Magento Commerce Reviews

"Community version is the only affordable option for a small business"

Comments: I started out with Shopify, as recommended by my IT, but I’m really thankful I moved over to Magento community version. It costs more to buildup front, but the money I put into it is mine to keep in that I pay for a module once, and not on a monthly subscription. I also have complete power over my data and can change hosting as needed. My accountant tells me there’s more resale value in a Magento site as such.
There’s a much bigger learning curve with Magento, but the sheer power, vast features, and total flexibility for outweigh any cons.

Pros: Magento is an incredibly powerful tool. I investigated all the biggies in e-commerce when making the decision which one to implement for my store and magento came out on top each time. Everything is customizable and if something isn’t in the settings, there’s literally a module for that or one can hire a dev to build a custom module.
Scalability is not at all an issue in this platform, which means you’re growing pains in the future. There’s nothing worse than putting in $100,000 of development work on a site that is obsolete in a few years.
Unlike other platforms like Shopify and Woocommerce, this option has a more professional look and is a far more robust system. It’s also less likely to be used by scammer sites (Shopify is loaded with fake sites and the company doesn’t do much to stop this fraud.)
The Magento dev community is strong and there is a lot of support online for newbies like me who have questions.

Cons: The enterprise version is insanely expensive. Not only do you pay a monthly fee, but the modules themselves cost double to three times more money than their community edition counterparts.
The enterprise version doesn’t give flexibility of hosting providers and support only goes so far until we have to hire private devs for custom work.
With both enterprise and community versions, Unless someone is well-versed in PHP, you’ll be forking out money for developers.

"Magenta: The best CMS platform for e-commerce sites"

Comments: MAgento CMS has many flaws, which must be corrected as quickly as possible. Another software like prestashop is much better than it.
You can easily interact with customers, and you can also send automatic e-mails to customers.
The customer positioning feature allows you to configure the relevant product set for each customer group.
You can integrate fraud detection tools to minimize the risk of fraud from customers or suppliers. It allows administrators to easily customize its management interface.
If you can avoid Magento, it's very good for you or your company.

Pros: The best CMS platform for e-commerce sites.
It contains huge functions. Although I don't know all its features yet, I use it often.
If you want to do something on an e-commerce website, Magento can deliver it to you. There are many free and paid extensions to extend the features.
It is very easy to write code, so you don't need to hire a programmer to use this CMS for a great customization job.

Cons: It is a frequently used platform and always vulnerable to attacks. As a result, both in-house and outsourced IT teams must perform regular security updates.
I think there is a version of Magento that has been discontinued, but for small businesses, you almost need something that can give them complex community publishing features, but it can be exploited by Magento.
In the next few years we have to decide whether to stay in Magento or move, Shopify offers a very attractive hosted version.

"Good Ecommerce Software with Powerful Interface"

Pros: Administrator- Features availability for admin is very good and if you are used of it then you can get each and every bit of data whatever you want to extract.

Cons: Biggest problem with the software is its complexity. If you are beginner then it is very difficult to understand the structure of its panel. Also plugins customisation seems to be very tricky. You have to look for many options if you want to explore this.

"Best Ecommerce Platform"

Comments: Overall, Magento is a very good platform for me to start immediately an Ecommerce site. I have many clients and i have done very good design works for them over Magento. Easily add features according to client specification, very high secure and fast site.

Pros: Magento is a very good platform to make eCommerce sites easily and a lot of features inside it. Easily create a layout, adding multiple languages, adding manual codes easily. Apart from that Magento is a free platform to install it to server and start a website easily. Magento is a highly secure and fast loading site. Easy SEO platform.

Cons: Magento is a very good platform for Pro-Magento persons. But if you are a new person and plan to start magento then it'll take more time to know about the features inside it.

"For Large Scale Businesses"

Comments: Overall, We recommend Magento as a remarkable choice for E-commerce especially for those companies whose sales are beyond $1-2 million. Magento provides an excellent platform for businessmen. Moreover, Magento allows its users to automatically update their E-commerce websites and offers companies with solutions and an extensive support network.

