Magento Open Source

Magento Open Source

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Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Magento Open Source	Score8.4 out of 10	N/A	Magento Open Source is an ecommerce content management solution originally developed by Varien Inc and presently supported by Adobe. The Open Source product is for developers and merchants that is available as a free download, and supported with free upgrades from the Magento Community.	N/A

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Magento Open Source
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

Pricing for Magento will vary greatly depending on outsourcing support and maintenance services.

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	Magento Open Source
Considered Both Products	Adobe Verified User Chose Magento Open Source 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Russell Preston Senior Web Developer in Engineering at Betabrand (Retail, 11-50 employees) Chose Magento Open Source 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Shahed Nasser Senior eCommerce Developer in Information Technology at ECONCEPTS (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Magento Open Source Magento vs PrestaShop Magento is good for big-scale projects that require a lot of features or a lot of custom development. PrestaShop is a good, lightweight platform that can handle most e-commerce use cases. When it comes to which is easier to use, especially for non-tech … Incentivized Helpful? Joe Blattert Consultant in Information Technology at Vitasalus, Inc (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1-10 employees) Chose Magento Open Source In looking at a different platform to migrate to from Magento 1, we looked primarily at Big Commerce, Shopify and Shopify Plus. Our host was very negative about Magento 2, but we determined after a couple years it was due to the fact it had even more complexity (and very … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Magento Open Source The full customization and integration benefits made us stay with Magento. Incentivized Helpful? IGNACE QUAGHEBEUR ICT Manager in Information Technology at BRAEM (Automotive, 201-500 employees) Chose Magento Open Source the shopping extentions for WordPress (whoocommerce) didn't seem to be the best fit. Drupal was too complex to start with. We found a good partner that had experience with Magento development and we felt that they + Magento Open Source were a good fit for our needs. especially … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Magento Open Source Magneto Open Source allowed for a lot of customizations, and it seemed like a cheaper version. However, the cost added up really quickly. I would probably go with Shopify or BigCommerce for a small business when making decisions in the future. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Magento Open Source I inherited the Magento Open Source website we are currently using, but after evaluating everything that was wanted for the new website, we switched over to Shopify. After using Shopify for some of our other websites, we learned that you have to pay a large sum each month to … Incentivized Helpful? .Kim Murphy Owner in Marketing at Designz23 (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Magento Open Source OpenCart is a better shopping cart platform then Magento for larger corporate clients who may want a ton of customizations and very specific functionality. Although Magento is "open-source", its code is not as easy to understand and modify as OpenCart. Shopify is a better … Incentivized Helpful? Vin Campbell IT Director in Information Technology at Sahadi's (Retail, 11-50 employees) Chose Magento Open Source The three main reasons we went with Magento: 1. It was recommended by our NCR Counterpoint, VAR. 2. It's the best platform to integrate tightly with that NCR Counterpoint. It's also the best eventual platform to integrate with our wholesale ERP, so it's one platform to run … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Putnam Senior Web Developer in Research & Development at WebpageFX (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Magento Open Source Magento is the heaviest by far, in a few senses of the word. It has the steepest learning curve both for administrators and programmers, but it also has the highest potential to run a high traffic, high volume ecommerce store. Other products will get you up and running faster … Incentivized Helpful? David Bryan Managing Director in Marketing at Opace Ltd. (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Magento Open Source In our experience, Magento is more robust but also more complex for users to maintain. Incentivized Helpful? Brian Halstrom Director, Digital Marketing in Marketing at Hilton Worldwide (Sporting Goods, 51-200 employees) Chose Magento Open Source When compared to WooCommerce, we used Magento as we're able to have more control over our product listings, category listings, and shipping options. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Magento Open Source Magento is excellent for large shops, with large quantities of products and makes scaling as the shop grows easy and quick. But it does truly require a dedicated server and an experienced developer to get things up and going. I prefer WooCommerce for smaller shops as its quick … Incentivized Helpful? Brendon Brown Business Software Manager / IT Consultant in Information Technology at Island City Media (Retail, 11-50 employees) Chose Magento Open Source WooCommerce, when fully "plugged-in" required server resources which drowned our host. We hit a wall with growth due to these resources and researched redevelopment on Woo or migration to a new platform. We chose the latter. Shopify and BigCommerce were limited to their closed … Incentivized Helpful? Lynn Thames Owner in Information Technology at Excel Software Services, Inc. (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Magento Open Source Magento is hands down better than any hosted platform (i.e., BC), but only if you have a good development team. Hosted platforms are very limiting as to what you can accomplish "outside the box." Magento is much better than WooCommerce in its user friendliness and its … Incentivized Helpful? Santiago Valdés Cofounder / Marketing, Growth, Technology, Experience in Marketing at Vestuá (Retail, 11-50 employees) Chose Magento Open Source In a few words: WooCommerce: easy to setup, huge community and easy to customize. Hard to scale, but can be done. PrestaShop: poor brother of WooCommerce. Less community, less customization... not sure why anybody would use it. Incentivized Helpful? Max J. Jennings Inbound Marketing Specialist in Marketing at Infinity Digital Agency (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Magento Open Source Magento is definitely built for developers by developers and in my opinion is best suited for large-scale e-commerce stores. When you need to create a large store or require advance customization Magento is really the only way to go. We have tried using platforms like WooCommerc… Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Magento Open Source I have worked with Shopify, osCommerce, and WooCommerce. Incentivized Helpful? Matt Railey Director of User Experience and Technology in Marketing at TrueParallel, Inc. (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Magento Open Source Compared to other small - medium sized business e-commerce solutions, Magento is by far requires the most development resources to implement and maintain. Creating a custom Drupal or WordPress based e-commerce solution requires development resources as well, but the complexity … Incentivized Helpful? Joe Dingley Senior Ecommerce Manager at The Jewel Hut, T.H. Baker, House of Watches (Retail, 51-200 employees) Chose Magento Open Source Magento better for a large catalogue. Incentivized Helpful? Nick Jastrebski Business Analyst in Information Technology at Miles Technologies (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Magento Open Source In the past, I've used Shopify, WordPress + Woocommerce and Drupal + Drupal Commerce. Magento CE is much easier to use since it's open source and it's bundled together in one package. It's built specifically with e-commerce in mind so there are no worries about … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Coppenbarger Web & Computer Programmer in Information Technology at Freelancer (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Magento Open Source In Drupal, you have to add on the commerce plugin in order to add on the features. OroCRM is the same way. Magento provides the out of the box functionality as opposed to building out additional plugins and more coding. Incentivized Helpful? Brian Keary Owner and CEO at Western Independent Media Developers (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Magento Open Source Magento CE stands up better than the other CMS systems in many regards. It is cheaper and easier to use than Drupal or Joomla! by a wide margin. It is more secure than any WordPress website, and unless you specifically need it, It does not store credit card information making … Incentivized Helpful? Bret Williams E-Commerce Strategits in Information Technology at novusweb llc (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Magento Open Source Most of the ones we've looked at (or had customers transition from) are closed, hosted solutions with limitations. Since Magento is open source, we have a lot more flexibility to mold it to the customer's needs. It does require more specialized expertise from an implementation … Helpful?
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Features

