Overview
What is Magento Open Source?
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…
Magento is a good foundation for your e-commerce platform!
Review of Magento by Agency Owner
Going Big? Go Magento!
If speed is at your core, try Magento Open Source!
Magento 1 & 2 - Free, great features, but very complex
A Decent Program for E-commerce/Subscription-based Start Ups
Our website runs Magento Open Source and is doing very well.
Great open source ecommerce platform
Too expensive and too cumbersome to use.
Magento Open Source Vs Other Website Management Tools
Use Magento Open Source If You Are A Medium-Sized Business Who Wants A Simple And Affordable Website
Magento Matured.
Magento is a Heavy Hitter; Make Sure You Can Carry It
Is Magento the Best eCommerce Platform? Opace Say Yes
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Popular Features
- Product management (28)9.595%
- Checkout user experience (28)9.090%
- Product catalog & listings (28)8.585%
- Mobile storefront (28)4.141%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
What is Magento Open Source?
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.
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features
Online Storefront
Features for creating an online storefront with a browse-able product catalog.
- 8.5Product catalog & listings(28) Ratings
Products are easy to browse; listings include descriptions, photos, 360-degree views, and/or videos.
- 9.5Product management(28) Ratings
Product catalog can be easily updated.
- 8Bulk product upload(26) Ratings
Admins can upload products in bulk using spreadsheets.
- 6.5Branding(26) Ratings
Storefront is part of a unified customer experience of the brand across channels (social media, physical store, website, etc.)
- 4.1Mobile storefront(28) Ratings
Customers can easily shop on mobile devices; storefront is responsive or mobile optimized.
- 9.5Product variations(26) Ratings
Products with variations or configurable options are easy to list and easy to browse.
- 8Website integration(24) Ratings
Integrates with an existing company website or blog.
- 6.5Visual customization(27) Ratings
Users can customize the look & feel of the storefront; storefront is visually attractive.
- 8.5CMS(26) Ratings
Beyond product catalog, includes basic content creation and management features such as blogging capabilities.
Online Shopping Cart
Features that facilitate the collection of items so that customers can purchase them as a group.
- 7Abandoned cart recovery(23) Ratings
Saves contents of abandoned carts and allows customers to purchase on a future visit; may send a reminder email to the customer and/or a report to the merchant to help convert abandoned carts into sales.
- 9Checkout user experience(28) Ratings
Easy for customers to view shopping cart and checkout; maintains a consistent, trusted look & feel.
Online Payment System
Features related to processing online payment for eCommerce purchases.
- 6.5eCommerce security(26) Ratings
Security measures are in place to prevent a breach of sensitive payment information.
eCommerce Marketing
Features related to marketing for eCommerce websites
- 5.5Promotions & discounts(28) Ratings
Includes tools for offering and redeeming coupons, promotional codes, and time-based discounts.
- 2.1Personalized recommendations(22) Ratings
Display or recommend certain products depending on the customer’s identity or shopping/browsing history.
- 5SEO(25) Ratings
The platform & templates help users create the right website infrastructure (pagination, page headers, titles, meta tags, url structure, etc.) to increase the site’s visibility in search engine results.
eCommerce Business Management
Features related to business management and administration of eCommerce operations
- 9.5Multi-site management(25) Ratings
Administrators can manage multiple storefronts or websites under one umbrella.
- 9.5Order processing(27) Ratings
Includes tools or integrations for order processing.
- 9.5Inventory management(25) Ratings
Includes tools or integrations for managing inventory.
- 8.5Shipping(24) Ratings
Includes tools or integrations for order fulfillment of physical products.
- 8.5Custom functionality(26) Ratings
Users are able to customize the functionality of their eCommerce operation with custom code or add-ons.
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What is Magento Open Source?
Magento Open Source Video
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Reviews
(1-8 of 8)An eCommerce beast to tame
- Modularity
- Great Community
- Updates
- Very step learning curve
- If not using it headless, the frontend uses old technologies
- The first setup can be problematic
Great open source ecommerce platform
- Solid e-commerce platform
- Fully customizable
- Large add-ons marketplace
- Tons of integration options
- Customizable only for the very experienced
- Will most likely need to hire experienced developers to install addons and maintain
Magento Open Source Vs Other Website Management Tools
- Magento Open Source front end is easy to use. It is a fast way to get a website up and going.
- Magento Open Source has been around for a while, so it is easy to find themes for purchase.
- Although Magento Open Source can be customized, the themes are made using layers upon layers of folders to hold files. It takes a long time to learn the structure of the theme and it takes time to get anything customized on the backend to affect the website.
- Magento Open Source is also one of the slower loading website management tools. I've used many others, such as Shopify, 3D Cart, and BigCommerce. Magento Open Source feels like older software and getting specific functionality is easier on platforms like Shopify and BigCommerce, which both use apps.
Use Magento Open Source If You Are A Medium-Sized Business Who Wants A Simple And Affordable Website
- 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.
- Magento is not easy for a layman who is not tech-savvy to manage the website.
- Magento is one of the only modern shopping carts in which one must manually clear the cache and "reindex".
- Magneto has a lot of technical glitches - more than most of the other shopping carts we work with. Most are minor.
Magento Matured.
- As a shopping cart platform, version 2 has matured fully. The built-in feature set is immense.
- Extensions -- there are extensions for virtually every need and vision
- Intuitive backend -- it's very easy to work with and find things-- again, in version 2. Order management is a breeze, and the level of customer data access that's built-in is huge.
- A clean modern front end -- from standard/simple templates to the more expensive paid templates, Magento websites are clean, clear, and they work very well.
- Cache management -- I think this should work better OOBE. Lots of manual flushing of caches, and tricky setup for automation.
- It's very expensive to develop on the platform -- it's time-consuming for me, and expensive when hiring outside people.
- Some things that are baked in, like shipping rates (USPS), can be improved to grab internet rates.
- Need more US-based extension developers and ways to work with them when code needs to be rewritten...
Magento Community Edition Review
- Easy WYSIWYG editor
- Compatible with hundreds of platforms
- Pre-built extensions
- Security patching causes long term development downtime
- Not the quickest platform
- As stated before, it's open source and it's free.
- Magento CE is scalable as you continue to grow your online business.
- It is high performance, and highly scalable.
- A key benefit to being open source is that there's a large community and plenty of developer support.
- If you have a large number of products, performance will degrade continually. 10-20 products is no problem but 20,000 or more and there's a noticeable slowdown.
- Your site will not load quickly with community edition.
- It's difficult to roll back changes if you make a modification by mistake. Backup/restore options are not great with CE.
- Out of the box product display allows for you to quickly get your products shown to the consumers
- Customizable product options allow for a wide variety of selection of products
- Customizable payment and shipping options allow for many different use-case scenarios for the consumer.
- It is still using a lot of xml for it's configuration which can make things complicated.
- Updating has gotten better, but very specific requirements make it difficult at times.
- Very specific requirements for installing also make it difficult.