Magento Open Source Vs Other Website Management Tools
January 23, 2020
Magento Open Source Vs Other Website Management Tools
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Magento Open Source
Bass-Mollett uses Magento Open Source to host our current website. The website addresses the online needs of our customers by providing them with an alternate method to make purchases. Our customer care team can retrieve orders through Magento Open Source and get them entered, and the process started for these orders.
- 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.
- We are currently using the coupon discount feature in Magento Open Source to provide free shipping on certain products. This discount has worked very well. We have had a massive influx of online orders placed for these products.
- The coupon discount features in Magento Open Source are not as advanced as they are on platforms like BigCommerce. On BigCommerce, I could put a start and end time and date. On Magento Open Source, it does not let you set the time. Many ads do focus on a date and time, so this is negative on Magento Open Source because it could confuse customers.
- 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.