OpenCart
Open source ecommerce platform written in PHP for running an online store on a web server.
www.opencart.comrepositorydocs
OpenCart is an open source ecommerce platform written in PHP, with Twig templates. A merchant uploads the files to a web server, creates a database, and runs the installation steps, as the installation guide describes. The installer creates the admin account, and the admin panel is where the store is managed. PHP handles each request, so no separate process runs beside the web server.
OpenCart maintains the software and also offers OpenCart Cloud, a hosted service separate from the software.
Worth knowing
The system requirements page and the latest release’s composer.json name different minimum PHP versions.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Per request7
- Install with
- zip download, manual upload7
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-20: links, Maintainer
www.opencart.com/ - 2026-10-20: links, Written in, GitHub stars
github.com/opencart/opencart - 2026-10-20: links, Admin interface
docs.opencart.com/getting-started/installation - 2026-10-20: Categories
github.com/opencart/opencart/blob/master/README.md - 2026-10-20: Runtime, Minimum runtime, Templating, License
github.com/opencart/opencart/blob/4.1.0.4/composer.json - 2026-10-20: Databases
docs.opencart.com/getting-started/system-requirements - 2026-10-20: Install with, Runs as
github.com/opencart/opencart/blob/master/INSTALL.md - 2026-10-20: License
github.com/opencart/opencart/blob/master/LICENSE.md - 2026-10-20: Current major version, Last release
github.com/opencart/opencart/releases/latest - 2026-10-20: First release
www.opencart.com/index.php?route=cms/company - 2026-10-20: Contributors
github.com/opencart/opencart/graphs/contributors - 2026-10-25: Sites using it (HTTP Archive)
cdn.httparchive.org/v1/technologies