PRESTASHOP VS OPENCART – WHICH IS THE BETTER PLATFORM?

compare-prestashop-opencart

Prestashop and Opencart are both strong open-source platforms with high position in E-commerce world. In below, we have worked out a comprehensive comparison between Prestashop and Opencart to make clear which is the better E-commerce software although both of which are free, rich-featured and used by millions of people around the world.

OpenCart offers its users the suitable solution available to push their online businesses. For a minimal cost, OpenCart users have the free right to build the store they want by utilizing pre-made templates to create a storefront that they are interested in.

With over 3 million users, PrestaShop is one of the world’s largest and most valuable e-commerce tools that an online retailer can take advantage of. Free to use, PrestaShop offers its users the most suitable tools designed to make the process of beginning and running an online store easier and more profitable.

Features

Opencart

Prestashop

Number of available Plugins and Extensions

Medium

High

Content management

Opencart has a fairly solid but simple content management to for non-product pages within your website, annoying known as “information” rather than “Pages” in the administration panel.

Content management is pretty smooth and is a bit more developed/less basic than opencart.

Number of websites using

58486

89179

Market share

39.6%

60.4%

Available devices

WindowsMac

Web-based

Windows	Android
iPhone/iPad	Mac
Web-based

Types of Customers

Small Business | Medium Business | Freelancers

Small Business | Large Enterprises | Medium Business | Freelancers

Administration panel

Opencart’s administration panel is easy enough to use, it does include a number of dead-ends and odd design decisions which can make simple tasks a frustrating experience.

Prestashop’s administration are felt a lot nicer than that of Opencart, but there were still a number of deadends/irritating omissions you would expect from a fairly young open source project.

Theme

Opencart’s default theme improved drastically between version 1.4 and 1.5, though it is still fairly primitive in terms of abstraction of data.

Again, Prestashop felt more developed in this respect, with the default theme being a little more attractive.

Overview

Free but what do you really get?

– Only available in 17 languages

– No natives responsive themes

– No stock management

– Less natives features

– Only 74,500 members on the forum

– Only community support

100% FREE No Monthly Fee – No Commission!

· – No limitations on inventory amount, payment processing solutions, price rules, admin roles, number of stores, marketing features…

– 100% scalable and customizable

– Best SEO in the industry

– Depend on 1,000,000 Open-source Community members

– Make your e-shop available in 65 languages

– 200 different countries use PrestaShop

– Every day 100 new online stores are created

June 17, 2016 PrestaShop News & Updates

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