Magento - Open Source E-Commerce Platform.

[unni]

Magento is a feature-rich eCommerce platform built on open-source technology that provides online merchants with unprecedented flexibility and control over the look, content and functionality of their eCommerce store.

Magento’s intuitive administration interface features
powerful marketing,
search engine optimization.

The catalog-management tools to give merchants the power to create sites that are tailored to their unique business needs.

Designed to be completely scalable and backed by support network,

Magento offers the ultimate eCommerce solution.

can see detailed feature list here http://www.magentocommerce.com/product/features

[DJ]

Do we have a comparison chart anywhere with Magento to XCart and even WordPress eCommerce? Would be real interesting!

[silvester]

The link provides much information regarding Magento vs Xcart.

[jondyer]

Dont forget features are great...... but from an IM perspective SEO friendly and analytics tracking (Magento has an Google Analytics API plugin) are top priorities!

Jon

[unni]

As fas as concerning the Internet marketting, Magento Commerce is certainly an “SEO-friendly” shopping cart.

Yoast has even gone so far as to creating a beginner’s SEO guide for Magento which does a great job of covering some of the basic setup points for those setting up a Magento store that might not be attune to some of the intricacies with SEO on an eCommerce platform.

for details please follow here http://yoast.com/articles/magento-seo/ and http://www.blueacorn.com/magento-blog/m ... velopment/

[elan]

Magento is certainly a “SEO-friendly” shopping cart. But if you have same products under multiple category, its other way around. No permanent solution to fix the duplciate URLs generating for same product.

I think I'll be able to come up with comparison chat with magento & X-cart. You can expect soon.

[DJ]

Would be interested in seeing what our own opinion is. Nice find on the comparison Sly but it is likely a bit off due to the fact its posted on XCARTS site.

[douglas]

Very interesting that we people are more concentrating on ecommerce and shopping cart. is one useful link to evaluate the advantages.

[jondyer]

Another item to throw into the evaluation process for shopping carts is plans for PCI compliance. Of course these major cart builders should have a strategy on this with the regulations that are being introduce between now and 2012.

Cheers,
Jon

[DJ]

Had a great talk with the developers of Interspire Shopping Cart today and this is the one we want to take for a test drive. They tell me it kills xcart in features and also that they are looking for strategic partners that specialize in deploying this solution.

Please have a look guys! Do a test and let me know the features!

http://www.interspire.com/shoppingcart/compare.php

[chrisstolz]

I have a friend who uses it and LOVES it. When I was managing this product, I was using LiteCommerce (which is XCart). We later switched over to ZenCart and finally, this guy bought the product line from the company and is now using Magento. Having experienced all 3 carts with the same product line, he says Magento is miles above the others and took him 5 hours to set everything up and get all the products in. (He used a standard template he picked up as he is not a web designer). This is his site in action:

http://www.waltwingfield.com

[C-Note]

Although magento had some pretty good features, and easy to use..

As elan mentioned there are duplicate content issues in the programming, that the developers refuse to acknowledge and fix.

So, from an SEO perspective it gets a big thumbs down from me.

[DJ]

Guys please make special note that I added INTERSPIRE to this forum as an option that should be looked at NOT Magento.

http://www.interspire.com/shoppingcart/compare.php