OpenCart

The Merchant

The pricing core I sell on is there — variants with their own prices and stock, quantity-tier discounts with date ranges and customer-group targeting, special prices for seasonal and member-only sales, multi-language products across multiple stores — and the web-based theme editor means checkout templates can be changed from the admin without a rebuild. The conversion machinery is what I could not find: the captured pages say nothing about abandoned-cart recovery, buy-now-pay-later or guest checkout, and the only payment methods shown are bundled bank transfer and cash on delivery, with PayPal named merely as an example gateway — I found nothing on invoice or direct debit, which German customers ask for first. 2 3 6 7

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The Merchant

This is a serious VAT engine — rates tied to geo zones, tax classes with priority and cumulative combinations, a calculation basis of shipping, payment or store address, customer-group-restricted rates, and a payment-address rule for digital goods. But nothing in the captured pages covers VAT ID validation, reverse charge for B2B, OSS reporting, e-invoicing, or the German checkout duties of order-button wording, withdrawal policy and price indication — so the legal burden of a German shop stays on my desk rather than being lifted by the platform. 4 5 8

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The Merchant

A developer team can own this shop: GPLv3 source, custom themes in their own directory, a Twig theme editor in the admin with per-store overrides, an extension installer with packaging rules, events hooks and OCMOD for core modifications. The captured pages document no storefront API for headless builds, no webhooks for order events, no theme version control — the theme editor explicitly carries no revert button — and no rate limits. 1 6 7

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The Merchant

After checkout this holds up well: status emails to customers, editing of customer details, products, totals and shipping after the sale, bulk invoice printing, manual phone orders, subscriptions, and a returns flow that goes as far as partial refunds, store credit, configurable reasons and return-rate analytics. I found no public information on partial shipments, multi-location stock, marketplace order intake, or maintained links to ERP and accounting systems such as DATEV, which is where my back office would need it. 3 8 9

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The Merchant

Ownership is structural rather than promised: GPLv3 code the merchant runs on their own MariaDB database, with template overrides stored in that database where they can be disabled at will. The captured pages show no export tooling and no documented migration path in or out — only a warning that a store migration must include the theme table in the backup — which keeps it short of the top. 1 7

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The Merchant not rated — no public information

I found no public information on European sovereignty in the captured pages — nothing on the vendor's jurisdiction, where customer and order data would live, hosting options, or a data-processing agreement; the published source code settles nothing about who runs the infrastructure. 1 4 8

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The licence is stated plainly as a free open-source platform under GPLv3, so licence cost is computable at zero, with no transaction or revenue-share fee appearing anywhere in the captures. What I could not compute is where the money actually goes — marketplace extension prices, hosting and support are absent from the captured pages, and those are the costs a real shop carries. 1 6

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