One major advantage of OpenCart is that it makes putting products on your site easy. Unfortunately though this means you can easily upload products which have problems that would cause them to perform poorly on search engines.


That's why we've created a simple to use extension which can not only identify a large number of key problems with your products but it can also automatically fix many of them and has direct links to any problem products so you can fix them yourself.


The Product Checker extension sorts products into their problem groups so you can deal with one problem at a time and ensure it's resolved across your whole inventory.


Some common problems that our extension can detect and their fixes:


Enabled no price

While not a problem for every website, sometimes having products on your site without a price can cause problems. Whether that's preventing the user from adding to basket or allowing them to and even getting through checkout with it for free it's not what you want happening. There's no automatic fix for this so we'll just highlight which products have no price so you can quickly add the correct prices.


Products with spaces

Additional spaces in product names can cause problems not just for your websites look but they can also break certain feeds. This fix is fortunately easy enough to do by hand or you can use our clear spaces button which clears all spaces at once.


Products with prohibited characters in name

Another feed breaker is prohibited characters in product names. There are a large number of characters that are prohibited for use in certain feeds but are commonly used in product names, for example + and &. There's no automatic fix here as often removing the character is removing vital information, for example a premium model.


Products with duplicated names

Duplicated names can cause confusion online, our tool highlights them for you so you can see where customers might be having some confusion. It may even be the case that the same product is uploaded multiple times which can cause problems when dealing with inventory.


Products without image

To sell efficiently online you should ensure there's at least one picture main picture with each product, this extension will highlight products without images. While it won't be able to fix this issue for you it quickly takes you to the products that need attention.


Products with empty SEO keyword

Empty SEO keywords leave your websites URLs looking dull. A good descriptive SEO URL doesn't just let people know more about the product when they read it but also improves its SEO. Fortunately, our handy extension can automatically fill all empty SEO URLs using the product names.


Discount higher than price

When a product is discounted to a price higher than it's regular cost. This is a manual fix only as there are a number of ways to deal with this problem. A discount shouldn't be higher than the regular cost of the item, if you mean to increase the price of the item, change it in the items Data tab rather than Discount.


Products with an empty meta title

Your products meta title is the first see potential customers see when finding your products on search engine results pages. Ensuring you have a catchy meta title gives you a much higher chance of converting. Our extension highlights the products missing a meta title.


Missing product main, but with code

When products are missing the product main, but with code, they're set up to be part of a group of products but no product has been allocated to be the main. The simple fix for this is to allocate one of the products as a main. Our extension will flag all of the products missing main and shows their code too, so find the smallest of the code and simply make that the main.


Not in all products

If you've got products it's usually best to have it in part of all products. Fortunately our extension has a simple button that will allow you to add all of your products to all products.


Many more

Our extension checks against over 25 different errors so you can easily fix them so your products can sell online!


So help your products rank well on search engines, comply with feeds, work better on your site, and be more clear for your customers with our easy to use extension. Add it to your site and see what you can improve!