Prestashop or Opencart, Which one will you choose?

Prestashop Vs Opencart
Let’s have a brief walk through the features of Prestashop and Opencart and hope you can find the one that utilize your business opportunities in the best manner.

Prestashop is an award winning free open source e-commerce shopping cart platform with a huge online community, over 125000 online stores and extensive feature list including:

  • Site Management
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Analytics & Reporting
  • Localizations/Taxes
  • Shipping & Payments

OpenCart is free open source e-commerce platform for online merchants who is looking to mark up their shop with a professional look and feel. OpenCart is enriched with the following functionalities:

  • Multilingual, Multi store & Multi currency support
  • Product reviews & Ratings
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Back up & Restore tools
  • Sales report & Error logging

 

 

Did you know about this?

Prestashop OpenCart
Release Date 2007 2010
Started By Igor Schlumberger & Bruno Leveque Daniel Kerr
Technology Summary PHP & based on Smarty Template Engine with MySQL PHP
Latest Versions 1.6.0.8 1.5.6.4
System Requirements Apache 1.3/2.x, Nginx, Microsoft IIS, PHP 5.1.x, and MySQL 5.0.x Apache, PHP 5.2.x, MySQL and Curl
No: of Plugins/ Extensions Over 25,000 Over 9,000
Popular Sites using this platform Vusion glassesPlanet SushiThe fab shoes British red crossChristmas ChopComputer Store
Most Popular in countries France
Spain
Indonesia
Czech Republic
Indonesia
Czech RepublicUkraine
Russia
Average monthly maintenance cost Low Low
Global monthly google search (Approximately) Around 165000 Around 90500
Ease of Installation Easy Easy
Ease of Customization Easy Easy
No: of features Over 310 Over 100
Suitable hosting Solutions Shared
Cloud
VPS
Dedicated
Shared
Cloud
VPS
Dedicated
PCI compliance support Yes Yes
Recommended for Store OwnersDevelopers
Designers
Store OwnersDevelopers
Designers

 

Briefing Features that will give you a better idea on OpenCart & PrestaShop

1.Content management

OpenCart: Open Cart is a solid, yet simple cms for non-product pages within your web site, known as ‘Information’ rather than ‘Pages’ in the administration panel.

PrestaShop: Content management, when compared to Open cart is pretty simple and is a bit more advanced/less basic.

2.Administration panel

OpenCart: OpenCart’s administration panel is simple to use, as it does include a lot of dead-ends and odd design decisions which can give simple tasks a frustrating user experience (e.g., having to add a ‘model number’ to an item whether you want it or not).

PrestaShop: PrestaShop’s administration panel is much easier and simpler when compared to Open cart.

3.Theming and Available Extensions

OpenCart: OpenCart’s default theme improved very well between versions 1.4 and 1.5, but old  in terms of abstraction of data; expect for a lot of PHP snippets in your HTML code.

PrestaShop: PrestaShop themes are more advanced and user appealing, with their default theme being a bit more attractive.

when it comes to add-ons, both the 2 software’s comes with a wide range of add-ons and extensions, making sure that users are able to add more features to their stores.

4.Range of available add-ons/extensions

Both OpenCart & Prestashop has got a fantastic extension support and has got more common features that you want to add to your store like blogs, Twitter,LinkedIn and Facebook integration.

5.Documentation

OpenCart: Opencart has a wide range of online documentation available and also an active community discussion forum to guide those who are new to Opencart.

PrestaShop: PrestaShop being a Paris-based company, most of the documentation are in French language, though this is being slowly resolved.

6.Search engine friendliness

OpenCart: In OpenCart you can create SEO friendly URLs for the products and pages.

PrestaShop: PrestaShop search engine features are similar to OpenCart, but can take lot of to time to configure  in order to get search-engine friendly URLs.

7.Scalability

OpenCart: Opencart can handle a huge number of product easily, as it is able to order by manufacturer and attributes like color, size etc. An Opencart store can have more than 1500 products in it, with a good performance in the development server.

PrestaShop: PrestaShop is developed for scalability. PrestaShop claims that it has no limitation in the quality of products and attributes that can be displayed and sell in their users’ store.

8.Checkout process

OpenCart: Opencart has a guest feature available for the customers. The customers can simply enter the minimum amount of details required to process their orders and don’t have to sign up for an account.

PrestaShop: Prestashop offers a one-page checkout amount features, which enables the users to customize the fields to collect certain information. From designing to shipping, Prestashop checkouts makes purchasing easier for its customers.

9.Multi-Store

Both Opencart and Prestashop, have multi-store functions that allows the end users to manage the multi stores from its admin panel. The users can have the following benefits by setting up a multi stores:

  • Different price sets for every store.
  • Different product set to appearance on specific eCommerce stores.
  • Set up different themes to match the items that are being sold.
  • Localization of each store by setting up various default currency and tax class.
  • Can set up a default customers group for every store, which allows the users to have setup like a retail or wholesale customers.

10. Shipping & Support

Both Opencart & PrestaShop allows flexible shipping modules, which provides the customers with reliable shipping options and the ability to include custom message. With this software, users are capable of controlling logistics such as fees, weight, shipping retractions etc.

Conclusion

With highly developed open source eCommerce platforms, both PrestaShop & OpenCart has got all the features you need, from product, category listings and support of payment gateways.

I hope now you got a better view of Prestashop vs Opencart and how it can effectively manage your business activities.

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