Item: Magnolia
Rating: 6
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Magnolia is being used as the content management system for the Tradeprint eCommerce website. It is used in both the creation of our product pages but also our category and homepages and has supported our use with written content as we move towards increasing our written content pages.

Pros and Cons

It is a framework that developers can work with
It supports web analytics integrations
It has good documentation and online support

No drag-and-drop editor for page construction for eCommerce product pages
The digital asset management library isn't the most user friendly
Inconsistent support for next-generation web image formats

Return on Investment

Improved risk mitigation
Good framework for developers to work within
Good integrations with third-party partners

Usability

It's a reasonable platform. There are better and more usable specialists in this area such as Magento and Shopify and better content CMSes such as WordPress and Drupal, so it is very much a middle-of-the-road solution.

Performance

There have been no issues with Magnolia supporting integration with third-party platforms and because of its support with asynchronous processes, this tends to be a strong area for Magnolia in terms of support.

Favorite Features of Magnolia

My favourite features of Magnolia are the various integration points for key pieces of our analytics/technology stack. It is very much the case that we are able to deploy the code that we require from that side with no issues at all and have it function as intended.

Alternatives Considered

Magento Commerce, part of Adobe Commerce Cloud, Shopify and WordPress

Magnolia is a good solution where you have a very simple buying and checkout process and don't require the additional flexibility or additional functionality built on top of the framework.

Likelihood to Recommend

Magnolia is a platform well suited for businesses with minimal internal development and a very straightforward eCommerce process. Page templates are available and give a good, robust base implementation. Unfortunately where developers become involved, there are some issues, such as when overwriting CSS where there can be issues with how the site performs.

A competent CMS

Overall Satisfaction with Magnolia