OpenCart is a turn-key ready "out of the box" shopping cart solution. You simply install, select your template, add products and your ready to start accepting orders.
- Unlimited Categories
- Unlimited Products
- Unlimited Manufacturers
- Templates
- Multi-Language
- Multi-Currency
- Product Reviews & Ratings
- Downloadable Products
- Automatic Image Resizing
- Multiple Tax Rates
- Related Products
- Information Pages
- Shipping Weight Calculation
- Discount Coupon System
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Module System
- Printable Invoices
- Sales Reports
It includes most European languages and currencies from which the shop owner can choose the one(s) to use. Additionally, there are a bunch of other tweaks that make life easier for Europe-centric businesses.
The biggest benefit of this package is for newcomers to OpenCart, i.e. for new installations. There are benefits to those who upgrade from older versions of OpenCart to OpenCart Europa 1.5.4.1 as well, but the benefits in case of fresh install are more.
Currencies
OpenCart Europa includes most European currencies.
Pound Sterling, US Dollar, Euro, Bulgarian Lev, Czech Koruna, Danish Krone, Latvian Lat, Lithuanian Litas, Norwegian Krone, Polish złoty, Romanian new leu, Russian Ruble, Serbian Dinar, Ukrainian Hryvna, Hungarian Forint, Swedish krona, Swiss franc, Belarusian ruble, Macedonian denar, Icelandic króna, Turkish lira, Albanian lek, Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark
ISO codes: GBP, USD, EUR, BGN, CZK, DKK, LVL, LTL, NOK, PLN, RON, RUB, RSD, UAH, HUF, SEK, CHF, BYR, MKD, ISK, TRY, ALL, BAM
Languages
OpenCart Europa includes translations in most European languages.
Please note that not all of the included languages are available for the Admin Panel. Below is the list of available languages.
Shopfront Languages
Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian
Autonyms: български език, Català, Hrvatski jezik, Èeština, Dansk, Nederlands, English, Eesti keel, Suomi, Le français, Deutsch, ελληνικά, Magyar, Italiano, Latviešu valoda, Lietuvių kalba, Norsk, Język polski, Português, Română, Pу́сский язы́к, Cрпски, Slovenčina, Slovenščina, Español, Svenska, Türkçe, Украї́нська мо́ва
Admin Panel Languages
Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian
Language pack props
OpenCart Europa incorporates OpenSource work of many translators. Details of the included translations are below.
Please note that not all languages are up to date. Sometimes translators stop translating or move language packs from OpenSource to Commercial. I have tried to include the latest OpenSource versions of the translations.
The impact of older translations is effectively a partial translation. Where a particular phrase or sentence is not available for a particular language, OpenCart falls back on English. So please do not uninstall English!
Occasionally, you might see field names (e.g. text_shopping_cart, etc) instead of actual phrases or sentences in some parts of the shop. This usually means that the relevant file is not available for that particular language and hence OpenCart has trouble falling back to English. Please report any such occurance at http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php?f=117&t=83998
Following are the language packs included.
Note: Version numbers below are as reported by authors/translators.
- Bulgarian for OpenCart 1.5.2.1 by pavlin_nikolchev
- Catalan for OpenCart 1.5.4.1 by Jaume Bosch
- Croatian for OpenCart 1.5.1.3 by galuzzi
- Czech for OpenCart 1.5.4 by salab
- Danish for OpenCart 1.5.0.5 by chokk
- Dutch for OpenCart 1.5.4 by i2Paq
- Better English for OpenCart 1.5.4.1 by OC2PS
- Estonian for OpenCart 1.5.1.3 by deffex
- Finnish for OpenCart 1.5.3.1 by Jushi85
- French for OpenCart 1.5.3.1 by LeorLindel
- German for OpenCart 1.5.4.1 by a.tangemann
- Greek for OpenCart 1.5.2.1 by tsopis
- Hungarian for OpenCart 1.5.4.1 by OC2PS
- Italian for OpenCart 1.5.2.1 by madimar
- Latvian for OpenCart 1.5.0.5 by Heks
- Lithuanian for OpenCart 1.5.1.3 by radvis
- Norwegian for OpenCart 1.5.0.4 by kim-r
- Polish for OpenCart 1.5.1.1 by kardasz
- Portuguese for OpenCart 1.5.3.1 by ceptron
- Romanian for OpenCart 1.5.1.2 by REpho
- Russian for OpenCart 1.5.1.3 by rb
- Serbian for OpenCart 1.5.0.5 by tehnicki
- Slovak for OpenCart 1.4.7 by fander
- Slovenian for OpenCart 1.5.2.1 by silverseven
- Spanish for OpenCart 1.5.4.1 by rowend
- Swedish for OpenCart 1.5.2.1 by snights
- Turkish for OpenCart 1.5.4.1 by eka7a
- Ukrainian for OpenCart 1.5.0 by Shaman
Countries
OpenCart has, among the list of countries, one called Yugoslavia, which doesn't exist anymore. At the same time, the country of Serbia is absent.
