Bigcartel vs Opencart vs Everything Else

At Double Dragon Studios I am always trying to find the best content management system to use. It is pretty nerdy how I get so excited sometimes when something new comes out. So far in doing all my research I have found two e-commerce carts that I love. Those are Bigcartel and Opencart

Bigcartel

website: bigcartel.com

price

• $10 a month for up to 25 products and 3 images per product
• $20 a month for up to 100 products and 5 images per product

ease of use

• very easy system to manage and connects with your paypal account

advantages

• Use your own domain
• Fairly advanced coupon codes
• Users don’t need to sign up to check out

disadvantages

• poor SEO control of meta tags
• can only accept paypal and no other payment gateways
• can’t do related products on product page, only newest and best selling
• doesn’t have any extensions you can buy to make the site better

Opencart

website: opencart.com

price

• Free

ease of use

• fairly easy system to manage but has more options which may not be important

advantages

• Use your own domain
• Avanced coupon code
• Different payment gateways more then paypal
• Good SEO (with extensions)
• The ability to use extensions to make the site better

disadvantages

• A little harder to manage because there is more it can do
• Harder to code, the time to code opencart is twice as long as bigcartel because it is more complicated of a system.

Everything Else

Magento – Just way to complicated. I felt like its backend was confusing. Even though it could do tons of stuff it was time consuming to figure everything out and I didn’t want to leave a site that was hard to figure out in the hands of a client.

Storenvy – It was easy to design for but ultimately it wasn’t as good as everything else. Especially since you couldn’t use your own domain it just wasn’t a cart I wanted to deal with.

Woocommerce – I checked it out and it looks like it is setup pretty well. They have a cool one page checkout and multiple payment gateways I just really need some time to look into it more before I develop on it.

I’ve done my research and found some solid e-commerce carts that will fit anyone’s project. I am always looking out for new e-commerce carts so if there is something else you are interested in let me know.