Open Source eCommerce and Magento - By: adw

Online stores are quickly becoming as important as traditional stores. So it's small surprise that the software that powers them is also becoming more powerful. Magento is a important leader in the ecommerce area.

Free, open source and based on the popular combination of PHP and MySQL, Magento provides a open source platform for ecommerce websites. Since it uses the widespread PHP and Mysql platform, Magento should be strong considered when researching possible software for an ecommerce website. Like all ecommerce software, Mangeto offers the usual features like product categories, customer accounts, shopping carts and product search. Magento covers all the necessary functionality that all decent ecommerce application should have - and more!

But Magento also supports a variety of more innovative features as well including reports on abandoned customer shopping carts, support for multiple languages and currencies, and one-click system upgrades. With such a wide array of powerful choice for anyone looking to create an online store. With its impressive features and stability Magento is quickly becoming one of the of the most popular ecommerce platforms on the web!

Varien, the creators of Magento recently announced the release of their top of the line product, the Magento Enterprise Edition. The commercially licensed Enterprise Edition is targeted towards larger ecommerce sites. This new version also includes a indemnification and a warranty.

Like all complex online applications, Magento requires a good web host. Magento is not a trivial application to set up properly. Choosing an experienced web host is crucial to the success of a Magento-based online store. A list of approved hosting companies is on the Magento website. Like with all web hosting decisions be sure that your potential web host will both support Magento as well as ensure the other services that are essential to the success of any professional website - things like regular backups are all important whether your site runs on Magento or not!

So whether you're investigating ecommerce software for an existing website or a new project - Magento should certainly be on your list of applications to look into!

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