OpenCart hosting

OpenCart hosting provides an open source online shopping cart system which is based on PHP. It is a good solution for e-commerce for the Internet merchants who have the ability to develop their businesses online and participate in the e-commerce at a negligible expenditure. It is a software that can be installed and set-up even by a beginner who has a basic web site building knowledge and computer skills. This software is available under the GNU general public license and hence can be used by almost anyone and everyone. Since it is an open source software it goes through a continuous process of improvement as there are inputs from everywhere.

OpenCart is feature rich and very easy to use. These features allow the users customize their web sites the way they want. It is absolutely search engine friendly and so can be found easily across all the search engines. Websites powered by OpenCart have an appealing interface. The user only has to install the software, select template, add his products and the web site is ready to start business.

OpenCart hosting comes with various advantages like order management and different payment gateways etc. OpenCart team is always there to provide continuous free support as also free software updates. Apart from this, it enjoys a Unlimited Monthly Bandwidth, hosting of multiple web sites etc.

System requirements for OpenCart hosting

OpenCart can be installed on any of the web server:

• Apache or Windows IIS
• PHP 5 or higher
• MySQL

Settings for PHP

• Register Globals should be Off
• Magic Quotes GPC: Off - File Uploads should be On
• Session Auto Start should be Off

Extensions that need to be enabled:

• MySQL
• cURL
• GD
• ZIP

OpenCart hosting will fail to work in the absence of these technologies.

What makes the use of OpenCart system attractive?

Open source – Opencart hosting provides an open source project with all its codes made public. Apart from that there are many attractive templates that can be chosen from in order to create a professional store.

SEO Friendly – OpenCart hosting is search engine optimised. It allows pages to be indexed on the search engines as also has a better ranking there. It includes support for custom product and category META tags.

Multi-store – All the stores can be managed from a single admin page, which is extremely useful in case the user wants to promote several different products.

Apart from these there are a number of features that make OpenCart hosting attractive for everyone. It has a multiple language support and customer modes. There are various display mode options and also multiple ad banner controller. It makes shipping and payment also easier as it is supported by multiple currencies and shipping methods. The product catalogues can also be customized with different layouts as also the administrators have options of displaying the prices or not displaying. A customer database can also be created and there are also various customer retention tools available.

More info:
Official OpenCart website