OpenCart Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 4 out of 10

Score

4 out of 10

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for OpenCart are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Highly Customizable and Flexible Platform: Users have praised OpenCart for its highly customizable and flexible platform, allowing them to meet the specific design and shopping cart functionalities required by their eCommerce web development clients. Several reviewers mentioned that this aspect of OpenCart was a major factor in their decision to choose it as their preferred platform.

Fast and Easy Setup: Many users have commended OpenCart for its fast and easy setup process. They appreciate how quickly they can get their websites up and running, especially when using pre-made templates. This feature has been highlighted by multiple reviewers as a time-saving advantage.

User-Friendly Administration Interface: The user-friendly administration interface of OpenCart is frequently mentioned as one of its key strengths. Non-technical users particularly appreciate how easy it is to navigate through the platform and find the necessary tools and settings. Several reviewers have specifically mentioned that this aspect makes managing their online stores hassle-free.

Reviews

8 Reviews

A great open-source e-commerce solution!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

August 27, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our e-commerce website is built using OpenCart open-source platform. It is packed with tons of extensions and it is easy to implement and use. It has a robust administrator dashboard that gives you complete insights about orders, customers, and many more. OpenCart also supports multivendor stores that you can manage from a single interface. Product options and attributes are easily manageable and easy to configure. And on top of all this OpenCart is free and can be self-hosted on your own servers!

Pros

The platform is free
Plenty of extensions and third-party modules
Highly customizable
Open-source platform used by thousands stores worldwide

Cons

Sometimes hard to customize
Limited marketing features
Lacks SEO functionalities

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.

Lichaa TRAD

Managing Director in Engineering at TRAD ROLLERS (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

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OpenCart Is A Very Modern eCommerce Platform With Great Flexibility In Custom Functionality Potential

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

July 7, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our web development firm uses OpenCart to create professional eCommerce websites that are highly customized. We suggest the use of OpenCart to all of our PHP developers, even if they have not used it before. OpenCart's documentation and strong user base make it very easy to find and edit shopping cart functionalities. Thousands of add-ons and third-party modules make this "open-source" platform the way to go for most eCommerce clients.

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.

Cons

OpenCart is not as as easy as Shopify or Web.com for business owners who are not tech savvy. Some reading and understanding of the technical documentation is necessary.
OpenCart's support and documentation is not necessarily the easiest in the shopping cart industry, leaving some of it's users struggling some of the time.
OpenCart's wholesale functionalities are not yet as fine-tuned as other shopping carts, a lot of custom-work might be needed for a wholesale eCommerce shopping cart, depending on functionalities needed.

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.

.Kim Murphy

Owner in Marketing at Designz23 (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

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OpenCart: easy, simple but I cannot recommended this e-commerce platform

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 22, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have developed websites for different clients and all of them are on OpenCart as it is a multi-store compatible e-commerce platform. It is used by our technical team as well as the cataloging team for product management and order management.

Pros

Easy setup and deployment.
Follows MVCL structure which is easy to understand.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited if you want to start online e-commerce quickly as it can be set up quickly and easily while giving you almost every basic requirement you need to start an e-commerce website.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

OpenCart is a decent software for smaller shops.

Rating: 5 out of 10

Incentivized

November 24, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

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.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

For smaller, simple, basic online shops, OpenCart can be decent enough software to run if you carefully choose secure extensions to use with it. But for larger or very customized shops, there are much better options. You will need to do some work to create a good modern looking theme/template for OpenCart, so keep that in mind.

Jen Garfinkel-Canseco

Owner - Web Designer/Developer/Marketer in Information Technology at Programmer Jen (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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OpenCart - Best E-commerce Builder

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 1, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

E-commerce shops made with OpenCart look professional. Its very scalable, as it is an open source project, so you can easily change features according to need. You can also contribute to OpenCart forums and make money by building modules and selling them to public OpenCart users. We have built many modules and features according to our clients' needs. Best part about OpenCart is it is very easy to learn and work on it. It just uses an MVC module.

