OpenCart
Free and open source shopping cart solution
What is OpenCart?
OpenCart is an open source PHP-based online shopping cart system. A robust e-commerce solution for Internet merchants with the ability to create their own online business and participate in e-commerce at a minimal cost.
OpenCart is designed feature rich, easy to use, search engine friendly and with a visually appealing interface.
Features Open Souce Free Documentation Unlimited Categories Unlimited Products Unlimited Manufacturers Multi Currency Multi Language Product Reviews Product Ratings 20+ Payment Gateways 8+ Shipping Methods Automatic Image Resize Templatable
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- Developed byOpenCart
- LicensingOpen Source and Free product.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 1
- Alternatives133 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 6,737 Stars
- 4,654 Forks
- 39 Open Issues
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Tags
- E-commerce System
- E-commerce
- cart
First of all, I have to admit that my experience on OpenCart isn't as extensive as it should to give a crushing review like I'm now giving. I'll try to explain why I'm giving such a low rating on this, as I too hate reviews with mindless bashing without explanation.
If you're not going to extend your use beyond the initial state of a default installation, go ahead: Install it, populate it with your crap and that's it. By default, the functionality of OpenCart is too simple to do any real business, unless you have low volume in sales, you have less than 30 products and you can process orders manually by hand. But, oh my god, anything beyond that... absolutely painful and cringeful.
API? Yes, there is but it's not documented and as soon as you have even a vague grasp of it you'll realize you can't really do anything with it. There are some 3rd party extensions that provide you an API. But they cost money. Imports, exports? Additional extensions, which cost money. Campaigns, client-specific prices? Additional extensions. They cost money.
OpenCart is a visually ugly blast from the past and will make you pay 200-300€(/mo :D) if you want to have even remotely as much functionality as the competitors offer.
But hey, if you're in a 3rd world country where automation can be substituted with the labor of one merry sweatshop, OpenCart certainly is for you.
[Edited by dahrari, November 10]
I'm writing this to save people time and money.
TL;DR Avoid and save your time/money and go anywhere else.
Long Story The initial install of OpenCart works well and is relatively easy. The problem comes when you want to use it to do anything.
The core of the system kind of works, but there are lots of issues, e.g. the currency exchange system makes a call to a Yahoo currentcy exchange page that hasn't been up for years. Does the system return an error code, no, so you wander around trying to work out what is going on.
You then have to work out how to fix it, the forum pages point to extensions you need to load OR you can try hacking the PHP code, Sadly none of the extensions work, and my days of hacking PHP code are long behind me.
So much of what you need to do with Opencart requires a paid extension. However many of the extensions aere poorly documented so it's not really clear what you are getting. many of the extensions are very, very, very old and don;t work. Some of the exensions are new and don;t work. Some are actually very good and are supported, but its hard work to wade through the rubbish to find the gems.
It does look like its from 15 years ago, and whilst it does work, its painful, you can only have one admin window open so you are forever running between screens. The output code looks OK but it's difficult to change. You can download a theme but, that might screw your system, will it, who knows.
The forums sometimes work but often you get a supercillious admin who points out what a complete idiot you are for not realising that a line of PHP code buried four levels deep is actually what you needed to change, or why didn't you pay yet another $20 for yet another extension where the documentation consists of a few lines of pseudo English.
I;ve spent a few hundred dollars on extensions and a lot more than that on wrestling with the system to try and make it work in international currencies and have come to the conclusion I've wasted six months on this.
If I can save you that time, great, find something else, anything else, but if you do use OpenCart, don't say you weren't warned.
easy to use. ready to go. all you need for a online shop !