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What is Magento Open Source?
Magento is an open-source ecommerce content management solution originally developed by Varien Inc and presently supported by Adobe. The Magento Open Source version (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. Because it is free and open-source, users will enjoy the ability to alter the code. This version still presents a fully capable eCommerce presence with multiple, mobile-accessible sites, SEO optimization, targeted promotions, the ability to alter themes and and change the layout, taxes and shipping management, and more.
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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.
Reviewers rate Product management and Product variations and Multi-site management highest, with a score of 9.5.
The most common users of Magento Open Source are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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January 09, 2024
An eCommerce beast to tame
In our company, as system integrators, we often encounters customer with a Magento eCommerce. The best part of this software solution is that, since it's completely modular and we usually do not develop the entire website, we can still however work on our projects (usually integrations with third party systems or data import/export) by working on specific modules we can then deliver to our customers.
- Modularity
- Great Community
- Updates
- Very step learning curve
- If not using it headless, the frontend uses old technologies
- The first setup can be problematic
Magento is our backbone. Our front-end website pulls product and catalog data from this tool. Our customer service team relies on this as a pseudo-CRM as all our customer data live on this platform. Our tool is also designed to work with our 3PL's backend service for seamless warehouse, inventory, and order management.
- It's a decent system for a start-up company.
- A lot of extensions can work with it: billing, order management, customer communication, and payment processors to name a few.
- Highly customizable and reusable.
- For a normal user, there is a learning curve.
- Code clean up can sometimes be a headache.
- It's sometimes sluggish.
February 14, 2020
Too expensive and too cumbersome to use.
Magneto Open Source is used as a platform for ecommerce business. It is used by the marketing, web, and inventory management departments. It helps us sell our products online and provides analytical insights to our sales. It allows for a lot of customizations for a growing business. Once we started selling to wholesale clients, we created a second version of the website for the purpose of having different products and prices for them.
- Fully customizeable
- Allows for creation of additional versions of the website for different client groups
- Too slow
- Very cumbersome to manage products
January 07, 2019
Magento is a Heavy Hitter; Make Sure You Can Carry It
We 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
August 17, 2018
Our site would not exist without Magento Open Source
We currently use Magento Open Source to manage our ecommerce website. We have been using it for years and have had great success. Our website development team uses Magento Open Source. This includes our e-ops team, UX team and back-end developers. It allows us to manage all the products, shipping rates, taxes, multiple stores across multiple countries, SEO, categories, redirects, etc. It really takes care of most needs we have for our site.
- Magento Open Source allows us to manage thousands of products in an easy to view and edit manner. We can make bulk changes to hundreds of products when necessary in just a few minutes.
- Magento Open Source is incredibly flexible from a developers perspective. We have been able to develop many custom solutions that Magento Open Source didn't offer out of the box without any difficulty.
- Magento Open Source allows us to pull reports very quickly. The product grid screen (Manage Products) allows you to customize the data columns you see which allows you to pull a report of just the data you want. We use this multiple times per day to see data on our catalog.
- Magento Open Source makes it very easy to set URL redirects when we change product pages or category structure. This is incredibly useful in our daily use of Magento.
- Like I mentioned previously, Magento Open Source allows us to develop custom solutions for areas where it did not offer a feature out of the box. While the ease of development is good, had these features been available out of the box, it would have been even better.
- We occasionally find that some third party vendors do not work well with Magento Open Source. We have had to come up with work-arounds or abandon certain vendors all together because of our use of Magento Open Source.
- This isn't really a drawback of Magento Open Source itself, but finding developers that are familiar with Magento can be difficult.
- When you are first getting familiar with Magento Open Source, navigating the menus can be very intimidating. There are seemingly hundreds of pages and tabs in Magento and until you are familiar with it, you can very easily get lost.
September 19, 2017
Magento is a robust but complex e-commerce solution
We have implemented Magento CE as the e-commerce management solution for clients.
- Comes with APIs built-in
- Lots of extensibility and customizability
- Can handle a very large product catalog
- Magento is complicated to use and has a high learning curve from a management user point of view.
- We found it difficult to upgrade when newer releases came out.
- The front-end templating system seems needlessly obtuse and is difficult to develop. Smaller front-end elements are individual files and layouts are controlled through XML files.