What’s in Magento That Beats Other eCommerce Platforms

by JONATHAN PAUL Jonathan Paul working at PHPProgrammers, a leading

Magento started off a prior platform for eCommerce development and is article sums up what made Magento a the best or forerunning eCommerce platform in all these years.

If you are new to the online business world and want your eCommerce store to offer flexible shopping experience and ensure top-notch security, then choose no other than a PHP-based CMS. And, there’s no better than Magento. Specifically, Magento 2.x after its major upgrade. Till date, no single platform has been proven to suit every business. Every platform has their own sets of benefits which is why they suit a particular business. However, after a series of advancements, Magento evolve as the befitting platform for every possible type of online business. The reasons? Take a look at the points discussed below as they explain well what makes Magento the unbeatable, bespoke and fitting-most platform in eCommerce.

#1 Magento has a phenomenal capacity to customise

eCommerce is a versatile industry accommodating hundreds of different types of business. So, what may work for a grocery store may not work for a retailer of electronic goods. Magento takes care of all that. With advanced customisation, set of plugins and templates, it allows retailers to craft their store just the way they want or it deems fit for the business.

#2 Magento is real fast

Nearly half percent of websites are seen to load in more than 3-4 seconds causing visitors to move out to look for other prospective sites. With such impact of loading speed, you need to ensure that your site loads faster and do not let you loose your potential customers. Magento creates stores that are fast, like real fast!. They can load in 2 seconds, allow caching, allows retailers to retrieve data from huge datasets, and process queries in time.

#3 Allows easy integration

Magento’s API extensible is flexible enough and allows the store owners to add any plugin or necessary integrations of their choice easily. Either it is a payment gateway, social network plugin or live chat option, you can integrate any kind of third-party app.

#4 SEO aspects are well covered

eCommerce websites fail to draw the targeted level of customers if it isn’t made SEO friendly. Thus, until and unless you optimise each of the categories and products pages. Magento is a complete eCommerce platform helps retailers save the cost SEO optimisation tools. Its source code by default comes with features that favour SEO like search engine friendly URLs, URL rewrites, meta tags, descriptions, sitemaps, navigation and so forth

#5 One single backend system for multiple stores

While most eCommerce platforms allow retailers to operate only one store, Magento is one of the rare platforms that allow them to run multiple sites from one common admin panel. Moreover, every site can have separate layout, design and navigation. Here is the most striking advantage of Magento which let retailers operate in different niche fields at the same time.

If you are still now worried about which platform will best suit your business, then Magento is the one to free you from all worries. With all these impeccable benefits, you can rest assured of the success of your online venture.

Jonathan Paul is a hardworking Magento developer at PHPProgrammers, a noted company in Australia for developing websites and eCommerce applications using latest technologies. You can follow up the Facebook page of the company to know our services, and interesting stories on eCommerce and web technology.