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Pros And Cons Of Magento That You Should Know

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Ihor Bozhenovich
Pros And Cons Of Magento That You Should Know

CMS Magento can be rightfully considered one of the most popular platforms for online projects. It has quite a few advantages over its main competitors. However, it also has its problems that can alienate potential customers.
What are its main advantages and disadvantages, why do some users of this CMS attracts so much that they buy an Enterprise subscription, and why others are trying to move to other platforms, we will try to understand and begin with the pros of this platform?

Open Source

This advantage is the first in the list of indisputable advantages of Magento. This is because having an open-source code, any store owner can easily modify it to meet the needs of their business.
Yes, to do that you may need professional help, for example from magento development agency - Elogic. Edie the business owner himself needs to know. How to program in Magento. However, this does not negate the fact that with this CMS you can make almost any type of store.

A lot of different add-ons

For Magento, there is an extremely large selection of different extensions. They can help as the owner (such as special extensions for design), and for the buyers themselves (such as automatic calculation of the value of goods in the local currency of the buyer's country).
In addition, they are easy enough to integrate into the store system and it does not take much time.
Note that some of these extensions are free, however, the most useful ones will need to be purchased.

Great commonwealth of users

This is another plus of this platform. Even if the owner does not know how to do something in the store, he can simply ask for help from the community. Many other users will share useful tips and some tricks that will solve the problem.

Now it is worth touching upon the topic of disadvantages of the CMS

It's expensive

Of course, Magento has a free version, but it is suitable for small stores. If the owner wants to make an extension, he will have to buy a subscription, which can cost from $1500 to $2500 every month.

Few Professionals

As stated earlier, this CMS has enough fans to make it popular. However, most of them are not professionals. That's why finding a worthwhile developer on Magento seems quite difficult.
Moreover, not all of the advice that users give is useful or suitable for any particular case.

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