Magento or OpenCart?

Anyone trying to open their own online store wants to know: Should I use Magento or OpenCart?

Starting an online store is a tempting proposition. You can work from home, look to the future for products, and let your past work pay you by doing nothing more than being sold. There are a lot of things to take into consideration once you decide to open your own store. One of the more complex decisions is figuring out which ecommerce solution to employ.

There are a lot of different content management systems that will help you run an online store. Two of the most popular choices are Magento and OpenCart. Both of these systems can run your store, take payments, and alert you when you need to ship those items. Everything you’d need from a store! Well, not exactly. There are many different aspects of each of these platforms that you’re going to have to consider. Deployment speed, hosting cost, learning curve, ease of customization, features, and – most importantly – SEO are all important facets to consider.

Deployment – All of my products are ready to sell, how quickly can I make money?

You’d like to start selling your products yesterday, so which option will allow you to get everything set up and ready to go quickly and easily?

OpenCart is relatively simple to set up. Out of the box, it provides you with a default theme and a back end that provides you with an easy way to customize and organize your products into categories. The most difficult part of working with OpenCart is figuring out how to create a page. In OpenCart, they are not called pages, but information. You can create one by going to the back end and navigating to Catalog → Information in the admin menu.

Magento is a little different. Its learning curve is more difficult and requires you to make mistakes beforehand. Without making these mistakes, you may find yourself completely redoing your entire product base. Magento is ready to go, out of the box, but getting your products listed and even setting up pages is a bit difficult.

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