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We have been experimenting with opencart and found it to be an excellent piece of open source free shopping cart. Need less to say it is available with us with just 1 click installation on Basic / Silver / Unlimited hosting plans. Before we go in depth to say why we choose this cart over many other, we would like to point out that if you are planning to start your online business and are considering opencart for as your software then you should select our silver hosting plan. The reason why silver hosting plan is better is because it will let you have your main website on the primary domain and then you can simply add-on a domain to host the cart.. all in one plan!

The reason we are all praise about opencart is because it is very simple to use and works right out of the box, it took us 1-2 hours to get to know how things work. We had tried oscommerce some years back but opencart is definitely way ahead of it. One of the best things about opencart is that it works with 2checkout. With all the paypal problems happening in India, 2checkout still offers a decent option for Indian merchants to be able to do business not just in USD but also in INR. The other highlights about the cart is the ability to add affiliates and have custom discount coupons as well as gift vouchers. The template of opencart is very good as well and you can simply change the theme with very professional high quality opencart themes.

Ecommerce in India is on the rise so if you were planning to sell online, this is the best time for that!

Seems like RBI has made it so complex for PayPal to do business in India that it has gone crazy. All Indian merchants are facing the brunt of not being able to do business within India with PayPal and since the PAN card verification drive is going on, it has become impossible to do business with PayPal from anywhere. We have heard this from many merchants and have experienced this ourselves that PayPal keeps rejecting valid PAN card details and then put the account on a temporary hold where you are unable to receive any money.

If this was not enough, PayPal is auto withdrawing payment to bank accounts everyday. Which means that even if you get a payment of $2, this amount is sent to your bank next day resulting in loosing money with conversion and small payment transfer charges.

In this age where more and more companies are going online with ecommerce, it seems like RBI is encouraging monopoly by stopping multinational companies like PayPal to do a game changing business in India.

Spamhaus.org has listed the top 10 worst spam generating countries and to our surprise, India is no where in the top 10… which is a good news

Read an article in Hindustan Times business section about the ecommerce and internet growth in India, very interesting statistics. While most of us have seen commercials of flipkart / snapdeals etc it is not all a bubble, all these ecommerce websites are showing exploding sales and have proven that eCommerce in India has finally arrived. Looks at the data below and you will see that the Indian ecom story will be a grand success in the time to come. All the more reason to start your website today itself. Who knows, your’s could be the next biggest internet idea.