Opencart vs WooCommerce - Which is the best Open Source Ecommerce Platform?

In this comparison video, I am looking at Opencart vs WooCommerce, which are two of the most popular, open source platforms for building an ecommerce website.
To make this video comparison, I will be looking at 6 different sections to see how these two platforms compare and you can see the timestamps for this below:
00:00 Intro
00:47 Pricing
01:54 Features
05:43 Themes
09:40 Support
10:52 Performance
12:08 Ease of Use
17:14 Conclusion
If you want to see a written comparison between these two platforms, you can check out my post on EcommerceGold (which also includes PrestaShop) as this covers some things in a little bit more detail:
www.ecommerce-gold.com/woocommerce-vs-opencart-vs-prestashop/
One thing I didn't cover in the video was one of the main differences between these two platforms.
Opencart is a purpose built piece of ecommerce software and other features such as a blog etc are an additional feature that you need to install.
WooCommerce on the other hand is a plugin for the WordPress CMS and adds ecommerce functionality to the world's most popular website builder.
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[@bencoelho3]

Thank-you for not having an annoying bot reading a script.

[@EcommerceGold]

No problem. I could be a really advanced bot though!

[@osmargds]

Thank You so much, Paul! This video has helped me a lot!

[@EcommerceGold]

No problem, glad it was helpful

[@hamzayahamdi8781]

keep it going man, thank you for your content

[@EcommerceGold]

Thank you, appreciate the comment

[@azadok]

Absolutely to the point , you made my day, best wishes to you

[@EcommerceGold]

Thank you and hope the video was helpful

[@disasterx2712]

Hey man, your content is very good, please keep it up, thanks very much for the information

[@EcommerceGold]

Thank you, glad you found the video helpful and I don't plan on stopping soon.

[@christoforoskorovesis7107]

Thank you, quite enlightening!

[@EcommerceGold]

You're very welcome!

[@Sinalo69]

Thanks, amazing content

[@EcommerceGold]

No problem, hope it was helpful

[@TamazghaLandOfGod]

Thank you so much brother 👍👍

[@EcommerceGold]

No problem 👍

[@garrus1385]

Thanks. I was vey helpfull.

[@EcommerceGold]

Thank you, I'm glad it was helpful

[@bloukat]

Thanks Paul, very insightful comparison. Question: at 16:55 when looking into ORDER management, do you know of a Woo Commerce plugin you would recommend?

[@EcommerceGold]

Yes, it is called WooCommerce PDF Invoices and Packing slips, it was the one I used on my WooCommerce site, I've done a guide on the plugin that might be helpful www.ecommerce-gold.com/how-to-print-woocommerce-orders/

[@piyatidabeauty7327]

Thank you so much for making this video. Absolutely informative.Now I am so clear I will go for woocommerce

[@EcommerceGold]

No problem, glad it was helpful

[@maisy3042]

would be good if you talked about payment types for both and which payment types are best to use on a e commerce site.

[@EcommerceGold]

Both platforms offer a lot of payment options and it would take me a while to get through both. As for best options, I have done a separate video on this (kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZrJYmuYir-Caa8) but it very much depends on where you are located in the world as to what options are available as not everything is available globally.

[@EsslamMansour]

Thank you

[@EcommerceGold]

No problem.

[@cmsmallengines]

im looking for Related products customers bought this then i need Reward points also live help feature i also need a digital goods etc so is this possible in open cart i know that it is also a multi store from one admin panel also need powerful seo

[@Mauricemukiri]

This is a great comparison between this two platforms. I've been using Woo-commerce for almost 3 years but its main problem is with downloading digital products..most of my clients complain of getting errors during download and it results me into manually sending them their digital products via mail. Is it a common problem for other vendors and is there a solution to this problem

[@user-od8jw8vz3g]

Did u use shopify or something else ?

[@shopepicgifts9468]

thank you

[@EcommerceGold]

No problem, hope you found the video helpful

[@victorfrancisjonathan1914]

In your video, in 11:16th time, you have mentioned that things like theme selection, plugins/extensions that are installed will impact the performance of the eCommerce platform. Also, the performance depends on eCommerce hosting quality. Yes, I agree with both these points. But, should we also give some thought about the tech stack used? How about NodeJS instead of PHP. NodeJS has the option of non-blocking I/O systems, and thus it can handle multiple requests simultaneously and make an eCommerce store efficient in handling multiple requests at the same time. I do understand there are very few eCommerce Solutions on NodeJS. But, there are these Reaction Commerce and Spurtcommerce. And, many Developers do say, in terms of request handling, NodeJS is better than Python and Ruby also.

[@EcommerceGold]

Thank you for the in-depth comment but my videos are aimed at beginners to ecommerce to help them decide which platform is could be the best option for their business, plus I am not a developer, so I look at it from the perspective of someone who is new to the platforms and also someone who has built and run a few ecommerce sites. If I started delving into the development side of things, I would be aiming and a completely different audience and as there are other KZbinrs out there who know a lot more than me about it, I will happily leave that to them.

