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Magento is an open-source ecommerce content management solution originally developed by Varien Inc and presently owned by eBay. The Open Source product (formerly known as Community Edition) is for developers and tech-savvy merchants that is available as a free download, and is supported with free upgrades from the Magento Community.https://dudodiprj2sv7.cloudfront.net/product-logos/Uw/AB/1F0U2C8PXHKN.PNGAdobeIs Magento the Best eCommerce Platform? Opace Say Yes2018-12-26T17:43:20.349ZOur agency Opace use Magento day-in-day-out for e-commerce clients, we also specialize in other open source platforms, including WordPress, WooCommerce and Joomla. However for e-commerce, especially larger stores with large inventories and/or an international presence, Magento is always our platform of choice and we find that customers are usually very happy with the solution. The one limitation, where a combination like WordPress and WooCommerce outperforms Magento, is ease-of-use and flexibility. Magento isn't the most straight forward of platforms to use or maintain, not without some level of technical knowledge. That said, Magento is very powerful and migrations to Magento 2 are becoming more straight forward. For more information on a study we've conducted and a comparison to other e-commerce platforms available, you can view our infographic here.,Multiple storefronts - the ability to power multiple Magento stores from a single install/database.
Extensibility - the ability to grow your e-commerce store using the vast selection of available extensions.,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.,8,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.,WooCommerce,WooCommerce, WordPress, Joomla!,Not available,BothDavid BryanApparently Open Source means lower publishing standards. Be prepare to hire a software developer.2018-11-30T18:52:41.119ZMagento CE is our current eCommerce platform in a business which also has a B2B and Retail units. We conducted the upgrade from WooCommerce after experience of outages and problems which were limiting growth. Currently online customers use this platform for direct ordering, our marketing team does some design work, and customer service accesses the platform to find order-related information. We planned the development to allow for growth into a B2B ordering platform and potentially more.,Magento 2 CE has a very robust document workflow which mirrors most mid-large ERP systems. There's a "papertrail" which mimics your business processes, and each part of the process is exposed to the API which makes for some great integration potential.
Magento 2 CE is also great for tracking customer history, saves a record for each and allows you to understand customer interests better.
Magento 2 CE is highly expandable, with a full marketplace of free and premium modules that should accomplish some pretty niche sales or service goals.,Magento 2 community is full of known and new bugs with long-pending pull requests and the community is on the hook for changes. Submit an very obvious issue to the github repo, and you will likely be met with a "this is open source and you use at your own risk." I counter this poor attitude with the fact that open source community has standards, and we do not label a "release" until those standards are met. Otherwise it's just a alpha, beta or numbered build. We don't release obviously bad software until it's fully working.
Magento is expensive to maintain. You will need a well-paid php developer with apache and hosting knowledge, or you will have to hire an external firm. Either option will turn your website into an additional $100k/yr cost center, so you'd better be ready to ramp up sales. Every feature update or bugfix in the past year has uncovered more bugs, which my devs fix, but at the cost of timelines and billed hours way outside of my budget and target dates.,3,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,WooCommerce, BigCommerce and Shopify Plus,WooCommerce, Avaza, Vagrant, Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Pro X,$20,000 to $100,000,B2CBrendon BrownMagento - the developer's choice in e-commerce platforms2018-09-25T15:25:55.301ZWe are a software company that builds e-commerce sites for companies. We mostly use Magento because it is very flexible and powerful and we are able to integrate it with any other 3rd party system as needed. Our sites are built for both B2B and B2C (direct sales) companies.,Magento is fully extendable so that you can accomplish any special needs for a client without having to build a custom site.
Magento is powerful and fast on the proper web server. It can handle a huge number of products and customers successfully.
Magento has a very flexible catalog structure so that you can sell most any type of product or product combination.
Magento is easy to integrate with other systems.
Magento is great for non-technical people to be able to update content, as it's also a full CMS system.,Magento is well known for its bugs in early releases of each version. Luckily, there is a great community always providing temporary fixes and patches.
