OpenCart Pros and Cons

Very simple to set up and is free to user by any one. this features allows us to save a buck on implementation cost and even someone without a development background can have a shop within a matter of hours. this has helped us put our content online for free Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

its poorly customized and has few themes to work and play with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Easy to use

- Easy to maintain

- Easy to theme

- Easy to add extra features by using plugins.

- It's very popular

- File size is not huge

- Can be deployed to any server (cPanel) as codebase is php

- Provides free themes and plugins too.

- It has MVC architecture and separation of concerns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of default features, there should be most of the features which are essentials should be part of opencart directly instead of using plugin. Admin panel should have option to choose to activate it or not based on the requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Opencart is a very mature platform with lots of features and a huge collection of extensions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

File management, assigning images to products and advanced SEO tools require third-party extensions (often free) to satisfy everyone's needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Plenty of options for extensive customisation and personalization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can become a little unstable when pushing the limits of what can be achieved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OpenCart is easiest way to a setup eCommerce site. within no time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OpenCart database is very large. it can not handle 1 lakh product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MVC structure, SEO friendly, & Easy setup Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Debugging can be frustrating for view pages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I remember that time when I used OpenCart in quite specific case...

It was integration of OpenCart in my Digital Signage system based on C# ASP.NET

API allows to operate with CRUD functions

And OpenCart is very suitable for such sort of things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

May be it takes more time than I expected when I work with details of API Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like the popularity of the OpenCart script and the availability of plugins, themes, and add-ons. I also like that it's open-source with no cost at all which is the best first steps to build a commercial website for those who's have low-budget. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I actually dislike the speed of the checkout process, unfortunately it offers a slow checkout process for some customers. Also, when i started to using it, I've faced some problems importing my products to the inventory list. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its a dedicated eCommerce framework with CMS capabilities

Availability of extensions

Easy customization

Regular updates & community support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Still there are some code level bugs in core

lack of competitive features, APIs, Hooks, Advanced Reporting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use. Complete Solutions of everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing to dislike. Everything is really awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.