Creating an online store on Opencart

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Website management system (CMS) Opencart has powerful advantages:

  • Guaranteed high speed of loading and operation of the site.
  • Easy adaptation to solve problems of any level of complexity.
  • CMS Opencart does not have high requirements for the server placement, which will save money on the purchase and maintenance of the server.
  • Multifunctionality. Opencart has a very developed community, and is one of the most popular CMS for the development of online stores – so there is a huge number of both free and paid modules to solve virtually any functional problems.
  • Open source code, which does not require a license and at the same time allows you to make any necessary changes to the engine code.
  • Large community and support. A huge number of forums and developers, which allows you not to worry about further site support or improvements.

What business is suitable for creating an online store on opencart?

This engine is ideal for small and medium-loaded online stores, where the number of products is within 200,000 – 250,000 positions. But it should be understood that this limit is very conditional, and does not say that this store is suitable only for small companies. Website development online store on opencart is good that optimizing the engine and competently distributing the load can have an almost unlimited number of product categories and place a large number of product positions. Thus, regardless of the size of the store today, you can choose this engine without hesitation – and even with the active growth of your business – CMS Opencart will not let you down. Also this system will suit companies of any sphere of activity: even provided that Opencart is designed initially for online stores (clothing, auto parts, housewares, shoes, perfumes and cosmetics, etc.) – on the basis of this engine can be qualitatively developed bulletin boards, sites for the sale of paid training courses, online auctions and many other sites.

During our work on the WEB development market we have concluded that the most relevant for our clients are two formats: “Easy Start” and “Business”. This approach allows us to offer each client exactly what his business needs now.

Development in the “Easy Start” format

  • We offer a ready set of design packages to choose from, which allows you to avoid involving a designer and a layout designer to work on the project. The site is fully adapted to work on all mobile devices.
  • We connect and customize the work of the main modules that fully cover the needs of the standard functionality of the online store: sliders and banners, promotions and discounts, product options, one-click ordering, personal cabinet with order history, convenient shopping cart.
  • SEO settings: the store has all the necessary functionality for SEO specialist. Fields for filling meta data, sitemap for Google, robots.txt, etc.
  • We set up Google analytics, Google Search Console, install Facebook pixel,
  • 6 months of free technical support for the project.
  • Development period – 5-6 weeks.

Development in the “Business” format

  • Analysis of competitors’ sites in the business niche in Europe and the USA. Evaluation of the functionality of sites, their advantages and disadvantages.
  • Together with you we create the terms of reference for the development of online store.
  • We form a prototype of the future site, agree on all functional blocks and their location.
  • We develop an individual design of the online store.
  • We analyze the main key queries of your potential customers, cluster them and develop the structure of product categories for the site.
  • Project layout with a focus on mobile devices (Mobile First).
  • Functionality programming.
  • Optimization of loading speed and site performance.
  • Initial SEO optimization, so that already at the first indexing the site had the highest quality indicators in the eyes of the search engine.
  • Debugging and testing.
  • 12 months of free technical support for the project.
  • Development period – from 3 months.