10 New OpenCart Themes for Best E-Commerce Design in 2018
Modern and sleek design is all around us. Your online customers are being exposed to beautiful websites all over the place, and if your OpenCart store is giving them something to frown about... we've got bad news for you.
OpenCart themes are a great way to get your customers to perceive your online business as one that can be trusted.
New OpenCart themes always pop up in the marketplaces, so we decided to take a look around and take out a few of the newest themes we could find.
We're eager to show you the themes we believe you need to seriously consider.
Even better, we will be updating this blog post with new OpenCart themes as we find new ones.
Post updated August 22, 2018 (New themes on the top!)
1 GetCart
GetCart is a beautiful modern OpenCart theme inspired by the most effective E-Commerce design solutions.
It has 5 different layout versions: Default, Fashion, Sport, Dark, and Black-White. The home page consists of widgets for product announcements, carousel for Latest, Bestseller, Featured, Specials and Most Viewed products.
Below the carousel, you have a section with your latest limited time deals to encourage sales using urgency. Scrolling further down you have a preview of your top categories, blog section, customer reviews and a counter with your achievements.
- Extreme Customization
- Deals Countdown Timer
- Fully Responsive
- Custom Header
- Quick Search Auto-Suggest
- Mega Menu
- EU Cookie Consent
- Page Preloader
- Lazy Image Loading
Categories
GetCart is all about customization and its categories emphasize just that. Sticky left & right columns, different grid and gallery views, 2 category module display options and 4 title positions.
The main Category image has a parallax scrolling effect and the subcategories have 2 different styles. Pure awesomeness if you ask us.
Products
The way products are displayed in GetCart is something we haven’t seen in an OpenCart theme before. With the 13 different product page layouts and custom tabs, SALE and feature blocks, you can make your product pages look addictively good.
With that kind of customization level, it’s up to you whether you want a cleaned up and fluid product page design or a comprehensive layout with tons of information and options.
It’s safe to say GetCart is one of the best-looking OpenCart themes we’ve seen so far.
2 Elomus
There have been questions about selling a single product with OpenCart. Well, here’s a theme just for that!
Elomus is a responsive OpenCart theme with an outstanding modern look for entrepreneurs that want their customers to have a focused and informed shopping experience.
You can set Elomus up for a single product or a plethora of products. It’s beautiful landing page is easy to customize and setup for optimal conversion rates.
- Layout Content Builder
- Drag & Drop Mega Menu
- Multiple Header Options
- Product Slider
- Tabs for Deals, Latest, Specials, Bestsellers, Most Viewed, etc
- Customer Testimonials
- Instagram & Twitter Feeds
Categories
The category page in Elomus has a minimalistic modern design with a price filter, category & manufacturer filters as well as a quick view for products.
You can see discount labels and different product images while hovering over products.
Products
Viewing a product in Elomus is quite pleasant as it has a clean design and a user-friendly design.
The product image zoom lets you focus on how the product looks and clicking through the options switches the product images that represent each product variant.
Elomus is targeted at tech, sports, strollers and drone E-Commerce stores. But if you notice the customization options, you will see that it can surely adapt to your store whatever you’re selling.
3 Wallcraft
A stylish new-fashioned OpenCart theme that will bring your store design into 2018 right away.
It’s created with the most modern standards in E-Commerce design and is probably one of the best investments you can make for your OpenCart website.
The Wallcraft home page is a joy to look at with the large banner slider, “Our Story” section, a promo code to invite customers to your newsletter, large images for main categories and tabs for Bestsellers, Featured, Special Offers and Top Products.
- Horizontal Mega Menu
- Cloudzoom
- Image Slider
- Blog
- Mobile First
- Newsletter
Categories
While viewing the product categories, the great thing is that the products and their large images are your main focus. You have SALE and discount labels on each product that are not distracting but easy to notice.
You only see the product name and price unless you hover over an item to make all the buttons appear. Even the Add to Cart button is not that emphasized, making you want to click on the product to learn more.
The widgets on the side feature the sections with bestsellers, featured, etc and you can use the category banner on top to make announcements for deals and promotions.
Products
Make your products fly off the shelves with the minimal look and simplified shopping experience of Wallcraft.
Large product images that zoom on hover, side widgets with your categories and featured products, as well as attractive related products to increase your click-through rate.
Installing Wallcraft in your store will definitely bring your E-Commerce business to the next level and let you create a pleasant shopping experience for your customers helping you make more sales and build up your brand.
4 Indecor
A brand new minimal theme for furniture & home decoration products. It’s lightweight and features 6+ pre-made layouts for you to choose from.
