AbanteCart Reviews

Pros

AbanteCart is so easy to use for anyone who wants to start selling their products, it is a free open source shopping Cart and with it you can start to accept payments via the available payment extensions AbanteCart has by default. To use this software, you don't need any coding skills and you're good to go. The most amazing part of this software is the tutorial section when installing a new extension that teaches you on the steps to install the extension and there is a section to click on if you need an external support which makes AbanteCart an excellent software compared to other shopping cart i have tested. The default template is clean and its Ajax add to cart is awesome

Cons

Some of the premium templates are a bit pricey

Alternatives Considered

WooCommerce

Reasons for Choosing AbanteCart

Complicated website navigation of the admin dashboard, not easy to understand some sections in the admin dashboard. Not all countries are added in the countries section which means some countries won't be able to checkout when ordering for items on a Prestashop website except the admin of the Prestashop website add all excluded countries either manually or through a plugin.

Switched From

PrestaShop

Reasons for Switching to AbanteCart

AbanteCart's admin dashboard is so easy to use for anyone who doesn't want any complicated website navigation. Extensions from AbanteCart provides you a guide to read in other to install them successfully but WooCommerce isn't easy for me to understand

Pros

This software's default theme fit our business nicely so I had to do very little customising, the features included without needing to use plugins are more than most shopping carts I have used in the past (I have tried all PHP based systems).

Cons

Not the software's fault but not many plugins are available, I guess due to not being so popular yet, other than that I can't think of any downsides.

Alternatives Considered

OpenCart, Adobe Commerce, PrestaShop, Zen Cart and Joomla

Reasons for Switching to AbanteCart

Having used all the others they all had different issues that I could not find easy solutions for, Abantecart had all the features we needed and the default theme fit our store so it was fate.

Pros

It promotes the use of the web to small companies that still do not have an Internet presence.
Its easy configuration make it an acceptable strategy to start on the web.
It's free, it has good technical support.

Cons

Not recommended for those who require a design very attached to the particularities of the business model. It is a standard solution.

Pros

Lots of extensions are available, base system is free.You can sell your own extensions that you develop!

Cons

Some extensions are paid. Templates system should be implemented.

Alternatives Considered

Wix, Zen Cart, 4-Shop and Shopify

Pros

It's free and user-friendly.
It has a multi-site management feature.
It's back-end interface is easy to understand and operate.
It handles a large amount of project without a noticeable draws in performance.

Cons

Can't communicate with clients through it's interface.
No images and formatting of newsletters, because it lacks html features.
No human made translations.
Lots of system generated translations.
It's filled with indecent and unwanted templates.
It lacks integration features like, affiliate platforms, payment processors etc.

Pros

Easy to use and easy to sell anything. Updated and very modern, and it is FREE. I sell hosting using abantecart, and 4 other shops i use abantecart for all of them. The standard theme is very shiny and clean too.

Cons

No monthly Subscriptions for customers.
Not seen any options for themes, there is only 1 theme, as far as i know, it is ok for me but for more basic users an option of 2 themes would be nice.
Bitcoin payments as standard in options.

Pros

When I was still in the race of designing websites and selling them, I did explored AbanteCart. The whole experience was good for an open source ecommerce platform like that. I had literally set up two ecommerce websites with AbanteCart which I found very nice. But my cons

Cons

AbanteCart not as I thought, extensions and themes are too expensive and not flexible for customization. The whole system is too stive and requires you to hire an expert from their team before you can customize a lot of the functionalities on like WordPress woocomerce where you have total control to edit and change anything you want.

Pros

Most of the feature a SME requires available for free.

Cons

Local Bank payment gateway integrations are not available

Pros

We use AbanteCart to create a shopping application that is more SEO friendly and easy customize. AbanteCart is the best open source tool to create any sort of website in a matter of time. Free and open to all is the key feature we love about the AbanteCart platform.

Cons

The support is a bit slow and needs more attention, please respond to mails more faster manner.

