Magento Open Source Pros and Cons

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 frontend of your website according to your design needs with ease.

It allows easy integration of must-have e-commerce functionalities like Google reviews, customer rewards, Bulk price request, Affiliate marketing through third-party modules.

Best part is, we can also extend and customize the functionality of these third-party modules according to our requirement.

It gives great user experience for the admin side for your e-commerce.

Overall, it is a good open source tool to develop and maintain e-commerce with minimum developer requirement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

From the point of view of performance, it is not as good to choose Magento, because many other frameworks are developed which are somewhat more optimised and performance friendly than Magento.

Magento2 is not good to choose, if someone is a fresher in development, as all the basic building code is already there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its unparalleled flexibility and customization capabilities.

Here's why:

Ultimate Customization and Control: Unlike many SaaS (Software as a Service) e-commerce platforms, Magento Open Source provides complete control over every aspect of our store. we have full access to the source code, allowing for deep modifications to fit highly specific business requirements, workflows, and unique customer experiences that simply aren't possible with more restrictive platforms. This is critical for businesses with complex catalogs, unique selling propositions, or intricate backend integrations.

Exceptional Scalability: Magento Open Source is built to scale. It can handle massive product catalogs, high traffic volumes, and significant transaction loads. This makes it an ideal choice for businesses that anticipate rapid growth or are already operating at an enterprise level. we're not likely to hit a performance ceiling with Magento, provided it's properly implemented and maintained.

Vast Extension Marketplace and Developer Ecosystem: The open-source nature fosters a massive global community of developers and a rich marketplace of extensions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

its significant complexity and the high total cost of ownership, despite being "free" software.

Here's a breakdown of the common drawbacks:

Steep Learning Curve and High Technical Requirements,Hosting Costs: Magento is resource-intensive and demands powerful, often dedicated or cloud-based hosting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its flexibility and scalability are ideal for ecommerce projects with advanced needs. It offers a high level of customization, a wide support community, and access to powerful B2B and multicommerce functionalities. Additionally, being open-source, it allows total control over the store without licensing costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The speed regarding the platform is robust, but it has some weak points: it requires a lot of server performance, its learning curve is steep, updates can be complex, and many advanced features depend on paid extensions. Additionally, official support is limited as it is open source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Magento is a robust application development framework for eCommerce store. With the help of it, developers can deliver a ready eCommerce store in a very short period. Having its robust admin panel can help its admin user to add categories, products and it's images. The admin can also configure payment and shipping methods. It's easy to integrate third-party module inside Magento. I was working as Magento eCommerce developer in emipro technologies , rajkot in 2016-2018 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In the latest version elastic search sometimes causes issues, but rest all good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Product Managment, Customization and Multi language and multi currency support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Complexity and learning curve, Slow loading and high hosting costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Magento Open source id free to use and having all the capability for any type of ecommerce business website. its feature can be extended easily by adding avalible 3rd party plugins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The main disadvantage of Magento open source is there is no support from Adobe team, and code complaxity, its difficult to learn and develop.

another disadvantage is its speed, but we can overcome if we use Magento as backend and go with any headless FE Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I just used Magento for my clients and they provide us a good feedback Magento open source is user friendly easy to integrate and also Magento is seo friendly, mobile friendly. Reporting and analytics are also very good and also they provide good security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't dislike anything regarding Magento I used they latest version and I am happy with their services.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The organization of the product catalog and the ability to manage product variations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The consumption of computational resources necessary for its operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

How it's easy to customize and easy to deal with because of the simplicity of the design Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Till now ,I don't have dislikes but it's my first year only Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With the recent launch of CIF. Commerce integration framework it has been seamless to integrate with aem and along with store integration we can easily see and review data enriched in magento. The magento now supports graphql to work which is very light weight to the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Enrichig product is tough. To enrich cross sell and up sell products it is quite complez to map same product as cross sell /up sell for one sku. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.