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This giveaway has now ended. Thank you to everyone who got involved! Keep checking our blog for more competitions and giveaways in the future.       Well, everybody knows that OpenCart is one of the best online ecommerce solutions for all kinds of businesses. It..

It’s the first of December, and that means one thing: it’s time to throw yourself fully into your holiday marketing. The holiday season is the busiest two months of the year for the majority of retailers, with more shoppers searching online than ever before. It’s vital that you remind your ..

That’s right, you can now download the long awaited OpenCart version 2.0. With the help of developers from around the world, thousands of development hours have gone into making sure that this is the best version of OpenCart yet. OpenCart 2.0 is packed full of brand new features, including:..

The Beta version of OpenCart 2.0 is now available to download, and we can’t wait for you to try it. You can get involved and help us make OpenCart 2.0 even better by testing the OpenCart 2.0 Beta to find any final bugs or issues before its general release. Whether you’re a developer, a design..

When?  1st and 2nd of October 2014   Where?  West Hall, Olympia London Hammersmith Road London W14 8UX   Stand number: 208     We had so much fun at the eCommerce Expo in London last year that we have decided to return agai..

Long gone are the days when simply having an online shop guaranteed sales for your business. The larger retailers have caught up with eCommerce and are increasingly competing with smaller businesses across a wide variety of products and services.   That’s why it’s so important th..

It's finally done: you have a professional, responsive shop design and your product photographs and descriptions are looking fantastic. Your ecommerce store is now perfect, but... where are your customers? No matter how incredible your store is, without customers you won’t be able to turn your ..

Why is speed important?   A fast website is just like breathing; we assume that it will work straight away. It is only when we are deprived of what we take for granted that we realize how essential it is.    A fast website is certainly not something that we ..

For many shoppers, buying a product online can be a terrifying idea. I'm sure, like myself, you've all had that heart-sinking feeling when your order arrives and it's completely different to how you imagined it to be. Along with your product photographs, your product descriptions are the only gli..

We've been working on a few improvements and features to the main OpenCart.com site that we hope will improve everyone's experience. 1. Changing to HTML based emails. It's been a long time since the emails have been looked at, although most people would think it is a small change - we send ou..