--- title: OpenCart Reviews meta\_title: 'OpenCart Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 106 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how OpenCart works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 106 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: E-Commerce url: https://www.g2.com/categories/e-commerce --- # OpenCart Reviews & Product Details 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. * * * Seller [OpenCart](https://www.g2.com/sellers/opencart) Discussions [OpenCart Community](https://www.g2.com/products/opencart/discuss) Languages Supported Afrikaans, Bengali, Bulgarian, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Irish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Armenian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Central Khmer, Korean, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Serbian, Swahili, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified), Tibetan, Maltese, Samoan, Xhosa Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Andy Tsang Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Return on Investment 7 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/opencart/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![PrestaShop](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "PrestaShop") PrestaShop 4.3/5(160) ](https://www.g2.com/products/prestashop/reviews) [ ![osCommerce](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "osCommerce") osCommerce 3.4/5(31) ](https://www.g2.com/products/oscommerce/reviews) [ ![Zen Cart](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Zen Cart") Zen Cart 3.9/5(42) ](https://www.g2.com/products/zen-cart/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/opencart/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 106 real user reviews. Implementation Time 2 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Johan P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Johan P.") JP Johan P. Senior System Engineer Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/4/2016 "For our own webshop the best product you can use" 4.5/5 What do you like best about OpenCart? Easy to manage, great looks and lots of help, tips and addons available at the internet for free. So i can only recommend this webshop. Try it and you will be using it as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenCart? What I do dislike is that the migration from my 1.x site to 2.x site could not be done automated. I had to use a "free" addon to do that. Thanks to the author of that :-) But I assume that it should be a part of 2.x. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering OpenCart: if you want a complete webshop which is easy to manage: use OpenCart Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenCart solving and how is that benefiting you? We want to sell out stuff on the internet. OpenCart is great to have for my webshop. Facebook we use to advertise to the world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 2/10/2016 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Achraf A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Achraf A.") AA Achraf A. Founder and CEO Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/22/2015 "OpenCart is easy to work with, supports many payment integration options and is simply awesome." 4/5 What do you like best about OpenCart? I like OpenCart's modern administration interface and the many payment integration choices available, which let's me customize the platform to each client depending on their needs and what payment options they can accept. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenCart? Difficult to integrate into a theme designed with Bootstrap, which makes it less flexible to use if you only want to use a purchased Bootstrap theme without having to do a lot of HTML, CSS and PHP work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenCart solving and how is that benefiting you? I use OpenCart to develop ecommerce websites to my clients, it benefits me by giving me a clear and straightforward way to implement a platform I'm experienced in working with and improving upon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ganatra H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ganatra H.") GH Ganatra H. CEO Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/4/2016 "Great platform for startup seller" 4/5 What do you like best about OpenCart? Easy admin side with many free extension Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenCart? Current layout. Because as compare to other like magento it is very basic. Not good standard like other layout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering OpenCart: Yes, I ask many seller to use open cart. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenCart solving and how is that benefiting you? Main benefit is easy admin side. Any new seller can easily find all details very easily. Like if you want to add product, variation, special discount then easily find in single panel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") IC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/8/2016 "Technical review for opencart" 4.5/5 What do you like best about OpenCart? modularity structure of open cart makes it easy to retain new functionalities through added third modules Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenCart? open cart theme development is little strict, this made limitations in delivering customized themes to my customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering OpenCart: Opencart is successful success partner, ease of setup, ease of setup and more for to deliver to your customers, I liked the solution and I will keep using it to deliver success to my partners Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenCart solving and how is that benefiting you? I'm delivering on demand hosted e-commerce websites to my customers, on the customers base I'm trying to deliver simplest backend to manage store, open cart provides one of the simplest backends in e-commerce opensource solutions available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") CC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/22/2015 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Wonderful Beginning" 4/5 What do you like best about OpenCart? Quick to begin without much hassle. A very limited technical knowledge is sufficient to set up store and start selling. It also has simple interface, light design and has advanced features that can be used when required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenCart? open cart versions and plugin versions. Is hard to find the plugins that are constantly been updated to work with the latest version of the opencart. Also the vqmod can be a pain sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenCart solving and how is that benefiting you? Set up a few of my customers on opencart initially but had to move them to different ones due to the plugins mismatch and themes being non responsive. This was mostly used as a catalogue rather than selling online. