Magento Open Source

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Magento Open Source	Score 8.2 out of 10	N/A	Magento Open Source is an ecommerce content management solution originally developed by Varien Inc and presently supported by Adobe. The Open Source product is for developers and merchants that is available as a free download, and supported with free upgrades from the Magento Community.	N/A

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Magento Open Source

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Magento Open Source
Free Trial
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Magento Open Source
Considered Both Products	Magento Open Source Verified User Analyst Chose Magento Open Source Magento is completely open source, this means that you can customize it 100% on your needings. Incentivized Helpful? Russell Preston Senior Web Developer Chose Magento Open Source Magento was open source and customizable unlike Shopify. Also it was built using PHP which everyone was proficient in - which helps a lot! Joomla wasn't as e-comerce oriented under the hood compared to Magento - plus we had someone in the team who knew Magento well already as … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Magento Open Source Magento is more advanced, but at the same time it requires more tech expertise to setup the store. It provides more freedom as compared to Shopify and WooCommerce, but at the same time it's comparatively difficult to use. Shopify is almost no code platform, but still we chose … Incentivized Helpful? Shahed Nasser Senior eCommerce Developer Chose Magento Open Source Magento vs PrestaShop Magento is good for big-scale projects that require a lot of features or a lot of custom development. PrestaShop is a good, lightweight platform that can handle most e-commerce use cases. When it comes to which is easier to use, especially for non-tech … Incentivized Helpful? Ramon Khan Freelance Marketing Consultant Chose Magento Open Source While Magento does have higher development cost overall, it is a much better platform for ecommerce and it does not a take a fee from your sales which is nice. Incentivized Helpful? JB Joe Blattert Consultant Chose Magento Open Source In looking at a different platform to migrate to from Magento 1, we looked primarily at Big Commerce, Shopify and Shopify Plus. Our host was very negative about Magento 2, but we determined after a couple years it was due to the fact it had even more complexity (and very … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Magento Open Source The full customization and integration benefits made us stay with Magento. Incentivized Helpful? IQ IGNACE QUAGHEBEUR ICT Manager Chose Magento Open Source the shopping extentions for WordPress (whoocommerce) didn't seem to be the best fit. Drupal was too complex to start with. We found a good partner that had experience with Magento development and we felt that they + Magento Open Source were a good fit for our needs. especially … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Magento Open Source Magneto Open Source allowed for a lot of customizations, and it seemed like a cheaper version. However, the cost added up really quickly. I would probably go with Shopify or BigCommerce for a small business when making decisions in the future. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Magento Open Source I inherited the Magento Open Source website we are currently using, but after evaluating everything that was wanted for the new website, we switched over to Shopify. After using Shopify for some of our other websites, we learned that you have to pay a large sum each month to … Incentivized Helpful? .Kim Murphy Owner Chose Magento Open Source OpenCart is a better shopping cart platform then Magento for larger corporate clients who may want a ton of customizations and very specific functionality. Although Magento is "open-source", its code is not as easy to understand and modify as OpenCart. Shopify is a better … Incentivized Helpful? Vin Campbell IT Director Chose Magento Open Source The three main reasons we went with Magento: 1. It was recommended by our NCR Counterpoint, VAR. 2. It's the best platform to integrate tightly with that NCR Counterpoint. It's also the best eventual platform to integrate with our wholesale ERP, so it's one platform to run … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Putnam Senior Web Developer Chose Magento Open Source Magento is the heaviest by far, in a few senses of the word. It has the steepest learning curve both for administrators and programmers, but it also has the highest potential to run a high traffic, high volume ecommerce store. Other products will get you up and running faster … Incentivized Helpful? David Bryan Managing Director Chose Magento Open Source In our experience, Magento is more robust but also more complex for users to maintain. Helpful? Brian Halstrom Director, Digital Marketing Chose Magento Open Source When compared to WooCommerce, we used Magento as we're able to have more control over our product listings, category listings, and shipping options. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Executive Chose Magento Open Source Magento is excellent for large shops, with large quantities of products and makes scaling as the shop grows easy and quick. But it does truly require a dedicated server and an experienced developer to get things up and going. I prefer WooCommerce for smaller shops as its quick … Incentivized Helpful? Brendon Brown Business Software Manager / IT Consultant Chose Magento Open Source WooCommerce, when fully "plugged-in" required server resources which drowned our host. We hit a wall with growth due to these resources and researched redevelopment on Woo or migration to a new platform. We chose the latter. Shopify and BigCommerce were limited to their closed … Incentivized Helpful? Lynn Thames Owner Chose Magento Open Source Magento is hands down better than any hosted platform (i.e., BC), but only if you have a good development team. Hosted platforms are very limiting as to what you can accomplish "outside the box." Magento is much better than WooCommerce in its user friendliness and its … Incentivized Helpful? Santiago Valdés Cofounder / Marketing, Growth, Technology, Experience Chose Magento Open Source In a few words: WooCommerce: easy to setup, huge community and easy to customize. Hard to scale, but can be done. PrestaShop: poor brother of WooCommerce. Less community, less customization... not sure why anybody would use it. Incentivized Helpful? Max J. Jennings Inbound Marketing Specialist Chose Magento Open Source Magento is definitely built for developers by developers and in my opinion is best suited for large-scale e-commerce stores. When you need to create a large store or require advance customization Magento is really the only way to go. We have tried using platforms like WooCommerc… Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Executive Chose Magento Open Source I have worked with Shopify, osCommerce, and WooCommerce. Incentivized Helpful? Matt Railey Director of User Experience and Technology Chose Magento Open Source Compared to other small - medium sized business e-commerce solutions, Magento is by far requires the most development resources to implement and maintain. Creating a custom Drupal or WordPress based e-commerce solution requires development resources as well, but the complexity … Incentivized Helpful? Joe Dingley Senior Ecommerce Manager Chose Magento Open Source Magento better for a large catalogue. Incentivized Helpful? Nick Jastrebski Business Analyst Chose Magento Open Source In the past, I've used Shopify, WordPress + Woocommerce and Drupal + Drupal Commerce. Magento CE is much easier to use since it's open source and it's bundled together in one package. It's built specifically with e-commerce in mind so there are no worries about … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Coppenbarger Web & Computer Programmer Chose Magento Open Source In Drupal, you have to add on the commerce plugin in order to add on the features. OroCRM is the same way. Magento provides the out of the box functionality as opposed to building out additional plugins and more coding. Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro E commerce Pro Configuration options Pro Cost effective
Top Cons	Minus Specific requirements Minus Make it difficult Minus Learning curve

