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Long gone are the days when simply having an online shop guaranteed sales for your business. The larger retailers have caught up with eCommerce and are increasingly competing with smaller businesses across a wide variety of products and services.   That’s why it’s so important th..

If you have ever arrived at a website from an advertisement or an email link, it’s extremely likely that you were taken to a landing page, rather than the website’s standard homepage. Landing pages are generally displayed when you click a link from an online advertisement, a search engine res..

It's finally done: you have a professional, responsive shop design and your product photographs and descriptions are looking fantastic. Your ecommerce store is now perfect, but... where are your customers? No matter how incredible your store is, without customers you won’t be able to turn your ..

Why is speed important?   A fast website is just like breathing; we assume that it will work straight away. It is only when we are deprived of what we take for granted that we realize how essential it is.    A fast website is certainly not something that we ..

For many shoppers, buying a product online can be a terrifying idea. I'm sure, like myself, you've all had that heart-sinking feeling when your order arrives and it's completely different to how you imagined it to be. Along with your product photographs, your product descriptions are the only gli..

We've been working on a few improvements and features to the main OpenCart.com site that we hope will improve everyone's experience. 1. Changing to HTML based emails. It's been a long time since the emails have been looked at, although most people would think it is a small change - we send ou..

A random find, but it seems that OpenCart was recently mentioned as an option for a free open source ecommerce solution on the UK BBC news site. You can read more about the full article here Just a shame they didn't add a link over to us unlike the rest!

Increase your traffic, sales and brand awareness with product reviews Anyone that has experience in retail, be it online or offline, understands the power of word of mouth. Businesses that have succeeded in building a product or service that generates a lot of word of mouth is on easy st..

Are you are a technical person who knows the in's and out's of OpenCart and could provide help to others? If so then get in touch with us and send your resume. We're creating a support team for UK & EU and want some great people to join. Working along side some of our UK partners you wil..

OpenCart will be attending the London eCommerce expo on October 2nd and 3rd. If you want to meet up and discusss business we will be there and happy to talk to you.  More details can be found here: http://www.ecommerceexpo.co.uk/ Address: The Olympia Exhibition Centre - O..