By Anand,

Magento is the new improved e-commerce platform that gives a superior force to web traders to get rid of obstacles in the way of business process implementations. With downloads surpassing the magical figure of 600,000, Magento is easily the fastest growing commercially available tool for online business solutions.

Don’t be misled by the free and open source background of Magento—it excels the best commercial tools with its theme based structure and support for a panoply of digital products.

We at OffshoreSoftwareDevelopmentIndia.com have solid expertise in working with all leading e-commerce and portal-building platforms and have managed and implemented heavy-duty enterprise-level content management systems. We can safely assert that Magento has outshone all of them.

There remain a few uncertainties, as with any growing and emergent platform, in the design and development capabilities that Magento has to offer. The high competence level required means that it is not for all and sundry. Having said that, Magento is by far the most adaptable and compliant e-commerce program to hit the online trading market.

In many ways, Magento is not a typical open source solution. It is free to download and use. It does give you the ability to create customize themes and module extensions. It has all the potential for swell in usage and gain in popularity. However, it has a dedicated company supporting its growth. Magento is the product of Varien, an e-commerce design house that seems to benefit from Magento by offering traditional web agency services.

Magento is based on a theme based framework with individual layouts, templates and skins, which in turn has greater look and feel customize capability. Once you get the hang of it, creating stores in Magento turns into a piece of cake. Unlike shopping carts and content management systems devoid of themes, this framework elevates Magento to a different level.

The comprehensive features available reflect long years of e-commerce experience. Features such as advanced pricing rules, product image zoom, side-by-side comparison and inventory management indicate the strong relevance to marketing functions and requirements. Other features that we approve of are:

• Ready to go iPhone theme
• Single page checkout
• Availability of real time rates from UPS, FedEx and the US Postal Service
• Great analytics and reporting
• One administration panel and product catalog to manage multiple websites/stores
• Customer reviews
• Flexible coupon rules for flexibility of campaigns
• Layered and faceted navigation for filtering
• Google Website Optimizer integration
• URL rewrites
• Newsletter management
• Easy integration of third party tools using Web API
• Choice of more than 50 payment gateways
• Option to up sell during checkout
• Self-generating site maps
• Full support for digital and downloadable products
• RSS feeds for customers and administrators alike

Though Magento does have simple usage rules including easy handling of the administration interface, it does require developers to have fundamental skills in PHP, MySQL, SOAP, XML, XHTML, Apache and CSS. This is indeed the case for most shopping carts or platforms, but Magento is much more application oriented. Even a standard implementation will have you accessing files and programming code that other simpler platforms do not ask for.

All said and done, Magento is an outstanding tool for online commerce and web marketing. It is no less than a boon for leading Internet retailers.

If you are looking to design and develop Magento ecommerce store for your business, OffshoreSoftwareDevelopmentIndia.com is a one stop helping point for all your requirements.

OffshoreSoftwareDevelopmentIndia.com is one of the initial starters who work on Magento since its first version. The expertise of Magento developers at OffshoreSoftwareDevelopmentIndia.com, serves Magento customers to meet their Enterprise requirements.

OffshoreSoftwareDevelopmentIndia.com provides services for enterprise Magento theme development, enterprise Magento template design, Magento extensions like Vendor module, Purchase module, accounting module and Magento payment extensions like iVeri, Paymentec, Safepay, Secpay, Secpay 3D secure, DIBS DirectPay, Cardinal Direct, Cardinal 3D secure.

As Magento is free open source application, OffshoreSoftwareDevelopmentIndia.com also provides free Magento theme, free Magento templates, and free Magento extensions to help Magento grow in terms of ecommerce application.

Like Magento, OffshoreSoftwareDevelopmentIndia.com is helping internet business to grow further to reach new heights.

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