Magento – Open Source Ecommerce

Magento is an ecommerce platform on PHP which is quite feature rich. This platform is based on the Zend Framework. You can take a look at a Magento store and the admin demo over at their demo section. Some of the notable features of this platform are:

  • Analytics and reports – integration with Google Analytics, RSS feeds on Orders and feedback, Sales reports
  • Catalog Management & Browsing
  • Customer Accounts – with order status, default addresses, wishlists and dashboard
  • Order Management – edit, create and fullfill orders, print invoice and packing slips
  • Payments – Integration with Paypal, Google Checkout and Authorize.net; Accept purchase orders, cheques and money order.
  • SEO Optimizations – url rewrites, Google Sitemaps and more

The minimum system requirements for getting onto Magento is PHP 5.2.1with a few mandatory extensions and MySQL 4.1.

Links:
Magento Home
Screenshots
Tour
Store and Admin Demo

8 Responses to “Magento – Open Source Ecommerce”
  1. Stefan 1 May 2008 at 4:50 pm #

    I am soon starting with a Magento project for a client and have been digging into Magento for that reason. It looks like a great app that will blow osCommerce off the market, but the lack of developer docs is a big problem. I hope the upcoming php|a book will help with that :)

  2. vinu 1 May 2008 at 7:28 pm #

    Let me know how the Magento Project goes for you. Yep this project does looks much better and easier to use than osCommerce.

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  4. Andrew Smith 1 May 2008 at 8:23 pm #

    Version 1.0 was only recently on 1 April, and a few months ago Magento didn’t exist at all. They’ve come a long way incredibly quickly, and I’m sure the developer docs will catch up in time.

    There are 15,000 registered members on the forums and groups, growing at about 100 per day, so the amount of community generated content is growing quickly.

  5. Ivo 1 May 2008 at 9:56 pm #

    Note that it is based on Zend Framework, not on Zend Platform (the application server). It does run very well on the latter though.

  6. Stefan 1 May 2008 at 11:33 pm #

    Vinu: I will probably post something on Magento myself as I’ve worked with it a bit

    Andrew: Yes, you’d expect with such a large community that a lot is coming, yet the community wasn’t even able to answer a few simple questions so far. So for now, I will have to wait and see if the community will actually generate some usable content.

  7. vinu 2 May 2008 at 7:47 am #

    Ivo, thanks for catching my mistake… I’ve made the correction in the post :)

  8. wenbert 2 May 2008 at 4:36 pm #

    I am a big fan of Zend Framework. I will be trying out Magento for freelance projects soon. I hope customization won’t be that hard.

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