Magento is PIT Solutions’ pick, when it comes to open source ecommerce solutions. Magento is an ecommerce platform built on open source technology which provides online merchants with a flexible shopping cart system, as well as control over the look, content and functionality of their online store. Magento has a flexible modular architecture, which is scalable. Magento comes with many features that helps merchants to build both user-friendly and search engine friendly websites.
PIT Solutions’ Magento business unit is composed of seasoned project managers, certified Magento developers and QA staff. For many years we have been supporting our clients with Magento implementations and customizations. Magento’s new version, Magento 2 has many new and improved features with advanced developer tools, and its architecture is quite different from all the previous versions. PIT Solutions have a long track record of Magento projects, which includes both Magento 1 and Magento 2 projects. See our references here: https://www.pitsolutions.ch/en/webshop/
Fast check-in module allows to reduce standard steps of product check-in process and also provides warehouse employees a convenient interface to quickly check in a product.
Warehouse management extension facilitates product check-in and check-out for updating inventory stock. Warehouse extension can be installed in a tablet, which the warehouse employees can carry with them while moving around in the warehouse. The extension helps to perform with ease the following activities: Check-in, checkout, rack search, order listing, manual and scan mode of shipment creation
Magento Faktura extension is for connecting Magento online shop and MS access. This extension facilitates the shop owners to import the orders of the online Magento shop to the MS access application saved in their personal computer.
This extension facilitates the shop owners to import the orders of the online Magento shop to a web application and process them. The shop owner can manage real shop orders also from this web application.
Magento was founded in 2008 and purchased by eBay in 2011. Adobe acquired Magento in 2018. So Magento is in safe hands in terms of future product roadmap. Big brands like Nike, Ford, Samsung, Coca-Cola use Magento.
Magento is an open source platform and can be downloaded for free. Since this is open source software, developers can modify the source code and add features and functionalities by creating or installing add-ons and plug-ins. There is a huge community of developers around the world working on it on a day to day basis, ensuring the ecommerce platform is up to date, secure & fast, and thereby backing up the future development of Magento.
Magento is an ecommerce solution that is fit for small to very large enterprises. Be it a small business or a large brand selling internationally, Magento can scale to rising demands. Magento’s community edition comes with features and functionalities right out of the box, and enterprise edition adds much more with high performance. With its ability to cope with thousands of orders per hour and perform well under the weight of huge traffic, there is no surprise that Magento is a leading shop solution.
Magento’s effective layout will help people in site navigation, helping them to find things they are looking for. Zoom-in capability, product reviews, multiple images of a product are some of the features that make Magento user friendly and inspires visitors to make a purchase and revisit the website. It also has powerful tools such as Up-Sells and Cross-Sells that encourages the user to order more products.
Magento boasts the largest library of extensions in the world, with a large number of them being completely free. It is possible to supercharge the Magento code and power up the ecommerce website with new features and desired functionality by installing Magento extensions.
Magento adheres to best SEO practices and comes preloaded with SEO friendly features such as search engine friendly URLs, sitemaps, URL rewrites, meta tags, category structures and many more. Magento is SEO ready for your ecommerce store to appear at the top of the rankings, and also ensures that your site is search friendly.
Magento has a feature for handling multiple stores. You can even operate stores on multiple domains. While almost every other e-commerce platform – open source or otherwise – lets you have only one store on one system; with Magento, you can run multiple websites on the same common backend system. Every website can have distinctly different layouts and design with their own stores. You can even have different domains for each site and control all of them simultaneously through a single unified admin panel using Magento.
It also has other features such as multi-language, multi-currency support, product browsing, order management etc.
Magento is constantly under scrutiny, with its developers looking for potential security flaws. If any are found, then patches are made available quickly and communicated amongst users. This gives you one less thing to worry about, knowing that security is being taken seriously. The implementation of SSL security and dedicated IP in Magento is easy. Customers can be confident that their personal information is confidential, and they can purchase from the store with a feeling of safety.
Magento provides different payment methods, that allows you to accept payments using different payment processors like PayPal, Authorize.net, Google etc. Customers can also pay through check/money order, credit cards, purchase order, bank transfer and many more.
Once a store is built, shop owners can begin managing their entire store from the admin panel. Administrators can edit product descriptions and prices, track orders, and process different types of payments. They can even manage newsletters through Magento backend.
In comparison with Magento 1, the admin panel in Magento 2 is much more user friendly and intuitive. It allows to easily navigate to all parts of the admin panel, find information easier and manage your store more efficiently.
With Magento, your online store is already associated with Google Analytics, Google Base and Google Checkout. This helps you keep track of your site visitors. Another advantage of the Magento platform is the extensive reporting available for every aspect of the store which equips the admin with the provision to view reports on shopping cart abandonment, search terms used within your store, most viewed products, sales, shipping, tax, products, customers and much more.