Magento is a free and open source web application which is search-engine friendly. It is an easy-to-use platform with various attributes, such as catalog browsing or management, customer service or accounts, order management, mobile commerce, payments and shipping. You can also buy an enterprise version of Magento.
Having been a Magento store owner for about a year and a half now, I can honestly say I hate it and it has damaged my business not helped it. I am on the 1.3.2.4 version. Yes it SEO friendly, it can showcase your products well on the product page, but that is about it for me. There is bugger all support from the forums, it is full of bugs and I get fed up with having to pay to fix it. Traffic and conversion are also down from using the previous OS commerce site we had. I/We are not website designers we are retailers, so we find the whole magento back end far too complicated. We are not able to simply adjust our home page (shop window) without going into html coding, which we can't do so we have to pay someone again to adjust our shop window! I would say Magento would be great if you are a large business with a dedicated Support to run it, but for a small independent trying to run a business it is bleeding me dry!
hmmmm well @bokken is not me. His criticism is founded strictly on his own inabilities. At first reading his post, I thought there was something wrong with Magento, which I have just finished installing on my own pc for local hosting to play with. But, I am a designer. Can anyone who is a website designer care to put their 2 cents in whether bokken's experience is universal, or simply caused by his lack of programming skills?
Magento is growing very fast and it is one of the best thing for ecommerce today. A lot of useful and interesting extensions are coming up and people are saving a lot of time using customized themes for their stores. SEO is very good with Magento. Good things takes time and i think magento is getting better and better day by day.
Very interesting thread on Magento. Okay folks, Magento like many other e-commerce solutions has its flaws but trust me when I say "its one of the best out there". The product is growing fast, its totally open source and if there are any clients out there that are not happy then I can only suggest there are two issues. 1. That magento is the wrong solution for what the client needs, magento is not for everyone but 9 times out of 10 it is. 2. That the magento store has not been deployed correctly and the correct training not provided. Nearly all of our sites use magento, we are happy to accept work from anyone that requires this service. Interactivehive has spent a considerable amount of time in developing magento. We have clients all over the world and are high skilled in this area.
I would say in favor of magento, personally I have a own site running on magento for last more than 1 year and working fine, though I do professional work on magento too
I cant believe you think Oscommerce is better than magneto, perhaps read a few tutorials and familiarize yourself with it. It's not really that difficult and most bugs that I've seen with magento are usually theme related not magento itself.
Magento is a good script but very resource intensive and can be slow loading. Slow loading pages will result in dropped sales. You need at least a VPS to use Magento and even with that it needs to have very good internet connection.
I'm going to use Magento for my new site.I was wondering if it can be used for unknown codes person too?The offical templates would be enough for me currently.
After studying a bit more and researching extensively, some very pointed niches, I found this. Magento is a huge huge ecommerce cms. It is one of the largest, fully featured programs out there. Advice for someone in the niche I was looking at suggested to someone else that unless they were a national chain, they did not need Magento and that for a single stand alone store, a custom ecommerce cms would be better. What the person was trying to get across was that Magento is a stretched limo where the person only needed a Lincoln Towncar sedan, still luxury, but not over the top for their needs. The sheer size of the program is daunting by itself. I mirror some of the comments said earlier, unless you have a professional person handling, monitoring and updating your store on Magento, you're going to be overwhelmed, easily. After going down the php learning lane, all of this makes since now and the elegance of Magento is truly appreciated. Could I make a more secure custom ecommerce cms myself, knowing php? Sure, if I had untold man-hours to waste. But, Magento is already coded and available for free. That, and ... I got my hands on the user guide LOL. What I can do is tweek it to plug all the holes in it. But, they tell you where most of the holes are, right in the program.
Magento is far better then other shopping carts . customizable extensions, attractive template, the code which hasn't been broken yet and so many other features makes it the best.
This is a worrying comment for someone like me considering Magento. I've been reading up Magento on the forums and the guys who seem to really like it either have serious technical support or they are designers/techies themselves. I'm reasonably competent techwise but its not really my area and I have to spend most of my time on other things. Might look elsewhere.
I don't have a computer science degree, never took a computer class, and never had a programing course. I have yet to find anything "difficult" about Magento. Half the time it guides you by itself, and there is quite a bit of documentation you can read up on. Want to do a specific task in Magento? I search online all the time, typing in the very sentence i want answered, and come up with someone talking about it somewhere.
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Magento is a feature-rich eCommerce platform built on open-source technology that provides online merchants with unprecedented flexibility and control over the look, content and functionality of their eCommerce store. Magento’s intuitive administration interface features powerful marketing, search engine optimization and catalog-management tools to give merchants the power to create sites that are tailored to their unique business needs.
Magento is one of the most famous, open-source e-Commerce solution. Magento offers a very nice back-end interface, but suffer of lack of CMS capabilities.Installing Magento modules on your Drupal site, you'll be able to run Magento as back-end only.