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About ocStore

Self-hosted shopping carts age in public. A hosted platform pushes every tenant onto the current release overnight, but a shop running ocStore sits on rented server space with a copy of the PHP source that moves only when a human decides to move it. Version spread is the visible consequence, and across the installs we detect there are 2 distinct release strings, with the bulk of them clustered on the 2.x line.

A clustering that tight on an older line is worth reading carefully. Storefront upgrades break themes and paid extensions, so the shop owner who spent money on both has a direct financial reason to stay put, and the longer the shop stays put the more expensive the eventual jump becomes. The version column is where that inertia becomes measurable instead of anecdotal.

Licensing explains why nobody inside the project can hand you the same picture. A GPL v3 codebase bills no one, so the maintainers have no invoices to count and no roster of the shops that installed it. The only census available is the one taken from outside, by looking at what the storefronts actually serve.

Taking it from outside comes with its own limits, and they run in one direction. Carts that share a lineage produce similar markup, so a fingerprint has to key on details that a determined theme developer can remove, and a heavily customised shop can end up counted without a version or missed altogether. As of October 2026 we detect ocStore on 46 sites in the Ecommerce category, which should be read as the shops still carrying recognisable markers rather than every shop that ever installed the software.

Detection also says nothing about whether a store is trading. A cart that answers requests and shows products may still be taking no orders, and no crawl can tell the difference from the outside.

With those caveats stated, the audience is clear enough. Extension and theme developers want to know how large the addressable base on each release line is. Payment gateways want integration targets. Agencies that charge for upgrade work want the shops that never upgraded, which is precisely what a version filter produces. Asking about one domain answers one merchant's stack. The downloadable list turns the question around, delivering every domain where the marker appears alongside the release string it exposed, so the population can be split by version and worked as a segment.