Best 5 OpenCart extensions in 2021

by JONATHAN PAUL Jonathan Paul working at PHPProgrammers, a leading

The availability of plenty of OpenCart extensions have made things easier for the developers and have made OpenCart a favoured choice for eCommerce development. Here are the best 5 extensions every OpenCart developer must use in 2021.

Having a website has become important for every business today no matter if it is a startup or an enterprise. Everything has gone online now including buying and selling. The web has millions of online stores now selling different types of products. The brick and mortar shops have moved to the internet in the form of online shopping carts. The ease of online selling and buying has led innumerable businesses to have their own e-stores and this again has made it more challenging to get a competitive e-store built for those businesses that are now planning to go online.

And when it is all about building an eCommerce site, there are plenty of platforms available today, OpenCart being the most popular one among both eCommerce developers and entrepreneurs. Business owners who are seeking eCommerce website development most prefer to choose an OpenCart developer over the other platforms. And apart from OpenCart benefits like its flexibility, open-source nature, and easy to manage interface, another key reason to choose this platform is the availability of the wide range of extensions that make things easier for the developers.

Now, let’s get to know the best 5 OpenCart extensions available in 2021.

While some of these extensions are free to use, some of these are paid ones. Here’s the list of the best 5 among all in 2021.

Astra OpenCart Security Suite:

The Astra OpenCart Security Suite is the best OpenCart security extension now. This extension makes it easy to completely secure the websites, protecting the websites from all external threats and malware. It has a highly strong firewall that can protect websites from over a hundred cyber threats at a time. This extension has a malware scanner as well that helps to detect the vulnerabilities of the sites and then address and remove the same as well. Astra offers protection round-the-clock. And you can choose from the different packages of this extension - monthly and yearly packages, as per your requirements and your budget.

Remember, your customers must get a secure environment while shopping from your site and Astra can ensure the same if your store is built with OpenCart. An insecure site can not only result in the loss of revenue but can also result in the loss of customers. Having a loyal customer base is important and only a trusted and secure site can achieve the same easily. Hence, using Astra is important in 2021 if you want your OpenCart site to be 100 percent safe and secure.

Quick Checkout:

This Quick Checkout extension helps to optimise and streamline the checkout process and the overall checkout experience of the customers, making the process short, simple, and quick. It is the best one-page checkout extension that you can use for your OpenCart store in 2021.

Bulk Coupon generator:

Offering coupons is a great way to keep customers engaged in the store for a long time, offering them special offers, and great deals via the coupons. Bulk Coupon Generator is one of the best OpenCart extensions again that helps with the easy generation of the bulk of coupons instantly for the customers based on the type of customers and the predefined settings via manual and automatic methods.

Social Login:

Enabling the customers to visit the social media pages can increase the reach and conversion rates. And this Social Login OpenCart extension allows users to easily and quickly login with different social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, and more with just a single click.

OpenCart Lighting:

Busing an eCommerce business owner, you would definitely like to run a website that is fast and high-performing. Customers do not like to use a slow store that takes more than 3 seconds to get loaded. And why would they wait for one store when the internet is flooded with similar online stores now. And here comes the role of the OpenCart Lighting extension. It is much faster as compared to the other available accelerator add-ons. The extension is also easy to install, use, and configure.

You can also avail the 7 days trial option of this extension first and test it on your OpenCart store. If you are satisfied with its performance then you can buy a license to enjoy a full-fledged and extremely fast eCommerce site. But as per the studies, sites that have owned this extension and are using it are the fastest running OpenCart sites. Also, if you are using this extension, you will not need any other accelerating, caching, or optimisation extension for your OpenCart shopping site.

Apart from these few, there are plenty of more extensions you can use with OpenCart like Filter ShopBy, Mega Menu, SearchPro, page builder, and more. However, implementing complex features and functionalities can become easy with the right use of the available extensions.

Jonathan Paul is a dedicated and experienced OpenCart developer associated with an award-winning OpenCart development company in Australia, PHPProgrammers. The author has written this article to unbox the best 5 OpenCart extensions available in 2021.