Magento Ecommerce
Magento is the most popular PHP shopping cart on the market today. Built on the foundations of the Zend Framework, with a target audience of small businesses and enterprise, Magento has established itself as the most flexible and robust opensource shopping cart application on the market.
Advantages of using Magento
- Fully featured – many common ecommerce features are built in.
- Very Flexible – almost all pricing structures have been catered for.
- High Popularity – reduces risk of abandonment as with some other opensource projects.
- Fully OOP compliant – making maintenance and development easier.
- Supported by Varien and Zend – meaning support and ongoing development is guaranteed.
- Built on Zend Framework – development is accelerated if you have past experience with this framework.
- High Popularity – means finding man-power for development is not too difficult.
- Provides an API – to make integration into other applications easier.
Disadvantages of using Magento
- High Development Learning Curve – due to its elaborate features, it takes a long time to get used to the magento codebase.
- Slow – over 6,000 files and lots of processing makes magento a slow application in terms of server side processing.
- High Popularity – means many attempts to exploit vulnerabilities by hackers.
- High Maintenance – Installations and upgrades are often painful and time consuming.
Get Expert Help
If you are considering using Magento as your ecommerce platform, talk to us today – we have years of experience working with Magento, and can help you setup, customise, deploy and maintain your Magento platform. For more information, or to find out how we can help you, call us today on 0203 286 8478.