With the continuous development of the Internet, more and more people are turning to the creation of online stores, for lower operating costs, 24-hour order reception and for many other advantages that this way of selling has. This development creates the need for tools to implement the operation of the online store. One of these tools is the OpenCart.

OpenCart is an open source e-commerce system written in PHP. A reliable e-commerce solution that enables merchants to build their own business online and participate in e-commerce at the lowest possible cost. The user interface offers many options that make online shopping a lot easier. There is a rich set of navigation tools in the store products in various ways such as:

• Browse products by manufacturer.
• Browse the most popular products.
• Browse the latest products.
• Navigation based on the category / subcategory a product belongs to.
• Navigation to products with a specific name or description (search).

Of course, its function could not be missing shopping cart. It is possible to create a customer account to be able to use it. Along with the shopping cart, the options to set shipping costs and various payment methods are provided. Product values can be displayed in different currencies, and managing the online store is easy, through menus and options per product.

The OpenCart, can be localized very easily as there are localization functions. The Greek translation of the application, which was supported by EELLAK in the context of the competition for the "Hellenization and development of Hellenic Republic".

The OpenCart distributed under license GNU Lesser General Public License: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html. The official website of the software is located at: https://www.opencart.com. Translation files can be found at https://74.52.76.37/~opencart/opencart.zip, and the Greek instruction manual including installation instructions for the translation files can be found at: https://74.52.76.37/~opencart/OpenCart_Manual.pdf.