What is OpenCart? OpenCart Review, Features

OpenCart is an easy-to-use, powerful open source online store management program. It is a very popular PHP open source e-commerce website system at home and abroad in recent years. This e-commerce website system is easy to install, powerful, simple to operate, and supports multiple languages, multiple currencies and multiple stores. The OpenCart community is very active, and more than 10 language packs have been translated by netizens from various countries, including Chinese, Russian, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, etc.

About OpenCart

An OpenCart store can accept orders right after installation. All you have to do is install it (it's free with any web host), then choose a template, add products, descriptions, and photos, set up the basics, and you're ready to start accepting orders.

OpenCart is an online shopping management system based on PHP and using MySQL database and HTML components. OpenCart supports different languages ​​and currencies and is provided free of charge under the GNU General Public License.

·OpenCart has a well-developed external development ecosystem, with tens of thousands of free and paid module plug-ins and template themes to choose from. The code is completely open source, the functions are continuously updated, the code structure is clear and easy to understand, secondary development is easy to get started, and the entry threshold is low. Based on these features, OpenCart has quickly become a widely used e-commerce website building system in the world.

OpenCart uses services such as FraudLabs, ClearSale, and Global Payments to review customer orders.

Historical background

1. OpenCart was originally developed by Christopher G. Mann for Walnut Creek CDROM and later The FreeBSD Mall in 1998. The first public release was on May 11, 1999, when it was developed using Perl, but there was almost no activity on the project after that, and it completely stagnated in 2000. Mann posted a message on April 11 saying that "other things prevented me from continuing to develop OpenCart."

2. The domain expired in February 2005 and was taken over by British developer Daniel Kerr, who used it as the basis for his own e-commerce software written in PHP. The first stable version was 1.1.1, which was released on Google Code on February 10, 2009.

Features

·Fully develop source code without any encryption;

Free reference materials;

Unlimited categories, unlimited products, unlimited manufacturers (brands);

Replaceable templates;

·Multiple languages ​​and currencies;

Product reviews and product ratings;

Downloadable products;

Automatically resize images;

Multiple tax rates;

Related products;

Unlimited article information pages;

Freight weight calculation;

Coupon system;

Search engine optimization (SEO);

Modular system;

Backup and recovery tools;

Print invoices;

Sales reports.

Development History

-In November 2005, the domain name opencart.com was registered.

- May-November 2006, OpenCart v0.3 was released on Sourceforge.net.

-In 2012, OpenCart 1.5 was released.

- In September 2014, Kerr claimed that OpenCart was the largest e-commerce software provider in China.

-In October 2014, OpenCart 2.0 was released, with a significant update to the interface.

-In August 2015, OpenCart was recorded by Builtwith.com as having a 6.42% market share in global e-commerce, behind WooCommerce and Magento, and ahead of OsCommerce, ZenCart and Shopify.

-In November 2016, OpenCart.com website was updated.

In February 2017, Daniel Kerr said that OpenCart has about 317,000 served pages, which, according to him, is more than Shopify or Magento.