Why using Magento for Ecommerce?

[shunavi]

E-Commerce has exploded over the last decade. There are many reasons for this “pop”: Internet usage and speed increases. Based on the development of internet, people build Magento as the best solution for online business.

Magento started as a company called Varien back in the 2000s. The whole reason for its genesis centers around the idea that technology built to help customers shop online had become too proprietary or too disjointed. The founders believed in the Open Source movement, but the pickings were spread too thin to create a useful cart experience. With that in mind, they set out to build one cart that lived and breathed the Open Source ideal of having many co-creators but also set out to engender a sense of Enterprise-Level solutions for the real world.

So why do we use Magento?

Open-Source.

Which would you prefer, a team of 100 or a team of 1000. Magento as an Open Source application is built to utilize the efforts of its entire supporting community.

Through the ideas and innovation of others, the application ‘rights’ itself much more often than a proprietary application could. And since everyone has access, vendor lock-in is essentially a moot point: you build it, it’s yours. Finally, since the core development is paid for through the community, costs are kept at a minimum. Open Source doesn’t mean free but it does mean increased agility and decreased barrier.

Marketing Focused.

Out of the box, Magento steers users toward the best practices in Internet Marketing: SEO, Accessibility and PCI-DSS compliance. Essentially, the first half of all your initial building and marketing-budget is all ready paid for! And because Magento is Open Source, it can accept plugins and modules from 1000s of sources and most cost from $0 – $600. These modules can help with newsletters or pull in orders from Amazon. Regardless of your marketing focus: affiliate, inbound, social, etc, Magento can handle it. Which brings me to the biggest reason of all.
Turn-Key Solution.

Magento was built for two things:

• Scalability is the idea that as a store owner you could add one to one million products or have ten to ten million visitors; the store can do it all. Not only that but Magento can run 1000s of stores on a single installation. How’s that for keeping costs down?
• Extendability is all about imagination. If you’ve got the proper team working for you, there is literally nothing that cannot be done through Magento. Companies use it for CRM, Resource Planning, and eBay listings. The sky’s the limit. Because of this extendability, Magento can act as a hub for all of your Internet Retailing presence.

We get excited about how much can be done through one application. How have you used Magento? What carts are you currently using and how could they improve? We appreciate your comments or your experiences about using Magento.

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[thuybk]

Magento is easy to integrate with many of the third-party sites needed to run an effective eCommerce website. Magento has special tools and features. Magento is a particularly feature-rich platform, offering many specialized tools that other platforms lack. Magento also comes with built-in SEO features.

[commercepundit]

i think magento has the thing that every ecommerce site owners need. magento is loaded with features.

[ramoskahlo]

Magento is open source free released worldwide and has become the open source standard for system sales website

[Bizmagestore]

Magento Community Edition is free. You can install, alter or use this edition of Magento in any manner you like. If you have a Magento specialist by your side, it’s possible to supercharge the Magento code and power up the ecommerce website with new features and desired functionality by installing Magento extensions. These extensions are made available through Magento Connect marketplace. Robust and powerfull solution both for small and middle sized companies and large corporations

[superkool2011]

LitExtension knows Magento is perfect choice for a lot of users doing online shopping store. LitExtension team provides dozens of migration tools, which allows migration from your shopping cart to Magento. We are happy to bring more advantages for customer.

[yupstrips]

thanks for sharing this information.

[thaomai]

It applies the conventions of object-oriented programming and model-view-controller architecture.

[Ryna Lagger]

The world of eCommerce is changing continually. Every platform is unique to some degree. Magento is known as one of the best e-commerce platforms and the trend of Magento mobile app is rising very quickly. An open-source platform Magento has caught the attention of various eCommerce merchants worldwide as it is the most powerful shopping cart solution, allowing me to build a high-end online shopping website.

Magento is an over-architected platform as its architect is extremely powerful that it can suffice the needs of every website owner. It is obtainable free of cost (community edition). One of the best things about Magento is that it provides a comprehensive range of features in a well-organized manner.

Today, people used to purchase things using their smart-phones, so it is must for me to choose one such platform that offers mobile-friendly configuration. Therefore, Magento is the best eCommerce platform that is mobile-friendly. One of the major benefits of Magento platform is it offers a lot of extensions that can be easily integrated to suffice business requirements.

Magento is a great and advanced platform that built with SEO efficiency so that users of this platform do not get any problem.

Is there something I missed?

I found some tips with Magento extensions to take the online business to Next level. Hope you find it helpful.

[alex118]

Here is a quick comparison between three big e-commerce platforms: Magento vs Prestashop vs WooCommerce. This article shows strong point of Magento shopping cart. According to LitExtension, provider of shopping cart migration tool, need of transferring data from one cart to Magento equals a haft part of shopping cart data migration process.

[SunTecOSS]

Magento offers some amazing features, which can be extremely useful for creating feature rich, robust highly scalable ecommerce websites.These features include:

• Comprehensive range of promotional and conversion tools to help in marketing
• Share information as and when required
• Control numerous sites by using admin panel
• 100% customizable templates
• Third-party application support
• Availability of CAPTCHA to check on unauthorized access
• Enhanced URL control.....

For reference you can visit: http://www.suntecoss.com/magento-dev...-services.html

[sudhakar]

Hi,

#1 Platform IR Top 1000 – 2015

For the third year in a row, Magento has powered more Internet Retailer Top 1000 merchants than anyone else—more than double the amount of any other provider.

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Magento has been named the top eCommerce platform on the inaugural Internet Retailer B2B eCommerce 300 guide, with 41 merchants that list Magento as their eCommerce platfor

#1 Platform IR Hot 100 – 2015

Magento is the top eCommerce platform to the Internet Retailer Hot 100, representing retailers that deliver the most innovative ideas in commerce.

[infotechsolwin]

Magento is a great platform for eCommnerce site. It is open source and very flexible framwork. Also it offers variety of extension and themes online. One can buy or download it online from Magento store easily.

[Interactivated Ecommerce]

The Magento specialists from The Netherlands, Interactivated Ecommerce. The Magento specialist for responsive theme development, extension development, custom projects, high performance servers, performance tuning, usability consulting and optimisations and much more.

[Cao Thanh Nam]

There were many advantages for choosing Magento as an eCommerce platform. You could find most of it in Magento website itself.

But I've listed below few things you may not find in websites.

It's highly scalable. You can use community edition in enterprise level application with right set-up. You can have n number of stores with single backend or admin, so that you don't have to create new Magento instances for each store.
It's highly Secure. Magento uses Zend framework in conjunction with it's own framework Varien. It releases security updates and patches regularly and it's not just easy to hack it unless you've poorly coded third party modules.
It's highly robust. It can handle large volume of products and categories and indexing is done in a single line of command.
It's highly flexible. You can extend Magento to any extent which you couldn't imagine. You can even create a Multivendor Shopping cart like Amazon or flipkart with Magento.

[nadine25]

Yes, it offers variety of extension and themes online. One can buy or download it online from Magento store easily.

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[david hong]

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[sktiwari1988]

It is very easy to integrate third party websites with magneto. It provides special tools and features. Magento also comes with built-in SEO features.

[LanHuong6118]

It is very easy to integrate third party websites with magneto

[Sumit_Kumar]

In simple words, Magento is specially designed for the E-commerce website and it supports 1000's of pages website without any problem. The following things make it better than other CMSs
Scalable
Secure
Easy to Integrate
Free
Developers Friendly
SEO Extensions
Mobile Friendly