OpenCart is a free open-source eCommerce software that makes it easy to build and manage an online store. Manage your products, inventory, shipping, sales, promotions, and taxes right from a dashboard known as the Admin Panel.
Accept money right from your OpenCart store by utilizing many of the popular payment gateways such as PayPal, Authorize.net, Amazon Pay, and Square among others.
Use Custom templates to quickly change the look and style of your eCommerce website. If you are a web designer you can also custom code your site to further suit your needs.
Install free or commercial OpenCart Extensions to add abilities to your store like search engine optimization (SEO), or social media tools.
Check out our catalog of OpenCart tutorials to learn how to make a successful online store.
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OpenCart Basics
OpenCart provides a reliable and feature-rich ecommerce hosting solution for businesses of all sizes. While OpenCart is quite easy to use, these guides will help you when you’re first starting out with your online store. Explore our basic OpenCart tutorials to learn how to install, log in, then start adding products and setting up payment, tax, and shipping rates.
Getting Started
These tutorials include some of the first steps you should take when running an online store using OpenCart. Get started by learning how to install, then login, and setup your website
One of the most important aspects of running an eCommerce store is product management. The following guides will help you learn how to add traditional and downloadable products, product categories, tags, reviews, and attributes among other things.
Now that you know how to add products, the next step is to be able to accept payments, charge taxes, and ship the items. Learn how to accomplish that with the following tutorials.
Now that you started an online store using OpenCart, it’s time to customize your site. Extensions and Modules are an easy way to add functionality or change the look and feel of your website. Learn more about customizing your OpenCart site in the following guides.
The WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is quickly becoming one of the most popular ways to manage an eCommerce business. Due to this, we are seeing many people migrating to WooCommerce from other eCommerce platforms. In this guide, we will go over some of the best options for moving your online store over to WooCommerce. Topics Read More >
Updating your store logo and favicon is a staple part of branding on your website. If you have a favicon in your public_html folder, OpenCart may use it by default. Below we cover how to change the favicon and store logo. Add Store Logo and Favicon Log into OpenCart. Select Settings under System. Select the Read More >
Like using a SSL certificate, backups are important to your OpenCart and web hosting security. Below we cover how to backup your OpenCart database in your admin dashboard. Backup Database Login OpenCart. Under Settings, select Maintenance and Backup / Restore. Specify tables to backup and select Export. You can restore the .sql file in the Read More >
Your contact form needs to work to assure customers you care about their feedback. Your email configuration could be the reason it doesn’t. Below we’ll configure OpenCart to send emails. Have a large organization and need more server resources than your VPS provides? Upgrade to a Dedicated Server today. Configure Email Settings Log into OpenCart. Read More >
You don’t want customers making orders while you’re doing major upgrades and data restorations as data corruption is possible. In such cases, it may be best to temporarily convert your store to a one page website with an estimated time before its running again. Below we cover how to enable maintenance mode in OpenCart 3. Read More >
OpenCart is a popular software for managing an Ecommerce store. Learn how to manage products, inventory, and shipping with the articles in this section.
In this tuorial we will show you how to enable SSL (https) in OpenCart 3. This allows you to utilize an SSL certificate in OpenCart, and serve your site over https. Note: You must have an SSL before completing this guide. Enable SSL Log into your Opencart Dashboard. Click System then Settings in the navigation Read More >
The developers of OpenCart have released version 2.3.0.2! The newest release includes bug fixes, improved features and 5 new payment gateways. As per the OpenCart announcement, the new payment gateways include: Klarna Card Connect Divido Pilibaba Telecash This release fixes the issues with the earlier 2.3x releases. Click here to see the official change log Read More >
Who is affected? If you are are an OpenCart ecommerce software user and find that emails never seem to come to you, then the information share below is for you. At present, this issue is known to affect OpenCart 1.5x users. What is the problem? OpenCart can send emails back to an administrator for a Read More >
OpenCart 2.0 is the latest version of the ecommerce software. Unlike more general-purpose content management systems (CMSs) like WordPress, the OpenCart e-commerce software is focused entirely on helping you setup an online shop. You can quickly install it using the Softaculous option available in cPanel. This tutorial will step you through the process of installing Read More >
After installing OpenCart, the next step is to login to the OpenCart Admin Dashboard. The OpenCart Dashboard is where you can customize the look of your eCommerce website, as well as add and edit products. In this tutorial we will show you how to log into the OpenCart Dashboard. The screen shot below illustrates the screen that you will see when you successfully Read More >
Many people have decided to use the free CloudFlare CDN service with their website. The free option does not allow the use of SSL through CloudFlare. However, there is a workaround that lets you use it with your OpenCart site. CLoudFlare uses the www subdomain to route through CloudFlare’s servers. This allows your site www.example.com Read More >
In this tutorial: Reset Password Troubleshoot Warning message If you are unable to login to your OpenCart Dashboard, there is a Forgot Password link that can help you. In this tutorial we will show you how to Reset your OpenCart Password, so you can login to the Admin Dashboard. How to Reset your Admin Password Read More >
OpenCart 1.5.x now includes the ability to use a Reward Point system. For example, people who purchase a product can get a point, then you can use those points to purchase other items. The amount of points a products gives, or costs can be setup from the OpenCart Dashboard. In this tutorial we will show Read More >
OpenCart has an option available to easily perform Backups and Restorations of your OpenCart database in the Dashboard. We recommend maintaining your own regular backups, so you can recover your website in case of emergencies. In this guide we will walk you through the backup and restore process in OpenCart 1.5. Perform a Backup: Login Read More >
Product tags in OpenCart help you group and categorize products together, which helps customers navigate your store and find items they are looking for. In this tutorial we will show you how to work with Product Tags in OpenCart. Where do Product Tags Display? When you add a Product Tag to an item in OpenCart, Read More >
One of the more common questions we get by new OpenCart users is how to create discounts and specials for products. The instructions below will guide you on how to make your own discounts and specials within your OpenCart website. How to create discounts for your products Log into your OpenCart administrative interface. Hover over Read More >
This is a tutorial on how to change your OpenCart URL. There are various reasons for changing your website’s URL, such as testing our website on your Temporary URL, or you may just want to use a different domain name for your site. We will walk you through editing and updating 2 .php files in Read More >
Once you have your Attributes added to your Attribute Group in OpenCart, you can add the attributes to your products. This tutorial will teach you how to add attributes to your OpenCart Products. Adding Attributes to a Product Log into your OpenCart Dashboard. Go to Catalog > Products. Edit the Article you created the Attributes Read More >
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