionality

Pros

OpenCart is open-source software, free to use. Free is always a plus for software.
Good basic set of features that provides for a quick setup of a simple e-commerce website.
Administration is fairly user-friendly and makes it easy for a non-technical user to find things.

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Jen Garfinkel-Canseco

Owner - Web Designer/Developer/Marketer

Programmer JenInternet, 1-10 employees

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Easy to install and have up quickly.
Lots of potential for customization and development overrides to shape the system the way it is needed.
Constant upgrades and bug fixes.
Lots of add-ons to choose.

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Shay O'Neil

Web / Applications Developer

Sutter's Mill SpecialtiesLuxury Goods & Jewelry, 51-200 employees

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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.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Internet Company, 51-200 employees

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Inconvenient bugs
Instability
Limited demo site

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Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Consumer Goods Company, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Some of the products available on the market are cheap, but they are not as easily to use or understand as OpenCart. Many are also not open source products, so you need to buy. You can purchase modules for OpenCart. Support is also easily available for OpenCart in the OpenCart forum. The admin portal of OpenCart is also more advanced than any other product out there.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Construction Company, 10,001+ employees

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From a developer point of view Prestashop offers more than other similar platforms.

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Marco Casieri

Store and Project Manager

Blufin S.p.A.Apparel & Fashion, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

User friendly, easily understandable, can get your queries answer fast in OpenCart forum.
Clients are happy with custom designed pages.
Multiple website integrations easily saves time and money for multiple website creation

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Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Internet Company, 51-200 employees

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Not sure, it is the only e-commerce platform we have used.

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Shay O'Neil

Web / Applications Developer

Sutter's Mill SpecialtiesLuxury Goods & Jewelry, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Recommend

OpenCart

PrestaShop

Feature Rating Comparison

Product catalog & listings

Product management

Bulk product upload

Branding

Mobile storefront

Product variations

Website integration

Visual customization

CMS

Abandoned cart recovery

Checkout user experience

eCommerce security

Promotions & discounts

Personalized recommendations

SEO

Multi-site management

Order processing

Inventory management

Shipping

Custom functionality

Pros

OpenCart

PrestaShop

Cons

OpenCart

PrestaShop

Alternatives Considered

OpenCart

PrestaShop

Return on Investment

OpenCart

PrestaShop

Screenshots

OpenCart

PrestaShop

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

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