Pros: Opportunities: Magento provides a variety of opportunities for E-commerce in a single dashboard. It is equipped with an excellent Business to Business portal and management system, Additionally, it can store views which helps countries to manage all of their inventory. Such valuable information helps them to improve their catalogs and marketing in the future. Catalog: Magento provides an excellent platform when it comes to adding up a large number of items and products and piling it together for any storefront website. Also, it provides developers with high customizations and designing capabilities which makes their catalog even more attractive and fascinating for their customers.

Cons: Charges: No doubt Magento is great software but nothing comes for free, some of the features offered by Magento do not come for free and a subscription is required to gain access to them which seems to be pretty hefty unless the business is running successfully. Additionally, to gain access to the dedicated servers, the users have to pay a sturdy amount. Non-User Friendly: Magento is non-user friendly at times as it receives constant updates that create problems with the extensions and custom code s you have on the site. Additionally, when it comes to dealing with items in bulk Magento tends to lag and makes the uploading and converting a very slow process.

"Complicated But Can't Be Beat"

Comments: I began using Magento over 15 years ago, in one of their earliest versions, when I had outgrown some of the boxed ASP.net solutions available at the time. The open source nature of the software is absolutely amazing, and it has been fun to watch it expand over all these years. Today I am running 6 different websites with different versions of Magento, and I've built many more than that, most of which are still in use. Magento makes it easy to create and deploy affordable eCommerce solutions that scale and grow with the customer, even if it is a bit tricky to learn for beginners.

Pros: Magento is easily the most extensive and full-featured piece of open-source eCommerce out there. Once you understand the layout, you'll find that it is very intuitive and flows perfectly. What really shines for me for Magento is all the different options available out there. Not only are there open source versions you can host and manage yourself, but you can pay for the enterprise versions too. There is basically a plug-in or module available at this point for anything you need to accomplish, along with thousands of professionals out there that can help if you get in a jam. Best of all, Magento easily grows with you and is simple to harness and hold back features from, any easy to unchain it and grow with you.

Cons: It took me a good bit of time to learn AND get comfortable with this software and how it works, which was a bit of a pain, so this software isn't for the faint of heart or a weekend warrior shop keeper who doesn't have extensive knowledge of HTML, CSS, PHP, etc.

"Can do it with Magento"

Comments: it has a steep learning curve. but once you got it right, it has a lot of nice features which turns to a higher conversion-rate.

Pros: The Endless Possibilities thanks to the programming freedom given bij the Magento cms. Robust system

Cons: the EOL (End Of Life) of Magento 1, and the migration to Magento 2. it's a though one to get it done properly.

"Free e-commerce platform to boost your business capabilities"

Comments: You can interact with your customers and clients easily as well as you can send automated emails as reminders for your customers to proceed with their purchasing details, or their shipment status, etc. The customer targeting feature lets you configure relevant sets of products to each segment of customers. You can integrate with fraud detection tools to minimize the chances of fraudulent customer or vendor behaviors. It allows admins to personalize their management interface for their convenience.

Pros: With help of this platform, you can build your innovative businesses through e-commerce websites and provide your customers with enhanced shopping experiences. You can implement customer segmentation to serve each client accordingly and helps in providing personalized shopping experiences to your customers. It allows you to specify prices for your different product categories and you can customize prices and promotions with different discount rates. You cand add different shipping and payment methods.

Cons: Launching projects on this platform seems to be very slow. Magento’s renewal costs may be expensive for smaller companies. It is resource intensive and you are required to have a heavier server to deploy and run this program. Sometimes it can be buggy with payment handles and sales tracking, otherwise, if you have to run non complex and smaller businesses, you probably will not face any of such issues with this software.

"Magento - great features"

Comments: My experience with Magento was a bit tough during the learning process but after that it has been awesome. I would always recommend Magento.

