Magento is a popular shopping cart script that allows to setup from simple to complex online stores. If you need simple stores, maybe there are better free alternatives such as osCommerce, but for complex ones, with many options and advanced features, this may be the best choice.
Magento is now owned by popular eBay company. This product is offered in 3 editions:
- Magento Go: hosted on their servers, good for small stores, pay for support
- Magento Community Edition: self hosted and free, you will manage the script, good for tech users, no support
- Magento Enterprise Edition: most advanced, ideal for large companies, you need to pay for additional features, full support
Script is written in PHP and is based on Zend Framework.
This product has a large number of users due its big advantages of customizations, reliable for big sites and large companies (if your store will be bigger, for sure Magento still will be your solution). All modern features that an online store may have, are present in this tool too. Add and edit categories, products, add images, add different attributes for products, add filters, set multiple options for shipping or payments and more.
