Magento with Magento mods is the most powerful engine for your bussiness.
Magento platform is feature rich and one of the most customizable shopping cart solution ever. It is really amazing platform for your online business. No matter what you are selling or what service you are offering, Magento E-commerce engine will bring to your business new step and will help you to sell more and more. Magento out of the box have lots of cool and powerful options that make it one of the best shopping cart solution.
There are more than 4,000 Magento extensions
There are 3 Magento editions:
- Community edition is totally free of charge. You can download it from Magento official home page, install it on your server and open your store.
- Professional Edition starts at $2,995 per year. It differs from community edition by the following features:
1) PCI Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) Compliant
2) Reward Points System
3) Gift Certificates/Cards (Physical and Virtual)
4) Strong Data Encryption
5) Customer Store Credits
You can buy it at Magento official site.
- Enterprise Edition starts at $12,990 per year license.It has many additional features. The main differences are:
1) CMS+ (Enhanced Content Management System)
2) Private (Club) Sales including Events, Invitations and Site access permissions
3) Highly Tuned Page Performance with Full Page Caching
Thus, these 3 Magento editions gives you the whole control on what you need.
No doubt, that Magento platform by default is not perfect platform and has problems or disadvantages. But there are more than 4,000 free and paid Magento extensions which changes these issues and improves Magento’s disadvantages. Magento extensions have been become Magento part.
Magento Extensions
More than 4,000 various modules are added to Magento Connect. It gives you amazing possibility to extend Magento standard functionality and offer your visitors really enjoyable shopping. Below some extensions that are worth mentioning are described.
Starting your own online store you should be aware about Magento optimization role. If you want to sell online, you need to be in search engine TOP to be found by your potential customers. It’s obvious thing. Magento is not good enough in regards of SEO. It has some problems that won’t help you to raise to desired TOPs. There are some nice SEO modules which can fix these issues but one of them should be mentioned first.
MageWorx’ SEO Suite Enterprise extension for Magento platform. It really does what it’s written in its description. It fixes almost all Magento default search engine optimization issues and transforms your site into well-optimized and as a result well-ranked store. This extension solves duplicate content problem by using canonical tag. It also makes HTML sitemap fully seo and user friendly. It adds some improvements to XML sitemap file. It transforms tags, reviews, RSS fees and layered navigation URLs into seo-friendly URLs. Finally it allows creating product title and URL templates that gives you powerful control on your product pages and their promotion.
MageWorx’sFile Downloads & Product Attachments extension. This extension is a must-have solution if you need to provide your customers more information about what you are selling. If you want to upload manuals, instructions, license files or anything else you can do this in few steps with this extension. Each file can be assigned to any number of products at once. File access can be restricted by customer groups.
MageWorx’s Store & Currency Auto Switcher. This solutions is the only available from magento extensions for automatic redirect to necessary store based on visitor IP address. If you run multi-lanuage shop most likely you want that german customers go to German store, US visitors to US store, Europe – Europe store etc. This module automatically determines your visitors/customers country and redirects to the store assigned to this location.
MageWorx’s Instant Cart Magento extension. This module doesn’t do too much but what it does is really really nice feature. When you add product to cart Magento redirects you directly to cart page and if you would like to add another product you need to go back. It’s really annoying. Instant Cart module removed this redirect and replace it with AJAX Web 2.0 feature. Thus, customers are not redirected to cart page and can add products to cart easily and instantly even from category page.