Pros: First, I want to say Magenti is not as easy as shopify but with a little bit of learning, I was able to handle it. Magento is an excellent store building platform with great features and customizations.
I was able to download Magento open source for free. I love the fact that they have an excellent active global community that's ready to thrash any problem. Did I say this software made for any type of business, products or services.

Cons: Free but I needed to pay for hosting, domain, add ons, payment processing etc. If you want great specs and features then you've to pay.

"Community 2.0 version is the way to go!"

Comments: We've been with Magento for 10 years now and we do not see a reason to go to any other platform as most are subscription based which is not so great for you.

Pros: Great platform to built your Ecommerce website. If you have programming knowledge you are all set! If not, you can hire a Magento Developer to get exactly what you want out of your website. Lots of extensions to customize the user and backend experience. V2.0 has made the backend experience on par with other platforms.

Cons: You need to know how to code to get a well functioning website. It is not as easy as shopify to setup and get running. However there are many developers who you can hire via upwork and other freelance websites.

"Great software, but needs a lot of effort to make it work well"

Comments: A good working e-commerce website based on open source code.

Pros: There is an opens source version that may work all right. I am not a developer and neither a technician and I could set it up by myself. Even when it takes hard work. There are plany of extensions to give your site the look and feel you want. And works well with multi language sites.

Cons: It is recommended for shops that has more than 1 million dollars of yearly revenue. After using it for some years, I see why. I think it can be fine for shops that sell more than 200.000 dollars per year. But it may need to have a developer working on at least some hours per week.

"Expensive, There Are Better Options Out There"

Comments: This platform is not for first-timers. You have to be very detailed on what you want, and be very aware of the costs involved. It's not a good platform for a small ecomm team to manage on a day to day basis.

Pros: This platform is super customizable, which is a big deal for a fashion brand who is very stringent on their look and feel.

Cons: The time and money it takes to make changes is much more than, say, Shopify. You also have to factor in costs of server performance, which is difficult if you are trying to grow a business and need to forecast traffic in order to make sure your site does not crash during a rush.

"Full display control"

Pros: When I make a website on Magento, I know for sure - how I arranged the elements on the page, so they will be displayed to all users. It sounds a little silly, but only if I have not tried to create my own site. Many designers, especially the free ones, have a display problem, so I'm glad that everything is displayed correctly in Magento, as intended by our developers.

Cons: Out of the box, a certain number of payment systems are available for connection. To add my own payment systems, I need to develop modules myself.

"One of the best E-Commerce suite"

Comments: Working with Magento is quite easy, and simple to manage.

Pros: Magento is a very powerful web application to create e-commerce store, with ease, it's highly customizable, it has a quite big community, many plugins, themes to make your store as complete as you need it.

Cons: The non-community version is quite expensive and its no the best for small, medium companies. Also, the themes and extensions are quite pricey compared to others.

"Very powerful software, with some complications"

Comments: A very functional website that caters for complex product scenarios

Pros: Magento is a very powerful piece of software that allows web developers to create almost any possibility. We have developed some very complex products on our website that require formulas to calculate live pricing.

Cons: For admin entry and non-developers Magento can be very clunky and hard to work with. Unlike some rivals that are set up for ease of use. Magento needs developer background and knowledge of coding.

"The best customizable ecommerce solution"

Pros: The most customizable software solution for all your ecommerce needs. It can scale really quickly, it accept a lot if integrations with api's and you can customize all the processes and needs of your online shop, regardless of the products you sell, being them virtual or phisical.

Cons: It needs a great team to set it up, and also to maintain it's functionality on a daily bases. But in order to achieve great performanses you need a good start

"Excellent Ecommerce Platfrom"

Comments: While its competitors may be "easier" to use, I find Magento to be much more robust and professional. Definitely give Magento a look if you or your ORG are in the look for an upgrade.

Pros: I like the fact that updates are less intrusive than WooCommerce and other competitors. Its also a much more robust option than its competitors

Cons: The only downside I've discovered is the plugin list is thin and a little on the expensive side compared to its competitors.

