OpenCart VS WooCommerce

Compare OpenCart vs WooCommerce and see what are their differences.

OpenCart

A free shopping cart system. OpenCart is an open source PHP-based online e-commerce solution. (by opencart)

WooCommerce

A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine. (by woocommerce)
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OpenCart WooCommerce
25 97
7,210 9,024
1.1% 1.3%
10.0 10.0
6 days ago 5 days ago
PHP PHP
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

OpenCart

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenCart. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-26.
  • Open Cart Vulnerability Discussion on GitHub
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2023
    Either way the PR (https://github.com/opencart/opencart/pull/12949/files) should have been accepte. Clearly the [^a-zA-z0-9_] regex will not do what it appears to be intended to do without the delimiters.
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2023
    Hah, in one of the replies someone mentions a session hijacking issue https://github.com/opencart/opencart/issues/12939 but the guy's response was:

    > what a great hacker! this man should be put on a pedestal for as the worlds greatest hacker for using inspect element and copy and pasting his user_token var from the browser. now if he can only get it to work on a 3rd party who's cookie and user_token he wont know! lets not forget SSL.

    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2023
    It was eventually fixed in another PR, despite the maintainer's lengthy ranting.

    https://github.com/opencart/opencart/pull/12951#issuecomment...

    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2023
    The maintainer is apparently infamous for lashing out against people trying to report potential vulnerabilities.

    He had a similar attitude all the way back in 2014:

    > i'm closing this as its a waste of time.

    https://github.com/opencart/opencart/issues/1269#issuecommen...

    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2023
  • Trying out a medusa webshop
    3 projects | dev.to | 16 Sep 2022
    OpenCart
  • onlineshop for internal use.
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 19 Jul 2022
    I like - https://www.opencart.com. Requires bit of configuration initially but has good customisation. Wordpress plugin - https://woocommerce.com
  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2022)
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jul 2022
    Change to just a summary bullet point like:

       * heavy contributed to upstream OpenCart (https://github.com/opencart/opencart) project
  • Asking for a friend: how to start an Instagram business and how much it costs?
    2 projects | /r/Kerala | 16 Mar 2022
    Some quick finds: https://github.com/mhmdomer/ecommerce-laravel https://github.com/opencart/opencart
  • Solving Open Source Supply Chain Security for the PHP Ecosystem
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2022
    > I don't get it, who is going to pay for the time and energy required to audit everything?

    Not everything has to be audited. That's why there's different levels of attestations.

    In terms of economic incentives: If you're a company bit by one of the recent supply chain issues (colors.js, etc.), you might be able to justify hiring a security vendor to audit the code that your company depends on. This would provide a net-positive benefit to the entire ecosystem, even if it's only a small set of audited code.

    Maybe one day, we can even make this an expectation of large players. But that's a discussion for down the road.

    On the opposite end of things, you have independent security consultants that want to establish their reputation so they can get paid engagements with software companies.

    One avenue available to everyone is review open source software, report vulnerabilities to their maintainers. This can be thankless or even traumatic; i.e. https://github.com/opencart/opencart/pull/1594

    Gossamer would open an alternative approach: Hang your shingle out by publishing negative (vote-against) attestations of vulnerable versions of open source software and positive attestations (e.g. code-review) of the versions that mitigated the issues they disclosed. Anti-malware vendors (e.g. WordFence) could even issue weaker positive assertions (spot-check) for WordPress plugin/theme updates after vetting the known-good releases. Security companies depend heavily on their ability to earn trust to thrive, and that's a hard market to break into; this offers another way in.

    In short, the economic challenges you're imagining aren't the ones that this project will face. (Although, there will assuredly be challenges.)

    Companies acting in their own self-interest can be leveraged to cover the hot paths of the universal dependency graph, and security up-starts can be leveraged to cover their blind spots. Given enough time, the ecosystem will eventually reach some sort of equilibrium, and many new opportunities will be made in the process.

    > I presume the big package maintainers already have eyes on their stuff - symfony etc.

    Read the discussion on the Symfony Encryption component: https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/39344

    Just because they have eyes on their stuff doesn't mean that those eyes have the necessary domain-specific expertise to identify problems. If it weren't for Paragon (paragonie-security on Github) and their associates in the security industry, the issues identified in the earlier versions of the module would likely have persisted and been shipped.