Pros

I use this for my small eCommerce business and it works perfectly for me. Some of the things I love in AbanteCart is the modification of price, coupons, tax/weight/size measurement is easier and automatically included in the generated receipt which is printable and branded.

Cons

I do not have any problem till date with AbanteCart but using it for a very large retail store might be otherwise.

Pros

the biggest plus to us is that Abantecart is able to handle a huge amount of options without noticable performance draws. this is due to a flat option system that does not interchain each option into one product. but Abantecart still allows to set price, amount and so forth to each option. via a comprehensive jquery script, that handles stock, prices and so forth.
Abantecart has a very easy designer unterface for beginners. as its simply drag and drop. the only downside to this is that somethimes when adding blocks of the design get directed away from this design template. and has to maneuver back again.
it has in our eyes almost every feature you could wish for as a store owner. and with pretty good explanations too

We really love Abantecart. the thing that made us switch to Abantecart was the way it deals with product options. all others brands was not meeting our demands here. firstly other brands could not handle the amount of diffrent options. and or the ability to display color ot images.

this Abantecart allows us to create a fulfilling webshop.

Cons

Abantecart has a rather small array of addons, and a pretty small community that is primarily centered arround making money and not helping with coding for free. but it seems like the developers are quiet active in the forums.
you are unable to communicate with the customers via the webinterface. and relying on e-mails from the customers. you can add notes to orders. but the customer is not able to reply unfortunately.
the newsletter is as i see it built to handle many customers. but lack html features, so no imges or other formatting of newsletters.
there are not many human made translations. but there is a library of machine translated languages and a very neat feature for translating every bit of text via the administration interface., allthough with some text it can be a little hard to guess where it belongs. but its only a matter of checking and trying again.

Pros

It is free and has all the bells and whistles that a standard paid application has

Cons

It does lack on UI which is looks. They should definitely fix it also their documentation is not up-to-date

Pros

very easy to set up and customise, very user-friendly interface, very many addons which can help make it the best eCommerce platform ever

Cons

basic customization require us to buy addons, also VPS installation at times cost you money even to set up the generic platform

Pros

Easy to use, it saves so much time. Everything is available in this, which i need. Thank So Much for this.i luv to post new products. I Luv to use AbanteCart. Really new experience but i loved it. I'm using first time but it's looks like, I'm perfect in this

Pros

100% user, friendly, simple, reliable and effective.

Cons

Some minor flaws with php index pages and patches that do not work, but functional despite the issues.

Pros

It has many features for the price (FREE), I have been using it for many years and it is always my go to cart. It is one of the few out there that has the file upload feature, a must if you sell calendars. It is easy to get your store to look the way it should with the layout option.

Cons

It is missing the cms option, I did figure out a way around this though. It doesn't have the option to have a vertical menu on the home page, you can find mods or templates in the market place for this though.

Pros

It is free compared to others that i have used, it is compatible with a lot of devices that even the paid ones do not support.

Cons

On the beginning it was difficult to install, the documentation is poor, also the security on the core is not very reliable from my point of view.

Pros

Open source. Comprehensive included modules. Forum support -- less than 1 day in my experience. Documentation. Intuitive interface.

Cons

AH. None that I am aware of!

Pros

It does pretty much everything a shopping cart needs to do. USPS shipping is important to me and that works just fine.

Cons

Just small stuff. The reports option doesn't seem very sophisticated. I like to check to see how many items I have sold over a period of time. It seems to not work correctly as I get some weird numbers. Maybe I need to check out the function further.

Pros

One of the best open source system
Easy to setup.
Easy to setup, super easy with quick wizard setup.
Many free extensions.
Support is also available through the forum with a community that quickly replies.

Cons

For some reason, if you access the site without www. it does not show some icons.
little hard to customize the template.

Pros

I love this one i can drive so easy, you do not need to be an engineer to work with this system
and it give to you all you need to have your Website of business running in your hand.

Pros

Product Listing style is quite good.

Cons

Menus are very simple.