Our website runs Magento Open Source and is doing very well.
May 20, 2021

Our website runs Magento Open Source and is doing very well.

IGNACE QUAGHEBEUR | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Magento Open Source

We use Magento Open Source in our public facing website. our website consists of 4 parts : window shopping of used trucks, window shopping of aggregates, B2B webshop for truck parts and a static part which desbribes our company and our fixed services.
the products are created automatically through our ERP system. So we have custom Magento code to import our products on the frontend.
Our website is availlable in 7 languages.

Pros

  • out of the box webshop
  • api to allow for product inserts via code
  • lots of plugins

Cons

  • the content management is on pare with eg. WordPress
  • plugins are not always of a good quality.
  • major upgrades are not always plug and play.
  • no upfront licensing costs
  • most of the framework was in place
  • skilled developers are hard to find (but that counts for every tecnology)
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.)

Do you think Magento Open Source delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Magento Open Source's feature set?

Yes

Did Magento Open Source live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Magento Open Source go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Magento Open Source again?

Yes

Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud)
Everything is possible with Magento and i feel it is a better match for a big webshop than other tools (like WordPress). But you need some technical skills in order to start and especially to maintain it. It is not really a walk in the park to start off. But once done, it really does it thing and it hasn't failed us yet.

Magento Open Source Feature Ratings

7.5
Product catalog & listings
8
Product management
8
Bulk product upload
7
Branding
8
Mobile storefront
7
Product variations
8
Visual customization
8
CMS
6
8.0
Checkout user experience
8
Online Payment System ()
Not Rated
8.0
Promotions & discounts
8
Personalized recommendations
8
SEO
8
8.3
Multi-site management
8
Order processing
8
Custom functionality
9

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