Magento is a most popular CMS available to build Shopping Cart now. Magento is a CMS based on PHP. It is No. 1 choice to build shopping cart. Magento has many unique features not present in other CMS's. Magento is most suitable for small, medium and large businesses. Magento was created by Varien Inc. And after that it sold to Ebay. Magento is very flexible and highly customizable. It is highly search engine friendly. Magento is available in three different editions. There are listed below.
1) Magento Community Edition
Magento Community Edition is available absolutely free. It has basic features available to create excellent shopping cart.
2) Magento Enterprise Edition
Magento Enterprise Edition is paid Edition from Magento. Magento Enterprise Edition has more powerful features and topnotch functionality. It is most suitable for large enterprises with support in integration and with different functions. It costs approximately $17000 per year.
3) Magento Go
Magento Go is a Ecommerce platform based on cloud, It includes web hosting by Magento. It supports small businesses and has many modules which are built in. Magento is discontinuing Magento Go which is made for small and medium sized online retailers. There are more than 12,000 clients for Magento Go. Magento Go will be discontinued from February 2, 2015.
Advantages of Magento
Magento has a powerful architecture. Magento provides numerous extensions. By using Magento you can build fabulous Shopping Cart. It offers best themes for Ecommerce websites. Magento provides innovative and creative features like multiple languages, multiple currencies, multiple locations and much more. Magento has very user friendly admin and you can operate back-end with ease. It's unique features offers best shopping cart management and superb navigation.
Magento has vast community of programmers so any help needed comes instantly. Magento supports Payment methods such as Web Payment Pro, Pay Pal Express and more. Magento is mobile compatible and friendly. It is very secure and safe. It has advance SEO features that can bring more traffic to the website. There are numerous modules are available for excellent customization of your online store that can generate more profit for your business.
