An OpenCart Catalog Availability Audit for Agencies

# An OpenCart Catalog Availability Audit for Agencies Agencies often inherit catalogs whose option rules reflect years of imports, theme changes, integrations, and manual exceptions. Looking at a few product pages does not reveal whether the underlying availability promise is consistent. ## Establish a repeatable baseline Record the OpenCart and PHP versions, store and language scope, scan policy, catalog count, option-value count, artifact hash, and time of the audit. Include disabled products when the merchant regularly stages seasonal inventory. Set a low-stock threshold that supports triage, not a universal replenishment rule. Review four queues: 1. required choice options with no values; 2. products that permit sales with exhausted stock; 3. option values that permit sales with exhausted stock; 4. displayed values that are currently unavailable. For each representative product, compare computed combination coverage with its real storefront page. The calculation helps prioritize risk; a real-browser review confirms what the merchant and customer actually see. ## Preserve evidence Keep the CSV, screenshots from the real platform, console and network diagnostics, platform versions, and the tested viewport sizes. A static mockup is useful for design, but it is not release or audit evidence. [Vamao OpenCart Catalog Availability OS](/products/vamao-opencart-catalog-availability-os) packages this read-only workflow for option-heavy OpenCart catalogs.