Features

Magento Open Source

Online Storefront

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	Magento Open Source 7.7 28 Ratings 0% above category average
Product catalog & listings	8.528 Ratings
Product management	9.528 Ratings
Bulk product upload	8.026 Ratings
Branding	6.526 Ratings
Mobile storefront	4.128 Ratings
Product variations	9.526 Ratings
Website integration	8.024 Ratings
Visual customization	6.527 Ratings
CMS	8.526 Ratings

Online Shopping Cart

Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
	Magento Open Source 8.0 28 Ratings 5% above category average
Abandoned cart recovery	7.023 Ratings
Checkout user experience	9.028 Ratings

Online Payment System

Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
	Magento Open Source 6.5 26 Ratings 25% below category average
eCommerce security	6.526 Ratings

eCommerce Marketing

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	Magento Open Source 4.2 28 Ratings 56% below category average
Promotions & discounts	5.528 Ratings
Personalized recommendations	2.122 Ratings
SEO	5.025 Ratings

eCommerce Business Management

Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
	Magento Open Source 9.1 28 Ratings 15% above category average
Multi-site management	9.525 Ratings
Order processing	9.527 Ratings
Inventory management	9.525 Ratings
Shipping	8.524 Ratings
Custom functionality	8.526 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Magento Open Source
Small Businesses	Ecwid by Lightspeed Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	IBM Digital Commerce Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	IBM Digital Commerce Score 9.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Magento Open Source
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (29 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Magento Open Source
Likelihood to Recommend	Adobe It's well suited for large eCommerce stores as it requires much effort to set up and the development cost for setting it up is high. It's less appropriate to use Magento where you are looking for quick development and launch of the store. Also, it is required to have a developer or sometimes the entire tech team to manage an e-commerce store, so you may need to hire a few PHP developers. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Adobe Magento is perfect if our web design client likes a specific pre-made template and wants a fast solution. Magento allows us to customize its open-source code to create additional features and functionality. Magento saves small businesses time and money if they only need a simple solution. Incentivized .Kim Murphy Owner Read full review
Cons	Adobe Not the simplest of solutions to use or maintain from an end-user perspective Other platforms are better with regards to SEO in our experience Fairly sluggish and slow compared to other platforms without the correct server specification and performance optimization work. David Bryan Managing Director Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Adobe It's the dominant force in the SMB open source market. With the continued support of eBay/PayPal, Magento will continue to evolve and should be a market leader for some time. Bret Williams E-Commerce Strategits Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Adobe In looking at a different platform to migrate to from Magento 1, we looked primarily at Big Commerce, Shopify and Shopify Plus. Our host was very negative about Magento 2, but we determined after a couple years it was due to the fact it had even more complexity (and very different) than Magento 1. Shopify Plus was attractive, but the cost factor for two sites led us back to Magento 2. Incentivized JB Joe Blattert Consultant Read full review
Return on Investment	Adobe Delays in development leads to missed timelines and opportunity loss. High cost of development and maintenance may currently outweigh the growth. Better handling of customer and order information makes for better customer service. Excellent API has been a boon for integration with our ERP Incentivized Brendon Brown Business Software Manager / IT Consultant Read full review
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