OpenCart is a decent software for smaller shops.
November 24, 2018
OpenCart is a decent software for smaller shops.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with OpenCart
I've worked with OpenCart a number of times fixing issues for clients with existing websites using OpenCart. The businesses using OpenCart were all e-commerce websites with various types of products for sale. I worked making changes, additions, customizations to code and fixing bugs/issues with existing sites on OpenCart. Clients were happy enough with OpenCart but had requirements/changes needed that they needed help with.
- 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.
- Many of the extensions available have some serious security issues.
- Extending OpenCart with the various extensions available, can actually start to add up, and I found many extensions were no longer being supported by their developers.
- Serious limitations for larger shops, and outdated themes/templates.
- For my clients with smaller shop, OpenCart has been reliable and easy to work with.
- OpenCart has not been stable for very large shops, and has resulted in lost sales.
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.