Magento v/s OpenCart

It's important to know which framework is most suitable for my eCommerce website, most popular frameworks are Magento & OpenCart. To introduce of the most used eCommerce platforms, here we am sharing some information regarding Magento & OpenCart.

1. What is Magento & OpenCart?

Magento & OpenCart are platforms to deliver facilities to the eCommerce Websites. As we know the eCommerce websites are represents online transactions. Likewise, online shopping – eShopping, online banking – eBanking, online bill payment – eBilling etc…

Magento is platform to representing eCommerce websites, which provides corporate eCommerce with a flexible shopping cart system. Magento is also content management system for buying & selling items or anything, via World Wide Web. Magento also provide a powerful marketing strategy, SEO friendly, & some management tools to the ease of customer. 

OpenCart is also used for eCommerce websites; it is free for everyone. It has shopping cart solution. Easy to installation process, gives ready templates, were user can add products and can accept the order from customer. Provide also built in multiple payment gateways and order management to user/customer. 

2. What is use of Magento & OpenCart?

Magento & OpenCart are platforms to serve eCommerce Solutions. E-Shopping – as we know now a day’s mostly user used online shopping. And for online shopping the Magento & OpenCart are one of the platforms who give the facility to manage customer order & customer data, to the online merchants. Gives ready templates, payment gateways, manage record, provide security, and order management etc…

Both are different platforms, but they both are work for same purpose; just differ from to serve work quality to the customer.

3. What are common things between Magento & OpenCart?

Common things: 

Generally, Magento and OpenCart actually have a lot common things. Likewise… both are opensource platform, both are developed in PHP, both gives add-ons products & plug-in for help, both have own templates, and both can maintained by non-programmers. 

They both are also gives such as extensions, special add-ons to categorized products and plug-in which can easily added to introduce new support functions.

Most powerful common thing is their multiple support language and currencies, which can made global business around the world.


4. What are the Differences between Magento & OpenCart?

No.:	Topic:	Magento:	OpenCart:
1.	Code:	Unique code and understable.	Repetitive of code, and understable.
2.	Security:	Provide strong & unique security.	Provide normal & general security.
3.	Speed:	Fast representative.	Compare to Magento it is slow.
4.	Gateways:	Allow almost all Payment Gateways with security.	Allow only some of Payment Gateways.
5.	Scalability:	High.	Low.
6.	Performance:	High.	Low.
7.	Integration:	Easy.	Difficult.
8.	Nature:	SEO friendly.	Not SEO friendly.
9.	Customization:	Hard.	Easy.
10.	Extension:	20000+	13555+

5. What integration / payment gateways are provided by both?

Magento gateways:

• BankPayment.
• CashOnDelivery.
• PAYONE.
• DebitPayment.
• ePay.
• WorldPlay Extension.
• PayPal.
• Cybersource Extension.
• Amazon Prime Checkout.
• Etc…many more.

OpenCart gateways:

• Amazon Payments.
• BluePay Redirect.
• EMEA web service API.
• Free Checkout.
• PayPal Pro iFrame.
• Web Payment Software.
• Secure Trading Web Service.
• Etc…many more.

Some integration and payment gateways are free and some are paid, depends on gateway provider’s terms & conditions. Magento & OpenCart are provided the features of different gateways, which are a very useful to vendors as well as customers. 

6. Features - 

 

Features of Magento:

• Easy to install and add additional layouts and plug-ins. 
• Offers flexibility, scalability, reliability eCommerce solutions. 
• Effective and cost sensitive program. 
• Allows for various discounts and promotions during check-out. 
• Provide 50+ payment gateways. 
• Better integration with other eCommerce solutions. 
• Community based support. 
• Provide customer service.

Key features are attracted towards to Magento:

• High performance.
• Fast growing.
• Rich consumer experiences.
• Hundreds of extensions.
• Open architecture.
• Certified developers.
• Give full control of your websites.

Features of OpenCart:

• Simple store setup.
• Increase Performances.
• Good integration.
• Provide 20+ payment gateways.
• Responsive layouts.
• Provide customer service.

Key features are attracted towards to OpenCart:

• Open source technology.
• Stable/reliable.
• Offers Shipment/payment modules.
• Shared hosting web server.

7. Examples

Magento is providing both Enterprise as well Community. Magento Enterprise is paid version & Magento Community is free version. These two enterprises & communities are categorized websites.OpenCart is totally free & opensource. Provide same facilities to the customer just differ with some services, layouts & infrastructure.

