Any opinions would be appreciated.
Bloated with functions 70% does not use.
Bloated with modules and 3rd party crap 80% won't use.
Template-engine that you need a college degree to understand and work with.
You also need a degree to use PS.
OpenCart?
Ease of use.
(Almost) everything you want.
Ask yourself the question: "What do I need?"
The answer is: Which of the 2 suits your needs the most.
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Honestly, just about any cart will do for most people - if you want multistores you are a bit more limited (Opencart, Prestashop, CS-Cart and Magento are the only ones I know of with this feature), but for a stand alone, single store, you can really go a lot of different ways. So install what you think might work and test them out. Take a look at competitors sites in the same industry as your client, see what features they use that your clients want to have as well and that will give you a checklist to make sure the cart you are considering has them.
Running Opencart v3.0.3.2 with multi-stores and the default template from https://www.labeshops.com which has links to all my stores.
I felt that Magento is the powerful solution even it was pain for so many things, but finally I made it work out.
For big shopping cart, I would give rating to Magento.
For Medium and Small size, I would give rating to Open Cart.
For very very small size shop, I would use any plug in in WP.
For Presta, I am not sure enough.
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Curious why you would choose Magento over Opencart for a big cart?dynamictemplate wrote:I have tested Magento, Presta & Open Cart.
I felt that Magento is the powerful solution even it was pain for so many things, but finally I made it work out.
For big shopping cart, I would give rating to Magento.
For Medium and Small size, I would give rating to Open Cart.
For very very small size shop, I would use any plug in in WP.
For Presta, I am not sure enough.
I agree on Magento being a pain in the **. Worked with it for about 6 months before I found Opencart - never did get to the point of being able to launch the store in Magento. Had my opencart store up and running in hours. Definitely a shorter learning curve on OC!
Running Opencart v3.0.3.2 with multi-stores and the default template from https://www.labeshops.com which has links to all my stores.
I then tried:
-- Joomla/VirtueMart; bit clunky but nice results;
-- BigCommerce- top-notch but you have to pay monthly...
--and then WOOHOO I stumbled upon OpenCart. AS GOOD AS BIG COMMERCE, but FREE! Also the huge range of mods often only cost about $10-$50 each, whereas PrestaShops's mods can be over $150. I would highly recommend OpenCart- it wins hands-down on design, usability, customisation of templates, mobile 'responsive' templates, payment gateways.... and STABLE!!!!!
I use OpenCart, and my friend uses Prestashop.
Prestoshop has some fantastic BACK END features, way advanced, like warehouse support (you tell it where your stock actually is! and you can 'move' it from one to another). Sounds great, now go set that up for your smallish site (< 500 products?)
In my opinion, go with what you can actually achive your short-mid term goals with. Then if you 'outgrow' opencart, pay someone to mod it for you, or think of changing, but I doubt you will, it've very good, and SOOO easy to change bits yourself if you know any programming, or so easy to pay someone to do it for you.
I have installed both and developed them both to a similar point
Both have very irritating bugs (sorry features!) but OC is better and more stable (and feels faster)
Bear in mind the cost of add ons to make it useable where OC the cost is lower
In the end OC won though it could benefit with some features from Prestashop
Getting it off the ground is a hassle and for a non Dev like me it was a massive learning curve.
Magento is top notch and comes with a whole range of awesome features, their reporting is really great, compared to OC. But you can buy great cost effective modules for OC that do the same job.
My problem was the upgrades, there were important security upgrades that had to be done on a regular basis. Every time I did an upgrade it broke the site, spent more time fixing stuff the upgrade broke than enjoying the upgrade.
Did the change to OC 3 years ago (I PS and OC running for a few weeks to test.... frankly PS is a PoS)
Actually helped a friend last night delete his Magento installation and introduced him to OC... he walked away smiling
At the end of the day EVERY ecomm platform has it's Pro's and Con's.
OC just has a lot fewer Cons than most, but if you want to find something to bitch about you can. It's an attitude that you choose.
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You made my day. Can't agree more. PS, PoS, lolSelfSus wrote: frankly PS is a PoS)
Prestashop code is spaghetti, horrible.
Support team is bad..they answer you after 2 weeks or more.
There search engine called prediggo is the worst thing I've seen in my life. Search for a module with a particular keyword, it responds with themes and other unrelated modules. I am unable to find my module unless I use exact module name as search keyword.
Stick with OC, simple to use and easy to learn even if there are some bugs there, they get fixed on github, moreover the community is really active and you can find help quickly. Also, the oc extensions store is vibrant and cheap.
Cheers,
Masajes kinnarimasajes.
but when it comes to selecting presta shop , magento or opencart opencart is nr1 if :
1) you want the web shop as fast as possible running
2) you don't have unlimited budget to get the features you need (here is a lot of great developers providing almost all features the user may imagine on the opencart marketplace:))
3) opencart is very intuitive and not filled with features users do not need mostly(leaving space for developers to offer more features as extensions:) and for shop owners to select only the ones they need to match their business idea
lz1nud wrote:I have never used prestashop, but have looked into their site. I noticed that extensions are twise more expensive than the ones for OC. No idea why.
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