Opencart OR Prestashop ?

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    Opencart OR Prestashop ?

    Your vote and what feature you like about them most?
     
    mustcatchit, May 7, 2014 IP
  2. Beth Fields

    Beth Fields Peon

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    i would definitely go for opencart for being easy friendly,simplier, lighter, faster,feature rich.
     
    Beth Fields, May 8, 2014 IP
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    BigBoxHost Well-Known Member

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    +1 for opencart easy to use, friendly, lots of customization can be done.
     
    BigBoxHost, May 9, 2014 IP
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    Jigney Active Member

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    It is depends upon the features you want to include in your website. I will go for the prestashop. As so many of our client find it easy to use if it build correctly.
     
    Jigney, May 10, 2014 IP
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    We use open cart and we love it so far. It's very easy to customize.
     
    championsport, May 13, 2014 IP
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    opencart is soooo easy...im building my first site with it right now. got an amazing theme on themeforest.net and it looks very professional for just $45
     
    ggmedia, May 13, 2014 IP
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    championsport Active Member

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    Yeah I couldn't agree more. Just wish EVERY extension that you need didn't cost money. like the bing merchant center extension :(
     
    championsport, May 13, 2014 IP
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    ggmedia Member

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    it's really pennies on the dollar when you factor in paying monthly for the big dogs. I'm going to build my whole site for around $300 and thats with all extensions and graphics
     
    ggmedia, May 13, 2014 IP
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    bellcom Well-Known Member

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    Opencart here too. A lot of the extensions I buy are only like $10 to $45 for something I may get quoted a few hundred for if I try to hire a coder to make customizations for me.

    Just built this site with a few extensions, a theme from themeforest and some help from guys here in the coding section to make a custom menu.
    racemeshtrucks.com
     
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  10. 123eCommerce

    123eCommerce Greenhorn

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    If you consider opencart, try abantecart. It is similar in architecture but has much better UI and more features. As for prestashop, it is messy.
     
    123eCommerce, May 18, 2014 IP
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    Rado_ch Well-Known Member

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    I wouldn't say that PrestaShop is messy at all, quite contrary - most things are pretty straightforward and it has a very low learning curve. Moreover its community is very helpful and there are very nice free plugins if you want to get your costs done. I had a friend with absolutely no experience in any site-building software building and launching a shop for less than 3 weeks. So complication is definitely not an issue for PrestaShop.

    +1 for AbanteCart tho, as mentioned it is very similar to OpenCart and I expect an even greater future for it.

    At the end of the day I can't say OpenCart is worse, nothing of the kind, but I certainly wouldn't claim that its better than Presta - it really comes down on personal experiences and which one feels better for the particular person using it ;)
     
    Rado_ch, May 19, 2014 IP
  12. championsport

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    The free custom HTML box is extremely useful for adding your own content or designing something via HTML and implementing it without a hassle. We use ours to add all of our advertisements for our products and specials and we also put our paypal bill me later promo there as well. Pretty useful if I do say so myself! :)
     
    championsport, May 19, 2014 IP