Magento Open Source vs. Plone

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Magento Open Source
Score 8.1 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
Plone
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Plone is a free and open source content management system built on top of the Zope application server. Plone can be used for any kind of website, including blogs, internet sites, webshops, and internal websites.N/A
Pricing
Magento Open SourcePlone
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Magento Open SourcePlone
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
Magento Open SourcePlone
Online Storefront
Comparison of Online Storefront features of Product A and Product B
Magento Open Source
7.7
28 Ratings
0% above category average
Plone
-
Ratings
Product catalog & listings8.528 Ratings00 Ratings
Product management9.528 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk product upload8.026 Ratings00 Ratings
Branding6.526 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile storefront4.128 Ratings00 Ratings
Product variations9.526 Ratings00 Ratings
Website integration8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual customization6.527 Ratings00 Ratings
CMS8.526 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
Magento Open Source
8.0
28 Ratings
6% above category average
Plone
-
Ratings
Abandoned cart recovery7.023 Ratings00 Ratings
Checkout user experience9.028 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Payment System
Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
Magento Open Source
6.6
26 Ratings
23% below category average
Plone
-
Ratings
eCommerce security6.626 Ratings00 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Magento Open Source
4.2
28 Ratings
56% below category average
Plone
-
Ratings
Promotions & discounts5.628 Ratings00 Ratings
Personalized recommendations2.122 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO5.025 Ratings00 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
Magento Open Source
9.1
28 Ratings
16% above category average
Plone
-
Ratings
Multi-site management9.525 Ratings00 Ratings
Order processing9.527 Ratings00 Ratings
Inventory management9.525 Ratings00 Ratings
Shipping8.524 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom functionality8.526 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Magento Open Source
-
Ratings
Plone
8.0
5 Ratings
0% below category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Magento Open Source
-
Ratings
Plone
8.5
5 Ratings
10% above category average
API00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Magento Open Source
-
Ratings
Plone
8.0
6 Ratings
5% above category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings7.05 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Library of website themes00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings7.05 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Magento Open Source
-
Ratings
Plone
7.8
5 Ratings
6% above category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings7.05 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings5.05 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Magento Open SourcePlone
Small Businesses
Ecwid by Lightspeed
Ecwid by Lightspeed
Score 10.0 out of 10
Divi
Divi
Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
IBM Digital Commerce
IBM Digital Commerce
Score 9.0 out of 10
Image Relay
Image Relay
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Digital Commerce
IBM Digital Commerce
Score 9.0 out of 10
Tridion
Tridion
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Magento Open SourcePlone
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(29 ratings)
9.0
(13 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.3
(10 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Magento Open SourcePlone
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.
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Plone
The larger your organization, the more appropriate Plone will be. This is not to say that Plone is a worse choice for small websites, only that the minimum investment for a Plone site is certainly higher than for other platforms. If you already use Plone for your site and are looking for a redesign or an overhaul, I would only advise switching to a different platform such as WordPress or Drupal if your organization is downsizing. For any other situation, Plone is the natural choice for your growth.
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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.
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Plone
  • Plone is a folder-based system, organising content in a similar way desktop-users are doing for the last two decades. No need to teach non-tech customers some relational-database like paradigm for content management.
  • Plone is secure. It is the most secure CMS you can get your hands on.
  • Plone is flexible, and makes fast development easy.
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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.
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Plone
  • Not everything is configurable or editable by Plone, and when you need to adjust or add custom pieces in, you need to deal with Zope. Zope has an ugly, confusing and difficult UI and structure as a backend.
  • Using 3rd party products is difficult to do - there are a few different ways to get them installed, all of which take a bit of luck to get right.
  • Building custom products for Plone is not fun. You've got to deal with an archaic framework to tie in that is not well documented (there is documentation about many things, but not great documentation and there are a lot of holes in the documentation).
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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.
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Plone
I no longer use Plone because I got an internship in the web development field and my current place of employment uses their own content management system that they created. After getting to know other CMS's and similar software and comparing them to Plone, I would enjoy using Plone again in the future, but there are more complicated software that I'd like to learn as I progress in my field of study.
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Usability
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Plone
Compared to the amount of Plone sites, users and customizations we have in our organization, the amount of support requests and training needed is really small
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Performance
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Plone
Plone is very intensive in its operations, and if not configured well it can be slow. However it is designed and built with speed in mind and with proper use of coding, templates and caching can perform extremely well under high loads. It is capable of scaling to very high load availability environments with no specific coding requirements.
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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.
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Plone
Drupal: Plone is cheaper, so with Drupal is more complex to reach the required ROI. However, Drupal has a lower learning curve WordPress: For our necessities it has a more expensive learning curve than plone. Joomla, is easier to use. However, it have some issues on security and web content where Plone is much better
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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
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Plone
  • As a development company Plone allows us to provide complex web applications in a short amount of time.
  • Plone is quite robust and reliable so when you customize some parts you do not risk to damage other parts. This is quite positive for a web development framework,
  • Plone allows our clients to spread their activities among different employees improving the efficiency of content generation and management.
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