Magento Platform
Plants or otherwise, it’s good to support your roots.
We‘ve come a long way since our history in IT development and implementing various eCommerce software such as MivaMerchant, OSCommerce, and VirtueMart, but we have both experiences to thank for teaching us the importance of investing in Magento – an infrastucture that is more than just capable.
A good eCommerce platform will: sell products, track orders, and collect payments.
A great eCommerce platform will leverage your business online presence as a digital storefront by also being:
Efficient for YOU | Because you have better things to do, like running your business. Magento’s native import profiles generate tens of thousands of products with a simple spreadsheet upload to get you up and selling in no time.
User-friendly for your CLIENTS | No one likes to play an unexpected scavenger hunt while shopping at a discount department store, and your visitors are no exception. Magento’s layered category navigation makes finding products easy and intuitive – and quick to get to the checkout page.
Reflective of your BUSINESS | Unlike carts like Miva Merchant, Magento’s front end is developed with CSS and PHP to easily skin in custom designs, and complemented with the longest list of features on the market (e.g. wishlists, item comparisons, multiple images with zoom) – allowing every store to be as unique as the products and sales force behind it.
See a summarized list of features below.
More Magento Benefits
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Administrative Panel
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Marketing Promotions and Tools
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Customer Service
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Order Management
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Shipping
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Checkout
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Product Browsing
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Support
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Payment
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Reasons You’ll Love Magento
1 Safety First
Merchants, consumers, and the legal authorities between them are increasingly concerned about how payments are processed and information is stored. Magento is one of the few eCommerce platforms inherently designed to be PCI compliant (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) and to minimize your technical business woes.
2 Your business, your rules
The Magento Admin Panel provides full convenient control of everything you’ll ever need to run your store. Manage the essentials of products and orders, as well as the finer details like creating site-wide discounts, updating informational pages, and editing the contents of each transactional e-mail.
3 There’s an extension for that
Whether you’re selling customizable t-shirts that need 5 dropdowns of information or running a store that needs to update its inventory of 10,000 products on the daily, Magento’s community of open-source developers means that custom extensions are constantly built and contributed to expand Magento’s functionality to all of its users.
4 Allergic to Code?
Get a dose of the WYSIWYG Editor. The Admin Panel manages everything from products to static pages with an interface full of friendly orange buttons. The WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Editor provides traditional formatting tools to edit description fields across your store, without ever wrestling with a line of HTML or CSS.
5 Built-in SEO
Just about the only time you’ll enjoy something organic without the organice price tag - Magento provides meta-data fields to input custom keywords in all types of content (e.g. products, CMS pages).
6 Integration, Integration, Integration
No proprietary strings here - Magento integrates with a variety of tools such as blogging platforms like WordPress, content managers like Joomla, accounting software like Quickbooks, external markets like Google Base, and social networks like Facebook, to expand and flex with your current business, rather than cripple it.
