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  1. #31
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    I’ve been hearing an increasing amount of hype about the Magento Shopping Cart product. It’s a free & open source product.

    Given the hype, I thought I’d check it out and see if it had substance or was just hot air.

    Before I give my comments, let me say I’m generally not a fan of open source shopping carts. I have no problems with open source in general (this blog is WordPress, an open source blogging tool which I love), but all the open source carts I’ve looked at leave a lot to be desired (and I’m not talking about a simplistic functionality check list, I’m talking about tools to help create a profitable business). I’ve also looked at quite a few of the commercial products out there, more than most people.

    So is Magento worthy of the hype? In short, yes. This is one awesome looking product. If I were a commercial shopping cart vendor I’d be afraid. Very afraid. This has the freedom and flexibility – not to mention the $0 price tag – of an open source solution, but it also has the polish and sophistication of a commercial solution.

    Casting my mind back over what I think some of the better commercial solutions are, I could only think of a few features they have which they either do better than Magento, or Magento doesn’t have yet. However, Magento is still in beta and it’s free! Give it another 12 months, and I think that list of missing features will be very short indeed.

    Magento does have a lot of features and flexibility that put most commercial products to shame. The marketing promotions manager – I was drooling on my keyboard at the flexibility! It seems that no matter what tool I use, the marketing managers always dream up some promotion that can’t be done. Well, I challenge them: come up with a promotion that magento can’t do! I’m not saying it’s unlimited, but it’s the best I’ve seen.

    Above that, their approach seems very mature. For example, their data interchange features are a very enterprise feeling approach, and the general architecture and structure of the software makes it clear that these guys aren’t amateurs, but making software that is designed to scale up and play with the big boys.

    The biggest thing I saw missing (although I have a list as long as my arm of smaller things, and yes Magento team if you are reading, I did read the road map and there’s still a heap of stuff, but you know that I’m sure) is a mature newsletter management tool. The two big features I’d like to see are:

    * Target newsletters based on customer data – eg “send this newsletter to people who haven’t purchased from us in 6 months or more” or “send this only to people who have purchased products from this category”
    * A powerful newsletter creation tool. I find the hardest/most time consuming part of newsletter creation is the thing that you almost invariably want to do: product insertion, it’s always so time consuming and fiddly. There’s a great opportunity to have product “micro templates” and insert products that way.

    I could go on for pages dreaming… for example… how about “insert the best selling product in the last month from the category this customer has most commonly purchased from previously” – totally personalized newsletters.

    In summary, this is one product to look out for. They are promising an early 2008 1.0 release. It’ll also be interesting to see the community that springs up around it. There will be lots of the normal small webshops, but also think there is an opportunity to attract some of the bigger commercial VARs and sell this into larger organisations. I, for one, will be watching with great interest. Well done Varien!

  2. #32
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    Yes. Magento is the ultimate eCommerce shopping cart. Its easy to use modular architecture offers unprecedented flexibility and control over the operations of online stores.

  3. #33
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    Magento is a feature-rich eCommerce platform offering complete flexibility and control over the look, content and functionality of an online store.

  4. #34
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jerin View Post
    Magento is the kind of shopping cart software that could actually boast of its programming structure. It’s very user-friendly and gives users a lot of options. Project code upgrading is constantly done, and since it’s user friendly, users do not have to worry about installing updates because it does not take a lot of time and could be done easily.
    What is the other shopping cart compared to Magento?

  5. #35
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    Hello !

    Thanks to all, There are many E-commerce Software, But Magento is The Best of them.

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    Also ask them either they can provide Softaculous instead of Magento and the reason you will find here.http://blog.host.co.in/advantages-of...ver-fantastico

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    In my opinion, you shouldn't concentrate your attention only on one company and try to check more options as well. You can also check serverpoint.com web hosting solutions... As you can see, there is representative here, so you are free to ask him any questions.

    Personally I consider Magento to be the best shopping cart software.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peligino View Post
    I am planning to use a2hosting.com service as their hosting solutions can be good for running ecommerce web sites, they meet my demands and budget.
    Their hosting plans include magento shopping cart.

    How good is magento for running ecommerce web sites?
    Magneto is so good ans its have lots of benefits.

    1.The Magento ecommerce is the fastest growing open source ecommerce platform on the internet and its gain steadily popularity among online merchants as creating there online shopping cart website.

    2.Magento come with lots of advance and some amazing features, here I share some top advantages of select Magento over other open source shopping cart.

    3.Live Currency Update Every online shopping cart which featured multiple currency option required to manually update the currency

    4.Unlimited Product and Purchases There is no limit on uploading product or purchases because it’s come with open source tag so, it’s free (standard version) and not required monthly fee like other shopping cart.

    5.Easy Integration Magento connect with Web application as well as Standalone application with help of extensible API.

    Thats why magneto is so effective with lots of benefits and good shopping cart..

  9. #39
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    Magento is open source. Open source is mostly applied on low income setups. Low income setups are applied on shared hosting. Shared hosting should support the slow Magento.

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    very very cool

  11. #41
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    Magento is the kind of shopping cart software that could actually boast of its programming structure. It’s very user-friendly and gives users a lot of options. Project code upgrading is constantly done, and since it’s user friendly, users do not have to worry about installing updates because it does not take a lot of time and could be done easily. Why? It’s simple, because installation of these updates does not require you to go through a lot of codes unlike other open-source software. Compared to other open-source software, it’s very easy to customize thus giving users a wider range of customization possibilities. The module interface allows me to make the modules I need to create without making it difficult for the shoppers to go through each module.

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    Yeah Magento is good platform for eCommerce websites, other open source platforms are also available you can try for that also..

  13. #43
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    You can doing your shopping easily through magento shopping cart, whenever you are select any product for shopping they directly put on the magento shopping cart, it's really good.

  14. #44
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    Thus, the hosts mentioned are good, but I think Serverpoint.com to your website the best performance in terms of speed of Magento, good support and if it communicates with its well-trained specialists will help you make a good choice of solution accommodation.

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    Forum hosting, by contrast, focuses on supporting websites as public meeting places and discussions among forum members. Please share your views on this.

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