Pros

It uses an MVC module that is easy to learn.
Can change features and build modules according to needs. Many modules are available on the internet, and you can purchase them and install in OpenCart
You can integrate a number of different design themes to give your site its own distinctive look.
Unlimited categories for products, which are easy to upload.
Multiple Language support
It's free

Cons

Sometimes developer skill is required to work on admin module.
Add-on modules are often necessary, and you need to purchase them separately
Hard to update it to new versions, and it is constantly updating
Though it is smooth to use, it works on a read-edit-delete system. Deleting data is very critical.

Likelihood to Recommend

OpenCart is well suited for multiple client e-commerce website building, with unlimited categories for products. It's not suited for data management, very large queries that take a lot of time to load, and those who lack the developer skills to administer OpenCart.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

A Reliable E-Commerce Platform - OpenCart

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

September 14, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

An e-commerce platform which is very easy to understand and make your personalized e-commerce website with little knowledge of coding. It has an admin panel from which one can upload categories, products, and can use other modules like payment, blogs, and other custom modules to customize a home page, product page or category page. It supports API so that you can use your personalized order management system and connect it with OpenCart to process Orders. It supports Google Analytics and other tools to engage users and check behaviour of users and know their needs.

Pros

Supports a lot of modules like, Google Analytics, abandoned cart, payments, etc.
Very easy to go live using OpenCart and it is very user friendly.
Can customize website according to the personal/client need.

Cons

OpenCart is free to download but you have to purchase modules to make it more user friendly and more economical.
In every new version you can find a lot of bugs, which you have to solve internally. Support system is BAD but you can find your answers in OpenCart forum.
Return and cancellation modules are very buggy.

Likelihood to Recommend

OpenCart is very well developed now with every new release. You can purchase any module according to your needs and it is available in market. Since it is open source you can build your own module and contribute to the OpenCart forum. It is fast and friendly usable, has an easily understandable Admin Panel, you can customize your homepage, and you can engage users easily.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Opencart - An E-commerce builder

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

September 5, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

OpenCart is used to build e-commerce websites. The website looks very professional and you can customize it according to need. One can also use OpenCart for building multiple websites using a single code. It supports numerous integrations, though you have to purchase them. If you are a developer, you can develop your own modules and sell them in the OpenCart forum. It is available for free and can download. The software is based on PHP, so any merchant looking into OpenCart would benefit from a background in that programming language.

It has an admin panel where you can customize your website easily.

Pros

Free of cost.
Designing according to the need. It is very easy and highly customizable.
Features : Reporting, Product, category uploading , Multi language support, SEO

Cons

SQL queries are very heavy.
Limited customer support
Add-ons often necessary, which you need to purchase, and they are costly.

Likelihood to Recommend

To use OpenCart, you need to know basic programming. Opencart is an open-source platform where you can easily customize your code according to your needs. The OpenCart community is very large so your doubts and requirements will be fulfilled easily. It is sometime necessary to use open-source code to build a website, rather than building it from scratch. It saves time and money. You can purchase any module you want from the OpenCart Forum.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Magento Wins vs. Opencart

Rating: 4 out of 10

Incentivized

June 10, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I recommend OpenCart to my clients looking for a simple shopping cart system. It's only being used by small businesses. It has very limited functions compared to Magento.

Pros

Ease of use
Simple to implement/design
All in one system

Cons

Easier to develop through FTP
More features out of the box
Be able to customize a lot easier

Likelihood to Recommend

Its well suited for small businesses with only a few people managing the website. In corporations, I see it having limitations.

Verified User

Manager (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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OpenCart Is A Very Modern eCommerce Platform With Great Flexibility In Custom Functionality Potential

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

July 7, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Cons

OpenCart is not as as easy as Shopify or Web.com for business owners who are not tech savvy. Some reading and understanding of the technical documentation is necessary.
OpenCart's support and documentation is not necessarily the easiest in the shopping cart industry, leaving some of it's users struggling some of the time.
OpenCart's wholesale functionalities are not yet as fine-tuned as other shopping carts, a lot of custom-work might be needed for a wholesale eCommerce shopping cart, depending on functionalities needed.

Likelihood to Recommend

.Kim Murphy

Owner in Marketing at Designz23 (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

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