What is Magento? It's the most powerful online eCommerce platform in the universe and is changing the face of eCommerce forever. Of course, you already know that. What you may not realize is Magento's also an object-oriented PHP Framework that can be used to develop modern, dynamic web applications that tap into Magento's powerful eCommerce features. This is the first in a series of articles in which we're going to go on a whirlwind tour of Magento's programming framework features. Don't worry if you don't follow everything immediately. As you study the system more everything in this article will start to make sense, and you'll soon be the envy of your colleagues stuck working with more primitive PHP systems.
Here is a list of what Magento eCommerce can offer. 1. Installation and Administration: Easy to use `Browser User Interface` (BUI) allows you to control every aspect of the front and backends 2. Extensions: Ability to install extensions (plugins) via the BUI quickly and easily 3. Theme Support: You can install ready-made themes or create your own quickly and easily 4. Payment Gateways: Out of the box you’ll get the following, however there are many more in the magento-connect repository. Cheque/Money Orders Credit Card Capture (for offline processing) PayPal – Standard, Express, and Pro Google Checkout Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay Authorize.net 5. CMS: Magento provides a very powerful Content Management System (CMS) 6. Analytics: Magento includes it’s own analytics and reporting engine within the backoffice. You can also integrate with other third party analytics engines such as Google Analytics. 7. International Support: Magento has bee translated into over 60 languages and supporting multiple currencies, taxes and payment methods 8. Marketing: Magento offers integrated marketing and promotion tools to get the best out of your site. 9. SEO: Magento integrates Search Engine Optimisation out of the box Cheers! Allyson CMO GoldenspiralStudios.com
Magento is a free e-commerce solution. It is a good platform but I guess still needs a lot of improvement. it isn't also SEO friendly.
Magento is a great eCommerce software, no doubt. But its usage is a bit difficult/technical than other open source applications. One would need its developer if using it for business site.
rockeerz if u read through the content of the forum its clearly stated that is an ecommerce solution. you can buy a domain & hosting and host your products online on it. My question, what if i host it on shared hosting service? would it be down, slow or what?
Magento is one of the most famous e-commerce solution, and the main thing is it's a search engine friendly and you can do easy SEO for bring in top in Google..