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OpenCart gives you the freedom to host your ecommerce website with any hosting company, for any price, anywhere in the World. However, having to choose your own hosting company can often be a daunting task - especially if this is your first website.    Making sure that your webs..

When setting up a new ecommerce store, many merchants decide to change their store’s theme to something different to the default OpenCart theme. This can give your new store a design and feel that suites your industry and products perfectly, and can give you a more unique look. Although many st..

As your online business grows, you may decide to expand your online presence and open additional ecommerce stores. Having multiple online stores allows you to dominate a larger share of the market and target your stores at certain countries and language.    Setting up multiple s..

Your new ecommerce store’s built, sales are coming in steadily, your marketing campaigns are going well - now what? No matter how established your store is, you should always be on the look-out for new ways to improve your website.   Investing time into enhancing your e..

Happy Holidays from the OpenCart Team   It's that time of year again!      This year we had the chance to run our first OpenCart developer training session and our first business bootcamp for merchants. We visited a group of OpenCart developers in Bulgaria ..

Due to a required server upgrade the main website, forum and demo store will be offline from 12am (GMT+1) 19th October 2015 for about 6-8 hours.

OpenCart 2.1.0.1 is available to download now!     Along with some essential bug fixes and new improvements, OpenCart 2.1.01 comes with some great new features - want to find out more? Check out our detailed changelog over on GitHub.   We can..

Consumer taxation has been at the root of debates, riots and wars for centuries. The way specific products are taxed has varied greatly and changed many times over the years. The “gabelle,” a tax on salt by the French monarchy is said to have led to the French Revolution and the Boston Tea Pa..

Great news! OpenCart 2.0.3.1 is now available to download from the download page of the OpenCart site.   We've made various changes and improvements since 2.0.2.0, including a bunch of bug fixes to help make this the best version of OpenCart yet. We've even integrated a new payme..

Hi, I’m OpenCart. Ask me anything!     /r/ecommerce Wednesday April 29th 3pm (GMT+1)       Ever wanted to ask the OpenCart team a question? Want to find out about our plans for the future?   On Wednesday April 29th, we’..