The Antropy Ecommerce Blog
May 26, 2022
Team Antropy Attends the Three Bridges Networking Event
On the 25th May, Alex, Paul, Joe and Adem went to a local networking event held at Three Bridges Football Club. This was the first networking event we had attended since the pandemic so it was a welcome change for us all to get back to some pre-covid normalities and meet like-minded businesses...
May 18, 2022
Sparks Electrical OpenCart Rebuild
Near the end of 2020 we were tasked with updating a very tricky custom built OpenCart store for a company called Sparks Electrical. They are a well established company based in London and had an outdated OpenCart store, running on version 1.5 for 10 years! The site hadn’t been touched for a very...
May 6, 2022
Blocks of Hours vs Support Retainers vs Fixed Price
So we have a number of different ways of working on a project basis with clients. In this blog I will highlight the different ways we can tackle your project
Apr 29, 2022
Antropy’s Most Downloaded Free OpenCart Extensions?
‘Nothing in this life is free’, the old saying goes but we beg to differ when it comes down to our most popular free extensions. Here are our top 3 most downloaded free OpenCart extensions:
Apr 21, 2022
Hawkins OpenCart Rebuild
We have worked with Hawkins Hobbies since the middle of 2019 and undertaken numerous smaller projects over the years but we were very happy to sink our teeth into rebuilding their OpenCart site. They had been running off an older version of OpenCart for some years and needed a refresh, which we...
Apr 4, 2022
How to Send an Opencart Extension to Us?
So as per a previous blog of ours, we always ask clients to buy extensions and the reasons for that can be found here - Why do we ask Clients to Buy Extensions? However, in this blog I want to highlight how you go about sending the extensions to us.
Mar 16, 2022
Antropy Subcategory Images Extension
Adding images within subcategories has been a request we have had a fair bit recently, so we decided to package up our fix into a free extension that you can download here.
Feb 22, 2022
Antropy OpenCart Blog Extension
There are a lot of downsides of using Journal as an OpenCart Theme but one of the plus sides is the blog feature that comes with it. We had a fair few clients comment that they wanted a blog feature but did not want to use Journal. However what we found were there were no well regarded blog...
Feb 11, 2022
Top 5 Payment Gateway Extensions for OpenCart
We often get clients ask us what is the best Payment Gateway to use for your OpenCart store. So here is a rundown of who we would recommend:
Feb 4, 2022
Opayo Update Deadline for your OpenCart Store is Looming
As I am sure those Opayo (formerly SagePay) users have seen, the SCA Deadline is set for the 14th March 2022. There are a number of updates that need to be put in place before this deadline and these should be implemented sooner rather than later.
Jan 17, 2022
Antropy's 2-Step Strategy for Handling Complex OpenCart Rebuilds
The normal way rebuilds run is we undertake a Phase 1 and then put the site live, if any further work is needed after this then that goes into a Phase 2. However with some sites where they are heavily customised this process isn’t one we would recommend or follow.
Jan 12, 2022
PayPal Search Transaction History within OpenCart
A useful feature within the OpenCart Admin is to be able to search the transaction history of current or previous PayPal orders. This can be found by:
Dec 22, 2021
How to Update Your Information Pages Within OpenCart
The Information page within the OpenCart Admin Panel is a little hidden and you could be clicking around for some time if you don’t know where to look. This is where you can find the following pages: About Us Delivery Information Privacy Policy Terms & Conditions
Dec 16, 2021
Vape Liquid UK OpenCart Build
We have recently built a brand new website for a new vaping company called Vape Liquid UK. We once again based the new site on our iStore theme and tried to keep the design as simplistic as possible.
Dec 8, 2021
Most Viewed Blogs of 2021
Just like in last year's blog, we go through the most viewed blogs written this year according to Google Analytics. This year we have written a range of blogs with a lot more ‘how to’ guides for OpenCart and in the later part of the year case studies on OpenCart Builds we have completed through...
Nov 19, 2021
British Land Rover Parts Website OpenCart Rebuild
We were asked to rebuild the British Land Rover Parts website as they were running on version 2.0.3.1 of OpenCart which was in need of a recharge. For the new site we upgraded their theme based on our Multipurpose Theme.
Nov 12, 2021
How Easy Is It to Switch to OpenCart?
A question we get asked a lot when clients are potentially looking to switch from one platform to another is a) how hard is this to achieve and b) how much disruption will it cause to my current site?
Nov 2, 2021
Master Plastics OpenCart Upgrade
We were asked to rebuild the Master Plastic website as they were running an older version of OpenCart which was in need of an update and refresh. For the new site we upgraded their theme and mirrored the design based on their old site.
