Opencart Aggregated Reviews

Opencart is a free opensource php ecommerce platform which is quite nice nowadays.
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I’ve been trying to forget Opencart. Trying to forget the PHP 5.4 issues. Trying to forget the 1.5 > 2.0 upgrade. Trying to forget their customer service.
Damn, I loved that platform, but it used me like a stripper girlfriend.
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Opencart is no longer relevant, hasn’t been updated since 2012 and would probably cause you problems.
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It really depends on your needs. Shopify is a cloud solution but opencart a self hosted one.
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Given that I am in the middle of an OpenCart installation, I thought I might jump in and give my two cents. I see lots, of what I guess I would call “coder” input here (people who can evaluate on a technical basis), and thought a more casual users input might help. I will stay out of the code debate as much as possible, although this will be hard to do as far as OpenCart is concerned.
OpenCart…..well, lets just dive right in. There is this constant reoccurring sentiment on the internet that OpenCart is relatively easy…this is 100% false. Sure, compared with teleportation of planet Earth to an alternate universe, OpenCart is pretty easy. But compared with implementing a successful install, OpenCart is not that easy. Given a choice between performing open heart surgery (with no medical knowledge…blind….with only one arm…and no instruments but a blunt stick), or installing OpenCart the first time out with no issues, I would probably choose the open heart surgery option. Just a great chance of success.
Yes, it is really that bad. Now, again, these issues may not be an issue for a coder…..but there are thousands upon thousands of line of undocumented code. A huge amount of the code repeats, so you are never sure if you are working on the right thing or not, and to make matters worse, there are all sorts of bugs in the code…lots of things are broken, or at least “off”, so when you think you screwed something up, it may in fact just be another fucked up section. I have zero real understanding of PHP, JavaScript, etc, and yet I was able in my short time working with OpenCart to discover an as of yet undocumented issue. If my level of coding knowledge can find an issue, just how screwed up is the rest?
So then there are extensions and or modules you can add to OpenCart. Now I have not bought all of the add-ons, so my opinion may not be universal, but all three of the modules I did buy, and the one theme I bought were all fucked up pieces of trash. EVERY one of them required the author to come in multiple times and make code changes on the fly to get things working, and they none of them are right to this day. The theme I bought is very well known, but in my version of OpenCart it was practically unusable. The issues with it, and the amount of time devoted to addressing all of those issues reached the point where I finally trashed the installation and reinstalled from scratch. The same thing with all the extensions…..not one of them worked right off the bat. I have zero fully working extensions, I only have extensions with a list of issues that need to be addressed. Keep in mind I only buy well reviewed extension, so I have to wonder how bad the other with no reviews are.
There is NOTHING intuitive about OpenCart. There is NOTHING easy about OpenCart. There is NOTHING common sense about OpenCart. Anyone who says different is either a liar, uninformed, or perhaps selling an extension!
The only redeeming aspect of OpenCart is the body of users who offer their time and experience in the community forums. With the exception of one dick, the people have been nothing but nice and super helpful. I hope if (when) I move to a working solution, the users there are nice as they are in the OpenCart user forums.
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I gave up on OpenCart due to major customer support issues. Just read about their founder.
I used to hate using Wordpress/Woocommerce for ecommerce, but in the five years since I built that opencart site, their product has improved dramatically. I’m currently putting the finishing touches on the Woocommerce store, and other than a few minor nits, it’s been a joy to work with.
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