Why choose Magento?
The main reason for which one should choose Magento opposed to other e-commerce solutions is that it's the best built solution, and its excellent architecture allows for great customization while maintaining a robust and stable platform.
"Magento is going to win the e-commerce software war, hands down. I've never seen another e-commerce platform so well architected and well designed as Magento." Jack Aboutboul, RedHat
"Magento is a robust e-commerce software application designed to be simple to customize." Inc.
Picking a well built e-commerce solution is important as one doesn't want to be locked into a solution that has no future, or a solution that is constantly failing or is impossible to extend with the features required by the business. For this reason there is a very noticeable migration of existing stores to Magento.
What is Magento?
Magento is an Open Source (OSL 3.0) e-commerce web application created by Varien and launched in 2008. It is built on the solid foundation of Zend Framework and since 2009 it also includes a paid Enterprise Edition beside the free Community Edition. Magento includes by default all the main features needed for most e-commerce websites:
- Catalog Browsing
- Product Browsing
- Checkout
- Shipping
- Payment
- Compare Products
- Customer Accounts
- Customer Reviews
- Customer Tags
- Wishlists
- Cross-Selling
- International Support
- Site Management
- Catalog Management
- Order Management
- Customer Service
- Analytics and Reporting
- Mobile Commerce
- Marketing Promotions and Tools
- Search Engine Optimization
- Google Base Integration
- Google Website Optimizer Integration
The Magento team is constantly improving Magento by releasing new features, upgrading existing features or fixing reported issues. Magento also has a strong community that develops free or paid modules available through Magento Connect.
Our experience
Debo
www.debo.roImplemented a custom built design for the store as well as modules for customized layered navigation, stock management, catalog sync, payment & shipping modules.
Today Components
www.todaycomponents.comImplemented a custom built design for the store as well as modules for customized navigation and payment module.
GoldMart
www.goldmart.com (pre-launch)Implemented a custom built design, custom shipping and payment module as well as several custom content blocks.
Our services
Although Magento is so well built, you still need a professional to customize Magento to your specific requirements. We offer to:
- design and implement a custom theme for your store
- create modules to customize the frontend functionality
- create modules for payment and shipping, new features or for overriding core functionality
- install and configure Magento
- migrate existing categories/products to the new structure
Why should you pick our services over other professionals? Because we have a good understanding of Magento and therefore our customizations are done without changing any code in the Magento core, but through creating extensions; this ensures Magento remains stable and can be updated in the future; also, we do the product migration through the Magento Core API rather than directly accessing the database, ensuring data integrity.