An eCommerce beast to tame
Updated February 28, 2025

An eCommerce beast to tame

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

Overall Satisfaction with Magento Open Source

In our company, as system integrators, we often encounters customer with a Magento eCommerce. The best part of this software solution is that, since it's completely modular and we usually do not develop the entire website, we can still however work on our projects (usually integrations with third party systems or data import/export) by working on specific modules we can then deliver to our customers.

Pros

  • Modularity
  • Great Community
  • Updates

Cons

  • Very step learning curve
  • The frontend implementation is very convoluted
  • The first setup can be long
  • Modularity helps development.
  • You need to evaluate carefully the initial investment, which can be high.
  • Does not depends on specific ERPs/PIMs or similar, and can be integrated with those.
Magento has a relly step learning curve. This means that you need to find experienced developers who can lead junior ones, otherwise the overall development process can be a disaster. However, once you are comfortable in developing on the platform, the customization capability are basically limitless and you can adapt the platform to any use case you can imagine. Also, there are many alredy developed marketplace modules that can solve, out of the box, many problems you may face.
Magento is completely open source, and this means that not only is free, but can be adapted to your needings. Magento is also a framework, and this means the his customization capabilities go well beyond pure eCommerce functionalities. For this reason, if you need to create something different from the standard "eCommerce website", you should evaluate this product.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Magento Open Source go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Magento Open Source again?

Yes

Magento is perfect for large scale eCommerces with various degree of complexity, like multicountry invocing/taxes, different currencies, a big catalogue with a lot of configurable products. Due to it's high customization capabilitis, it's also perfect if you have any specific need which is not covered by more "linear" eCommerce solutions.

Magento Open Source Feature Ratings

7.4
Product catalog & listings
10
Product management
9
Bulk product upload
9
Branding
8
Mobile storefront
4
Product variations
10
Website integration
7
Visual customization
5
CMS
5
10.0
Abandoned cart recovery
10
Checkout user experience
10
10.0
eCommerce security
10
10.0
Promotions & discounts
10
10.0
Multi-site management
10
Order processing
10
Inventory management
10
Shipping
10
Custom functionality
10

Evaluating Magento Open Source and Competitors

Using Magento Open Source

ProsCons
Like to use
Well integrated
Consistent
Unnecessarily complex
Difficult to use
Requires technical support
Slow to learn
Lots to learn
  • Product customization
  • Checkout setup
  • Multi currency management
  • Storefront setup
  • Deploy process
Yes, but I don't use it

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