I gave a presentation to the Corvallis e-Tailing Group in town on Magento eCommerce Community Edition. We used Magento to build the 300dpi web site so we have experience skinning it, adding plug-ins, get plug-ins to play nicely, and extending Magento.
More info here: Handout From Corvallis e-Tailing Magento eCommerce Presentation (http://www.proworks.com/blog/2010/03/handout-from-c…e-presentationhandout-from-corvallis-e-tailing-magento-ecommerce-presentation/)
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Magento Ecommerce Handout
1. A Developer’s View of Magento eCommerce
General Information
Magento is an open-source ecommerce web application launched on March,
2008. It was created by Varien, building on components of the Zend
Framework on PHP.
Magento Enterprise Edition, a paid for version of Magento aimed at
larger companies, was launched on April 15, 2009.
Links
Magento: http://www.magentocommerce.com
Community Edition Demo: http://demo.magentocommerce.com
Community Edition Demo Admin Panel:
http://demo-admin.magentocommerce.com/index.php/admin
Free vs. Paid: http://www.magentocommerce.com/product/compare
Local-ish Examples:
http://www.wallbedfactory.com/
http://www.300dpi.com/
Pros/Cons
Good Not Good
Robust full featured product Not a robust CMS
Can handle large operations Still bugs in under used parts of the
Default design usable out of the box software.
Pretty good selection of plug-ins Customization beyond the admin
Community version is free area (code) can get complicated.
Good attention to SEO The plug-ins can to be buggy and
Can support multiple stores within may not work if you customize
same install anything.
Good reporting Support for community version is
Time-savers like batch import and hard to find.
integration with other systems like The dev community isn't super
Google Base helpful
Most of the features you would Paid version is quite expensive
want are available in some form ($11K) & may still require you to be
(downloadable products, reviews, hosted with them.
product configurations, localization, Lots of options. Sometimes hard to
shipping options, promos, accounts, find in the myriad of configuration
etc) settings.
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