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.
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Chose Magento Open Source
Shopify is a closed ecosystem; the moment a client has a complex, custom workflow or needs to integrate with a legacy ERP system, Shopify’s app-based model falls short. WooCommerce just does not scale like Magento, and its architecture is not made for enterprise-scale …
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Verified User
Chose Magento Open Source
Magento is completely open source, and this means that not only is free, but can be adapted to your needings. Magento is also a framework, and this means the his customization capabilities go well beyond pure eCommerce functionalities. For this reason, if you need to create …
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Senior Web Developer in Engineering at Betabrand (Retail, 11-50 employees)
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 …
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Verified User
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 …
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Senior eCommerce Developer in Information Technology at ECONCEPTS (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)
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 …
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Freelance Marketing Consultant in Marketing at Ramon Khan Digital Marketing (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees)
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.
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Consultant in Information Technology at Vitasalus, Inc (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1-10 employees)
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 …
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Verified User
Chose Magento Open Source
The full customization and integration benefits made us stay with Magento.
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ICT Manager in Information Technology at BRAEM (Automotive, 201-500 employees)
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 …
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Verified User
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.
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Verified User
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 …
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Owner in Marketing at Designz23 (Internet, 1-10 employees)
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 …
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IT Director in Information Technology at Sahadi's (Retail, 11-50 employees)
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 …
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Senior Web Developer in Research & Development at WebpageFX (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees)
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 …
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
Verified User
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 …
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Business Software Manager / IT Consultant in Information Technology at Island City Media (Retail, 11-50 employees)
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 …
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Owner in Information Technology at Excel Software Services, Inc. (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
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 …
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Inbound Marketing Specialist in Marketing at Infinity Digital Agency (Internet, 1-10 employees)
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…
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Verified User
Chose Magento Open Source
I have worked with Shopify, osCommerce, and WooCommerce.
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Director of User Experience and Technology in Marketing at TrueParallel, Inc. (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)
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 …
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Business Analyst in Information Technology at Miles Technologies (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees)
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 …
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Magento Open Source is an excellent choice for businesses that need a highly customizable and scalable solution and (most of all) have the technical resources to support it. It's ideal for mid-to-large-sized businesses with complex product catalogs that require complete ownership and control, particularly those with complexities such as multi-country/multi-currency stores.
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It is very good when it comes to search engine optimization as it makes a good use of keywords and tags to improve the SEO score. It increases the chances of ranking up of the eCommerce store in the search engine rankings.
It makes the store in a very optimized way and despite being a very advanced system it is still very lightweight when it comes to website speed. The pages have a comparatively low loading time and a good speed.
It provides a lot more advance reporting features which are very helpful for businesses to do their planning.
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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.
Magento has a relly step learning curve. This means that you need to find experienced developers who can lead junior ones, otherwise the overall development process can be a disaster. However, once you are comfortable in developing on the platform, the customization capability are basically limitless and you can adapt the platform to any use case you can imagine. Also, there are many alredy developed marketplace modules that can solve, out of the box, many problems you may face.
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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.
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Better Total Cost of Ownership than bespoke e-commerce solutions due to being open source and the wide range of free/commercial extensions available to extend the platform.
Often more extensive to set up and maintain than other open source alternatives, such as WooCommerce.
