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Ecommerce made easy with OpenCart and Peach Payments

Written by Ross Henshall | Jun 15, 2022 9:06:04 AM

OpenCart is an open-source, free to use ecommerce platform with zero monthly fees. It’s got all the bells and whistles that you’d expect from a pay-to-use platform, such as user-friendly product management, sales analytics, and order management, to name a few. Its SEO optimized design takes the legwork out of getting your business noticed, and its free extensions and themes are primed to impress your new page visitors.

 

“Its friendly interface and any beginner can make their online store; we can easily edit his core files, many free themes and extensions available.” - g2.com

 

With Peach Payments’ easy to integrate OpenCart plugin, you combine all the features of OpenCart with user-focused checkout that boosts your sales conversion rate. With low fees and a wide range of payment methods, your OpenCart store becomes a polished platform that users love. 



Unlimited products that pop

Whether you’re selling one product or a thousand, OpenCart adapts to your needs. It puts no limit on the amount of products you can list, and provides user-friendly tools to help your customers find exactly what they’re looking for.

 

Your product range can be organized into unlimited categories that makes your store easy to navigate. Products can then be further differentiated with option selections like size, colour, length or height, giving your customers a full functionality shopping experience.

 

OpenCart makes product hunting even easier for your customers with built-in search and filter functionality. If a searched keyword doesn’t get them to the product they’re looking for, OpenCart offers a filter tool with selectable attributes that helps them hone in on exactly what they want.

 

 

Once your customers have found what they’re looking for, Peach Payments’ checkout gives them a wide variety of payment methods to pay with, and our retry function means that customers don’t drop off if their payment doesn’t go through the first time.

 

Take a look at what these brands have achieved with their OpenCart stores:

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  • https://woodenposters.com/ has built a unique way for customers to find a product depending on category, interest, or customization.



Easy to operate

OpenCart’s administrator dashboard has everything you need to manage your store and more. It provides you with total sales, total customers and total orders, all in one place. You can draw full sales analytics reports, and it can even tell you how many users are browsing your store at any one time.

 

And better yet, it allows you to customize your site as you need:

  • Manage multiple stores
  • Sell in multiple currencies
  • Translate your pages to any of 40 languages 

 

They’ve got some stunning themes that makes designing a professional site simple, just take a look at these great resources.

Free themes:


Paid themes

 

The Peach Payment merchant portal makes handling our payment history and processing even easier. Track payments, process refunds, and draw reports that give you important insight into your sales.

 

Peach Payments provides industry leading support, so if you have any issues or queries surrounding your online transaction, we’re here to help. If you need help with managing your store, OpenCart offers free community support, as well as dedicated commercial support. 

 

“OpenCart is a great CMS for creating eCommerce stores. It has a multitude of features that makes your store more user-friendly. It is very simple to deploy both domestically and on servers, and it is quick and simple for both administrators and consumers.” - Capterra.co.za 

 

What are you waiting for?

OpenCart is free to use and charges zero fees, so there’s nothing standing in your way of setting up your store today. Peach Payments has some of the most competitive fees in the industry, so take a look at our fees page here to see how we reduce your monthly expenses. 

 

Once you’ve built a store that rubs shoulders with industry leaders,  start getting your cut of the thriving ecommerce market by signing up with Peach Payments here.