OpenCart 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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Square Online
Score7.7 out of 10
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Square Online (formerly Weebly) is a basic content management system with blogging and eCommerce features. It can be utilized for building standard websites or specialized webpages for online stores.
$13
per month
Pricing
OpenCart
Square Online
Editions & Modules
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Personal
$13
per month
Professional
$16
per month
Performance
$29
per month
Free
Free
Free
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
OpenCart
Square Online
Free Trial
No
No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
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Pricing decreases when paid annually:
Personal - $10/Month
Professional - $12/Month
Performance - $26/Month
Owner - Web Designer/Developer/Marketer in Information Technology at Programmer Jen (Internet, 1-10 employees)
Chose 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 …
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Block, Inc (Square)
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Key User Insights
Would buy again
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Delivers good value for the price
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Happy with the feature set
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Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Implementation went as expected
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Features
OpenCart
Square Online
Online Storefront
Comparison of Online Storefront features of OpenCart and Square Online
Feature
OpenCart
8.7
8 Ratings
11% above category average
Square Online
-
Ratings
Product catalog & listings
10.08 Ratings
00 Ratings
Product management
8.08 Ratings
00 Ratings
Bulk product upload
8.95 Ratings
00 Ratings
Branding
7.77 Ratings
00 Ratings
Mobile storefront
9.98 Ratings
00 Ratings
Product variations
7.27 Ratings
00 Ratings
Website integration
8.07 Ratings
00 Ratings
Visual customization
8.16 Ratings
00 Ratings
CMS
10.07 Ratings
00 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of OpenCart and Square Online
Feature
OpenCart
8.0
8 Ratings
4% above category average
Square Online
-
Ratings
Abandoned cart recovery
7.04 Ratings
00 Ratings
Checkout user experience
9.08 Ratings
00 Ratings
Online Payment System
Comparison of Online Payment System features of OpenCart and Square Online
Feature
OpenCart
9.0
8 Ratings
7% above category average
Square Online
-
Ratings
eCommerce security
9.08 Ratings
00 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of OpenCart and Square Online
Feature
OpenCart
6.8
8 Ratings
12% below category average
Square Online
-
Ratings
Promotions & discounts
8.37 Ratings
00 Ratings
Personalized recommendations
7.06 Ratings
00 Ratings
SEO
5.06 Ratings
00 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of OpenCart and Square Online
Feature
OpenCart
8.1
8 Ratings
1% above category average
Square Online
-
Ratings
Multi-site management
8.06 Ratings
00 Ratings
Order processing
8.08 Ratings
00 Ratings
Inventory management
7.67 Ratings
00 Ratings
Shipping
8.07 Ratings
00 Ratings
Custom functionality
8.86 Ratings
00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of OpenCart and Square Online
Feature
OpenCart
-
Ratings
Square Online
7.6
31 Ratings
8% below category average
Role-based user permissions
00 Ratings
7.631 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of OpenCart and Square Online
Feature
OpenCart
-
Ratings
Square Online
9.4
22 Ratings
19% above category average
API
00 Ratings
9.417 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language
00 Ratings
9.418 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of OpenCart and Square Online
Feature
OpenCart
-
Ratings
Square Online
6.6
43 Ratings
17% below category average
WYSIWYG editor
00 Ratings
5.636 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness
00 Ratings
5.339 Ratings
Admin section
00 Ratings
8.739 Ratings
Page templates
00 Ratings
6.143 Ratings
Library of website themes
00 Ratings
6.243 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design
00 Ratings
8.242 Ratings
Publishing workflow
00 Ratings
5.435 Ratings
Form generator
00 Ratings
7.136 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of OpenCart and Square Online
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.
If you are having students create websites or information pages about something they are studying in class, this is a great option. The fact that students can spend less time getting situated and learning the app and get right to work researching and creating their pages is great. For middle to high school, this is a fantastic app to use. However, if you want more nuanced analytics or want students to focus on blogging more than webpage building, this is limited.
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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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Drag and drop interface makes it very easy to add all types of content, including images, text, video (and YouTube videos), embeddable applications and more.
It's very easy to set up navigation features like cascading menus and sticky navigation (where the menu stays put - may depend on the template chosen though).
A technical backend is fairly straight-forward for setting up a fav icon, 301 redirects, SEO, Google Analytics, etc.
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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.
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Weebly doesn't have a lot of templates to choose from, so if you don't have any experience with CSS or HTML, it's hard to customize your site to an extent.
Weebly isn't fully SEO friendly. They don't allow you to add H1 tags to pages out of the box.
You can't create folder structures when it comes to web page URLs. You can put web pages under a main menu dropdown, but they don't allow you to put all sub-menu items in a structured folder (like site.com/folder/page-1 and site.com/folder/page-2).
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Weebly is consistently adding features that line up with our needs. The ease of use makes it the perfect program for us since we have users of multiple age brackets and knowledge of web design. We love that we can give users access to only the pages they are affiliated with
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Very easy to use and intuitive to design after all of our business needs. From the website and POS system to how we represent ourselves internally and to our customers... Square is second-to-none in helping our business and others in our same boat become the kind of businesses we want to be when it comes to our inventory and sales of these kinds of products.
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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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Weebly's designs, plugins, and customization options are a little more advanced in some cases than other similar programs. WordPress requires a different level of expertise and knowledge of code, keywording, and plugins, so I wouldn't even compare them. Wix is a little more user-friendly because you can drag and drop your design, which was very convenient for customizing your site. I didn't personally select Weebly, but it is user-friendly and nearly anyone comfortable with a computer could figure it out. Weebly support is also pretty good.
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Weebly has allowed our business to create a connection with our customers by offering home decor, cooking and styling tips.
Weebly gives us the chance to relay information to customers regarding merchandise, current sales and promotions, store hours and locations etc. Which has helped increase business.
Weebly has given our not very tech savvy business the opportunity to have a website and stay relevant with our competitors.
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