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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 Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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January 09, 2024
An eCommerce beast to tame
Magento is completely open source, this means that you can customize it 100% on your needings.
January 04, 2024
Magento is a good foundation for your e-commerce platform!
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 it was used by their previous company and many companies within our sphere of VC startups.
July 07, 2021
Review of Magento by Agency Owner
- Shopify and WooCommerce
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 Magento as we were looking for a completely custom store.
July 07, 2021
Going Big? Go Magento!
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 savvy users, PrestaShop is definitely easier to use. When it comes to the number of add-ons, Magento has more open-source ones. Also, Magento is better for custom development.
Magento vs WooCommerce
WooCommerce would be better in my opinion for smaller e-commerce online stores or stores that have a simpler use case. WooCommerce can become a bit of a mess when you start adding all the different plugins, as you'll probably need them since it lacks a lot of features. Magento would definitely be a better choice when looking at security, best practices, and easy integration with many add-ons.
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 savvy users, PrestaShop is definitely easier to use. When it comes to the number of add-ons, Magento has more open-source ones. Also, Magento is better for custom development.
Magento vs WooCommerce
WooCommerce would be better in my opinion for smaller e-commerce online stores or stores that have a simpler use case. WooCommerce can become a bit of a mess when you start adding all the different plugins, as you'll probably need them since it lacks a lot of features. Magento would definitely be a better choice when looking at security, best practices, and easy integration with many add-ons.
June 05, 2021
If speed is at your core, try Magento Open Source!
- WooCommerce and Shopify
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.
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.
The full customization and integration benefits made us stay with Magento.
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 the link with the ERP products was hard to do in the other products (since the ERP is a very closed niche system.)
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 the link with the ERP products was hard to do in the other products (since the ERP is a very closed niche system.)
February 14, 2020
Too expensive and too cumbersome to use.
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.
January 23, 2020
Magento Open Source Vs Other Website Management Tools
- BigCommerce and Shopify
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 integrate with the accounting software Avatax. On BigCommerce and MagentoOpen Source, we did not have to pay extra for this integration.
August 16, 2019
Use Magento Open Source If You Are A Medium-Sized Business Who Wants A Simple And Affordable Website
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 platform then Magento only for smaller sites which only have a few products to sell, and are very low budget. Some of the simple startup Shopify layouts look better and are both easier and quicker to setup then Magento. For Medium businesses, Magento is a good solution.
March 12, 2019
Magento Matured.
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 multiple websites with different backends. 3. Future potential -- of all the possible platforms to be on, this is the one that is the most customizable and built to support large volume online retailers, which we hope to be in the near future.
January 07, 2019
Magento is a Heavy Hitter; Make Sure You Can Carry It
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 (and probably cheaper) and will very likely have lower ongoing maintenance needs, so choose carefully based on your budget and the features you must have.
December 26, 2018
Is Magento the Best eCommerce Platform? Opace Say Yes
Score 8 out of 10
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In our experience, Magento is more robust but also more complex for users to maintain.
December 14, 2018
Magento Helps Us Achieve Our eCommerce Strategy
When compared to WooCommerce, we used Magento as we're able to have more control over our product listings, category listings, and shipping options.
December 06, 2018
Magento Open Source is ideal for large e-commerce shops
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 and easy to get setup and running with minimal fuss and will run well on a shared hosting.
I prefer WooCommerce for smaller shops as its quick and easy to get setup and running with minimal fuss and will run well on a shared hosting.
November 30, 2018
Apparently Open Source means lower publishing standards. Be prepare to hire a software developer.
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 ecosystems and would not have given us the open avenue to grow in the directions we were looking for.
Shopify and BigCommerce were limited to their closed ecosystems and would not have given us the open avenue to grow in the directions we were looking for.
September 25, 2018
Magento - the developer's choice in e-commerce platforms
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 feature set.
August 27, 2018
Scalable but expensive to customize
In a few words:
- WooCommerce: easy to setup, huge community and easy to customize. Hard to scale, but can be done.
- PrestaShop: poor brother of WooCommerce. Less community, less customization... not sure why anybody would use it.
- Shopify: SaaS solution. Harder to customize (due to Shopify restrictions) but very easy to setup and has many nice add-ons. Hard to manage at scale.
- Magento: good at scaling, expensive to customize and in general to develop. Hard to customize.
April 30, 2018
The best platform for large-scale e-commerce but maybe not the best for hobbyist or startups.
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 WooCommerce for large-scale websites and there always seems to be issues after a certain point. For example, we had a client years ago who came to us when they were just a small e-commerce store. Over time they built their business into a 5000 order a month company. It seemed after a certain point commerce could no longer handle the traffic and when we needed subscription-based models there was no suitable plug-in to accomplish this need in the WordPress repository. We have also dealt with ZenCart, OpenCart, and Shopify but we really only recommend these platforms to hobbyists.
March 28, 2018
Powerful ecommerce solution
I have worked with Shopify, osCommerce, and WooCommerce.
September 19, 2017
Magento is a robust but complex e-commerce solution
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 of Magento makes it more difficult and time consuming than the former two platforms. We only select Magento when there is already an older version of Magento in place and the client wants to stick with it.
July 18, 2017
Magento Community Edition Review
Magento better for a large catalogue.
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 add-ons/integration unless they are completely necessary for a specific type of functionality no included in the primary software package.