WooCommerce

Posts with mentions or reviews of WooCommerce. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-20.
  • Medusa Vs Woocommerce: Comparing Two Open source Online Commerce Platforms
    3 projects | dev.to | 20 Mar 2023
    Developers can contribute or report bugs on Woocommerce’s GitHub repository.
    3 projects | dev.to | 20 Mar 2023
    Woocommerce is an open source, customizable ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Woocommerce offers features like flexible and secure payment and shipping integration. It is written in PHP which is a universal language that can be used to build complex applications.
  • Top WordPress Plugins to Make Your Site Delightful [FREEMIUM]
    2 projects | /r/WordpressPlugins | 26 Jan 2023
    Woo-Commerce — Looking to start selling products and services on your website? Yes, there is an eCommerce plugin for that purpose. With WordPress, you can build your online store using WooCommerce, the most popular e-commerce plugin for WordPress. You can do much with this software because of its endless customization. Set currencies, display reviews, sort, and filter, add unlimited images, enable subscriptions and tiered pricing, and much more. WooCommerce offers free core functionality, which is perhaps its best feature. Also, Automattic makes the WordPress CMS, so you know you are running a high-quality, reliable plugin.
  • New theme system is incoming! Basically you can create iOS & Android mobile apps or even Windows & MacOS programs with.. a WordPress Theme!
    4 projects | /r/Wordpress | 2 Dec 2022
    Adding WooCommerce support ( https://woocommerce.com/ ) so e-commerce..
  • Woocommerce: Cannot make permanent changes to the product layout
    2 projects | /r/Wordpress | 26 Oct 2022
    Appears to be a known bug: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/pull/35213
    2 projects | /r/Wordpress | 26 Oct 2022
  • The Best Elementor add-on to try in 2022
    2 projects | dev.to | 12 Oct 2022
    Elementor is undoubtedly the best page builder. It is fulfilled with various features which are sufficient to make your website fantasies into a reality. You can expand it by using add-ons. Do you need to change the look of your Shop sliders? Or do you need to modify WooCommerce's checkout? Or would you like to design posh store pages for your websites? There is an add-on for it. In this post, I will tell you about CoDesigner, the best Elementor add-on to make your website eye-catching and elegant.
  • The Top 5 Best Ecommerce Website Builders – 2022
    2 projects | /r/u_99graphicsdesign_ | 14 Sep 2022
    Shopify — Best all-around eCommerce website builder Webflow — eCommerce website builder Expert WooCommerce — eCommerce website builder for Online Stores Ecommerce (PHP) — Greate ECommerce Website Builder Wix — Best for fast launching an online store
  • Create a unique single product page
    2 projects | /r/woocommerce | 13 Aug 2022
    Sure. WP and WC by virtue make extensive use of hooks called actions and filters. Usually you’ll use predefined ones. For example you’ll see many defined in the WC template files. Take line 60 of content-single-product.php you’ll find WC has defined an action called ‘woocommerce_single_product_summary. Note that is the only code inside that div. That’s because other WC functions hook onto that action and those are what actually output the html in there. So woocommerce_template_single_title is a function that loads the title template. Note the priority numbers are given so if you want to put content after the title and before the rating your action would need to have priority between 5 and 10.
    2 projects | /r/woocommerce | 13 Aug 2022
    Unfortunately, iirc wc does not have a nice way to do this from the front end. What you’d probably want to do is override the single-product.php file and, for example, add some conditional around the wc_get_template_part( 'content', 'single-product' ); call.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing OpenCart and WooCommerce you can also consider the following projects:

Open Classifieds - Yclas Self Hosted is a powerful script that can transform any domain into a fully customizable classifieds site within a few seconds.

Saleor - Saleor Core: the high performance, composable, headless commerce API.

Sylius - Open Source eCommerce Framework on Symfony

django-cms - The easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise CMS powered by Django

Bagisto - Free and open source laravel eCommerce platform

Osclass - With Osclass, get your own classifieds site for free. Build your own Osclass installation and start advertising real estate, jobs or whatever you want- in minutes!

Pimcore - Core Framework for the Open Source Data & Experience Management Platform (PIM, MDM, CDP, DAM, DXP/CMS & Digital Commerce)

CoreShop - CoreShop - Pimcore eCommerce