OpenCart is an open source PHP based e-commerce platform for building an online store. It has many of the basic functions that other open source carts have, it’s search engine friendly, and it has a visually appealing backend interface. The community behind it is relatively small still so there are still only around 80 total extended contributions that you can add on too.
You can check out the demo and give it a test run yourself. You will notice that the backend has a really nice simple design and is very very easy to use. I did some research in their forums and looked through some of the site examples that were running OpenCart. I found 3 really good websites that give good examples of the abilities this cart system has.
2. Beautyspot
3. Lytmed.dk
After looking at these sites it made me even more interested in OpenCart and actually using it on my next shopping cart project. It’s something worth considering for sure! Check out OpenCart and let me know whaty YOU think!
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Great round up of some really nice OpenCart based websites.
Definitely some inspiration for us all.
Yeah I would love to be able to design like that….
The hardest thing is thinking up the design… its easy to code it…
Here is another website built with Opencart :
http://www.dartease.com
It well designed and has a few interesting features
Thanks for the ideas. I just getting started with OpenCart.
Please checkou the latest version. Much has changed.
The next version SEO Url’s will be back and PDF invoices.
Hi Chase
Thanks this looks even better than ZenCart & much more easy to train users.
Thanks for sharing it.
Christopher
t @christopherhire
I have tried most of them: magento = too complicate, shopsite = don’t even try it, zencart = too low tech (you have to set up everything to start the store), oscommerce = looks crap but good admin panel, difficult to customize. Cubecart = you need to be rich to use it because in latest version 4, it’s not free anymore ($179 Yike!) not to mention you have to buy themes.
As for Open cart = is just perfect for me, it is easy, it is nice, it looks good without customize anything. Everything make sense the first time in Opencart except why they make it so difficult to add product preview image. I hope next version would fix this.
Daniel,
When will the next version be out… I have 1.2.8 installed and the SEO Urls are reall the biggest downfall of the script.
Thanks for the update and the PDF invoices sound like a nice touch as well!
I just installed version 1.3.0 and there is still a problem with the SEO Urls not working.
Thanks for the ideas.
As for Open cart = is just perfect for me, it is easy, it is nice, it looks good without customize anything. Everything make sense the first time in Opencart except why they make it so difficult to add product preview image. I hope next version would fix this.
Great cart.
I find the templating system very straight forward.
The backend is neat and tidy, not as daunting as loging into Magento etc…
Front end is feature rich out of the box. For a simple straight forward store this is a great little choice. Have not tried the SEO urls, will do so now!
That’s good to hear Justin. I’ve been playing around with Magento lately but am getting so frustrated with it’s millions of lines of code!!!
Not to mention the trivial backend interface. I really hope good things for OpenCart. We are in desperate need for a nice lightweight, easy-to-use Shopping Cart.
The back end object-orientated php is brilliant even if you dont like the CMS you can learn a lot from the elegance of the code. All down the a guy called Daniel