OpenCart vs. Squarespace

OpenCart

Squarespace

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
OpenCart	Score 7.1 out of 10	N/A	OpenCart is an open-source eCommerce platform. It features support for unlimited categories and products, multiple currencies and languages, shipping, payments, and mobile access.	N/A
Squarespace	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	Squarespace is a CMS platform that allows users to create a DIY blog, eCommerce store, and/or portfolio (visual art or music). Some Squarespace website and shop templates are industry or use case-specific, such as menu builders for restaurant sites.	$25 per month

Pricing

OpenCart

Squarespace

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Basic: $25
per month
Core: $36
per month
Plus: $56
per month
Advanced: $139
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
OpenCart	Squarespace
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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28% to 36% discount available for annual pricing.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	OpenCart	Squarespace
Considered Both Products	OpenCart Lichaa TRAD Managing Director Chose OpenCart Both platforms are feature-rich. I chose OpenCart because I found a theme that suits me. Plus there were many third-party extensions that I was interested in and they can be integrated with OpenCart. Incentivized Helpful? .Kim Murphy Owner Chose OpenCart OpenCart is much more flexible then Magento in customization and does not have as many technical errors. Although some Magento users insist that one can easily create a beautiful customized eCommerce website, OpenCart is more flexible with a better user base, better … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose OpenCart One advantage iOpenCart has is that it is easy to install and learn. But in all other cases (mainly in security) less buggy platforms should be used. Incentivized Helpful? Jen Garfinkel-Canseco Owner - Web Designer/Developer/Marketer Chose OpenCart Honestly, when consulting my clients, I would always recommend WooCommerce over OpenCart. Although I've had clients that had existing OpenCart websites and they were fairly happy with them, making additions/changes/customizations from a developer standpoint was not the easiest … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose OpenCart Some of the products available on the market are cheap, but they are not as easily to use or understand as OpenCart. Many are also not open source products, so you need to buy. You can purchase modules for OpenCart. Support is also easily available for OpenCart in the OpenCart … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose OpenCart OpenCart is way easier to understand than any other e-commerce platform like Shopify, Magento, etc. Integration to multiple websites. Some other e-commerce platforms are paid services, whereas OpenCart is an open-source, free platform, which you can customise according to your … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose OpenCart Opencart and Magento both are very stable and easily useable. Learning OpenCart is often easier than learning Magento. Opencart also supports multi vendor websites using a single code, which is you with yearly upgrades. If you are not using open source like Shopify , you won't … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose OpenCart Magento is more complex but has more functions/customizing ability. OpenCart is more simple, great for small businesses. Incentivized Helpful?	Squarespace Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Squarespace is more user-friendly and sleek. I'd recommend it over Freenom for beginners and those who are more interested in running a website (instead of caring about their DNS). Incentivized Helpful? Caitlin Sloan Founder & CEO Chose Squarespace I like Squarespace better if you are starting from scratch. I was able to use Wordpress when it was an existing site and I just had to make updates, but would have a difficult time starting from the beginning and building a Wordpress site. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Blackbaud DonorCentral, Donorbox, Alaya by Benevity, Intuit Mailchimp, monday CRM and monday.com Incentivized Helpful? TN Tyler Newman Marketing Director Chose Squarespace In my opinion, Squarespace beats Wix all day. We have used both for microsite development. We use Wordpress for our main site as the featureset is open source and is considered the industry best practice. You can do a lot more specific features with WordPress that are sometimes … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace None. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Squarespace if much less work than WordPress, plus hosting and security are not an issue. GoDaddy and Wix are okay, but nowhere near the flexibility or advanced feature set that you can get with Squarespace. Compared to the other products that I have used, Squarespace … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace We picked Squarespace for a specific use case because it was easy to spin up the promotional content we needed. Incentivized Helpful? Maria Halse Duloquin Innovation Consultant Chose Squarespace Squarespace is easy to use, webflow can feel clunky (though I haven’t tried it recently), and Wix is very similar, but I preferred the Squarespace aesthetic. Also, Squarespace has clear, transparent pricing - you know what you get, and I like the design styles. I’m not in a … Incentivized Helpful? BG Bryan Grant Head of Product & Portfolio Management Chose Squarespace Squarespace was the quickest to get up and running for a basic website, and with the GoDaddy integration it simplified rapid setup. A plugin for basic language translation allowed us to be compliant from day one. Incentivized Helpful? JM Jeff Montgomery CTO Chose Squarespace Squarespace was quicker to set up and more accessible to manipulate the theme, pictures, and content. The page layouts are more versatile and fluid. With Wordpress, more time-consuming efforts go into making a template work the way you want it to (because of the lack of the … Incentivized Helpful? PL Phoebe Little Promotions and Programs Associate Chose Squarespace Submittable and Squarespace serve different functions but Squarespace is by far the easier and more user friendly platform. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Wordpress is for more advanced users and allows more functionality to be built into the website. However, Squarespace is easy to use and you will be able to get a functioning website up and running on your own. That is their main point and purpose for their mission. However, … Incentivized Helpful? Andy Ryan Launch Engineer Chose Squarespace I would choose Squarespace over all the competition unless I wanted a website builder/host that had an online course portal. Squarespace has the easiest website builder. It's relatively cheap. It automatically updates. It is easy to integrate with third-party services such as … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Elementor and Shopify Incentivized Helpful? Lisa Cooley Art Advisor Chose Squarespace Both of my fields are visual, so design is as important as functionality. Unbounce looks great, but it's not set up for the same full functionality. I've also been quite familiar with Squarespace and felt comfortable with them. Incentivized Helpful? Shawn Dehner Owner Chose Squarespace Not even comparable. I was hacked within 2 years with WordPress in a brute force attack. Since going to Squarespace, I have had zero security issues. I feel the two platforms, though similar, are incomparable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace I found it easier for me to use square space myself rather than have a middle person between me and my website. It was a lot easier for me to access and change something and when I wanted to change something on my site. It gave me flexibility and more options to utilize my … Incentivized Helpful? Nicole Nagy Product Designer Chose Squarespace I didn't evaluate any other platforms because I knew Squarespace was the best. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Squarespace's most attractive feature in comparison to WordPress and Wix is its library of themes available to use. WordPress has a neverending supply of options but that's WordPress, the industry-standard however the limited options for Squarespace is nice so you aren't … Incentivized Helpful? Darcy Knapp, MBA Owner/President Chose Squarespace Squarespace offers better SEO options and ease of use than Wix/Weebly site builders. Squarespace is easy to manage and easy to track inventory and sales. For companies with lower skill sets in-house, it is also very easy to train staff to manage the platform. Incentivized Helpful? MG Meadow Griffin Author/Illustrator Chose Squarespace I liked the usability of Squarespace better than Network Solutions for the type of website we were looking for. I found it was easier to create and customize and I liked the overall look of the website in Squarespace better than what the end result of the Network Solutions site … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Myself and my team have used more robust web development platforms for bigger organization presence on the web. However that has always required more time, effort and talent by using web developers to setup and add content to the sites. With squarespace, a site can be setup in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Squarespace is the best option relative to other web hosting and design platforms we initially reviewed. It was a bit more expensive than some of the free models we looked at but those sites often came with hidden fees if we wanted to customize anything and Squarespace has … Incentivized Helpful? IS Isabel Sam Owner Chose Squarespace I actually ended up going with Wordpress's OShine theme. Squarespace just missed some of the SEO and API tracking that I wanted and Elementor was too slow and WP Rocket isn't compatible with it. OShine ended up fitting the bill so everything I wanted could work together, but … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace I really like Squarespace's all-in-one concept vs. WordPress, where you add each piece individually. However, if you are building a much larger site, WordPress may be better. For our needs in terms of sales, Squarespace was great. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

