Difference Between Modules and Extensions in Opencart?

Opencart Website Development

If you are planning to make your e-commerce platform, you would have definitely heard about opencart custom module development. Your Opencart developer would have told you about it but if you are new to the technology domain then you would have heard about two common terms opencart extension services and opencart module development. This often leaves most of us perplexed, in the computer software terminology, module extensions, plugin s and apps are being used interchangeably. Well this is not so problematic but, there is a bit of difference in this terminology and here I have covered the difference between the two most common terms being used in Opencart Extensions and Modules:

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Opencart Extension Development

What is Extension?

Extensions – you would have often heard about opencart extension development, but what is this extension? Extensions are basically add-on programs which provide extra functionality to your e-commerce website.  The extension is bigger than a module or you can say that module is the subset of extension. One extension may contain maintain modules or theme. In simple words, the extension is a zipped folder which contains modules are usually in a folder called upload. 

This upload folder may contain folders which match opencart folder like admin, system, catalogues etc. Apart from this, the extensions may also contain helpful documentations like PDF, manual or HTML.

To sum it up, opencart extension contains files that need to be uploaded to an opencart installation which contains modules.

What is Module?

opencart module development , so what’s this module ?Modules are basically boxes of information on your website which helps the customer makes a buying decision.  Although they do not provide any extra functionality to your website, but they do display information. Some of the default included in the modules include account, bestseller, featured,  special etc. You would have noticed these terms on any of the online shopping platforms.

You can see them as Extensions Modules. Thus it shows that Extension is a bigger part of which module is a subpart.

You can often see these terms mentioned on the website.

I hope that this would have clarified your doubts on extension and modules and their role in Opencart website development. Many of the opencart custom module development companies would help you understand this and this is our attempt to make you have a clear understanding of these two terms which are often used interchangeably by people.