Magento CE provides the out of the box functionality for your online retail presence
March 30, 2017

Magento CE provides the out of the box functionality for your online retail presence

Chris Coppenbarger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Magento Community Edition

We implement and provide support for Magento Community Edition for most of our clients. Most of our clients are needing a platform that offers products to buy and Magento meets those needs very well. It has a base setup from which you can build off of with modules and custom theming to provide the experience the clients need to present to their customers.
  • 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.
  • It has allowed us to greatly expand the business to quality clients.
  • We can build a level of expertise in a particular platform on a niche market.
In Drupal, you have to add on the commerce plugin in order to add on the features. OroCRM is the same way. Magento provides the out of the box functionality as opposed to building out additional plugins and more coding.
Magento Community Edition is very well suited for B2C/B2B sales of consumer and business products. It allows for the out of the box configuration of a wide variety of products. It is not well-suited for a simple website or a simple content management system. It is a content management system, but mostly for products to sell.

Magento Open Source Feature Ratings

Product catalog & listings
10
Product management
10
Bulk product upload
10
Branding
8
Mobile storefront
7
Product variations
9
Website integration
6
Visual customization
7
CMS
7
Abandoned cart recovery
7
Checkout user experience
7
eCommerce security
8
Promotions & discounts
8
Personalized recommendations
6
SEO
5
Multi-site management
7
Order processing
7
Inventory management
8
Shipping
8
Custom functionality
7