Magento Open Source

Comparison of Online Storefront features of Magento Open Source
Feature	Magento Open Source 7.7 28 Ratings
Product catalog & listings	8.528 Ratings
Product management	9.528 Ratings
Bulk product upload	8.026 Ratings
Branding	6.526 Ratings
Mobile storefront	4.028 Ratings
Product variations	9.526 Ratings
Website integration	8.024 Ratings
Visual customization	6.527 Ratings
CMS	8.526 Ratings

Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Magento Open Source
Feature	Magento Open Source 8.0 28 Ratings
Abandoned cart recovery	7.123 Ratings
Checkout user experience	9.028 Ratings

Comparison of Online Payment System features of Magento Open Source
Feature	Magento Open Source 6.6 26 Ratings
eCommerce security	6.626 Ratings

Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Magento Open Source
Feature	Magento Open Source 4.2 28 Ratings
Promotions & discounts	5.628 Ratings
Personalized recommendations	2.022 Ratings
SEO	5.125 Ratings

Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Magento Open Source
Feature	Magento Open Source 9.1 28 Ratings
Multi-site management	9.525 Ratings
Order processing	9.527 Ratings
Inventory management	9.525 Ratings
Shipping	8.524 Ratings
Custom functionality	8.526 Ratings

User Ratings
	Magento Open Source
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (29 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)