Magento
A high feature rich open source shopping cart application with everything an online shop could ever desire for.
The features of Magneto include:
Catalogue Browsing
Under this we can find favor because it includes:
- Products that have been viewed very recently
- Comparison between various products
- Reviews about certain products
- Format/grid list of products
- Product tags through filter among others in this category.
Catalogue Management
In this we find:
- Low inventory alerts fed by RSS
- Rewriting and redirecting of search results
- Support of special prices and advanced pricing rules
- Product type, tax rates per location and customer group
- Personalized customer products e.g. Monogramming
- Product virtualization
- Products batched updates in admin panel among many others.
Product Browsing
In this category we find:
- Review of products
- Availability of stock
- Wish list additional
- Selection of optional products
- Wide view of grouped products
- Relation of products/products which are related etc
Customer Account
This includes the following:
- Account re-orders
- Items ordered recently unlimited address book
- Able wish list to add comments
- Submission of product reviews
- Submission of product tags
- Status order and history among many more.
Site Management
Under this we can find:
- Localization support
- Multiple currency support
- Informational pages from content management system
- 100% fully customizable designs using templates
- Flexibility of tax rate management with support of US and international markets
- Upgrade just one click
- Integration between Magento and any third party application through Web Services as API etc
Order Management
This includes:
- Ability to create re-orders for customers from administration panel
- Orders through Email notifications
- Packing of slips and printing of invoices
- New feed of orders through RSS
- Admin panel enables you to view, create, edit and fulfill orders etc
Shipping
Mostly it’s stressing and mounts pressure on us. Maybe the following can actually help who wouldn’t want some of them:
- Shipping made free of charge
- Number of items and destinations are tabled
- One order can actually ship to various addresses
- Rates for product sub-totals and destinations are tabled
- Shipping rates per item and per order are fast etc
Checkout
It contains:
- Acceptance of gift messages per order and item
- Non-guest checkout account
- An option to create account at the beginning of checkout
- Usage of address book to checkout with account
- Configurable expiration time for saved shopping carts
Search Engine Optimization
This entails the following:
- Engine search 100% friendly
- Popular auto-generated search terms page
- Full control of URL rewrites
- Google map site
- Map site auto-generated for onsite display
Everything has its merits and demerits no matter how good or how nice it looks or sounds
It takes whole lot of time before we see or notice the demerits than how fast we notice the advantages and the use of anything. It’s discouraging and heart breaking to know that. We have seen some of the features of Magento how about we take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of it all.
Advantages /Merits
Magento has the following favorable advantages:
- Capability to multi-storing meaning you can store up anything to any amount.
- Nice template default-you can put your work on any template without changing the appearance/look of it.
- The company that backs the cart is very active in updating the code and fixing bugs meaning you don’t have to pay someone to do it for you hence saving any costs.
Demerits
Since everything has its advantages Magento has the following disadvantages:
- More customization time is required since heavily layered and overly complicated coding style takes a whole bunch of precious time more than other carts. More patience is also required to learn and do customizations.
- Limited technical documentation
- Difficulty in customizing and modifying programming of magento beyond doing graphical changes
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