# Page 3 | OpenCart Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 3 - Is OpenCart the right eCommerce solution for you? Explore 153 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/143516/OpenCart/reviews --- OpenCart 4.3 (153) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/143516/OpenCart/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 3 - Reviews of OpenCart ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 51-75 of 153 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use JM Joanne M. Sales Manager Used the software for: 2+ years ### "One of the best ecommerce carts" July 2, 2018 4.0 Pros Easy to setup, easy to rank, easy to customize. Great feedback from the community, being and active and responsive community. We were able to develop one online shop with easy and great performance Cons Not being the most developed online cart system it has his drawbacks, many upgrades and modules are not developed for opencart. Depending on your needs and expectation you should consider more options, depending on what you need. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer iOS Developer Internet Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great solution for free and open source e-commerce platform" April 26, 2018 3.0 Pros \- Its completely open source, and you can leverage anything on top of that - Includes most of the features needed for running an e-commerce software - Provides more customisable options - Extensions are great Cons \- Default themes are very old in techniques - Need a developer to modify the module and make according to our own Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Director Outsourcing/Offshoring Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Excellent for a start up e-commerce store" January 6, 2019 4.0 Pros Open cart is a great cms /e-commerce application for a quick online store set up. The back end is easy to learn and has all the functionality one requires to operate a profitable online store. Cons Customisation is not straight forward as far as creating your own themes and store designs. The application comes fit with great templates that can be used in the interim. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Internship Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Open Source CMS" November 12, 2019 4.0 open cart is great as it is free i.e open source and is growing its business more and more with the passage of time and is always highly recommended for the beginners who wish to start their own E-Commerce business. Pros Open Cart is an open source content management system. The development of the websites is an easy task using open cart. It is best for the development of E-Commerce websites. These type of organization is best for medium-sized E-commercer sites. It is improving itself more and more and many users are adopting it. Cons It is for the medium sized users and hence it is light weight. These does not allow the search engine optimization at the next level. It also does not support full functionality in inventory. Review Source RR Roque R. Administrador Retail Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Bueno si tienes una pequeña empresa" February 11, 2023 3.0 Cumple bien su cometido, en general está bien programado, aunque no ha evolucionado en los años que existe la plataforma. Pros OpenCart es que es una buena opción para comenzar a comercializar en internet. Es fácil de usar y tiene muchas características integradas. Es ideal para pequeñas empresas y empresarios individuales. La web te ofrece temas gratuitos y pagos y plug is para todo tipo de necesidades, como pasarelas de pago. Cons Uno de sus puntos débiles es lo dificultoso que resulta personalizar, las opciones, hay veces que las traducciones al español están mal o sin contexto.La velocidad del sitio no es buena.Para algunas necesidades puntuales es necesario pedir ayuda de un desarrollador. Reason for choosing OpenCart Por la facilidad de instalacion, hoy dia casi todos los servicios de hosting con un solo clic instalas el script sin necesidad de hacer nada mas. Solo debes cambiar el logo y subir tus artículos y listo Review Source Khawja S. CEO Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best OpenSource Code for e-Commerce" November 21, 2019 5.0 I am running an online shopping website with OpenCart. Pros I have been using OpenCart for last 6 yrs or so and I find it very easy to use and also very easy to customize according to your requirements. You can add plenty of free plugins and themes to it and also some paid themes and features also available. Cons Some features of plugins are not compatible with new versions of OpenCart which is kind of disappointment. Review Source kK kalaiselvan K. Integration Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "OpenCart Review" November 15, 2019 4.0 Overall it is good e-commerce application for online shops with very ease effort. Pros This is one of the best opensource e-commerce product available in market. we can do lot of customization stuff using the plugins. Administration and Maintenance is pretty painless one. It has good graphical user interface for managing the products. Installing the software is straight forward and easy. Cons Few plugins are quite expensive and upgrade is painfull. It requires, lot of learning curve to understand the products. Review Source SD Stavros D. Software developer Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The best e-commerce platform" October 20, 2017 5.0 I gained many things but most important I improved my programming skills Pros It's easy to use and really fast. You can easily build a shop with thousands of product without paying a flrtune on hosting. It is SEO promising with built in SEO customization. Its also an independent framework by itself which I found pretty interesting as I am developer as well. Last but not least there is a big community supporting