Magento is the most popular ecommerce platform in the world, with both small retailers and large companies making use of its purpose-built ecommerce functionality. Usually, when businesses are considering moving to a new web platform or redesigning their website, the best thing to do is look at their competitors’ websites and other relevant businesses with great websites.
Magento is undeniably flexible and scalable but its long list of features comes at a cost. In order to unlock its potential, you will need a skilled developer/designer (or team of developers) to set up, maintain, and update your store. Depending on how you get the product delivered, you also may be on the hook for hosting and platform security costs. Your business and your brand are unique. You need to look for an ecommerce platform that has the flexibility and extensibility to work for your product, customer, and business needs. It also needs to be able to grow with your business.
One of the major selling points of Magento is its flexibility. You have complete control to mold the platform to what you need (with all the costs those changes entail). However on Magento, the more you customize the more expensive and harder your store is to manage and maintain. It’s possible to get the same extensibility through a SaaS platform, provided you choose one like BigCommerce that is set up with enterprise-class integrations, flexible APIs and webhooks. These features will enable you to customize your platform for selling online with a great deal of flexibility, even though you don’t have access to the source code.
Magento Software is self-hosted on-premise or cloud-hosted.Magento Payment Integrations are Amazon Payments, multiple PayPal gateways, Authorize.net, and Google Checkout integrations. The other payment integrations require custom configurations. Magento Mobile features include pre-integrated mobile interface uses HTML5 technology and supports iPhone, Android and Mobile Opera browsers with a number of features to support positive mobile UX including pinch, multi-touch and scaling images, easy swipe between product images, and zoom capabilities. Magento SEO features includes google site map creation and site map auto generation, SEO-friendly URLs with rewrite control, Metadata editable at both product and category levels and popular search terms page that’s auto-generated.
Magento is user friendly E-commerce software. It is compatible with smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. Magento provides multiple payment options, so every visitor can make payment based on their preferred payment gateway. It has many extensions which support the development of an online store.
Magento uses larger disk space and memory and takes longer time to build the customized functionality. Magento is very slow compared to other E-commerce sites. Magento needs proper hosting environment. If the hosting environment is improper, the user can face many problems.
We, at Emstell technologies, provide Magento shopping cart development along with the overall management of e-commerce platforms at an affordable value. We provide top-most e-commerce solutions for online merchandisers via our Magento web development wing. Have a chat with us to know more about how to set up the Magento e-commerce platform for your online businesses.