The home page can be customized with the different layouts they offer, as well as the multiple header options you can choose from.
The theme is fully responsive and focuses the viewer’s attention on your products and categories. You have a Daily Deal section with a countdown timer to encourage more sales.
- Content Layout Builder
- Drag and Drop Mega Menu
- Custom Category View
- Color Switchers for Products
- Product Slider
- Blog
- Newsletter
- Product & Category Tab Sliders
- Customer Testimonials
Categories
After a customer finds the category they want from the mega menu, they wind up in the category page that is simplified by a price filter, simple navigation and multiple options to refine the search.
For the products, you have a quick view option together with labels for discounts as well as new arrivals, best sellers and most viewed items.
Use the banner on the left to lead to a collection or another offer with a special price.
Products
The layout of the product page has a perfect balance between the product images and the details on the right. The fonts and content size put the emphasis on the product name, price and Add to Cart button.
The product option switchers allow the customer to instantly see the way the different options of the product look like.
A small but powerful feature that gives your customers a faster and more convenient way to browse through your product options and quickly choose the one they like without any unnecessary actions.
Indecor is a great solution if you’re looking for a theme that is lightweight, clean and fast, but still has enough features to help your OpenCart store grow. Definitely worth checking out!
7 Raavin
Everything that a shoes & fashion store needs to give customers a seamless shopping experience.
Raavin is a responsive OpenCart theme with a user-friendly flow that helps customers easily find exactly what they need and finish the quick 4 step checkout.
The full-width homepage slider gives you a minimalistic first impression and a Shop Now CTA button to begin shopping right away.
Scrolling down your new home you find the newsletter popup, the banners with your collections and announcements for discounts, hot deals and Sales.
- Content Layout Builder
- Drag and Drop Mega Menu
- Custom Category View
- Color Switchers for Products
- Product Slider
- Blog
- Newsletter
- Product & Category Tab Sliders
- Customer Testimonials
Categories
Let’s use the mega menu to visit one of the categories. The price filter is the first feature to narrow down products to the desired price of the customer. Then come the category, color or manufacturer filters.
You also have each of the subcategories at the top to help guide customers to a more specific product range.
Custom grid, list and sorting views for the products that are displayed with a clean look showing just their names, price and rating. Smart.
Products
The Raavin product page also comes with a option switcher for faster browsing of the different product variants. The large product images allow for a good view of how the items looks and the Add to Cart is large and easy to find.
The related products below are a helpful way for customers to view more of your items and if that’s not enough, there are banners below that showing other collections or special products.
For its price, Raavin is a wonderful choice for an online store that wants to quickly get to the next level and build a better E-Commerce site with OpenCart. The powerful customization options will help you create a fluid shopping experience for your customers.
6 Anne
4.67 star rating. Anne is a freshly updated minimal OpenCart 3.x theme designed for online fashion stores.
The home page features a large slider with a call-to-action button and a navigation bar that looks excellent on mobile.
Anne has a lot of features built inside, like an elegant popup extension that greets new visitors and invites them to subscribe for the weekly newsletter.
- Mega Menu
- Buy Now Feature
- One Page Checkout
- Faceted Search (with Autocomplete)
- Category Filters
- Social Login
Categories
The category page is very clean and has a lot of useful features at the same time.
The filters include a price range and color options, as well as sizes and brands all wrapped up in a smooth design.
Anne’s category page is very simple to work with and delivers a pleasant shopping experience while you’re browsing for products you like.
Products
The product page design features a large main product image with zoom on the left and the rest of the product details aligned to the right.
- Product Options - selectable color and size options, instead of dropdowns. This allows faster selection of the required fields for an easier shopping experience.
- CTA Buttons - the product page also features the Pre-Order and Buy Now functionalities.
This is wonderful for OpenCart merchants as the Pre-Order option gives customers a way to purchase products without stock statuses being an issue.
On the other hand, the Buy Now button leads customer straight to the checkout page after they click it. Fast and efficient.
7 Handart
5.00 star rating. Released at the end of last year, Handart is quite the modern touch to the OpenCart theme landscape.
Originally intended for E-Commerce websites for artists and their craft, this theme can be applied to online stores from many different industries.
The responsive and modern home page features a large slider with a Shop Now button, followed up by banners for different product collections or promotions.
The minimal popup for your newsletter appears with a large Subscribe button when customers enter your store. Easy to opt in for your updates and easy to continue to your store.
- Mega Menu & Mobile Menu
- Blog
- Product & Category Slider
- Quick Product View
- Back to Top
- Custom Banners
- Multi Language, Multi Currency
Categories
Handart has a comprehensive category page where you can browse all its subcategories and use tons of filters to find the products you’re looking for.