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Stefan H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Stefan H.") SH Stefan H. Project Manager Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/22/2015 "Simplicity vs Maturity" 3.5/5 What do you like best about OpenCart? OC has a simple codebase and thus is very easy to customize. However, customization is not based on development best practices. OC codebase is not build with testability in mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenCart? Customization can only be achieved by code changes. E.g. one cannot switch of the wishlist feature like a module. Once customized it's hard to upgrade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering OpenCart: Simple solutions, which don't require large scale changes in the codebase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenCart solving and how is that benefiting you? Fast and easy deployments! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Deep D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Deep D.") DD Deep D. System Engineer Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/2/2016 "Amazing and easy eCommerce solution " 4/5 What do you like best about OpenCart? User friendly for developer, for a beginner specially, opencart forum Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenCart? frequently changing version and due to that many extensions were not able to support., not so much extensions are available in market for opencart compare to magento Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenCart solving and how is that benefiting you? low cost ecommerce website, time duration. these two are major benefits Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") AC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/2/2016 "One of the Best Opensource Ecommerce Platforms" 0.5/5 What do you like best about OpenCart? Opensource LightWeight Themeable Vqmod/Ocmod Every Thing Included that is Required for a Complete Ecommerce Store But the Support For Api is Missing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenCart? This Software is missing the Rest API. Without API This software cannot be used to Develop Cross Platform Apps. Missing API is the Greatest Disadvantage In future Version An api must be ADDED Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering OpenCart: Opencart is the Best Ecommerce Platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenCart solving and how is that benefiting you? Easy to manage Customers Ecommerce made easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 2/4/2016 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/2/2016 "Awesome and reliable product" 4/5 What do you like best about OpenCart? Its easy to modify, update and customize. Faster than other available e-commerce platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenCart? This is very hard to setup, subcategories not showing in product backend + hard to install themes, hard too edit links. Im not a newbie with internet design, but this can be made soo much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering OpenCart: If you're looking at stable product, go for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenCart solving and how is that benefiting you? Managing is easy and trusted platform than woocommerce. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Design](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Design") AD Verified User in Design Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/8/2016 "OpenCart Review" 2.5/5 What do you like best about OpenCart? Relatively easy to deal with.. I prefer Magento personally. Harder to develope for but the end results are much better and easier for day to day admin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenCart? 1.5\* to 2.\* incompatibilities. Made me drop it in favour of magento. OCMod/VQMod are really not that great system for modifications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering OpenCart: Would check to see if the guy in Hong Kong is still in control.. not exactly a fan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenCart solving and how is that benefiting you? Allowing the selling of stock items in a bespoke business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about OpenCart? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about OpenCart ](https://www.g2.com/products/opencart/discussions/new) GU Guest User What advice would you give to others considering OpenCart for e-commerce solutions? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-advice-would-you-give-to-others-considering-opencart-for-e-commerce-solutions) ![Chike I.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Chike I.") CI Chike Igwegbe • Last activity about 4 years ago Can you do something about your Captcha? 1 Upvote 2 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/12169-can-you-do-something-about-your-captcha) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/opencart/discuss) ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Return on Investment 7 months ### Average Discount 10% [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/opencart/pricing) OpenCart Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_920f3ddbd3b24feb0ebcb1d3ae81afc5/prestashop.png "Product Avatar Image") PrestaShop 4.3/5(160) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/opencart-vs-prestashop) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_1aba276e034491a3eb521afe9ed1de8b/nopcommerce.png "Product Avatar Image") nopCommerce 4.5/5(106) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/opencart-vs-nopcommerce) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_61bcc8ef23c7ae782110c3bb77645be7/codeigniter.png "Product Avatar Image") CodeIgniter 4.4/5(58) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/codeigniter-vs-opencart) ##### ##### OpenCart Features Administration Reporting Cart Management Shipping Information Collection Integrations Payment Gateway Integration E-commerce Platform Integration Email Integration Cart Management Multi Cart Products Customizable Templates [ View More Features ](https://www.g2.com/products/opencart/features) ##### Categories on G2 [Shopping Cart](https://www.g2.com/categories/shopping-cart) ##### Explore More [Which mobile app debugging platforms are best rated by engineers for avoiding steep initial setup pain?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-mobile-app-debugging-platforms-are-best-rated-by-engineers-for-avoiding-steep-initial-setup-pain)[Appian vs Nintex for a team that wants to build internal process applications without needing a dedicated developer for every workflow change?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/appian-vs-nintex-for-a-team-that-wants-to-build-internal-process-applications-without-needing-a-dedicated-developer-for-every-workflow-change)[What VR collaboration platform data privacy and security features matter most for enterprise team communication?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-vr-collaboration-platform-data-privacy-and-security-features-matter-most-for-enterprise-team-communication) [What platform integrates screen capture with cloud storage?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-platform-integrates-screen-capture-with-cloud-storage)[Is a programmatic job advertising platform worth it for a mid-size recruiting team?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-a-programmatic-job-advertising-platform-worth-it-for-a-mid-size-recruiting-team)[Which exit interview management platforms enable truly anonymous feedback to capture genuine employee concerns?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-exit-interview-management-platforms-enable-truly-anonymous-feedback-to-capture-genuine-employee-concerns) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)