OpenCart
What is OpenCart? 🐱🏍
Opencart is an easy to-use, powerful, Open Source online store management program that can manage multiple online stores from a single back-end. Administrative area simply by filling in forms and clicking “Save”. There are many professionally-written extensions available to customize the store to your needs.
An OpenCart store can be ready to take orders soon after installation. All you have to do is have it installed for you (any web hosts do it for free), select a template form the many free or low-cost template sites, and your product descriptions and photos, click a few settings, and you are ready to begin accepting orders. Our free Installation & Quick Start chapters show you how.
The public side or “Storefront” of OpenCart looks very professional and ready to sell almost as soon as it is installed.
Why OpenCart? 🤔
FREE, open-source and easy to use ecommerce platform!
No monthly fees, no catches; just an effective and customizable platform for your new ecommerce store. Simply install, choose your template, and add products and you’re ready to start accepting orders.
Stick with the modern, responsive default theme or choose from thousands of themes online to make your store unique and perfectly suited for your business.
OpenCart comes with a fully mobile friendly admin area, complete with detailed product, order and customer management, sales reports, marketing tools and even more - allowing you to manage every aspect of your new online store from any device, anywhere in the World. Use the quick and concise dashboard to keep track of your sales, or choose from one of the many menu options to view more detail.
With a huge range of features included out-of- the-box and over 14,000 additional extensions available to download, OpenCart is perfect for ecommerce stores of any size, any industry, any budget.
History & Milestones ⏲️
OpenCart was originally developed in 1998 by Christopher G. Mann for Walnut Creek CDROM and later The FreeBSD Mall. The first public release was on May 11, 1999. Developed in Perl, the project saw little activity, and progress stalled in 2000, with Mann posting a message on April 11 stating "other commitments are keeping me from OpenCart development".
The domain expired in February 2005 before being revived by Daniel Kerr, a UK-based developer, who used it as the basis for his own e-commerce software, written in PHP. The first stable release was version 1.1.1, released onto Google Code on 10 February 2009.
In September 2014, Kerr claimed that OpenCart was the number one e-commerce software supplier in China, while in August 2015 it was recorded as responsible for 6.42% of the global e-commerce volumes recorded by builtwith.com, behind WooCommerce and Magento and ahead of OSCommerce, ZenCart and Shopify. In February 2017, he stated that OpenCart had about 317,000 live OpenCart sites, which was, according to Kerr, more than Shopify or Magento.
Version 2.0 of the software was released in October 2014, featuring an extensive update of the interface.
Version 2.2.0.0 of the software was released in March 2016, after months of testing from OpenCart users. Version 3.0.3.7 of the software was released in Feb 2021, in collaboration with Webkul.
November 2016
OpenCart.com website update
May 2016
OpenCart number of websites using opencart software reaches 342,000 and surpassed magento by 90,000 sites.
September 2015
There are now 15 books written about OpenCart.
Year 2015
OpenCart reaches 300 000+ live sites.
September 2014
OpenCart mentioned in Forbes article "3 Steps To Launch Your First eCommerce Website" and was recommended over shopify because it had more functionality and customisable features.
Year 2014
OpenCart 2.0 released Over 10,000 extensions added to OpenCart's extension store
Year 2013
OpenCart reaches no.1 position in Asia as the most popular used ecommerce script. OpenCart reaches 231,624 live sites.
November 2012
OpenCart mentioned in Forbes
June 2012
Registered OpenCart as an business in Hong Kong.
Year 2012
OpenCart 1.5 released
Year 2011
OpenCart reaches 51,601 live sites.
October 2010
First book published about OpenCart called the "OpenCart 1.4 Beginner's Guide". Added OpenCart extension store to opencart.com
May to November 2006
Released OpenCart v0.3 on sourceforge.net
November 2005
Registered domain name opencart.com
Features of OpenCart 🐙
1. Add products and you’re ready to start accepting orders.
- Administrator Dashboard
All the important information available at a glimpse. Get a full overview of what is important with total orders, sales, customers, people online, sales analytics and many more widgets
- User Management
In order to successfully organize an online store you will need to cooperate with many people, each performing different roles. OpenCart allows you to set advanced user privileges and separate access for user groups and users.
- Multi-Store
Manage multiple stores from one admin interface. Set products to appear on different stores. Choose a different theme for each store. Localize store settings. Set per store product prices.
- Options, attributes
Products come in different options. Some feature sizes, while others colors, length, height. No matter the case OpenCart offers a solution on adding extra important product variables.
2. Unlimited Categories & Products
- Free to download and use
OpenCart is open source and free. Open source means transparency, open code and community vision. Free means we are giving you the option to modify, share and edit OpenCart for your project. Get your copy today and get started in minutes not days.
- Unlimited Categories
- Unlimited Products
So that is all that you need to get started with OpenCart , if you have any doubts you can definetly visit the official website of OpenCart.