Advantages and Disadvantages of Magento

Advantages of Magento

  • It is open source, so it’s easy to be popular and everyone can use it.
  • Since Magento is 100% open source platform, lots of Magento extensions including free and paid ones are available to enhance of the power of   Magento Ecommerce on your store.
  • Magento is built to scale from 1 to a million, avoiding common pitfalls for developers. Code re-use, maintainability, debugging, support, etc. are all huge, expensive problems that eCommerce solutions providers must tackle. Magento makes them all a breeze. Magento is powerful and effective.
  • Magento handles concepts properly and in an organized manner. Stock Magento comes with Simple, Configurable, Grouped, Bundled, Virtual  and Digital Products. You can use it to sell amusement park tickets and digital music at the same time, without any extensions.
  • Magento can have many extensions which support for the development of the online store.

 

The disadvantages of Magento

  • Magento runs PHP. Magento is architected like an enterprise java application, but its codebase is written in PHP. Users have complained that the Magento is relatively slow than other ecommerce solutions.
  • It is a complex system and not one that is easy to work with. If it does not use object-oriented programming or other best practices because it has a heavy layered and complicated code that takes a lot of time to learn and make changes accordingly. Therefore, to get a job done properly and efficiently, you need to have a proper budget in order to work with Magento.
  • You need to have a good hosting environment and store management in order for Magento to run. If proper hosting environment is not set-up, you can experience problems with speed.  Unlike simpler systems which can work anywhere, such as WordPress, Magento performs poorly if the website services are not as required, which means you need to have good server along with a good team to set and maintain server.
  • Magento is intensive resource and requires much space and memory.
  • Installation is not as intuitive as it should be in admin area. You should use the option of safe mode during installation.