Welcome to OpenCart Ecommerce Blog

Over the last decade, OpenCart has been used by businesses around the world to create their own ecommerce store. We thought we’d share 7 of our favourite stores with you to show how you can tweak, alter and redesign OpenCart to make the perfect ecommerce store for your company.  &n..

Great news!   After months of testing and help from the OpenCart community, we're very proud to announce that the newest version of OpenCart has just been released.   Along with a selection of improvements and bug fixes, OpenCart 2.2.0.0 now features: Support for..

So, you’re ready to take the plunge into online sales? Congrats!   If this is a brand new store, you’ll need to think carefully about what your new domain name will be. Finding the perfect domain name (that hasn’t already been taken!) can seem daunting but it’s easier tha..

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..

Due to the delayed update on the 5th we will be doing the forum maintenance on 7th January at 6pm GMT The forum will be down for approximately 1 hour.  Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

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 ..

OpenCart Black Friday Deals:   Available for 1 Week Only     The OpenCart Black Friday deals have arrived!   For the next week, we'll be running discounted deals designed to help you get your OpenCart module, theme, company or services seen. These o..

The way we interact with ecommerce stores has changed massively over the last few years. The introduction of smartphones and tablets has made it easy for shoppers to browse online and make purchases from anywhere, at any time. Now that the modern shopper has had a taste of fast, smooth, and easy ..

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..