Merchants willingly create online stores on Opencart, because the advantages of this system exactly more than the disadvantages.
Merchants willingly create online stores on Opencart, because the advantages of this system exactly more than the disadvantages. We have already said a lot about the pros of Opencart: affordable pricing policy, a large number of extensions, the constant growth of the base of additional materials, open source code, etc. Here are a few more reasons why many people prefer this system:
- the available Russian-language version of Opencart and an active community of users who add new topics, extensions, tutorials and participate in forum discussions;
- Built-in analytics system, which can be improved by connecting the tools of Yandex or Google.
Like any other system, Opencart has its shortcomings:
- Because of the large number of installed plugins, the engine can be slow. As a result, the store performs worse.
- When it comes to better functionality, all plugins can fit. Often you will have to try all sorts of combinations of extensions.
- The Opencart engine does not provide for the removal of duplicated pages. The webmaster has to fix this problem himself or unload the appropriate plugins.
- Plugins go through a quality assessment before they get to the Opencart marketplace, but not all of them are completely safe. If you add an extension from a side developer, there is a risk of data leakage.
- Opencart users note that unloading products is very inconvenient. Often the goods end up in the MySQL database, so you have to upload the entire assortment all over again. Also, users don’t like the fact that the catalog of over 30,000 products is difficult to optimize.
- Even the updated version has a number of problems with SEO. In order for the store to meet all search engine parameters, you will have to download the appropriate plugins.
- After the engine update, some modules may not work. Usually due to incompatibility of versions.