Opencart Platform

OpenCart stores manage their product catalog, stock levels, and orders directly in their own database, which is powerful for control but means catalog data has to be actively exported and kept in sync for use in shopping ads, marketplaces, and comparison shopping engines. Feedance connects to your OpenCart store to pull product, inventory, and order data and turn it into structured, channel-ready feeds, so you don't have to build and maintain custom export scripts for every channel you sell on.

Feedance connects directly to your OpenCart store using your store's own credentials. Once connected, Feedance reads your product catalog, stock levels, and order data on an ongoing basis so your feeds and channel listings stay aligned with what's actually in your store.

No code changes or theme edits are required on your OpenCart installation. You provide store access details during setup, and Feedance handles keeping the connection alive and refreshing data automatically.

Feedance works with three core data entities from your OpenCart store:

A few things about how OpenCart is built are worth understanding before connecting it to any feed tool:

• Inventory can live at the option level, not just the product level. OpenCart lets merchants track stock separately for each option combination (for example, a specific color and size pairing) rather than only at the master product level. When a specific combination sells out, only that combination goes out of stock, not necessarily the whole product, so accurate feed data depends on reading stock at the right level.
• Multi-store catalogs share one database. A single OpenCart installation can power multiple storefronts from one database, with each product individually assigned (and sometimes priced differently) per store. If you run multiple OpenCart storefronts, it's worth being clear about which store's catalog and pricing should feed which channel.
• Self-hosted means store-specific quirks are common. Because OpenCart is self-hosted and highly extensible through third-party themes and extensions, two OpenCart stores can behave quite differently depending on which extensions are installed, which can affect how consistently custom fields or catalog data are structured.
• OpenCart is self-hosted, so uptime and access depend on your hosting. Since the store lives on infrastructure you or your host manage, server downtime, expired credentials, or hosting-side firewall rules can interrupt the connection independent of anything on the feed management side.

1. Log in to your Feedance account and start adding a new platform connection.
2. Select OpenCart from the list of supported platforms.
3. Enter your OpenCart store URL and the credentials Feedance requests to establish the connection.
4. Confirm the connection and let Feedance perform its initial import of your products, inventory, and orders.
5. Review the imported data, then set up your feed rules and channel destinations.

Once connected, Feedance periodically re-checks your OpenCart store to pick up changes to products, stock levels, and orders, so your feeds stay reasonably current without manual re-exports. Exact sync frequency can depend on your Feedance plan and store size; for time-sensitive changes like a sudden stock-out, there may be a short delay before it's reflected across all connected channels.

1. Keep product titles and descriptions complete and specific in OpenCart itself, since Feedance builds your feed from that source data.
2. Use consistent, accurate categorization in OpenCart so mapped feed categories on ad and marketplace channels stay accurate.
3. Make sure every product has clear, high-quality images assigned, as missing or low-quality images are a common cause of listing disapprovals.
4. Keep option-level stock quantities current for products with variants, so out-of-stock combinations don't get advertised as available.
5. Regularly review products that are disabled or unassigned to a store, since these typically won't be included in your feed.