it. Cons Sometimes in a hurry on publish new releases which leads to bugs. And forum members (some of them) can be really aggressive . Review Source NI Nibaruta I. Ceo Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "For easy deployment of ecommerce website" March 3, 2021 5.0 I managed to achieve what I wanted to do but the support system could be improved specifically on templated developed by freelancers out of open cart. But overall it's a recommendable platform. Pros I have used an opencart for my clients and it's one of those platforms that can help you save time and money. if you know what you want specifically on an e-commerce website they have a lot of options that you can just start and be live in no time. Free and premium ready-made templates to choose from and you can do custom work as well. Cons Some of the templates are a bit expensive specifically those done by freelancers. Should be looked into and no support for some of the free templates Review Source TC Tim C. Marketing Director Civil Engineering Used the software for: 2+ years ### "One of the easiest stand-alone options" March 22, 2022 5.0 OpenCart is my favorite open source option for e-commerce applications when the circumstances are appropriate. I've installed, setup and administered it for several clients and had minimal after-installation problems. Pros OpenCart is easy to install, easy to deploy and easy to update. Modules/plugins are readily available to provide pretty much all the functionality you could want. The dashboard/user controls are easy to negotiate and quite intuitive to figure out without extensive study. Cons Since I run a "captive" online store for the company, the ability to integrate with third party product providers is critical. OpenCart has limited ability to do this. Review Source DC Desmond C. Systems Administrator Packaging and Containers Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Open Source all the way!" March 27, 2019 5.0 We were not able to sell our products online, but thanks to OpenCart we are now online. Pros What I like most about OpenCart is that it is open source, thereby it has a huge community. I like that OpenCart is easy to use and setup. Cons If you are setting up on your own you need some knowledge of web hosting in order to have it up and running. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Co Founder & CTO Events Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Open Cart review" October 25, 2018 5.0 WE liked and found this useful for the customers we were helping setup online ecommerce portals Pros The solution is very good and covers many pain points and functionalities required for running a simple online store. Cons It has few limitations the tech stack mainly is not very scalable Review Source Daniel P. Consultor ADF Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "If you want to start in online stores, OpenCart is for you." January 12, 2019 4.0 When you want an online store, with little coding and great impact. OpenCart is the solution, our customers are satisfied with the results they obtained and we too. Pros It offers its main tools for free to start creating your stock of products, according to your online business. At the time of development, it offers really fantastic tools, therefore, it does not require to be an expert programmer, but on the contrary, with basic knowledge of tools and design management, in addition to knowing well their products ... Puff is available in line . In addition, positioning is possible thanks to its small internal and automated robots so that your products are not lost in the ocean. Cons OpenCart updates are never completed, and the online store is often not up to date in terms of design. Review Source TH Tajammal H. Admin Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Setup your own online store to sell your products." May 31, 2018 5.0 I used the Open Cart for a long time to run my store online. Saved my time and money to develop self store using coding. Pros Open Cart is software to use create store online for sell products. It have approximately all required features which are necessary for a store owner. Open Cart is available in different languages and have a large amount of extensions to customize the store. Themes are also available or you can customize current theme. It gives you all controls over your store. Cons Some features hard to understand and handle. like mega menu is not easy to understand and without mega menu store looks not good in my thoughts. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Director of Digital Marketing and E-Commerce Real Estate Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "difficult" March 7, 2018 3.0 none Pros you can customize it. Cons I've been in ecommerce for 8 years on the admin side and this is by far the most difficult CMS I have ever used and thats including a system that was purely code. There are so many ways to get to the same thing but have seperate functionalities. then if you install a theme you have to go through the theme help. honestly a disaster. Review Source Hayzweb T. Animator Animation Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Open cart " December 29, 2022 4.0 Pros OpenCart is a powerful and flexible e-commerce platform that can be customized to meet the needs of a wide range of businesses. Cons There pricing is expensive along with there templates Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Social Media Manager Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "OpenCart has provides a robust e-commerce solution! " July 12, 2018 4.0 Being able to build an e-commerce store with only limited knowledge in web design/development Pros OpenCart allows you to build an ecommerce store for your website in a simple fashion. There are set themes and templates available for you to choose from and then start adding content where prompted. Cons We have found limitations with the platform, for example when structuring a website. We've wanted to change a product structure for a client but there is a flaw in open cart which hasn't allowed this. Review Source Osanda G. Student Higher Education Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best online shopping site designer and creator" November 5, 2018 5.0 Pros This is a open source online store management programe. we can manage multiple online stores from in a single place. I most like in this platform is this has various templates. It means different kind of templates. I love it. Cons For a beginner, they can't handle their work and sometimes they can't manage their work. Very hard to update or modify this. