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Shopify vs OpenCart Comparison (2026)

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Shopify

OpenCart

Overview

Shopify is a commerce platform that allows anyone to easily sell online, at a retail location, and everywhere in between

OpenCart is an open source e-commerce platform for online merchants to sell and promote products through a web store

Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

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Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

view more detailsview details

Video & Screenshots

No videos yet

Pricing

Starting from

Per month

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

Starting from

Free

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

User reviews

4.5

6.7K

4.3K

1.9K

350

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

77%

would recommend this app

4.3

153

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

72%

would recommend this app

Pros

“I use it to sell photography albums, and it provides a professional checkout experience, secure payment processing, and multiple payment options for clients.”

michael k.

President

“We use Shopify for new webshop builds, redesigns, replatforming projects, migrations and ongoing webshop optimization.”

Simon A.

Founder and Shopify E-commerce Strategist at Opklopper

“Our experience is that Shopify gives growing brands a reliable foundation for product management, checkout, payments, shipping, content, tracking, apps, integrations and international growth.”

Simon A.

Founder and Shopify E-commerce Strategist at Opklopper

Pros

“OpenCart is a very decent software that offers extensive features for both digital and physical marketplaces, if you are selling tangible or intangible items there are various categories you can use.”

Ben G.

Manager

“it also supports over 20 payment systems.”

Anwar B.

Senior Tech Specialist

“Its user friendly, has community support available and has great 3rd party integration.”

Anwar B.

Senior Tech Specialist

Cons

“Another minor frustration is that certain features and reports are only available on higher-tier plans, which can make it difficult for smaller businesses to access the tools they need without upgrading.”

Gary A.

Founder CEO

“We recently had to rest a user account, after 4 days of jumping through hoops to try and get Shopify support to fix it, they reset the wrong account (my admin account), and in the end, after 5 days of no access to our own account, I had to track down a former employee, now in a different country, to get a code to access the account. And no matter how useless the support, if you try and ask for any money back, from the substantial sums you are paying them, it seems the support are trained to completely ignore you, pretend the question doesn't exist.”

Felix N.

Founder

“Shopify charges transaction fees for using third party payment processors, but my company is not able to use Shopify Payments due to being a CBD company. While Shopify provides many tools, recommendations and suggestions, my company is unable to utilize them because of the restrictions they place on CBD companies.”

Josh A.

Co-founder, VP of Marketing

Cons

“Opencart 3 Is little bit slow.”

Megha R.

Web developer

“Sometimes it can be complex and overwhelming if you don't have any prior experience.”

Kavindu G.

System Specialist

“This is buying as a lot of time, because choosing another platform or writing a new one for the purpose of a wholesale store would be time consuming, and let's not talk about the time that customers will need to adjust the get trained to use their wholesale store on top of the retail store.”