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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..

If you have ever arrived at a website from an advertisement or an email link, it’s extremely likely that you were taken to a landing page, rather than the website’s standard homepage. Landing pages are generally displayed when you click a link from an online advertisement, a search engine res..

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..

A random find, but it seems that OpenCart was recently mentioned as an option for a free open source ecommerce solution on the UK BBC news site. You can read more about the full article here Just a shame they didn't add a link over to us unlike the rest!

Increase your traffic, sales and brand awareness with product reviews Anyone that has experience in retail, be it online or offline, understands the power of word of mouth. Businesses that have succeeded in building a product or service that generates a lot of word of mouth is on easy st..