Magento Open Source Reviews & Product Details - Page 24

Magento does a lot right out of the box. Pick a theme, your payment/shipping options, load your products and you are ready to go. It is very easy to find magento expertise from the community if you need assistance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some customizations can take a long time to develop. Part of this is due to lack of documentation or the complexity of the system itself Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We can go ahead to implement our own feature and logic into existing community Edition. Only keep stick to the standard followed to override existing functionality and behavior with best practices to keep Magento installation healthy. Also there is already built-up magento extension free-paid which give various out of the box feature. Any business with good developer as assets can tailor Magento community version according to their requirement with little effort. It will helps open source community and saves lot of $ avoiding to buy a licence subscription. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its falls on slower side but it doesn't be counted as drawback. A good developer with combination of best server and other resources make them better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can be adapted for a lot of uses, community support and Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Database tables size too much growing and it doesn't alternatives developed in order to improve database size reduction Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's flexibility - it can be used for practically everything. It's Open Source, so very likely it already exists (even though it might be for a price), and if it doesn't, you can create it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's by default pretty slow and required a lot of hardware and caching to make it usable. The optimizing itself is a pretty fun challenge though, one I personally like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I loved that Magento, even the open source version, offers a lot of e-commerce features out of the box with very little effort required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Magento has a pretty steep learning curve when it comes to coding and styling a new template. You must be familiar with it's custom template structure and xml blocks.

Also Magento is known as a big memory hog so performance issues may occur if you don't choose your infrastructure correctly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Customisable in every regard.

Core functionality kept in easy to use chunks.

Very good EAV model - confusing when first use

Lots of plugins/open source tools

Development cycle is pretty decent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Complex layout/config XML

Can be slow without cache..

Can be complex for intergration into back office systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Because Magento doesn't pretend to be anything other than an ecommerce solution, it's relatively easy and quick to deploy a well-functioning ecommerce solution that can deliver and maintain an up-to-date customer experience if developed correctly. Integration toolkits for a wide range of back-office applications are available, whilst direct integration can be achieved if you need hand-off some of Magento's functionality to other applications.

In more recent times, Magento have improved what used to be a rather long-winded and incomplete update/upgrade process and iterations are now more frequent and focused. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The pricing differential between the Community and Enterprise Editions encourages many clients to choose Community and end up seriously compromising their capabilities and resilience. Probably the biggest issue is the quality variance in the developer base, where even Magento's attempts at training and validation are no guarantee of real understanding or good development practice, so you need to do your homework.

A good ongoing relationship with a specialist developer is necessary, as Magento does have plenty of hidden interdependencies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Content and product updates can be made with little to no knowledge of html and css Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The merchandising and promotions features are not very robust and leave much to be desired as one's business grows larger. We will be moving to Magento Enterprise in the next few months, which will solve many of these issues for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Magento is the most capable, scalable, and functional ecommerce platform of this generation. Magento continues to evolve as the market evolves. Customers looking to create a diverse, powerful, and functional website should consider using Magento above all else. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cost is somewhat prohibitive, but all things worth buying are expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The finished product of our client's stores built with Magento are always awesome. With a good developer, you can get an exceptional finished product. The customized sites that we have done through Magento are used by some of the most recognizable and well established brands in the world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would not recommend this platform for novices. It is a great platform for seasoned developers that will yield incredible results, but can be difficult to someone not already familiar. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.