Laravel PHP Framework vs. Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Laravel PHP Framework
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Laravel is a free, open source web application PHP framework.N/A
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce) provides companies with a platform to manage, personalize, and optimize the commerce experience across every touch point and across the customer journey. ACC is built on Magento Commerce Pro and is integrated with Adobe Experience Manager. It was originally developed as an open-source eCommerce content management solution by Varien, Inc. Varien was acquired by eBay in…N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Laravel PHP FrameworkAdobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
Considered Both Products
Laravel PHP Framework
Chose Laravel PHP Framework
Laravel is much better than CodeIgniter in many aspects, First of all it is more secure and robust. It has a great troubleshooting mechanism. They have added more libraries, themes and plug-ins for different purposes. The MVC model helped the developers to get rid of writing …
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)

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Top Pros
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Features
Laravel PHP FrameworkAdobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
Online Storefront
Comparison of Online Storefront features of Product A and Product B
Laravel PHP Framework
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Ratings
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
8.3
32 Ratings
8% above category average
Product catalog & listings00 Ratings8.031 Ratings
Product management00 Ratings8.032 Ratings
Bulk product upload00 Ratings6.927 Ratings
Branding00 Ratings8.128 Ratings
Mobile storefront00 Ratings8.230 Ratings
Product variations00 Ratings9.530 Ratings
Website integration00 Ratings9.530 Ratings
Visual customization00 Ratings7.932 Ratings
CMS00 Ratings8.531 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
Laravel PHP Framework
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Ratings
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
7.0
31 Ratings
8% below category average
Abandoned cart recovery00 Ratings7.026 Ratings
Checkout user experience00 Ratings7.131 Ratings
Online Payment System
Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
Laravel PHP Framework
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Ratings
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
9.1
31 Ratings
9% above category average
eCommerce security00 Ratings9.131 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Laravel PHP Framework
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Ratings
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
7.4
30 Ratings
1% below category average
Promotions & discounts00 Ratings8.730 Ratings
Personalized recommendations00 Ratings6.727 Ratings
SEO00 Ratings6.827 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
Laravel PHP Framework
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Ratings
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
8.9
32 Ratings
13% above category average
Multi-site management00 Ratings9.826 Ratings
Order processing00 Ratings9.731 Ratings
Inventory management00 Ratings8.731 Ratings
Shipping00 Ratings7.929 Ratings
Custom functionality00 Ratings8.431 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Laravel PHP FrameworkAdobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
Small Businesses
CodeIgniter
CodeIgniter
Score 8.0 out of 10
Shopify Plus
Shopify Plus
Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Symfony
Symfony
Score 9.3 out of 10
IBM Digital Commerce
IBM Digital Commerce
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises

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IBM Digital Commerce
IBM Digital Commerce
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Laravel PHP FrameworkAdobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(17 ratings)
7.9
(40 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.8
(8 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
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(0 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
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(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Laravel PHP FrameworkAdobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
Likelihood to Recommend
Open Source
Laravel is ideally suited for fluent PHP developers who want a framework that can be used to both rapidly prototype web applications as well as support scalable, enterprise-level solutions. I think where it is less ideal is where the client has an expectation of using a certain CMS, or of having a certain experience on the admin side that would perhaps be better suited to a full CMS such as Drupal or WordPress. Additionally, for developers who don't want to write PHP code, Laravel may not be the best solution.
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Adobe
Ultimately, if a company is looking for a solid industry-known E-Commerce system, Magento Commerce does exactly what it's intended to do. The headaches start when your company wants to start getting granular in customizations of the platform to meet specific business needs (which every company eventually has). This becomes a major issue down the road when trying to upgrade said customizations as the core software updates.
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Pros
Open Source
  • Many libraries available which simplify integration of SaaS APIs within your application (eg, MailChimp, Mandrill, Stripe, Authorize.net)
  • Pre-packaged tools to facilitate common tasks when building applications (eg, User Authentication and Authorization, Background Jobs, Queues, etc)
  • Support for a broad set of technologies out of the box (eg, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, MemcacheD, BeanstalkD, Redis, etc)
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Adobe
  • Magento Commerce Cloud allows us to develop our own custom solutions for problems that we need solved.
  • Magento Commerce Cloud can also be integrated with many of the third part vendors that we use. This has made many implementations go very smoothly and tends to be much quicker than developing our own custom solution.
