Magento Open Source Pros and Cons

What do you like best about Magento Open Source?

Magento's biggest pro is it is open source, has a large help community and lots of examples available. It's open source architecture allows for a great deal of customization as needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magento Open Source?

The same open source nature of Magento also means there can be a lot of code conflicts from poor implementations of code, particularly as the number of third party modules used on a store increases, and lots of old examples from outdated documentation. However, with proper attention to detail Magento is a very powerful platform for an eCommerce site. I have not tested Magento 2 extensively to know if some of these issues are better in the new version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Magento Open Source?

Tons of Extensions

Open Source

Stock Management

Inventory Management

Order Management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magento Open Source?

The inventory management and orders management should be developed more instead of installing extensions to avoid the mid-quality handling for these two features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Magento Open Source?

Its stable, and scalable, and it has many options to configure.... the best if you want a complete solution!... and its open source!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magento Open Source?

like it has many functionalities would be a little hard too understand, but is very usefull Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Magento Open Source?

Magento is delivered as a fully functional webcart from the time you install it on your webhost. We were able to launch our first Magento store with very little engineering time, and the multitude of themes, extensions, and modules make it an extremely robust ecommerce solution. As an open source solution, you have full access to the codebase which is great for customizing the functionality of your site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magento Open Source?

Unfortunately, the extensible nature of the platform leaves you vulnerable to module/extension incompatibilities and version lock when an new Magento version is released. You definitely want to have a Magento developer handy or be comfortable working with PHP and mySQL yourself to have long-term success with this platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Magento Open Source?

Ease of use - I thought Magento was very easy to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magento Open Source?

Magento often runs slow - we were always told it was a network issue, not magento itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Magento Open Source?

Magento is a free eCommerce platform. It uses open source technologies and programming languages. The benefits of the open source are Reliability and stability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magento Open Source?

started this project after spending a few weeks struggling to find out which is the best eCommerce platform for myself as learning the platform itself is slow as I found little documentation help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Magento Open Source?

Overall a great solution for ecommerce. And out of the open source options the clear winner.

It is big but it has the most features you would need for a company, big or small. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magento Open Source?

The size, unoptimized code, hard to use templates engine and having to buy some extensions to get some basic functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Magento Open Source?

I like that it's open source and extremely customizable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magento Open Source?

You need experts to implement the solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Magento Open Source?

The most importants features that you could like are the products management with a large selection of typologies, attributes, pricings and correlations, perfect for clothings and elettronicals products and the user experience is given by the frontend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magento Open Source?

The platform lack of a CRM module and the multi store capability isn't really easy to understand and to handle expecially if you need to assign specific prices for each country or zone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Magento Open Source?

Magento 1.x, 2.x as e-commerce serves well for an open source code community. Having PHP as primary programming language, Magento brings in excellent traction to developers for innovation & business.

Magento ecosystem caters well for the startup to mid-size e-commerce companies by providing out of box setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magento Open Source?

Magento doesn't have high-end e-commerce companies as partners.

Magento plugin system works great but when it comes to PCI audit it is vulnerable to have sensitive data.

Don't have modern Data analytics support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.