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OpenCart Review

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Basic Information

Company name
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OpenCart
Product name
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OpenCart
Version
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1.4.7
Sample customer sites
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http://www.timeforfitness.co.uk/
http://www.bicibene.com/
http://www.genglob.com/
Price
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Free
Average review score
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3.5 star ratingAverage: 3.5
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User reviews
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Reviewed by: Terry
"problems with 1.4.7 that was ignored in the forum as my help request posts were locked and PM ignored, had to downgrade to 1.4.4 to get a working version, but small problems with this which again is been ignored and they are even going to release a version 1.4.8 when they dont even have any current stable versions. "

Review date: May, 2010   Version reviewed: 1.4.7

Reviewed by: Alex
"This is great cart. I checked the code and it is organize very well. Very easy to use and extend. Great job!!"

Review date: April, 2010   Version reviewed: 1.4.3

Reviewed by: Morris & Philips
"Its an excellent piece of software. I have seen some bad reviews and i would think thats absolute nonsense. I would also say this from my personal experience - 1. Excellent software 2. Easy to Use 3. Easy to Configure 4. Plenty of help out there if you ask. 5. Its absolutly production ready since there are already more than few people using it. We are going into production this weekend. 6. Knowledge in PHP will sure help the customizations you need. 7. There are several templates available to choose from free to paid. Bottom Line - Try it you will be pleased"

Review date: April, 2010   Version reviewed: 1.4.3

Reviewed by: Jack
"So many bugs make it not usable for a serious production. The forums are absolutely disgusting and unhelpful. I would never endorse this product and it's a shame, as it had great potential."

Review date: February, 2010   Version reviewed: 1.3.3

Reviewed by: jeremy
"I have worked with a few shopping carts and opencart is my favorite so far. It does have some bugs, it doesn't have every feature that other carts have, but as a programmer it is very easy to understand and make changes to. It is so much better than Magento in that regard. Not a whole lot had to be done to use in the US, I'm not sure what the other person was talking about. A couple forms had to be changed, but they were easy edits that an html coder could do. In any case I would recommend it to anyone who knows php. If not, hire someone who does. You will pay a lot more for work on prestashop or magento because they are extremely buggy and much more difficult to customize."

Review date: January, 2010   Version reviewed: 1.3.3

Reviewed by: Marshall
"Had tested 1.3.0 and it was pretty good. Upgraded to 1.3.4 and there are so many bugs it is not funny. Just go to the forum board and search around a bit. The unfortunate part is OC builds one of the nicest store fronts of the 7 carts I tested. Right now I can not recommend it"

Review date: January, 2010   Version reviewed: 1.3.3

Reviewed by: admin
"We looked at many carts before finalizing on this cart for providing a complete solution."

Review date: October, 2009   Version reviewed: 1.3.3

Reviewed by: TOMMY
"New verison of opencart is very nice, sample and powerful! with lot of improvement recently, I am 100% sure opencart is the best shopping cart compare to others!"

Review date: August, 2009   Version reviewed: 0.7.1

Reviewed by: Greg
"We initially selected this cart because it has great graphics, a good administrator control panel, and a clean, simple user interface. However after spending several days customizing it (at a significant cost), we realized we can't use it without completely rewriting major sections. It's designed for use by customers in the United Kingdom. To take orders from anywhere else (like the United States), you have to design your own order forms (high-end carts typically change the order form based on the country you select). It was very difficult to charge a sales tax for the state where we do business and very hard to add different levels of shipping (like FedEx, USPS and UPS). Support for downloadable files is very limited. For example there is no simple way to deliver an unlock code for software or ebooks. This cart appears to be developed and supported by one person who does not respond to emails, but offers assistance for a fee. There are limited instructions and it takes hours to find and edit the multiple PHP files needed to customize the appearance. Finally Juniper Networks says Opencart is vulnerable to hackers (although this may now be corrected in later versions). "

Review date: July, 2009

Reviewed by: PHPUSA
"new vision 1.X got lot of features! I can't believe how easy and powerful this cart is!"

Review date: May, 2009

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Shopping Cart Reviews Comments OpenCart is a open source shopping cart that's having a good shot at taking the open source crown from the established players like osCommerce and ZenCart. It has many nice out of the box features. Some less common ones include product level time limited sales, and good localization support. Some little annoying things include the very user unfriendly use of sort order everywhere (what happened to a nice AJAX sorting interface?). The default URLs are decidedly SEO unfriendly which is a pity. This should really be set to SEO friendly by default. However, overall, this is a strong candidate to take over from the grandfathers of open source carts.

Technology

Supported operating systems
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Windows, Linux, Unix
Language
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PHP
Database
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MySQL
Source code
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Yes
Reseller discounts
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No

Features

Product limit
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No
Category limit
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No
Multi-language
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Yes
Gift certificates
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No
Loyalty program
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No
Email merchant on order
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Yes
Affiliates program
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3rd party
Site search
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Yes
Search optimization tools
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Yes
Product reviews
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Yes
Newsletters
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Yes
Discount coupons
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Yes
Customer registrations
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Yes
Wish list
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No

Shipping

Shipping price range
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Yes
Shipping weight range
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Yes
UPS lookup
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No
USPS lookup
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Yes
Fedex lookup
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3rd party
Canada Post lookup
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3rd party

Tax & Payment

Tax by state
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Yes
Tax by country
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Yes
PayPal
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Yes
Authorize.Net
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Yes
Verisign
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Yes
Worldpay
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Yes
Secure Trading
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No
Others
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Yes
Non credit card options
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Yes

Support

Customer forums
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Yes
Free support
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Yes
Paid support
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Yes

Reports

Sales reports
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Yes
Search reports
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No
Low stock reports
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No
Inventory reports
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No

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Last updated: 20 May 2010