OpenCart Europa fixes that. Yugoslavia is removed, Serbia is added.
Zones (States/Regions/Counties)
A couple of fixes here:
- For most European countries, in OpenCart Europa the names of the regions are now in native language, e.g. Regions of Bulgaria, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, and Serbia are in Cryllic script.
- For Latvia, OpenCart Europa removes the anachronistic administratīvais rajons.
- For Hungary, OpenCart Europa removes the cities from the dropdown of counties (megyek).
- For a couple of European countries, OpenCart original package is missing a county or two. This has been fixed in OpenCart Europa.
While most of the language fields are static, there are certain things that are a part of the database, and hence are not included in language packs.
These include units of length, units of weight, stock statuses, order statuses, reason for return, return status, return action, voucher theme name, and titles of information pages. OpenCart Europa already includes these translations.
If you come across a field from list that could be translated better, please post your suggestion at http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php?f=117&t=84000
Geo zones
Geo Zones are OpenCart's way of lumping together territories with the purpose of assigning taxes, shipping or billing information.
OpenCart Europa comes with following pre-built geo-zones:
- 1 per European country, so that VAT may be appropriately assigned.
- EU shipping zone, for use with carriers that might provide preferential EU shipping rates.
- Rest of the world international shipping zone which may be used to assign common shipping rates for non-EU countries.
OpenCart Europa comes with VAT rates for European countries.
Please note, however, that:
- VAT rates change over time. You should ensure that the rates in your shop are correct.
- OpenCart Europa comes with top VAT rates for each European country. However, there are usually multiple VAT rates within each country. If you sell a product that uses a different rate, you need to add that.
- OpenCart Europa comes with a single VAT rate per European country. However, occasionally there are more sales taxes than just national VAT. In such cases you will have to adjust the geo zones and rates accordingly.
OpenCart Europa comes prepackaged with vQmod - the easiest way to customize OpenCart.
Rich Snippets markup
Product pages in OpenCart Europa contain rich snippet markup based on schema.org (if you use Default theme). This could possibly put your shop head & shoulders above competition in search results. Achieved via http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... on_id=6485 included prepackaged.
Dummy data
OpenCart original comes with a bunch of dummy data for products, categories etc. In our experience, it is time consuming and wasteful to delete these dummy data.
OpenCart Europa does not create dummy categories, products, options, attributes, etc.
That said, OpenCart Europa does include the slideshows that come in the original package, as this provides shop-owners good examples to follow.
Other nifty, little things
- Ability to customize the looks without changing theme - therefore benefiting from all extensions written for Default theme. Achieved via http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... on_id=6241 included prepackaged.
- Order emails sent to shop owner are same as those sent to customers. Achieved via http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... on_id=6371 included prepackaged.
- Order emails include product photos. Achieved via http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... on_id=7102 included prepackaged.
- Category module if placed in content areas (as opposed to left/right columns) shows category photos. Achieved via http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... on_id=7880 included prepackaged.
- Categories in category module are assigned CSS classes so they can be customized. Achieved via http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... on_id=6500 included prepackaged.
- In admin panel, hover highlights row. Massively useful. Achieved via http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... on_id=5083 included prepackaged. Props KatGirl
- In admin panel, instead of having to go through a long list of products, you can view products by category. Achieved via http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... on_id=2663 included prepackaged. Props Gigo
- Other tweaks that make life easier for shop owner...
so i think if it is possible to add this it is better for
concernig the EU features i think it is a "default version" with addon 
after i change default language from EN to DE i get an error like this:
