Magento is the fastest growing eCommerce platform with more than 300,000 worldwide users. The popularity is because almost every part of the Magento coding can be customized. This provides an impact oriented, highly functional solution for all types of businesses. However choosing between Magento Community features and Enterprise is often a daunting task.
Which businesses should consider Magento Community?
- If you are a small or medium size owner
- Daily transactions are less than 500 orders
- If your site only gets 1,000 or so visitors per day
- If you sell less than 5,000 products
Magento Community works for Small and Medium businesses.
Why Choose Magento Community?
It is free with no product or order limitations. It isn’t a trial version with a time limit, but a full-fledged out of the box solution.
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It is open source and has a worldwide community of developers that are constantly working on the Mage code, creating themes and extensions.
You can setup more than one store and handle configuration, order management, inventory, customer services, all from a single admin area. No need to login to different accounts.
Design your store according to your needs and artistic flair. There are dozens of sites offering free and paid themes that are good for all types of businesses. You can even create and install your own theme.
7,500+ extensions are available from the Magento marketplace to give you functions both in the store and behind the scenes. Add features like gift registry, full page caching, loyalty programs, store credit or gift cards using extensions.
Create products as single, configurable (size, color, brand), bundled (2 packs) or grouped (coffee set + sugar bowl). Depending on your theme, you can upload more than one image for products and even show thumbnail images on category pages. Create coupons and promos using pricing rules like Buy 1 Get 1 Free, or Buy 1 Get another for 50% or Buy 2 for the price of 1 etc.
Set up modes of payment like PayPal and PayPal Express, Amazon Payments, Google Checkout, credit cards, etc. Configure shipping rules like Free Shipping, Ship by weight or price and Flat Rate and shipping option USPS, UPS, FedEx and DHL.
Connect with 3rd party sites like Amazon, Ebay, MailChimp, ShipStation etc.