Why migrate from OpenCart to Shopify?
OpenCart is a popular ecommerce solution for small to medium-sized businesses, known for its multiple stores’ management system along with its comprehensive and user-friendly interface.
With OpenCart, users can freely access and modify source code to control and customise their website. However, this requires a high level of technical knowledge and coding skills, leaving brands beholden to third party developers to implement even small changes to their store.
In contrast, Shopify is a hosted platform, with an intuitive theme editor that gives owners control over their store. Updates and improvements can be easily rolled out, and backend management is simple to use, whilst functionality can be enhanced by a large range of third-party apps.
Recognised as a ‘Leader’ in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Commerce, Shopify is the destination of choice for OpenCart users seeking a more innovative, responsive solution.
Designed to empower retailers and accelerate growth with its intuitive, scalable solution, Shopify has a compelling value proposition:
- Higher conversions – Shopify Plus boasts the fastest, highest-converting checkout on the internet. Shopify’s overall conversion rate outpaces the competition by up to 36% and by an average of 15%.[1]
- Increased agility – Whilst updating OpenCart requires development expertise, Shopify brands can swiftly respond to market trends and changes in customer behaviour thanks to Shopify’s intuitive drag-and-drop store builder, enabling quick and easy rollout of new website features.
- Extensive app ecosystem – Like OpenCart, Shopify users have access to an expansive network of rigorously tested third-party apps and integrations, providing countless opportunities to enhance the experience for both consumers and staff. With rapid, plug-and-play solutions, you can quickly and easily bring new functionality to your store.
- Fuels growth and creativity – Retailers can allocate more time and budget to improving their brand and customer experience instead of dealing with back-end IT issues and maintenance. Shopify’s extensive and capable partner ecosystem supports rapid deployment of both functionality and creative innovation.
- Security – As a hosted platform, Shopify handles all the security for your store, and is PCI level 1 compliant for credit card processing. Its fraud detection system helps you to flag potentially fraudulent orders so you can review them before processing.
- Enterprise-grade performance – Shopify is renowned for handling over 10,000 checkouts per minute, along with maintaining a 99.98% average uptime.