Magento should allow you to add user-defined fields for customers. It allows you do do this for products, but for customers, you must be able to program in order to create user-defined fields.
Magento should have built-in support for dimensional shipping methods. I think in general the shipping integrations are weak. Most people need to purchase add-ons to get really accurate shipping rates.,9,Magento will definitely give you a good ROI if you are prepared to invest in a good site. Even B2B companies are more and more expected to provide online resources for their customers. Magento, being easily customized to work with any 3rd party system, allows you to provide these resources to help you keep and grow your customer base.
A well-designed site will also increase your search rankings and draw more traffic to your site.
Being easily incorporated with Google Analytics and Tag Manager, you can tweak your site to increase traffic and sales.,BigCommerce and WooCommerce,Trello, Slack, Google Drive, Evernote,Not available,BothLynn ThamesMagento is a Heavy Hitter; Make Sure You Can Carry It2019-01-07T16:58:12.396ZWe help manage, update, maintain and customize websites built with Magento Open Source (Community Edition) - among many other CMSs and frameworks - for our clients. Magento enables building highly customizable e-commerce websites, with a solid core set of features and a large variety of extensions available to extend it further, and a framework that allows further extension by an expert programmer.,Flexibility of code - almost any part of the system can be customized
Extensions - high availability of free and paid pre-built extensions
Documentation - for the latest iteration (2.x)
Multi-language/Internationalization
Multi-store websites,Updates - historically patches and updates, due to the frequent high customization, can be difficult
User Experience of Management - managing the store is not as intuitive as some other systems
Frontend Development and templating - while very flexible and modular, they are much more complex than many other systems,8,As a framework, it allows more efficient implementation of many features (depending on the feature and what you compare it to)
The options for customization open up many possibilities,WooCommerce, Shopify, BigCommerce and X-Cart,Kinsta,Not available,BothChris PutnamScalable but expensive to customize2018-08-27T19:03:00.813ZWe used Magento as an eCommerce solution for our company. We sell lots of different products, so scalability was an issue and we were recommended to use Magento. We didn't use it as fulfillment, only for processing orders and everything else was done outside of it. We published products from an API outside the store too.,Magento scales very well. That means if you keep adding more products, there's no significant performance decline. This sounds like a very technical and unuseful thing but actually it's very important and depends heavily on the type of eCommerce solution you are providing. In our case, we were supposed to have many products (+15,000) so we never have many scale issues with it.
Exporting information works reasonably well. It is relatively fast and has decent built-in capabilities.
Attributes are well built considering other eCommerce options. It's very flexible and you can modify many things, including brands, easily.
Multistore (differente languages/places) seems to work fine but we didn't use it. I'm just referring to what I've read,The community around Magento is very poor compared to other software. We migrated to WooCommerce and definitely there's more support there. More plugins, extensions, developers, etc., and at a reasonable price. This is one of the key points why we migrated. Magento is very expensive and slow to develop here. For WooCommerce there are plugins for everything, from popular analytics software to loyalty. This is a HUGE point to consider.
Debugging is painful. Some times you get an error that shut downs your entire store, and why did it happen? No clue. There's no documentation, there are 20,000+ files and at least for us, the framework on which it is built is not that user-friendly. This is expensive and there are not that many options compared to other software.
Changing the design or making changes is also very hard, because of the framework, the many files, and how complex Magento is.,8,It definitely let us start with a decent store and scale from 0 to 15,000 products without many performance issues. But that comes with a cost: we were unable to change the design of the checkout, SEO was poor, and adding banners or more store-related things was very time consuming.
Debugging is hard and you will break your head with some errors that break your store, and you don't know how to solve them. This was one of the reasons why we left it.,WooCommerce, PrestaShop and Shopify,PrestaShop, Dropbox, Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office 2016,$100,000 to $500,000,B2CSantiago Valdés
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