Magento is a well developed open-source shopping cart application developed and supported by DMC with an extensive range of features.
As a platform of choice for your on-line sales operation, Magento can deliver everything you will likely require for your on-line shop. Some features will not be useful for small merchants.
Is Magento right for our business?
Magento is available in Enterprise, Professional and Community Editions with a range of pricing structures to suit individual needs. Pricing for Magento starts at £120 + VAT/month.
For small businesses wishing to sell on-line, Magento offers a flexible solution which can be modified to suit requirements, however development costs are comparatively higher than those of other solutions we provide for small business ecommerce. Small businesses looking to sell on-line whose budget may not stretch to Magento, should consider osCommerce or one of our.
Here are some of it’s native features:
Catalogue Browsing
* Layered Navigation for product filtering
* Recently viewed products
* Product comparisons
* Recently compared products
* Cross-sell, Up-sell and Related Items sales features
* Popular Search Terms Cloud
* Filter Products by Product Tags
* Product Reviews
* Product listing in grid or list format
* Breadcrumb trail
* Static Block creation tool to create category landing pages
* Ability to assign design modifications at category and product level (unique design per product/category)
* Configurable search function with automatically suggested terms
Catalogue Management Tools
* Batch Import and Export of catalog (multiple file formats including .xls, .csv)
* Inventory Management with Minimum and Maximum order quantities
* Batch Updates to products in admin panel
* Simple, Configurable product atributes (e.g. size, color, etc.)
* Sell Bundled or Grouped Products
* Sell Virtual Products (Downloads)
* Create Store-specific attributes on the fly
* Supports Customer Personalized Products (eg. upload text or images for design, logo’s, etc.)
* Location specific Tax Rates
* Attribute Sets for quick product creation of different item types
* Media Manager tool with automatic image resizing (also supports image watermarking)
* Advanced Pricing Conditions and support for Special Prices
* SEO Search Results rewrites and redirects
* Approve, Edit or Delete Product Tags
* Approve, Edit or Delete Product Reviews
* RSS feed
Product Browsing
* Product Image Zoom-in/out
* View Multiple Images per Product
* Product Option Selection
* Related Products
* Grouped Products View
* Product Reviews
* Add to Wishlist
* Send to a Friend with Email
* Stock availability
* Multi-Tier Pricing for volume upsell
* Multiple product info display tabs
Customer Accounts
* Display recently ordered items
* Order status and history reporting
* Default Billing and Shipping addresses
* Manage Newsletter Subscription
* Re-order from customer account record
* Address Book supports unlimited delivery addresses
* Wishlist with ability to add comments
* Email Wishlist function
* Display Customer Product Reviews
* Account Dashboard for overview of info. such as recent orders, personal data, newsletter subscriptions, billing addresses, shipping addresses, shopping cart contents, wishlist, recent reviews and tags
Website Management
* Fully customisable design using design templates
* Control multiple websites from one admin panel with ability to share as much or as little information as needed
* Support for multiple currencies
* Multi-Lingual Support (English, German & Spanish by default)
* Support for Customer Groups
* Content Management System for site information pages
* Advanced Administration Permission System Roles and Multi-User support
* Web Services API for integration between Magento and any third-party application
* Variable tax rate management
Order Management
* View, edit, create and complete orders from admin panel.
* Create re-orders for customers from administration panel
* Create one or more invoices per order to allow for split order fulfillment
* Print invoices and packing slips
* Admin can create new customer, or select existing customer, view their shopping cart, wishlist, ordered products, and compared products lists, provide discounts as well as assign specific custom prices
* RSS feed for new orders
Shipping
* Supports fixed rate shipping per order
* Supports fixed rate shipping per item
* Free Shipping
* Supports real-time shipping rates from leading companies such as UPS, FedEx and DHL
* Supports table rates for weight and destination
* Supports table rates for number of products and destination
* Support for multiple shipping addresses per order
* Order tracking from customer accounts area
* Multiple shipments per order (Split order shipping)
* Supports permitted destination countries per shipping method
Checkout
* Allows Guest Checkout (No Registration) for non-registered customers
* SSL security support for orders on both front-end and back-end (Catalogue Admin Area)
* One-page checkout process (multi-stage)
* Tax and shipping estimates in cart
* Checkout with account to use address book
* Option to create account at beginning of checkout
* Saved Shopping Carts with configurable expiration time
Search Engine Optimization
* 100% Search Engine Friendly Website Structure
* Google Site Map Creation
* URL Mod-Rewrites give full control of URL’s
* Meta-data at product and category level
* Auto-generated Sitemap display on site
* Auto-generated Popular Search Terms Page
* Auto-generated TAG cloud
