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Magento Open Source Overview

What is Magento Open Source?

Magento Community Edition is a free, open source e-commerce platform.

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Magento Community Edition is a free, open source e-commerce platform.


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Recent Magento Open Source Reviews

Reham F.
RF
Reham F.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Magento Open Source: Full Control for Developers Building Bespoke Stores"
Its unparalleled flexibility and customization capabilities. Here's why: Ultimate Customization and Control: Unlike many SaaS (Software as a Serv...
Aayushi S.
AS
Aayushi S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
2.5 out of 5
"Magento2 : To choose or not for your e-commerce."
Magento is a great tool to quickly set up your e-commerce online as the base for any e-commerce is already built. It allows extending the fronte...
MA
Marta A.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Daily use and agile"
Its flexibility and scalability are ideal for ecommerce projects with advanced needs. It offers a high level of customization, a wide support commu...

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Time to Implement

4 months

Return on Investment

15 months

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Magento Open Source Pros and Cons

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What do you like best about Magento Open Source?

Firstly the standard version is opensource. It supports multiple stores, multiple currencies and vendors. It can be easily integrated with 3rd party applications as well as with Google services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magento Open Source?

Till now I have not noticed anything in this opensource eCommerce platform which can be disliked. Rather than, all of the features included in this platform are very intuitive and learned in an easy way without going deep into technical aspects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Magento Open Source:

Firstly It's opensource and free. Secondly it's a bug free eCommerce platform which is continuously refining it's code through ts opensource community users, which work in redesigning and refining the codes to make this the best eCommerce platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Magento Open Source solving and how is that benefiting you?

Launching eCommerce stores, management of client and customer portfolios, managing business online and selling of local goods, products and services online to customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Magento Open Source?

Magento have feature-rich and powerfull platform, SEO friendly, faster loading, flexible content management and highly costomized.

The upsides is open source, speed and architectural stability, clean and efficent management and content management system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magento Open Source?

Not all magento extensions are available (every big update of magento result in a mass update of the third-party magento extensions)

Hight cost of enterprise version (while community is free and open-source, which makes is a perfect choise for small businesses)

Hosting (the hosting is not include to the magento platform, meaning will have to pay for ut separately) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Magento Open Source solving and how is that benefiting you?

I think magento solve the problem in terms of development time can be faster from before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hermina S.
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Ecommerce Manager
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What do you like best about Magento Open Source?

Magento has a lot of features and gives users the flexibility to customize the website are two most. Additionally, Magento has a large, solid, and mutually supportive community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magento Open Source?

For the servers side, Magento uses relatively high resources. Another thing, not all features can be used for free, spend a high cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Magento Open Source solving and how is that benefiting you?

Several brands need to be managed simultaneously, and Magento's multi-store feature solves this problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Magento Open Source?

Magento is robust and customizable. Capable of scaling and supporting a growing business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magento Open Source?

Magento might not be the right fit if you are a novice user or don't have development skills. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Magento Open Source solving and how is that benefiting you?

Magento enables sales of my customer's products. I originally started using before platforms like Shopify and

Woocommerce were available. Today I'd look at those before suggesting Magento Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

talha r.
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What do you like best about Magento Open Source?

The best thing about magento is it is opensource and provide your store perfect security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magento Open Source?

Thing that i hate to deal in magento isthe customization of modules the structure of coding is too mucn complex Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Magento Open Source solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ecommerce security and flow of data is great and the order mainting is good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amir G.
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What do you like best about Magento Open Source?

The version is more suitable for the small businesses and allows you to add the functionality. It helps you to manage multiple stores from one admin panel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magento Open Source?

Magento 2 community is full of known and new bugs with long pending pull requests Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Magento Open Source solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helping me to manage multiple stores from one admin panel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Magento Open Source?

I like how it supports large numbers of SKUs (10,000+). It's easy to create and understand categories and build out subcategories for filtering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magento Open Source?

Some changes are complex and require some higher level of skill needed to achieve what you're looking for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Magento Open Source:

It's a great platform, I would recommend building a live and dev version to test out plugins, updates before migrating them to your live site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Magento Open Source solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's solving the cookie cutter templating of eCommerce sites and benefitting us in that we can shape and mold our site to our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Magento Open Source?

With a good SI, you can achieve anything with this platform. API accessibility, comprehensive documentation, and an enormous public knowledgebase where developers help each other find the best way to achieve make all the difference Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magento Open Source?

Because it is an open source version, there are sometimes bugs that require repair that Adobe will not assist with. At times, these can be difficult to troubleshoot and repair (when they are core platform issues) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Magento Open Source solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is the ecommerce platform that best adapts to needs of many clients (and changing needs) as well as scalability. It allows the creation of custom end to end data flow and omnichannel sales management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Muhammad A.
MA
PHP Developer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Magento Open Source?

Its design for creating MVC apps is beneficial for freshers and also for experienced developers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magento Open Source?

Everyone can make development from here to use it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Magento Open Source solving and how is that benefiting you?

Magento open source is an eCommerce content management solution originally developed by various inc and presently Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jonathan G.
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What do you like best about Magento Open Source?

We can adapt the PHP Code to what we need and built our own integration. Huge developer community. Great community spirit as well. We are now using shopify for one of our stores because of total cost of ownership. Will keep Magento for larger and B2B projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magento Open Source?

Adobe Takeover uncertainty. I do not know if i should still invest in Magento. There needs to be a fork with good support. Uncertain about magento en a Headless commerce context. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Magento Open Source solving and how is that benefiting you?

Inexpensive way of building os ecommerce tool. Specially good to adapt for B2B sales online. we find enough developers that know PHP that can adapt it to our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.