Magento is a good foundation for your e-commerce platform!
January 04, 2024
Magento is a good foundation for your e-commerce platform!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Magento Open Source
Magento provides an excellent framework for managing customers, products, categories, cart, orders and has a plethora of extensions to allow you to do almost anything you could think of - but without being beholden to a platform such as Shopify.
- Free framework in widely used language (PHP) based on common database (MySQL)
- Has lots of developer support
- Has frequent security patches.
- Not the most performant when you want to scale up
- Does not have single page app support out of the box
- Does not have native mobile app support (yet)
- Magento allowed us to get off the ground quickly with an MVC for e-commerce and gave us the freedom to work on ROI via third party applications and services
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.
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