BE AWARE OF OPEN CART
Open Cart
is an online store management system. It is PHP based, using a MySQL database
and HTML components. Support is offered for a lot of languages and currencies,
and it is easily accessible under the GNU General Public License.it was
actually developed in 1998 by Christopher G. Mann for Walnut Creek CDROM and
later The FreeBSD Mall. The first public release was on the May 11, 1999.
Developed in Perl, the project saw little action, and progress stalled in 2000,
with Mann posting a message on April 11 stating "other requirements are
keeping me from Open Cart development".
Related
to other platforms like Shopify and PrestaShop, Open Cart has a really friendly
management dashboard. All of the choices are very simple and user-friendly:
Catalog, Sales, Extensions, System.
Site
speed is one of the key points that impacts customer’s shopping experience.
Open Cart shopping cart is compact e-Commerce solution that uses AJAXtechnology in order to decrease load time and thus improve store speed. Open Cart admin panel is simple
to use doesn’t need too much time to get through the learning curve.
Open
Cart is an open source and free shopping cart. The installation cost is equal
to zero. Evaluating to other shopping carts, servicing costs are truly low too.
Practically any kind of hosting is appropriate for Open Cart and will cost only
a few dollars per month. will be able to
easily handle store management and modification on own, so there will be no need to hire a
developer. Additionally, are able to choose between free themes or pick paid
one for exclusive design and multiple tax zones.
Open
Cart offers a chance to setup multiple tax zones, so taxes will be paid based
upon on a country, where goods will be purchased and shipped to. and 23 payment gateways set by default and
additional ones in the Open Cart extension section. With innovative report
system store owners are able to calculate the total amount of sales per
day/week/month. Moreover, you will have a possibility to track which products
customers are most interested in.
Advantage of open cart
It can be easily installed on shared hosting with thousands
of products. Initially, may not require to spend in specific server. and It is
very fast. Shop with 20 or 30 thousand of products can work on the cheap shared
hosting.
It is
achievable to install Google Analytics for the user, without touching the code.
Just designed reports orders, returns of goods, etc. Besides all the above
in Open Cart there is a probability to
extradite discount coupons and gift certificates, a bind discounts and
promotions for specific products and make its working partnership program for
business expansion.
Free model of the script is not as rich when
it comes to capabilities as PrestaShop or Magento, but it's, at least in part,
balanced by about 1600 free and 4000 paid plugins. However it's not so
excellent when looking at it more carefully. These numbers involve plugins for
all versions. If you're looking just at the latest version, you get "only"
1500 plugins. Still it doesn't mean you will have your pick.
MVC
model used in the script creates it quite easy to "get around" the
code and change it by programmers. Particularly by those programmers, who've
worked with MVC before. The script, unlike PrestaShop, is not depended on a
"Smart" style template system, but there's a clear structure of
graphics templates. That's why there should be no problem setting up the shop's
look. Open Cart certainly is import in Excel.
Dis Advantages of open cart
It
generally occurs, that when buying some plugins for open Cart and then
upgrading the script to a newer version, some of the functions will not work or
show errors. Many plugin authors releases updates, but sometimes it could take
a while. open Cart
is that it hasn't good connect system like in the Drupal or Event system like
in the Symfony. Functions have just seemed in open Cart 2.0 and they are at the
beginning stage of development. Without it can do nothing programmatically from
your module? can’t even add new menu
item without modifying the open Cart core code. can do it personally or use
vQmod for it. vQmod is a very bad solution because it changes the core files
using string functions and causes a lot of issues.
Basic un
optimized version of the script creates the client to download about 500 KB of
just CSS and JavaScript code. It's about the same amount as for magneto,
several times as much as for PrestaShop and almost 13 times more than for Quick
Cart. But Open Cart isn't as developed as magneto. Fortunately it's easy to
solution for a programmer. HTML code to amount of provided contents ratio is
quite nice.
Conclusion
Open
Cart is an exciting alternate for PrestaShop. It's a very good program for
beginners and advanced programmers/shop owners. It works fine with almost any
number of products. It needs more server sources then Quick. Carry but much
less than PrestaShop or particularly magneto Good tech support and a large number of free add-ons
create for good cart's development options, as well as a good start for business..
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