Open Cart vs other ecom solutions

I would like to compliment open cart on such a fine product and support community.

I have struggled with a number of ecom solutions: prestashop, 3dcart, zen cart, and cubecart.

The systems were always buggy, and trying to get support was a nightmare. I gave up on each of those four after spending time with each one trying to get my shop in order using thier solution.

I found open cart by accident - it was mentioned on the prestashop forums. After installing it, I found it to be more stable, and easier to use than any other. When I needed support, I got answers right away and never felt left alone. None of the others were able to do that.

Great job open cart team. You folks have a winning solution - and Im telling every webstore owner I know about it.

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Nevermind

Good to hear you're happy, mmreed. ..

mmreed wrote:....I have struggled with a number of ecom solutions: prestashop, 3dcart, zen cart, and cubecart.

The systems were always buggy, and trying to get support was a nightmare. ...

I arrived at Opencart via a similar route. Cubecart in particular was OK (at the time), but available programmers were hard to find and might (or might not) help. I understood their reasons - but a shop owner can't run software on that basis.

At Opencart, we not only have great software, but great developers too. A winning combination.

i2Paq wrote:There are several topics in this part of our forum covering this.
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Did you even read his post? Or only the title of the thread...

He's basically complementing OpenCart, which i'm sure Daniel doesn't mind if there are a million of those topics spread across the forum.

opencartisalright wrote:

i2Paq wrote:There are several topics in this part of our forum covering this.
Have you used our FREE search?

Did you even read his post? Or only the title of the thread...

He's basically complementing OpenCart, which i'm sure Daniel doesn't mind if there are a million of those topics spread across the forum.

Yep, my bad. I was reading 2 topics and replied to the wrong one

I have to agree with this, I worked with Magento before OpenCart but it had a couple of problems, mostly it was slow and the folder structure seemed a bit complex to me. So I reviewed a few of the Open Source carts and found OpenCart to be my favourite. The review can be seen here:
http://www.antropy.co.uk/services/ecomm ... rt-review/

mmreed wrote:I found open cart by accident - it was mentioned on the prestashop forums.

Checking out there forums I was surprised to hear there was a mass exodus of OpenCart users when multicart was added. Somehow I missed OpenCart being Totally Ruined Forever(TM).

rph wrote:Checking out there forums I was surprised to hear there was a mass exodus of OpenCart users when multicart was added. Somehow I missed OpenCart being Totally Ruined Forever(TM).

I see what you mean.
Oh well...found a link to Joel Spolsky's old blog there, which is a great read (cheers soos)

I have to disagree a bit about Cubecart (v3) as I have used it for 8 years on my stores (and am a moderator of their forums). It's very easy to customize and I would still recommend it for a stand alone, single store (though since v5 has just come out and they will no longer have a free version, probably not as much as I would have). Their forums are very active - both for the core product and for programmers.

When Cubecart announced they would be stopping even security support for version 3 once v5 was released, I started actively looking at other options and installed just about every one I could find to give it a test run - zencart, magento, oscommerce, tomatocart and so many more I don't remember all their names. Magento is probably the closes to opencart, but their learning curve was horrible.

I have switched to Opencart as of about a month ago and am in the process of transitioning all my cubecart stores over. Primarily due to the multi-stores which I desperately needed, though the feature set is exactly what I needed with coupons, gift certificates, etc already built in that I previously had to use mods for. I recommended opencart to a friend who is also now transitioning from cubecart and loves oc.

No cart is perfect of course (opencart really needs more order management capabilities and I and a php guru friend are working on) and I'll be tweaking and doing mods myself eventually once I learn more about opencarts coding structure (it is a good deal different than cubecart even though both are php). But I really think if you want to run multiple stores, right now, opencart cannot be beat.

labeshops wrote: No cart is perfect of course (opencart really needs more order management capabilities and I and a php guru friend are working on) .

If you are not in a gigantic hurry you may want to wait for the next version where a rebuilt order editor will be returning to the core.

Thanks but I don't need to edit orders but to track what products I have in stock, what I need to order, generate purchase orders, etc. That's what I'm working on.