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OpenShop - the Greatest Opencart Extension

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 5:38 am
by MaxD
OpenShop Final released!
OpenShop is OpenCart extension with more than 100 features and improvements:

+ full admin area redesign & simplify

+ CMS functions

+ hiding unused functionality (like Shipping, VAT, Cart, Accounts & much more)

+ themes colors, backgrounds and animations control

+ proper Digital Downloads with free product downloads

+ vQmod with manual mode to achieve top perfomance

+ Ability to turn off OpenShop temporarily and come back to clean OpenCart

Languages included: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

To read more and watch demos go to project site - http://OpenShop.org.ua

*** Help other people to discover OpenShop too - rate it and leave honest comment ***

Re: OpenShop - The best thing that happened this year

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 9:42 am
by haosmark
Cool! How do I enable it though?
I downloaded openshop from your site (not the full one, since opencart was already installed), unzipped it and uploaded to my opencart directory; yet when I login to admin, I don't see CMS and any other features besides the standard admin menus.
Sorry, newbie here :)

Re: OpenShop - The best thing that happened this year

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 6:15 pm
by MaxD
Oh, I forgot to mention that you need to have vQmod installed before extracting OpenCart files.

Do you need guidelines how to install vQmod?

Re: OpenShop - The best thing that happened this year

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 10:30 pm
by haosmark
You might want to include installation requirements to avoid confusion.
Cool stuff, it works now, thanks!

Re: OpenShop - The best thing that happened this year

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 11:20 pm
by MaxD
Yep, I included that info right after your message. Thank you for the tip!

Re: OpenShop - new opencart generatio

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 3:17 pm
by MaxD
OpenShop RC2 is live now with good improvements.

The overall look and feel has changed. New single theme is introduced instead of 6 colors variations. Now you can change theme options at System->Settings->Design tab:

* main menu, buttons & links colors
* background color & image
* header size and logo position
* menu, buttons, images and page load animations

Other changes include:

* File Manager totally revorked to serve as real online development tool
* Display of hidden vQmods added to Tweaks menu
* vQmod manual mode fixed and improved

We are close to Release. Please provide as hard testing as possible.

Re: OpenShop - new opencart generation

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 4:35 pm
by SXGuy
Really like this version.

Has some great features as standard, that should really be in the standard opencart release in my view.

One thing id like to see, is the VAT number validation service for wholesale customers, so prices will display excluding vat, and european clients can order products excluding vat also.

Apart from that, great release, i will def consider using this for client work instead of standard release.

Re: OpenShop - new opencart generation

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 5:39 pm
by MaxD
SXGuy wrote:Really like this version.
Has some great features as standard, that should really be in the standard opencart release in my view.
Thank you for nice view!

Oh, just noticed that I published RC2 with old installer - and Default theme turned on. That's a shame )
Updated )
SXGuy wrote:One thing id like to see, is the VAT number validation service for wholesale customers.
I'm not so good at VAT's functionality, because my main field is digital downloads. Isn't it achievable with customers groups and/or geozones?

Re: OpenShop - new opencart generation

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 5:53 am
by SXGuy
I dont think vat number validation has been added to OC but i know there is an extension for this already.

I guess its not so important since there is a paid extension :)

I can see you have put a lot of effort in to this version. I will def be using it if you continue to update along since the offical releases.

Re: OpenShop - new opencart generation

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 2:39 pm
by MaxD
OpenShop is created in such a way, that most of it functions will "survive" the upgrade. If some modification turn out to be not compatible, it can be disabled at Tweaks menu anytime. OpenShop includes more than 30 individual vQmods, that makes one faulty modification not to affect another ones.

I've really put a lot efforts into OpenShop creation. I will be updated along with official Opencart releases very fast.

Re: OpenShop - new opencart generation

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:44 pm
by 3antz
Nice addon, what about themes? Would it work with OC themes? Thanks.

Re: OpenShop - new opencart generation

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 4:02 pm
by MaxD
3antz wrote:Nice addon, what about themes? Would it work with OC themes? Thanks.
Yep, it plays nice with all Opencart themes.

Sure, OpenShop may fail to "strip" some functionality or change colors or add elements animation with some themes that are too far from Default one in markup. In this case you just shouldn't use that particular ability.

Just to mention, there is "Disable OpenShop" button at Tweaks menu, that returns you to clean OpenCart. You can quickly check if OpenShop is "guilty" for some issue - and enable it back after that.

Re: OpenShop - new opencart generation

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 5:44 am
by Some Things NC
Found this today...... installed it.....LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT!!!!!
Thank you. already my site looks better, now all I've got to do is work out how to hide the 'checkout' links so that people are forced to check out through the cart.... voucher box doesnt show up if they go straight to checkout and it confuses people, then they get upset because they cant find out where to put their discount codes.

Again THANK YOU for a great extention...... did I mention that I LOVE IT??? lol

Re: OpenShop - new opencart generation

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 7:32 am
by MaxD
Thank you, I will use your post as testimonial!

Give a like at http://OpenShop.org.ua to support it.

Re: OpenShop - the Greatest Opencart Extension

Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 10:51 pm
by MaxD
Congratulations, friends!

OpenShop got the Final Release today. There is no new functions here, only tunes and fixes. One of the biggest news is full Right Text Languages support and full Arabic localization.

Have fun and leave your feedback.

You can download it here.

Re: OpenShop - the Greatest Opencart Extension

Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 12:03 am
by InvestInYourChange
The download links are broken. ;(

Re: OpenShop - the Greatest Opencart Extension

Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 12:17 am
by MaxD
InvestInYourChange wrote:The download links are broken. ;(
Oh, thank you very much for this post! Fixed, download it now.

Re: OpenShop - the Greatest Opencart Extension

Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 12:44 am
by InvestInYourChange
All fixed, thanks Max!! Thrilled to find this today. It feels like Christmas!! Time to play with my new toy ;D

Re: OpenShop - the Greatest Opencart Extension

Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 2:33 pm
by babygurl18720
OMG I came across this and so wanted to download this and give it a try and I cant download it! :( The links are broken again!

Re: OpenShop - the Greatest Opencart Extension

Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 2:42 pm
by babygurl18720
Nvm :) I found it again while looking through the vqmods! :)