Why we use opencart

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OpenCart is an open source online shopping platform. You can say it e-commerce business platform for online merchants. OpenCart help you setup your own online store management system and earn effectively. It covers each part of online business.

Originally OpenCart developed in 1998 by Christopher G. Mann for CDROM and later free BSD Mall. OpenCart came into action publically on May 1999. Further developed by Daniel Cerr and used it as the basis for his own e-commerce software written in PHP. After a long struggle and complication, finally they release a reliable and stable software onto google on February 2009.

There are many similar platform in market but why OpenCart be chosen one because of following Features

Key Features:

  • User management:

To organise an online store and to interact with many people, a management system is required.OpenCart provides you all together with advance facilities and separate access for user group and users

  • Options and Properties:

We all know products and commodities found in different option, different size and with different colors. OpenCart App offers you variabilities in products with enhanced versions.

  • Discount, Offers and Coupons:

As a customer want to buy something in market, he will definitely compare the products as well as their price. So, OpenCart App provides A platform for customers as well as for retailers. It is a nice nice platform to compare the prices of the product. Many times retailers lowers their price to keep up with their competition. OpenCart offers discount, coupons and give ways to increase their sale values of products.

  • Payment Option:

OpenCart application offers different payment option such as cheque, Paypal and bank transfer.

  • Download option at various platform:

OpenCart is an open source and free of cost. It provide transparency and share an image of what their community wanted. OpenCart is easy to download and user friendly. OpenCart is easy to get on various play store platform and get started in minutes not in days


  • Unlimited category:

This is the platform where customer and retailer get a lot of categories for getting products. OpenCart is easy to use with android application that provides categories and subcategories.

  • Review and Ratings:

Review and ratings are most important factor to decide which product and company is better and which is to buy or not.

OpenCart provides the customer best rating products with review and integrating comment.

  • Reward Points:

OpenCart provide customer lifetime value and return purchase and also show confident about the product and source companies.

  • Easily find and buy products and filters:

OpenCart provides thing to buy and sell easily. It is a great platform for retailers and customers. OpenCart create categories of products. Customer refines the product whatever he wants. Just type the desired keywords in search box and click search button. They will find easily what they wanted.

  • Language and currency:

OpenCart is an open source platform. So, you can use OpenCart application in your language is quite easy. You can expand your business in multi languages. The language in which product put on store is 100% translatable.

  • Tag support and sale report:

OpenCart provide product report so that it is easy to trust on the product and company online store to customer. OpenCart also provide annual product sale report. OpenCart defines new tags adds additional convenience methods including getter methods for the properties in Tag. TagSupport has one static method that is included to facilitate coordination among cooperating tags.

  • Support:

OpenCart provide online help from certified partners. It give ratings to the online store partners such as gold, silver and platinum. Everybody can get suggestion from there according to your need from best selling experts.

  • Search Engine:

OpenCart is easy to download application and it gives best search engine extension. OpenCart will save your higher cost to get your website in high search engine. On OpenCart it is easy to register and launch faster with simple steps. OpenCart is easy to handles categories and subcategories with adding up extensions. Easy to control and catch up with e-commerce trends.

How to download and install:

OpenCart application can download @ http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=cms/download

The latest version of OpenCart can be downloaded from the site given above.

A zip is downloaded. Unzip it and follow the readme.txt and follow the file to install it.

Upload to your web server established and the OpenCart archive extracted. We will now use the file transfer protocol (FTP) client to upload these uncompressed file to the web server.

Go to the OpenCart location and it will instal automatically.

For mobile you can download it from android google playstore.

After completion installation process you can configure your store. Add categories and product, add extensions that provide extra functionality to site store.

You can get help from OpenCart community.

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