How does opencart make money

New posts Unanswered topics Active topics Search. Search Advanced search. My question is "Does anybody really make any money selling on line "?

With the initial cost of setting up a store and all the hours to maintain it I'm have a problem understanding what people are thinking. Example, How do people make any money when they offer free shipping? Also I'm tired of paying monthly and final sales fees. I need something very simple. Will Opencart work for me? Location - Minnesota, USA. Re: Does anybody really make any money selling on line.

Post by jefrey » Tue Apr 05, am The answer is yes, free shipping because the shipping cost is already added in the product cost. Opencart will work or any other cart.

Post by headwise » Tue Apr 05, am how many hours you need and what is your package. As for 'hours to maintain' then I say not really true. Yes, there will be a burst of considerable time and effort required to get it set up a bit of learning required and the products in but after that then there is little to do really, certainly no more than what you do selling on ebay.

Its not the extension price per-say that makes OC a "lower tier" solution, its alot of little stuff like that added up "muddying the waters" and lowering quality of the market itself. At least, this is my impression, analyzing the OC-Project as a 'whole', from my personal point of view. And i'm not the only one, with that 'thinking', it has been 'expressed' in written Form on several Places during the Years But still, Knowledge does not come for free, on the longer terms.

After a while, even the greatest Fan and free Contributor starts to 'slow down', because even the 'Return of Success Reports' is coming back on a level, far below to any measurable value.

Therefore, there is no guaranteed Income on OC, for noone. Tomorrow, somebody else can take over, this is the free worldwide Market. Take it or leave it, it's today's Law. Or, if they do, the do not want to log in again , just to comment the Mod. As a consequence, we see 6' Downloads, and possibly 20 Comments, or thank you's, a very great Motivation for Contributers, trying to make a good free or paid Job. Further, the OC Version Problem at the Forum ist getting worse, Subtitles should contain Version-Information, it's getting hard to check on Page-Top's every time, wich version is meant.

I deleted already multiple of Repies, finding out later, it was v2. A better 'organized' Website could help, in the first Place. And possibly someday combined with Manuals, with PICTURES, about everything imaginable, and un-imaginable, to assist all those, writing in english, but unable to really understand plain english, without technical stuff It's not so much Work, but sure noone expects some freaks to do this on their free time at home, as long as daily payments come in in other places, basically responsible for doing such.

It's just part of a good Product. At least the way, I look at it I just looked at the Joomla Website, an I was a little impressed, I must admit. It's a decade, of difference, in appearance.

Good Appearance builds trust. And Competence. Other than that, I use no joomla, so, I can't judge. Location - Switzerland. For example if you want a seller account, you have "to have been a long time member who has helped people in the community and also released a few free extensions.

Then of course you get a lot of the less experienced developers flooding the market with free 'extensions' in order to get their seller account approved. Post by geoffist » Tue Feb 24, am I'm just chiming in here because I recently had a problem situation.

This is not necessarily a knock against the developers of extensions, more against the "economy" of the extension developers as a whole. I feel as though developers are under-staffed and over-paid. Why do I say under-staffed and overpaid? Because i've spoken to developers directly and they say they are.

They admit, first hand, that they didnt expect tens of hundreds of emails pouring in for support after their extension was published. Multicart options doesnt change status of orders coming from other multistores on the system — useless. Getting a refund for a bad non working plugin — useless. So its a lottery when buying their plugins on their website. I switched. I got fed up. Its interesting that you recommend Shopify over Opencast. The main difference from my point of view is the monthly fees, not only to get started but for each and every extension that you add to Shopify.

I like that Opencart has no cost for the basic package and that most of the extensions are a one time fee rather than a recurring cost. The fees also tend to be much lower than for comparable packages from Prestashop.

Since I wrote my last comment I have completed the transaction to Opencart. I paid one time fees for several extensions and on a few I encountered installation issues but in each case I received excellent support from the developer of the extension. I will confess that I am a sophisticated computer user and I found little value in what Shopify was supplying for their very high monthly fees and additional monthly fees for add ons.

Even so I think that a less sophisticated user could pay a one time fee to a consultant to set this up and avoid the repetitive monthly fees from Shopify. There are hundreds of themes to choose from some free and some for a fee like Shopify. The developer made some changes and installed it for me at no charge. Bryan, Thanks very much for spending the time to add more comments. I have used several carts before that have a one time charge. I would just like something that works and doesnt cost a fortune!

BTW your web looks great. Is that using opencart? Thank you for your comments. So I gave OpenCart a try and am pretty satisfied. It works for a new small business like mine. For me OpenCart is much easier to work with. I bought a template that has great support. I feel like I have more control over the look and feel of my store without having to pay a someone a lot money to develop it for me. Sure Tesla is using Shopify, and when I am a solid money-making business like them I will consider it.

But for now OpenCart works. This is a nice article. Going to keep looking, hope you keep writing. An ecommerce solution that fails SEO from the word go.

Even scarier is that fact after an upgrade their developers are often left out with many extension writers unable to upgrade their own scripts.

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