OpenCart 1.5.3.1

This used to be a great system (1.5) but since the upgrade the site looks a mess and it is much more difficult to use. Watch out for modules that are required, these need to be paid for. In fact to make the site work nicely it will cost.

Daniel Kerr from OpenCart is rude and arrogant. Opencart is a total mess, modules are full of bugs, support stinks beyond the galaxy, documentation... what documentation?

A joy to use and setup. A couple of tricky moments, but a quick search on the Opencart forums and watching a YouTube video sorted things out quickly.

It's very professional with its features and hard to believe that it's open source. I've been a developer for 15 years and this has to be the BEST cart that I have used for clients, even better than expensive ones.

I applied a responsive template from ThemeForest.com and my client is so impressed at how the site presents across all sized devices.

Can't recommend OpenCart highly enough.

Over the last 13 years I've tried just about every ecommerce solution that has seen the light of day and as a free solution this one is tops. I use it for 2 stores today and probably another in the near future.

But go ahead, mess with the others and when you are tired of screwing around come try OpenCart.

It's nice to use because easy to setup and full feature (",)

Emlyn, what else do you expect an off the shelf e-commerce system to be? If you want complete control over everything from the ground up build your own system. Magento tries to do what you probably want, it tries to provide a completely customisable system. What you get is something that will take longer to customise than to build your own system and has hundreds of features you will never even look at. OpenCart makes certain assumptions but so it should. The whole point of these pre-packaged cms/e-commerce software is to provide certain features built in with enough flexibility so you can tailor it to your needs for most situations. I agree that OpenCart isn't suitable for every e-commerce project but nor is any other off the shelf product. For simple straight forward shops which you just want a typical shopping cart and ordering system OpenCart is really great. And if you do need to make small customisations it has a plugins system which can handle a lot of this.

Only the best OSC after testing all. Simple to install, configure, customize the core of system,

9.5/10

Hello

this is very good open source cms, very easy to handle it is giving a satisfaction to users.

I made my own webshop and it gives a fantastic professional feel
Thanks opencart

I have been true Magento and lately true Prestashop (3 years) and I just discovered the new opencart 1.5.x and really seduced about it. This will be my next tool !!!

Really easy to manage, nice looking, affordable modules...

Congratulation.

OpenCart is currently my favorite OSC program. I have nothing but good things to say about it, especially for beginning users. It is logical and well-organized.

I have written several free cheatsheets, install and quick setup guides on oscmanuals.com. I also maintain the free text documentation on the OpenCart.com website. Anybody who can follow instructions can do well with this cart.

Emlyn,

You have posted reviews on a lot of the scripts on this site and not done one good review.

Another bloatware cart that probably started off with the right idea but quickly became another victim of "feature creep".

I had begun implementing this for a smaller-sized e-commerce project but stopped short a couple of days later when I realized how much back-pedaling, reverse-engineering and generally retooling of the system I'd need to do in order to have something that looked and worked even halfway like the site it was supposed to work with.

Essentially this comes as a pre-built e-commerce website and apparently it's up to the designer/programmer to undo all that. Ugh.

Once you have it suitably macheted and re-assembled I'm sure it works OK, but it struck me as a rather generic, lowest-common-denominator cart system. This is not for small, simple e-commerce one-offs...

It's like Magento without the bad coding and illogical theming. OpenCart just works.

First time I've seen a CMS where the the template designer actually understood how to properly code CSS. Simple, elegant, and easy to modify.

I wasted 6 months messing around with Magento. OpenCart took me 2 days to get to the same point. Enough said.

I recently built a production shop with osCommerce and a different shop with OpenCart. OpenCart is better in every single way. This is a great piece of software for building simple online shops. The theming system is logical and easy to use. The extension system is simple and works well. The code is neat and tidy and separation is achieved using MVC(L).

The only negative I can see is it's not as flexible as say Magento for example, so if you are going to be doing heavy customisation then expect to have to get into editing some of the core page controllers and models. This isn't as bad as it sounds, the code is easy to understand if you know your way around PHP.

For simple online shops it's a no brainer, go with OpenCart. For more complex online shops its fine as long as you know your way around PHP.

this is an excellent open source cart software - the best of everything else I have tried till now; that's saying something because I've tried 10's of them!

It is everything I wanted, and more! Be sure to try out Opencart - it just might change your online shopping cart life.