Oct 13, 2021
Organic Textile Company OpenCart Rebuild
We were asked to rebuild the Organic Textile website as they were running an older version of OpenCart which was in need of an upgrade and refresh. We based the design off our iStore theme and only made slight changes to the top bar, header and footer so that the site's design was very similar to...
Oct 6, 2021
Total E Liquid OpenCart Rebuild
We were asked to rebuild the Total E Liquid website as they were running an older version of OpenCart which was in need of an update. We used our iStore theme and as per the client’s brief, we kept the colours in place from the previous site. The design we kept very basic and simplistic as the...
Sep 29, 2021
Plantex OpenCart Rebuild
We were asked to rebuild the Plantex website as they were running off an older version of OpenCart and in need of an update. For the new site we created a custom theme based off the existing theme they had. We tried to keep the new sites look and feel similar to the old website so that the branding...
Sep 17, 2021
Quay Traders OpenCart Rebuild
We were approached to update and rebuild the Quay Traders website as they were looking for a fresh, yet simple new site. Using our iStore theme, we created a modern looking homepage with two slideshows of images. The top bar we made a simple grey colour and the footer a light blue to make it stand...
Sep 7, 2021
Cold Spring Website Merge
This was a website merge and update that we are very proud about. Cold Spring are a niche UK based record label and were looking to merge their two sites together into one main OpenCart site. The main website that was used for News and Artist Biographies was running off WordPress, whilst the store...
Aug 20, 2021
Onion Reporting OpenCart Website Rebuild
Onion Reporting Software are a Belfast based company who specialise in putting your Sage accounts in Excel format. They were running on the old 1.5.5.1 version of OpenCart which made the website look outdated and in need of a refresh.
Aug 6, 2021
Crawley Sheds & Cabins Website Rebuild
We always enjoy helping local companies with their ecommerce websites and the Crawley Sheds & Cabins rebuild was no different. They approached us as their old website was built and run through a company that rhymes with Well (hint hint) and known to be cheap and cheerful. This was all well and good...
Apr 1, 2021
Missing Orders Mysteries
A comprehensive guide on OpenCart's 'Missing Orders' - what they are, their causes, and how to solve.
Mar 16, 2021
How to Add Reward Points to Customers Within OpenCart
Keeping customers happy and making them feel valued is very important. One way to go about this is by rewarding them with Reward Points. In this blog, I highlight how to go about rewarding customers with reward points within OpenCart.
Mar 8, 2021
How to Enable or Disable Payment Methods in OpenCart
What payment methods you want to use on your OpenCart store is a very important decision to make. It is very easy to select which payment methods you would like to use and below I have listed the steps to do this.
Mar 3, 2021
How to Enable or Disable Reviews on Your Site
This may sound like something you should know how to do but if I am perfectly honest I had to squirrel around the admin to find where you enable or disable reviews on your site. You can choose whether you only want reviews from customers who are logged in or for guests as well or you may choose to...
Feb 8, 2021
How to Add a New Voucher Theme in Opencart
Themes/ pictures on vouchers are important when sending a voucher or when a client purchases a gift voucher. The default themes are Birthday, Christmas and General. The below blog highlights how you can add a new theme.
Jan 18, 2021
How to Add a New Weight and Length Class in OpenCart
Adding a new weight or length class is a useful exercise to know within OpenCart. It could be that you notice that in correspondences with customers they keep referring to a specific weight or length metric that you feel could be useful to add to your website.
Dec 15, 2020
How to add an IP for an extension that uses the OpenCart API
Sometimes a 3rd party extension or developer will need to access your OpenCart API, for this to happen they will need to get their IP added. I have highlighted below how you undertake this:
Dec 4, 2020
Our Most Viewed Blogs of 2020
Just like in last year's blog, we go through the most viewed blogs written this year according to Google Analytics. This year we have really tried to focus on blogs that will help you as OpenCart users and giving you more 'how to' guides.
May 19, 2014
OpenCart Currencies
There seems to be some confusion about how multi-currency works in OpenCart, so here's a short article to clarify some of the main points.
Sep 6, 2013
OpenCart Customer Review Email
Selling online is all about trust. If you can increase the trust your users have if your site, your company and your products, you will increase your sales in turn. There are many ways to do this but customer product reviews are one of the most effective.
Feb 22, 2013
Setting Up Your OpenCart Product Feed with Google Shopping
One of the best ways to increase sales through your OpenCart shop is to get your products automatically listed on Google Shopping. It's pretty easy to do and will probably only need about 30 minutes, yet many OpenCart store owners don't know they should be doing it!
Jan 18, 2013
One Quick OpenCart SEO Tip to Avoid a Duplicate Home Page
So here's a quick code change that you can do to your OpenCart shop to improve its Search Engine Optimisation.