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Statistician Information Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Opencart opensoirce e-commerce solution " March 15, 2019 3.0 Pros It’s feee and has quite a bit of functionality out the box. Cons It’s not as widely used as Wordpress so many other apps have developed a plugin for Opencart yet. Review Source Pastor D. Desarrollador Freelancer / Freelancer Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "I can implement electronic commerce quickly and effectively with OpenCart" May 29, 2018 4.0 Pros It's open source, It can be easily modified and customized according to business needs. Ideal for medium ecommerce. It has many modules to customize your store. Opinions about products and rating, make the shopping experience more complete. It supports many forms of payment. Easy to learn and manage. Cons It does not have many professional templates. It is very difficult to customize it. It is vulnerable to external attacks. It is not very safe. It is not ideal to support multilingual clients Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Founder Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Not heavy but really great" October 28, 2019 5.0 It was blast, i got to know a awesome ecom solution(selfhosted) and i learn many things i don't usually learn with other ecom solutions and the catalogue guide is so much easy and deatiled. Pros Its lightweight code and extensibility i mean you can literally do anything you want just with some knowledge of php and its working inside out(which can be done in less than a day), i was hired to create an ecom website for a client and i decided to give it a try just for fun but the final result was awesome and client liked the work and i appreciated it for making that time enjoyable for me. Cons The community support is lacking for this beautyful piece, and some plugins which i don't want to code cause they are not required for every needs are like over the roof i mean comeon whats the point of asking 100+ bucks for a plugin that only used once for a website is not reasonable i think. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Presales & Technical Support Manager Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A solid choice for small-medium eshops" October 23, 2018 4.0 I'd say it's an easy and plain eshop platform with its ups and downs. I recommend it for small to medium sized eshops. Pros It's a very straight-forward and easy to use platform. It's dedicated to e-commerce, so don't expect much on the CMS division. There's a ton of extensions you can download for free or a fee, which are easy to install. It's really fast, lightweight and easy to maintain. Cons Not so good in terms of upgrading and extending. You might find it difficult to go beyond the offered extensions and features. Review Source BB Bediss B. Conception Wholesale Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Avis Opencart" December 14, 2023 4.0 Pros La flexibilité offerte pour personnaliser les boutiques en ligne ainsi que la robustesse de sa gestion des produits sont des points forts indéniables Cons La gestion des extensions peut parfois être complexe, avec des variations de qualité entre celles-ci. Review Source MA Michael A. IT Technician Retail Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "OpenCart is an eCommerce from the Future" March 9, 2018 5.0 This software is our go-to recommendation for companies that want the most customization without recurring fees impacting their monthly profit margins. Keep in mind it may be a little more pricey to start out with your necessary extensions, but you won't regret your choice (as long as you install extensions as instructed). Maintain your site and your site will maintain your income. Pros We absolutely love that it is initially a free platform. Competitors charge for the platform and then charge for features, but OpenCart has a wide range of extensions that perform what you want, the way you want. High-quality platform-wide access to have a large amount of customization and control over your store. Cons We do not favor how limited the base platform is on shipping integration, fraudulent order monitoring, or promotional sale control. These are all available as add-ons but are necessary for the majority of businesses, even when they are starting out as a new company. Review Source IV Igor V. Android Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Convenient creation of an online store" August 23, 2018 4.0 Pros Manage an online store in this system - a pleasure, because it is just for this case. It is possible to create reports, analyze customer behavior and much more. A strong Russian-speaking community, that is, you can quickly get an answer to any question. Let's just say, although I'm an IT specialist, but I've never dealt with CMS and site configuration before. And then I tried OpenCart and was able to appreciate it. Cons The downside of CMS is the impossibility of creating any other sites, except for online stores. And also there are many technical problems: remote pages are poorly indexed, sometimes duplicate files are created, and so on. Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.