Magento Enterprise: (Paid)	Magento Community: (Free)	OpenCart: (Free)
www.harveynichols.com	www.thewatchgallery.co.uk	http://giftshop.redcross.org.uk/
www.made.com	www.vintagestyler.co.uk	http://sirbakealot.sg/
http://www.kurtgeiger.com/	www.atlanticsupplements.com	http://cityofhair.com/shop/
http://www.gandhi.com.mx/	www.winterson.co.uk
Etc…many more.	Etc…many more.	Etc…many more.

 

Conclusion: 

Magento is great for larger stores with larger budgets. It’s got scale-ability to support the growth of your business for years to come, and support any need you may have in the future.

OpenCart is more suitable if you are trying to build your store independently because it’s more intuitive, and it’s almost free to use, but take into consideration that one day, your business may grow out of it. 

So, these are the general information regarding Magento & OpenCart eCommerce platforms which helps to corporate businesses online and to spread use of widely as per there services.

At the end, I suggest that Magento is Quite good than OpenCart, because of Magento provides some extraordinary things as OpenCart provides general things.

Tips to choose the best mobile app development company

Hello, if you are looking for the mobile app development company to build your custom mobile application or applications

Read this one, at least once; it may help you to choose the best mobile app. Development Company

Usually, the mobile app development company serves the mobile applications. Applications either as per user/ customer customize or else generalize applications

As we all know that the running era is mobile generation, if smart phone/mobile is in your hand, it means; the whole world in your hand. Because, all the applications like; information sharing, maps, access accounts, social media, plays games, music, videos, GPS navigation, e-shopping, e-banking, mobile-banking etc… are developed as a mobile applications and all are available in respective mobile app store

List down the basic requirements:

• Make companies list as per your requirement, which providing the facility like customize applications to users/customers.
• By forget the companies by knowing their history, reputation, customer service, app portfolio, highly responded published apps, design-developing-innovation, and cost of apps etc… These are the common things to help out, the choosing, Best Mobile App Development Company.

Tips to choose Mobile App Development Company:

  

1. History: Search history for some reputed companies; know about in depth, company’s information’s are helped to recognize their reputation in the market.

2. Customer service: Who provide the satisfaction to the customer, who builds the customer relation smoothly or professionally, behavior with customer, response to customer’s requirements; take follow up after delivering application, and complete care of customer’s applications and customers. In short, ready to providing quality applications with 24/7/365 provide helps to their customers.

3. Value of apps: Notice their published applications review, design, votes, comments, security etc…, as they get the higher response to published applications, you can easily getting idea about how they works? What they provide? Quality & Security to user? Designing and developing skills?

Quality measure by providing high definition graphics used in the application. Also, measure the resolution of the mobile screen. Etc…

4. Continues updating: Who provide the both android as well as the iOS mobile app developing applications? Who is constant upgrade with the market and developing their programming skills, which gives customization, innovative ideas, quality app, features, and security to user’s requirement?

5. Cost effectiveness: The main factor is cost. Cost is matter a lot, who gives the all above things with very affordable price. Cost measures two ways. Either whole application cost at a single time or by pay cost as per the developing one by one phase.

Developing phase like: analysis requirements, designing, developing, testing, and deployment.

Cost table if pay phase by phase:

No	Phase	Requirement Changes	Cost
1.	Analysis requirements	Possible	Low
2.	Designing	Possible	Higher then 1st phase
3.	Developing	Difficult	Higher then 2nd phase
4.	Testing	Not possible	Higher then 3rd phase
5.	Deployment	Not possible	Higher then 4th phase

After the deployment of any applications, maintenance cost should be applied, if the app is required to update or append any new things to the already exist applications, these thing should be possible by paying the cost.  

6. Guideline: Generally, also provide a mini guide for use the particular applications. Guideline should be in most understandable manner for everyone. Check out that kind of helps also.

To getting these all information’s, some basic questions are like;

• Questions Tips to Customer:
• Show me your app portfolio?
• Show me your published app links?
• Show me your customer portfolio?
• How innovation, quality and features worked by you?
• What is your development process update and communication?
• What is your charge levied to development app?
• What is your experience?
• How you manage the customer relations?
• What are your goals to provide customer satisfaction?
• In which domain you provide a service? (Android, iOS or Both)
• Have you build recently any applications?
• In what time duration you required minimum/maximum to develop one basic application?

These all question gives you right way to choose best mobile application company, if you phase as a customer any wrong thing in reply to answer for those questions from company, it indicates that there were something wrong or else company tries to hide something. It means; risk was there. 

But, in other case, might be the some companies are really genuine and have potentiality in their work but, as per the company rules and regulations or terms and conditions they have to hide something.

Conclusion: 

At the end I suggests; The Company who provide the latest app mechanism, with affordable cost, with customer satisfaction service and to design + developing as per the customer’s requirements etc, Soooo, this type of the company are known as best mobile app development company.