Search “OpenCart AI” and you get a wall of drop-in chatbot widgets. They are fine for a generic “how can I help” bubble, but they do not know your stock, your shipping rules, or last week’s price change. The work that actually moves numbers is wiring AI into the data your store already holds.
We build that integration. Product descriptions generated in bulk from your catalog fields. A support assistant grounded in your real products and policies. Back-office jobs like tagging and categorisation that used to eat an afternoon. You bring the store and an API key; we handle the rest.
Scoped to what you need
AI work is not one fixed package, so we scope it to the jobs that pay off for your store. A typical first build covers one or two of these well, rather than all of them badly.
- Workshop to pick the AI jobs worth doing for your catalog and team
- Connect OpenCart to the model you choose (OpenAI, Gemini, or a self-hosted Llama)
- Bulk product-description generation mapped to your real attribute fields
- A review-and-approve step so nothing publishes without a human check
- Support chatbot grounded in your catalog, stock status, and store policies
- Handoff rules so the bot passes hard questions to a person
- Back-office jobs: category suggestions, tag cleanup, or description translation
- Cost controls: token budgets, caching, and rate limits so the API bill stays predictable
- Admin screens inside OpenCart so non-developers can run the jobs
- Documentation and a short training session for your team
AI that runs on your store
You get working integrations on your own OpenCart install, connected to your own model account, with the code handed over.
Working AI features
The one or two jobs we scoped, live on your store and tested against real products.
Admin controls
Buttons and settings inside OpenCart so your team runs the jobs without touching code.
Your model account
Everything wired to your OpenAI or Gemini key, so you control cost and data, not us.
Cost guardrails
Caching and token limits so a bulk run does not produce a surprise invoice.
Code and docs
The integration code, handed over, plus a short guide and a training call.
Four steps, one to two weeks
We start with a short workshop so we build the jobs that matter, then ship and tune against your real catalog.
Scope workshop
We look at your catalog, your team's time sinks, and pick the AI jobs worth building first.
Day 1-2Connect and prototype
We wire OpenCart to your chosen model and build a rough version of the first job against real products.
Day 2-5Build and guardrail
We finish the features, add the review step, and set cost controls so the bill stays predictable.
Day 5-9Test and hand over
We test against your catalog, train your team, and hand over the code and docs.
Day 9-10Priced by scope, quoted up front
A first AI build starts at $690 for a single job done properly, like bulk product descriptions wired to your catalog with a review step. A grounded support chatbot or a multi-job build runs higher. We quote the fixed scope after the workshop, so you know the number before we write code.
Model API costs are separate.
You pay OpenAI or Google directly for what the model uses, on your own account. We size those costs during scoping and build in caching and limits so a bulk run does not blow the budget. We never mark up token usage.
- One AI feature, built and tested
- Wired to your model account
- Admin controls and cost limits
- Code handover and training
- Two or three AI jobs together
- Grounded support chatbot included
- Back-office automation jobs
- 30 days of tuning after launch
Tooling we lean on
How this connects to the rest of your store
This is part of our AI integration services, which wire models into real business data rather than bolting on a widget. If the job is less about AI and more about connecting OpenCart to another system, our OpenCart integrations work covers that, and our OpenCart support page lists everything else we handle on the platform.
Running the same kind of build on Drupal instead of OpenCart? See our AI work for Drupal.
A common first job is bulk catalog copy. See how we run ChatGPT for product descriptions without the generic output.
Need AI for OpenCart sorted?
We'll triage the same day. Send context, screenshots, error messages — whatever you have. No sales calls, no chatbots.