  • There are many features available right out of the box. Many of them we have not implemented yet, but it is great to have them available to us when we are ready.
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Cons
Open Source
  • Significant learning curve. You cannot be an expert in a week. It takes many experimentations to properly understand the underlying concept. We ourselves learned it by using it on the job.
  • Too much to soak in. Laravel is in everything. Any part of backend development you wish to do, Laravel has a way to do that. It is great, but also overwhelming at the same time.
  • Vendor lock in. Once you are in Laravel, it would not be easy to switch to something else.
  • Laracasts (their online video tutorials) are paid :( I understand the logic behind it, but I secretly wish it would be free.
  • The eloquent ORM is not my recommendation. Let's say you want to write a join, and based on the result you wish to create two objects. If you use Laravel to do automatic joins for you, Laravel internally actually makes two calls to database and creates your two object rather than making one join call and figuring out the results. This makes your queries slow. For this reason, I use everything except eloquent from Laravel. I rather write my own native queries and control the creation of objects then rely on Laravel to do it. But I am sure with time Laravel will make fewer calls to DB.
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Adobe
  • The platform is difficult to tune and can be slow. Even with expensive best in class hardware the platform performance can be an issue. Even with caching poor coding can lead to unacceptable performance and user experiences.
  • The total cost of ownership for the platform can be quite high as a great deal of technical expertise is required to modify, develop, troubleshoot and maintain the platform. The costs of initial development are only a down payment on what a Magento store will cost. For mid size companies with substantial web revenues this can be overcome for smaller businesses the total cost of ownership may be prohibitive.
  • Security of the platform can be an issue. Magento is often targeted by hackers and much of the security is the responsibility of the store owner.
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Likelihood to Renew
Open Source
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Adobe
Magento is well-supported by a big development team at eBay, which not only addresses bug reports very quickly, but also is constantly working on improvements to the platform. The wealth of Magento third party modules ensures that the platform will be up to date with future changes to
Payment or ERP systems.
Security is always a concern and with the Zend framework as a foundation, Magento has had very few security-related patches since I have started to work with it
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Usability
Open Source
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Adobe
Magento offers lots of templates and themes to customize the look and feel of the store, and even optimize it for mobile phones. The have an extensive library of forms and templates.
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Support Rating
Open Source
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Adobe
The technical service was impeccable. They were on point and were very knowledgeable.
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Online Training
Open Source
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Adobe
Great value for an flexible, open source platform.
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Alternatives Considered
Open Source
Supporting unit testing is bigger plus point in Laravel than any other framework. Developing with Laravel is much easier. Other frameworks have value in market, but Laravel has taken the lead in popularity among PHP developers in recent years. The large community supports you if you have problems. Using Laravel, integration became easy with third-party libraries, but it was costly too.
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Adobe
Magento scales much better than any of the other software when it comes to very large e-commerce websites. But all the other options are more user-friendly for smaller sites as there is a bit of a learning curve in learning to manage Magento. Customization is better along with WooCommerce and OpenCart as self-hosted solutions vs. BigCommerce and Shopify which are hosted. Magento should be the first choice for large, extensive e-commerce solutions,but for smaller stores, I would recommend the others first.
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Return on Investment
Open Source
  • Laravel allows us to rapidly prototype and build complete, scalable applications internally, which saves us time and allows us to have internal tools that fit out precise needs. We use Symfony for a similar purpose, but Laravel is an even higher-level framework that we find saves us substantially more time when building many types of web applications.
  • Laravel solves many of the underlying concerns of building a large application (such as authentication, authorization, secure input handling) in the right ways. It saves us from handling those low-level concerns ourselves, potentially in a way that could take a lot of time or sets us up for issues in the future. It's tough to assign an ROI to this, but I'm sure it has prevented issues and saved time, which both have an impact on our financial situation.
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Adobe
  • Magento definitely lets us get a return on our investment. Because we have developers who can customize Magento to our needs, we have been able to create a beautiful and effective website, run promotions, and serve up customized product display pages that are effective and beautifully branded.
  • Magento has also caused a lot of time to be invested in doing something that seems simple, but without a lot of knowledge, end up taking far more time than could otherwise be better-spent.
  • We have had to outsource some of our development work due to Magento being developer-focused rather than marketer/merchandiser-focused. I've used other website management software that is comparable to Magento's capabilities but is far easier to use, that even someone like me (with basic HTML/CSS skills) can customize the front-end without requiring a back-end developer to intervene.
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