Magento vs Shopify
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- clearThoughts
Any thoughts? Is Magento still the same nightmare?
I have used Shopify before and found it amazing. Just looking at alternatives for a new project.
- Nightshade0
My research says to use Magento only for websites that need it - eg large, complex e-commerce stores. It can be a headache to set up and doesn't work well on shared hosting, dedicated is best, but then you have extra expense of that.
I've used Shopify for one project, and liked the flexibility the themeing system gives to customise the look. However because it's hosted remotely, there's only so much editing you can do, and some of the features of Shopify are limited. So it only makes sense for simple/small e-commerce sites.
For sites between the two where I need more features than Shopify but without the headaches of Magento I've used CubeCart in the past successfully, though it's not free- around £120. I know there are others out there too - a friend uses PrestaShop.
- vaxorcist0
I was amazed at how easy and how pretty good the woocommerce themes for wordpress were.... In a couple of days a friend and I were able to setup an e-commerce site that a few years ago we'd have used something more "official" and complex.... like, when we checked out Magento but found it too resource hogging..... so don't turn away from "simpler" solutions, they might have "grown up" a bit in time...
- you sound like a WP salesman... was it that good?clearThoughts
- not "that amazing" but better than I expected, and we wasted lots of time with magento a while agovaxorcist
- Centigrade0
LEMONSTAND
- Centigrade0
I've used WPEC for wordpress and it's finiky to say the least. Good for small simple sites though.
- i_monk0
Magento by himself or with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants?
- bulletfactory0
I read this as Magneto as well - the thread was more awesome.
He would just use his mind powers to swipe the CC magnetic strip - no checkout flow necessary!
- clearThoughts0
I know of sites that use Wordpress and Magento together as well. Not sure how smooth that combination is.
Wordpress has it's advantages but it is slow as fucking hell.
- on some hosts, it's much slower than others, even for the same load... db speed and server RAM mattervaxorcist
- spot130
If your talking about Magento Go vs. Shopify then I'd say neither. Lemonstand is a better option than both. Magento Community is a huge cow and unless you have a reason other than ecommerce to use it, I would steer clear of it.
- vaxorcist0
When I think of Magento, I'm reminded of a quote...
A complex system that works well almost always started out as a simple system that worked well.
A complex system that's a pig usually started out as a complex design, rather than a slow progression from a simple core.
- detritus0
I think I've finally made Prestashop my bitch, at least in templating terms - I still hate it though, and wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
If there's one absolute truth in this world - it's that the French make shit software,
- rocketrichard0
LemonStand all the way. Don't think about it. Just do it. haha
As a developer, LS beats everything hands down. It's missing a few things like localization, but the ability to bend itself to almost any situation with just a little elbow grease is amazing. I use it for all my eComm projects and I'm really trying to get into ONLY doing eCommerce projects solely because I love working with it.
- you work for Lemonstand?Milan
- I'm a freelancer. So, nope.rocketrichard