[@victorfrancisjonathan1914]

I do understand that your target audience is different. Audience with technical interest will also surely bump into your video. So, I thought, from my point of view if I add a comment, with my knowledge, it can be helpful for such audience also.

[@Laurentiu_Grecu]

Bravo!

[@EcommerceGold]

Thank you!

[@secamglobalinc325]

excellent video... thank you very much dear friend very good information to take into account. just one question. If I already have opencart installed with my website can I pass it to woocommerce right? and how could i do it. thank you and greetings

[@EcommerceGold]

Thank you. No you need to migrate your data, products, customers etc from Opencart to WooCommerce and I'm not sure of the exact process for those two platforms

[@rawpamper]

WP is a blogging platform which is changed to and e-commerce using plugin where as OC is made for e-commerce out of the box.

[@EcommerceGold]

Correct but that still doesn't answer the question as to which one is better for ecommerce.

[@rawpamper]

@@EcommerceGold obviously Opencart. I can understand people using WP for ease and plugin.Which also means vulnerability, slowing of speed . If you have a site and you want to integrate 5 -10 products there, then WP is good . But for a stand alone ECommerce one should go with an e-commerce framework and not a blogging platform. It depends what one is looking for, considering their seriousness of their e-commerce in the long run or an immediate fix. Sometimes too much of WP update is overwhelming 🙄

[@EcommerceGold]

It's not really obvious though, just because a platform is designed purposely for something doesn't mean that it is actually good at it but everyone is entitled to their opinion.

[@souvlaki42]

thanks bro

[@EcommerceGold]

No problem, hope the video helped

[@formulaone07]

Hey Paul, can I design the site in Webflow, export the code (HTML, CSS, and any Javascript) and customize the Opencart website this way? Or will there be technical problems?

[@EcommerceGold]

Hi, I honestly don't know as I haven't looked into customization options within Opencart beyond what is available within the platform/dashboard. There may be some technical issues as Opencart is known as not being the most developer friendly platform, the best place to ask would be the Opencart community forum as there are people in there much more knowledgeable than me about the platform.

[@J90JAM]

No. The code webflow creates won’t just port over. Don’t forget that Opencart is built using PHP too.

[@TheCityAnimal]

I found that Opencart theme and extension are many bugs after 2.0 version. Their 3rd party programmer should be no full testing before launch their theme and extension.

[@SteveSmith-gh2yh]

What do you know about SureCart? Is it only for digital products. subscriptions, and donations?

[@EcommerceGold]

Not much, it is one of the plugins I need to take a look at.

[@PacLevkov]

I have just tried WooCommerce... I spend a day to try to setup a store, choosing from varyaty of free themes, most of them you need to start creating from 0, because they don't look as the image when you browsing. Each of my picked theme requires payment for Pro version, in order to have most of the functionalities. With OpenCart, it tooks me around 1 hour, to setup the store and have a demo running. Not sure still which to pick, perhaps i will continue to research, but so far, configuring the store with WooCommerce is not that easy as they advertise it, or at least not for me.

[@EcommerceGold]

Setting up WooCommerce isn't the easiest thing to do and the themes don't generally install the demo content so they look like they do in the demos. I agree that Opencart is easier to set up but WooCommerce offers a lot more in terms of customization, plugins, flexibility etc but you need to find what is best for your business.

[@wayniesinclair]

do one on Magento vs woo

[@EcommerceGold]

I'm not planning on doing any Magento content in the near future, due to it being more of an enterprise level platform, which requires specific hosting and in many cases a Magento developer. It isn't a great option for people new to ecommerce, which is who my channel is aimed at.

[@fabiogarcia1431]

Is Woocommerce good for an online grocery store? We intend to manage 250+ products.

[@EcommerceGold]

It would work

[@yahya.abdulaziz]

Your videos are real gold. Could you do a comparison between 3d cart and Shopify? 3d cart has similar pricing and features and I think it is a good alternative for Shopify.

[@EcommerceGold]

Thank you! 3dcart vs Shopify is definitely on the list of my to do videos as it is a pretty good comparison

[@chichkeno]

Woo commerce vs Prestashop?

[@EcommerceGold]

I will be comparing the three platforms in a video soon

[@deyuhuang6194]

I think Opencart is for developers WOO for designers

[@indianangel2194]

Nice video and comparison. In my opinion woocommerce is too slow.

[@prashantgautam8983]

The BASS in his voice............

[@zeleaalex]

thanks for the video. As feedback you are too close to the camera haha

[@EcommerceGold]

No problem. Thanks for the feedback but there is wall behind the my camera & computer, so not much I can do about it I'm afraid 🙁

[@freshpootube]

Are you a developer / coder?

[@EcommerceGold]

No, I ran an ecommerce business for a number of years

[@FikriKawakibi]

First

[@EcommerceGold]

Thank you, appreciated!

[@groslait7814]

Woo commerce is better,I built one shop without any paid features, I tried prestashop I don’t turst those so called professional platforms anymore they even charges you for very basic plugin,

[@rafusoft]

woo commerce and wordpress are needed to maintain too much.. otherwise it will hacked.. opencart much better

[@irtazulislamevan7481]

Omg!! You mostly look like johnny sins

[@sardarmosavi303]

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