In many articles comparing between Opencart and Magento
it is usually stated that if the business is big, then go for Magento
Is this true?
what does "large" and "small" mean?in term of traffic?number of order?number of visitor?
what make Opencart not suitable for big business?
Thank you
OC can handle more simply whatever magento can do that is actually important to do, at substantially lesser cost (free plus extensions or the like), and with substantially more straightforward installation, configuration, maintenance, and customization. In comparison to OC, if you recall the cartoon of the USA OSHA approved bicycle, or if you recall the Rube Goldberg apparatus cartoons, you'll have a good mental image of the differences. Substantially more people have come to OC from other carts than went the other way (nose counts are easily teased out of forums and searches). For all practical purposes OC is your best choice over other carts.
Whether a store is small or large is a matter of perspective and scale on rubber yardsticks. If you happen to run an enormous chain store, then 500,000 products may be enough to call big. If you happen to sell hand painted party balloons, then 1,000 products would probably be pretty big. For practical purposes OC can handle whatever number and diversity of products you can give it. Whatever numbers of visitors you have, OC can field them, the limitations will be in your server itself, where you may have bandwidth and session caps. However many orders you might enjoy, OC can handle those.
NOTHING makes OC unsuitable for "big" business other than that the software itself is free and carries no pretense of providing every possible bell, whistle, kitchen sink, and other useless or counterproductive whatnots that might be imagined -- or that are offered as pricey add-ons in order to achieve what OC does out of its box or does with modestly priced additions. Some people balk that some extensions for OC are expensive (even at $10, let alone at hundreds); try finding comparably priced modules for commercial carts. Some companies cannot handle the concept of free open source and want the blankies and teddy bears of unnecessary spending that keeps bean counters happy or earns vice presidential brownie points (no joke, when firms are big enough there is limited common sense left). OC itself is perhaps a bean counters' nightmare; nothing to count.
Whether a store is small or large is a matter of perspective and scale on rubber yardsticks. If you happen to run an enormous chain store, then 500,000 products may be enough to call big. If you happen to sell hand painted party balloons, then 1,000 products would probably be pretty big. For practical purposes OC can handle whatever number and diversity of products you can give it. Whatever numbers of visitors you have, OC can field them, the limitations will be in your server itself, where you may have bandwidth and session caps. However many orders you might enjoy, OC can handle those.
NOTHING makes OC unsuitable for "big" business other than that the software itself is free and carries no pretense of providing every possible bell, whistle, kitchen sink, and other useless or counterproductive whatnots that might be imagined -- or that are offered as pricey add-ons in order to achieve what OC does out of its box or does with modestly priced additions. Some people balk that some extensions for OC are expensive (even at $10, let alone at hundreds); try finding comparably priced modules for commercial carts. Some companies cannot handle the concept of free open source and want the blankies and teddy bears of unnecessary spending that keeps bean counters happy or earns vice presidential brownie points (no joke, when firms are big enough there is limited common sense left). OC itself is perhaps a bean counters' nightmare; nothing to count.
I have seen big companies using OpenCart. Magento needs a powerful system to run it, and it's much more costly.
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