Opencart is a great platform with a simple to use and intuitive admin dashboard. The platform allows you build it out to anything you want because it is an open source platform. There are thousands of free and paid plugins available that can be added to the platform to make it what you need. The code is easy to follow and understand so modifying themes and creating new ones couldn't be easier. You can have a fully functional eCommerce solution running in no time without having to code once from scratch. The Opencart community is great and helping to make Opencart a safe and widely used open source platform for all businesses to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only thing I "dislike" about Opencart is that I wish there were more built in features when it comes to having inventory for different colors and size parings. It is a common request and there are ways around it but they aren't as clean. When you take in the admin dashboard and the ease of use, this "dislike" doesn't seem too bad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to follow code structure. A big community and huge amount of modules. With 2.0 release I`m looking forward to the hooks. The easiness of doing custom templating and tweaking for the end client is one of the main reasons we use OC on the smaller products. Also it is quite easy to take over someones else work (who are in software development will understand what I mean:). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniels (the owner/lead dev) approach sometimes is stubborn (therefore not all the good development ideas are being implemented). With the move from 1.5 to 2.0 quite many old modules are not compatible. Also currently there is a mess between the OcMod, vQmod - ways how to make changes to the files (core files f.e.) without actually rewriting the code and loosing the future upgrades. Performance for bigger shops (we have with 40k + SKUs) needs extra work (but not so much). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Opencart is a very simple tool to use, ideal for small and medium projects. Its main feature is the multi-store that can have several channels on the same instalation, this allows organically grow companies that manage multiple brands. We have implemented solutions with 10 simultaneous channels and works biem.

Another important feature that stands out in OpenCart is simplicity for extend its core through PHP. It has a very simple development pattern (MVC) and pretty neat that allows developers to incorporate a new project quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Your data model for managing product options is not good. Moreover your data model is not well designed for enterprise solutions.

Another problem is when e-commerce have a growing volume of information, Opencart not is falls short and Its development model Becomes very simply. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OpenCart is fairly simple to use and still doesn't lack most of the features other platforms have. For me, it was this balance of simplicity and functionality that made me choose OpenCart in the first place and now even keep it when upgrading my main site just a couple of months ago.

Additionaly, OpenCart has decent themes and plugins built for it and is also easily customizable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It feels like OpenCart used to be more popular and nowadays many of the plugins are outdated. Also main OpenCart web site looks really old and doesn't help it's popularity.

Code is not a disaster but customization and plugin building should be even more simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy system for sale. You have many possibilities and options when you sell product. You have full control over orders. There are many ready Themes which are sold or are free with good design. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the additions that we need pricing or anything else always paid. Not like modules are always paid. In most other online stores are free Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The possibility of write in little to no time plugins and new themes without any extra effort.

In addiction to this, the setup and configuration of the whole platform on a LAMP server is fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The limited availability of themes and some key functionalities such as SEO management and additional security features (2 step authentication factor for example) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Integrating a payment gateway is easy. Also, Opencart-2.0.3.1 is much user friendly comparing to previous version. Creating an online store is much easier. There are several opencart plugins available according to the requirement. I have created my own payment gateway plugin and it is easy to install. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Upgrading Opencart v1.5 to v2.0 involves lot of code changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of use and configuration. You can set a site up in a few hrs and begin selling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The extension integration. It can get kind of wacky if you don't have some kind of support to fix it. Needs to be upgraded or integrate a plug in system like Wordpress uses and it would be perfect.

And also the theming needs a built in theming system. Long overdue. Integrating themes could also be a problem to integrate even when trying to use frameworks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very flexible platform that has over 14k addons. It has all the features of other platoforms with 25% of the code. Mobile out of the box and customer friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The addons can clash with each other, but this happens on all platforms once you have more than 1 addon the risk is there. Great community of developers out there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The power of Opencart is in its simplicity, you are free to expand or change whatever you want in the platform, with two main stable releases you have almost two different systems to choose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For end users, it can be tricky because of the lack of advanced features and the poor way many developers release their modules you can have a big problem maintaining in a long-term e-commerce if you are not a developer or do not have access to one Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.