What is OpenCart
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.
Sign up for OpenCart Hosting with InMotion and start your eCommerce business today.
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
Managing Products
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.
Setting Up Payment, Taxes, and Shipping
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.
OpenCart Customization
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.
Latest OpenCart Tutorials
Here is a list of our most recent OpenCart walk-through guides.
- How to reset my OpenCart Admin Password
- Creating a Voucher Template in OpenCart
- Adding a New Currency in OpenCart
- Adding a custom Stock Status to OpenCart 1.5
- Creating a new Manufacturer in OpenCart 1.5
- Adding a manufacturer to the banner in OpenCart 1.5
- Installing the “Powered By” vQmod Extension
- Error with vQmod after upgrading to OpenCart 1.5.2
- How to Ban Visitors by IP Address in OpenCart 1.5x
- Customizing the Footer of OpenCart 1.5 by removing “Powered by”
- How to add percentages to Specials in OpenCart
- Displaying Specials in specific areas of OpenCart
- Configuring the Specials Module in OpenCart
- Installing the Specials Module in OpenCart
- Deleting an Affiliate Account in OpenCart
- Approving Affiliate accounts in OpenCart
- Creating an Affiliate account as a customer in OpenCart
- Manually creating Affiliate accounts in OpenCart
- Introduction to Affiliates in OpenCart
- Multiple Languages in OpenCart 1.5
- Using the Bulk Export/ Import Extension in OpenCart
- Install Bulk Import/Export Extension for OpenCart Products
- Using a Subdomain to store your images in OpenCart 1.5
- Using Web Browser Caching in OpenCart 1.5
- Enabling GZIP compression in OpenCart 1.5
- Removing the Product Count to speed up OpenCart 1.5
- Working with error reporting in OpenCart 1.5
- Enabling Maintenance Mode in OpenCart 1.5
- Adding Options to Products in OpenCart
- Setting up Options in OpenCart
