OpenCart Development – A Perfect eCommerce Solution for Your Business

Usually, when we are developing online store for our clients, they often ask us the questions regarding eCommerce solutions and which is the most appropriate platform for their web development project. Whether Open Cart is better than Magento? Or Magento is better than Zencart?

Our answer to them always is that; there is no one fit-to-all cart solution that works well for different categories of eCommerce sites. It depends on the requirements, the number of products or the type of services, and the various features that you want to integrate into your site for your audience.


But, our developers' team usually prefer Open cart development framework over the other platforms due to its various capabilities, and functionalities. It is the most user friendly eCommerce tool for developing highly attractive and simple to use online store. Ideal for businesses, it offers great advantages for quick and easy portal development.

Let us explore some of the major advantages and features of Open Cart:

• Being an open source framework, it is free to download and highly used to develop with free software upgrades and support.
• It has easy to use control panel, which allows simple administration.
• This open source framework is quite easy to use and set up although limiting at the high end.
• It's a lightweight, easy to host and easy to download.
• OpenCart information and tutorials are easily available on the web and the robust developer community constantly supports and maintains the platform.
• It provides a group of different payment gateways such as web payment software, PayPal, SagePay, WorldPay, etc.

However, loaded with some of its positive features, it lacks behind because of some negative points such as:

• Does not allow to use custom URL.
• Templates are less customizable compared to other shopping cart platforms.
• Some of the SEO restraints
• Built-in functionalities and options are limited

Well, with more of the OpenCart advantages and less of its negative features, we advise that you can definitely rely on this open source shopping cart platform for your eCommerce store development. If you are still confused and unsure about this, then feel free to consult an expert team of a reputed OpenCart development company like us. Working for a large number of eCommerce clients, we have the proficiency, and would like to solve your query.