You can use the Price Filter to narrow down the price ranges and quickly sort through the products by their rating and labels for Sale, New, etc.
Products
The product page in Handart blends together with the page header to create a more immersive experience for customers.
Your product images come with a zoom and a customizable product details section.
There is a lot of room to breathe between the different elements like the main product details, description, related products and subscription form.
The product page has two main accents - the product images and the Add to Cart button.
Makes everything look good and clean and easy to work with.
8 Aboss
4.20 star rating. Aboss is presented as a sports and fitness theme, but it can easily fit into your OpenCart store whatever products you’re selling. It will simply make it better.
Your new home page will feature a beautiful brand logo slider, a large customizable banner slider and a minimal but very useful main navigation.
Again, first things first, new customers get greeted by the subscription form for your newsletter. Gotta grow that email list, right?
Next thing you know, after the beautiful header and slider images, you see three big trust badges for Free Delivery, Money Guarantee and Online Support. Not only that, but this OpenCart theme also includes:
- Mega Menu
- Customer Trust Badges
- Category and Product Slider
- Customer Testimonials
- Product Labels
- Blog
Categories
Aboss comes with a clean and beautiful category page featuring a main banner, perfectly aligned filters with a Price Range and additional banners plus quick view for products.
The moment a customer enters the category page, they instantly know what to do if they want to find a specific product or just narrow down the results to pick something they like.
Products
A beautiful product page with a focus on the attractive product, the rest of the product images and the Add to Cart button.
Nothing too much, but just enough to find out everything you need to know about the item and quickly head to the checkout.
Aboss is a premium theme with a modern and trustworthy look that will set your store apart from any of your competitors. Definitely worth checking out right now if you’re looking for a change.
9 Shoppy
4.15 star rating. Shoppy is a theme that has already been on the market but it just got its brand new update last month. It now features a much more modern feel and new features, including GDPR Compliance!
Now we’re talking about a marketplace theme for large OpenCart websites with tons of products. And to support that, Shoppy is strapped with all the layouts you need, as well as a lot of features to make your E-Commerce convert that traffic into sales.
We enter the home page and the subscription popup is on point. Clean and easy to complete.
Moving on, we have a lot of things we need to analyze. First, the mega menu features banners and product images for customers to use and get around your store faster.
The different theme layouts feature full-width sliders, some of them don’t, and this leaves room for additional elements, such as free shipping announcements.
- Drag & Drop Customizable Mega Menu
- Lazy Image Loading
- GDPR Compliance
- Page Builder
- Live Search
- Countdown Timer
- Quick Product View
- Social Login
- One Page Checkout
Categories
Apart from all the products in a single category, you have a Daily Deal on top of the page, a promotion banner, below the search and filters and product labels for discounts and sales.
The different theme layouts include a Price Range filter, as well as a countdown timer on products that have limited time discounts running.
Products
The product page of the Shoppy theme features an image zoom when hovering and the countdown timer is present if the product is part of the limited time deals.
Apart from that, it's a clean and customizable design that you can easily adapt to your preferences with the page builder.
Shoppy is a powerhouse of a theme that allows a magnitude of customization options. No matter what E-Commerce industry your OpenCart store is part of, you can be sure that this theme will definitely give your online business a healthy boost.
10 Solve
5.00 star rating. The latest update for Solve came this month and it's fair to say it's one of our favorites. With its clean minimal design, large images and complete focus on what matters the most - your products.
The home page consists of a few important elements - a large full-width slider, featured products, trends, latest products, and a Browse by Category section.
- Custom Theme Options
- Fade Page Effect
- Lazy Image Loading
- Scroll animation
- Image Zoom Feature
- Previews for Sub-categories
- Sticky Header
- Sidebar for Search and Account Links
Categories
As in the home page, everything is focused on the large images in the category page as well. No distracting marketing materials or banners, no popups or a large mega menu.
Clean and simple. Category filter, category specific banner, lazy loading for the products as you scroll down and nothing but the product name and price.
Products
Everything you need in a single product page. A large high-res image to nail your customer's attention, rating and a short description topped off by a bright and distinctive Add to Cart button.
The Latest Products section on the right give you more click-through rates from customers who are interested and make the entire product page have great conversion qualities.
A wonderful theme for OpenCart fashion stores that you shouldn't miss to check.
Wrap up
These are some of the finest new OpenCart themes on the market in 2018. We will be adding new ones to this collection as time passes and we find new themes that we think OpenCart merchants should know about. Stay in touch!
