magento?
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- dress-up
anyone have any experience with the open-source e-commerce app Magento? I came across it while looking for an off the shelf e-commerce tool for selling a line of housewares that my wife is trying to put together. It looks extremely nice.
I have used oscommerce in the past for projects, but this looks way better. Anyone know anything about it?
- dress-up0
http://www.magentocommerce.com
Sorry, I should have included that.
- Testing it out now on a store. Not going live with it until it's out of beta.tparsons
- madirish0
no, but i seriously considered it recently for a large e-comm project i am doing. it was only in beta, so i did not want to go for it.
- Schmeddy0
Still in Beta and looks promising. I use Oscommerce and i just might go to Magento when it's 1.0
- dress-up0
yeah, I'm pretty psyched about it for my wifes thing. It'll give me a chance to get into it without wasting billable hours... Her time line is extremely long, so I think I'm gonna give it a go.
- subimage0
Magento looks great, except I loathe PHP. I wrote my own open source app in RoR. Probalby harder to install though ;)
- meffid0
http://weblog.mediatemple.net/we…
Looks really nice
- typotron0
the last time i saw magneto he was hurling a lamp post at me... thank god for super speed.
- acee0
It's been 4 months now... any recent feedback on Magento?
- idonahue0
we're currently developing a site using magento. so far it seems pretty great. very extensive functionality...works for small stores (like the one we're building for) but can scale to be used for large online retailers. also fully manageable so the client can take over once the site is delivered.
from a designer's standpoint it's easy to get in and work with the stylesheets. i have yet to play with changing the structure of the basic template but there are plenty of resources in the magento community that should help when i'm ready.
this is my first experience working with any sort of open-source e-commerce platform but i would recommend it.
- jamble0
I've looked at it for a client who's currently got about 500 products in a range of categories and quite a complex pricing system and it looks more like a full on, enterprise level app to be honest.
It's nicely done though but I did find it required a lot of server power to run although this was a couple of months back.
In the end I went for cubecart (www.cubecart.com) because it's quite nicely put together and the templating system is a piece of piss to customise.
Magento support also seems a little slower, possibly because it's a smaller, newer community and they make their money charging for official support (because the software is free) so beware of that if you're expecting any sort of complications while building your store.