"Incredibly powerful platform for big e-commerce, but takes significant hosting resources to run"

Pros: Magento is very functional, with ever possible iteration and variation on an e-commerce style you can imagine. Bundled products, individual products linked and recommended together, alternative sizes / colors / options, etc. No problem. Setting sales up in advance with dates and times set for the sale to start and stop. Bulk editing / uploading of products or product images. Customize the checkout process. Anything you can think to modify or do differently, Magento can do that.

Cons: It's a bit of a learning curve to find your way around and understand how things work, but that's to be expected with something so powerful. The worst part is probably not with Magento directly, but with the hosting companies available. It takes a ton of hosting resources and a lot of hosting sites out there will tout themselves as being capable or even excellent for Magento hosting, but most are not. They are relying on the customer to use Magento for a small-ish store, in which case it might work. But once you start uploading hundreds or thousands of products, it slows to a crawl and is completely unworkable.

"Best Ecommerce platform"

Comments: Feature rich and smooth support service. I am happy that I chose this platform for my site.

Pros: Meetanshi is a Magento development company. I highly recommend Magento to E-commerce store owners. The ever helpful community and the rich features is surely going to boost your E-commerce store

Cons: As Magento 1 eol is nearing, you'll have to migrate to the latest Magento 2 which can be a huge task!

"Only committed Adobe users should buy this software"

Comments: We were on Magento 1 and when it came time to upgrade, we realized that everything would have to be rewritten for M2. So, we decided to abandon Magento entirely and will save at least $8,000 month and probably $100k per year in dev fees. We'll be going with BigCommerce from now on.

Pros: Magento has tons of features
A huge amount of apps to purchase
Many qualified developers to contract with
Standard features like page builders now come with it
Rock-solid security

Cons: Magento is ridiculously expensive. Not just for the licensing of the Enterprise version, but for the apps, the developers and the entire ecosystem. You aren't getting the true value of open source any more. The only way Magento makes sense is if you are a part of the Adobe ecosystem and need to rely on the integrations that Adobe will (eventually--not fully done) provide.

"Best sales CRM"

Comments: Learning to use it, so we create new stores for our customers.

Pros: Beautiful websites, all our customer love them and are happy to use every single design, implementations are overfull and we love to develop themes.

Cons: Lot of bugs in every new release, but version 2.0 its great , besides that we manage all the issues and learn to distribute in all servers.

"Best e-commerce CMS I've used and would highly recommend it"

Pros: Straight forward easy to install and configure with a rich and diverse extensions to better improve your websites. It has countless themes and extensions that make your design work to produce the exact client requirements without fail.
I love the documentation and online support as you get solutions almost all the time.

Cons: In terms of cost, it's a bit expensive as compared to other CMS platforms, as the best extensions need to be purchased but all this can be billed to the client.

"Best product for E-commerce platform"

Pros: Magento is highly used in this time - our company using this product
Good thing is that It's free to download, also customization and of course very good features as well.

Cons: For Magento developing we required Developer skill here
and there is no specific Customer support (Of course we can find resolution of any issue on internet)

"Scale and prospects"

Pros: A characteristic feature of the platform is the presence of a large number of built-in functions and the timely release of updates; there is access to HTML and PHP code, which allows you to easily adjust all parameters to suit your needs. In fact, if necessary, I can personally edit the program code and add the missing functionality. Of course, if you have no programming skills, it will be practically impossible to correct or edit the functionality.

Cons: The application is quite demanding on computer resources, so it makes no sense to use to create a simple site. There is no direct interaction with 1C, but there is an extension that eliminates this problem.

"Long Term Happy Customer"

Pros: Easily customisable open source platform. Easy to integrate all of our desired features and update design. We have been using Magento 1 for years and currently prepping for the transition to Magento 2.

Cons: Very few cons although we have experienced some limitations with customising the invoice process.