OpenCart

Squarespace

Online Storefront

Comparison of Online Storefront features of Product A and Product B
	OpenCart 8.7 Ratings 10% above category average	Squarespace - Ratings
Product catalog & listings	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Product management	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Bulk product upload	8.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Branding	7.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Mobile storefront	9.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Product variations	7.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Website integration	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Visual customization	8.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
CMS	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Online Shopping Cart

Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
	OpenCart 8.0 Ratings 4% above category average	Squarespace - Ratings
Abandoned cart recovery	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Checkout user experience	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Online Payment System

Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
	OpenCart 9.0 Ratings 8% above category average	Squarespace - Ratings
eCommerce security	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

eCommerce Marketing

Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Product A and Product B
	OpenCart 6.8 Ratings 12% below category average	Squarespace - Ratings
Promotions & discounts	8.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Personalized recommendations	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
SEO	5.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

eCommerce Business Management

Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
	OpenCart 8.1 Ratings 1% above category average	Squarespace - Ratings
Multi-site management	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Order processing	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Inventory management	7.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
Shipping	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Custom functionality	8.80 Ratings	00 Ratings

Security

Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
	OpenCart - Ratings	Squarespace 8.5 Ratings 5% above category average
Role-based user permissions	00 Ratings	8.50 Ratings

Platform & Infrastructure

Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
	OpenCart - Ratings	Squarespace 4.3 Ratings 55% below category average
API	00 Ratings	5.00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language	00 Ratings	3.50 Ratings

