OpenCart

Most firms that say they work with OpenCart mean they can install it and add extensions. We can recommend loads of great value off-the-shelf extensions, but when the need arises we also develop custom modules and themes built to do what a business actually needs rather than the nearest thing available to buy. A gallery that behaves the way you want, a filter that matches how your customers shop, a delivery rule that reflects what your courier charges you rather than an approximation of it.

Moving between major versions of OpenCart is the job people most often need and most often put off, because it is not the one-click affair the version numbers imply. Themes and extensions written for version 2 do not simply carry over to 3, and the step to 4 is larger still.

We do these as planned pieces of work rather than in an afternoon: a copy of the shop taken first, the theme and each extension assessed for whether it survives, replaced or rewritten where it does not, and the whole thing tested against real orders before it goes anywhere near your customers.

Bring us your OpenCart site and we’ll help you decide if it can still do good service. Other firms might insist that older sites need to be replaced when sometimes all that’s needed is a redesign or a few fixes. The first job is to review and document what you’ve got. Often the honest answer afterwards is that the shop is sound and needs maintaining rather than replacing.

Tell us which version you are on, if you know, and what you are trying to get done. If the answer is that nobody has touched it in two years and you are not sure it is safe, that is a common enough place to begin.