17 Oct
Posted by Ray Cheung as GPL License, eCommerce
OpenCart is an open source PHP-based online shopping cart system. A robust e-commerce solution for Internet merchants with the ability to create their own online business and participate in e-commerce at a minimal cost.
OpenCart is designed feature rich, easy to use, search engine friendly and with a visually appealing interface. It is not as pretty as Magento, but it is still a very good alternative of paid shopping cart system. Now, log on to the administration section to see how the back-end works with Username: demo / Password: demo.
Visit the live demonstration site to get a feel for how OpenCart works. This is simple template populated with some sample products and cateogries.
Requirements: Apache, PHP 5+ and MySQL
Demo: http://www.opencart.com/demonstration
(Username: demo / Password: demo)
License: GPL License




There has been an incredible explosion of development in this area this year; I guess everyone has realized that there is still a lot of opportunity in this space. It will be interesting to see how OpenCart, Magento and StoreSuite do against more established PHP carts such as Zen and osCommerce.
I’ve never trusted osCommerce after knowing one of the developers on the team - he was a complete script kiddy. These carts are a great alternative.
Where’s the asp.net open source stuff like this?!?
@Andrew
http://www.comersus.com/ is not open source but free to use.
looks like a customised version of joomla with the admin views and menu setup.
looks sweet though. at the moment i use drupal with modules which works ok but not a very friendly solution for clients and some payment methods.
Good post. Shopping cart software is really beginning to evolve now to meet the customers needs.
I have tried http://www.osCommerce.com, then switched to http://www.comersus.com , an open source cart with free download that can be installed in Windows servers. Comersus is better, unless you are a programming guru that preffer linux.
OpenCart very good, but difficult to configure on mode_rewrite. Any one could help.
I am getting difficult to configure to search engine friendly.
You might initially be frightened away by the date listed on the “current” download of OpenCart. However, the info on the home page is just wrong. The current release of OpenCart is 0.7.8 and was released in July of 2008 (not October of 2007 like the home page says).
The next version is currently at release candidate 2 and should be finalized within a month or so. Also, there are some very cool contribs including one that deals with search engine optimization, so that should take care of Mom Bun Heng’s complaint.
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