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Magento vs OpenCart: What are the differences?
Developers describe Magento as "Flexible eCommerce solutions, a vibrant extensions marketplace and an open global ecosystem". Magento Community Edition is perfect if you’re a developer who wants to build your own solution with flexible eCommerce technology. You can modify the core code and add a wide variety of features and functionality. On the other hand, OpenCart is detailed as "A free and an open source e-commerce shopping cart system". It is an online store management system. It is PHP-based, using a MySQL database and HTML components. Support is provided for different languages and currencies. It is freely available under the GNU General Public License.
Magento and OpenCart are primarily classified as "Ecommerce" and "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools respectively.
Magento is an open source tool with 7.7K GitHub stars and 6.61K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Magento's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Magento has a broader approval, being mentioned in 184 company stacks & 229 developers stacks; compared to OpenCart, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
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Pros of Magento
- Open source22
- Robust14
- Powerful12
- Widespread community support10
- E-commerce made easy8
- Mature4
- Flexible4
Pros of OpenCart
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Cons of Magento
- System is too complex2
- Slow2
- Processor hungry1