Prestashop or Opencart, Which one will you choose?
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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