The Antropy Ecommerce Blog

— Jul 21, 2021

Why use Concrete5 over WordPress?

When it comes to Ecommerce stores, OpenCart is of course our go-to but when the site does not need to sell online and is merely looking for an online presence, then we always go for Concrete5. Although WordPress is probably the most commonly used platform in the world, in this blog we put forward...

— 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.

— Jan 11, 2021

New VAT Rules Now We Have Left the EU

Now that we have left the EU as part of Brexit, it has been mentioned a few times in the News over the last few years, you will need to alter your VAT statuses to comply with this. This is the Government advice on VAT between the UK and the EU and long story EU countries do not have to pay VAT when...

— 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.

— 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.

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