Web Content Creation

Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
	OpenCart - Ratings	Squarespace 7.1 Ratings 8% below category average
WYSIWYG editor	00 Ratings	8.10 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Admin section	00 Ratings	6.10 Ratings
Page templates	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Library of website themes	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design	00 Ratings	7.30 Ratings
Publishing workflow	00 Ratings	6.20 Ratings
Form generator	00 Ratings	7.10 Ratings

Web Content Management

Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
	OpenCart - Ratings	Squarespace 7.0 Ratings 5% below category average
Content taxonomy	00 Ratings	6.70 Ratings
SEO support	00 Ratings	7.90 Ratings
Bulk management	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions	00 Ratings	5.70 Ratings
Community / comment management	00 Ratings	6.70 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	OpenCart	Squarespace
Small Businesses	Ecwid by Lightspeed Score 10.0 out of 10	ManageWP Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Shopify Plus Score 9.0 out of 10	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	IBM Digital Commerce Score 9.0 out of 10	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	OpenCart	Squarespace
Likelihood to Recommend	9.9 (0 ratings)	9.2 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	OpenCart	Squarespace
Likelihood to Recommend	OpenCart is great for web developers familiar with PHP who have clients who want very specific eCommerce functionalities. OpenCart is "open-source," meaning its source code is open to the public and downloadable and editable by anyone. This makes customizing its functionalities possible with nearly an infinite variety of possibilities. If you are not tech savvy and don't like to read documentation and configure advanced settings, then OpenCart is not the best solution for you. Incentivized .Kim Murphy Owner Read full review	We've found Squarespace perfect for quick, well-designed websites that you can literally design and launch in a day. However, if you want to get more complex with your website, including custom backend integrations or code, Squarespace presents a bit more of a challenge when it comes to what they will allow you to modify on their platform (especially using third-party integration apps). Incentivized JM Jeff Montgomery CTO Read full review
Pros	OpenCart is open-source software, free to use. Free is always a plus for software. Good basic set of features that provides for a quick setup of a simple e-commerce website. Administration is fairly user-friendly and makes it easy for a non-technical user to find things. Incentivized Jen Garfinkel-Canseco Owner - Web Designer/Developer/Marketer Read full review	Squarespace is very easy to use, this is a super helpful thing as small business owners we have to wear many hats and being a full blown website developer doesn't need to be one of them. Squarespace has quick and simple plugins. Squarespace allows you to easily expand as you need to. Incentivized MM Megan Murray Owner Read full review
Cons	Sometimes developer skill is required to work on admin module. Add-on modules are often necessary, and you need to purchase them separately Hard to update it to new versions, and it is constantly updating Though it is smooth to use, it works on a read-edit-delete system. Deleting data is very critical. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Customizing the sites can be highly UN intuitive Navigation for editing the sites can be difficult and frustrating Squarespace has different versions and it's hard to know which version you're on. You can't switch after you start making a site with one version. Incentivized Lisa Cooley Art Advisor Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	It's a great CMS tool. Easy to use and maintain. It looks great and the support is excellent. Incentivized Sharon Reaves Owner/Founder/Design Guru Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	It's dead simple to use. There are no over complicated controls or tons of menus to screw things up. People with bad taste couldn't make an ugly website. While it may be frustrating for the pro designer to get exactly what they want, it prevents the uninitiated from making something ugly Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Help is available directly from the back end and uses full sentence searching to find answers to questions others may have asked before. With a ton of articles and support questions documents, it is very likely that your question has been answered. If not each page has the ability to open a direct email to support. Each case has a number and can be followed. Responses are often quick and have links and directions clearly stated Incentivized Angela Skees Director of Graphics and Marketing Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Both platforms are feature-rich. I chose OpenCart because I found a theme that suits me. Plus there were many third-party extensions that I was interested in and they can be integrated with OpenCart. Lichaa TRAD Managing Director Read full review	Squarespace if much less work than WordPress, plus hosting and security are not an issue. GoDaddy and Wix are okay, but nowhere near the flexibility or advanced feature set that you can get with Squarespace. Compared to the other products that I have used, Squarespace definitely offers more options, customization, advanced features and design options than others, for a great price. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	At the time of starting a business, OpenCart helped us with easy setup and catalog management. We have stared and deployed e-commerce sites very easily. The websites didn't look good at first (we modified later) and that impacted our business as our clients received a lot of orders. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I can see how squarespace can improve efficiency since it's so quick to build a site on there. For those who don't want to hook up a bunch of different stuff to their website and make it work...they most likely have whatever plug in you need and you can add it. Worst case scenario, they have developers you can hire who can make what you need. As your business grows you can add an online storefront to your site and make more money that way! Easy peasy! They have an easy system for adding special SEO words/phrases so you don't have to learn SEO at all! Incentivized IS Isabel Sam Owner Read full review
ScreenShots	OpenCart Screenshots