Magento Commerce Review
07-02-2011
Recommendation: Magento Commerce is a powerful shopping cart, but it comes at a steep price. First, if you are going to process credit cards in your store, you will need the Professional or Enterprise edition to obtain PA-DSS compliance. In addition, the smallest VPS server I would use for Magento is 2GB, which runs $265 per month. Also, customizing Magento is more expensive than any other system. You must keep these extra expenses in mind if you plan to expand your store and upgrade to Professional or Enterprise in the future. We currently host clients who are running the free Magento Community edition on a 2GB server combined with a gateway-served payment page, such as Authorize.net SIM, to avoid PA-DSS complications. It works well for them so far but there is always a risk of a major software failure and there is no developers support included with a Community edition.
- PA-DSS compliant with Magento Payment Bridge
- Multilingual and multiple currencies system
- Orders can be shipped to multiple addresses
- Generate as many invoices, shipments and credit memos per order as needed to allow for split fulfillment
- Multiple shipments per order
- Control multiple websites and stores from one administration panel
- A/B and multivariate testing
- Real time shipping rates system by UPS, FedEx, USPS and DHL
- Multiple staff accounts with permissions management
- Hundreds of third party add-ons available
- Major upgrade cost is average to high
- Customization cost is average to high
More Features: www.magentocommerce.com/images/uploads/magento-feature-list.pdf
Price: Two commercial pricing options are available with this software
- The Magento Professional costs $2,995/year.
- The Magento Enterprise, which includes private club sales, gift registries and staff permissions, is $12,990/year.
Recommendation: Magento Commerce is a powerful shopping cart, but it comes at a steep price. First, if you are going to process credit cards in your store, you will need the Professional or Enterprise edition to obtain PA-DSS compliance. In addition, the smallest VPS server I would use for Magento is 2GB, which runs $265 per month. Also, customizing Magento is more expensive than any other system. You must keep these extra expenses in mind if you plan to expand your store and upgrade to Professional or Enterprise in the future. We currently host clients who are running the free Magento Community edition on a 2GB server combined with a gateway-served payment page, such as Authorize.net SIM, to avoid PA-DSS complications. It works well for them so far but there is always a risk of a major software failure and there is no developers support included with a Community edition.
Categories: Shopping Carts
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