Magento

Sleepytopia · #1 (**permalink**) 10-03-2008, 23:26

Has anyone tried Magento ?

It looks quite good, just wondering what everyone else thought

Spiderden · #2 (**permalink**) 10-03-2008, 23:32

It's an amazing piece of ecommerce S/W. It wipes the floor with all the other open source and many of the commercial packages IMO. It's still in Beta (Should be finished end of this month). Even when the finished product is available, I'd wait a few months for them to iron out all the bugs before using it on a live site if I was you.

Sleepytopia · #3 (**permalink**) 10-03-2008, 23:33

I'm hoping to use it in about 6 months so hopefully most of the bugs will be ironed out by then

deviltronics · #4 (**permalink**) 11-03-2008, 23:49

^^^ Same, in about six months too, once the bugs are fixed and a protx payment option is available.

I already have a test site set up (thanks Khalid), but don't get time to mess around with it.

UKSBF · #5 (**permalink**) 12-03-2008, 12:31

I'd have a look at Open Mind Commerce

Although its a licenced cart system its skinning system is A1, very easy and quick to set up. Others seem to be quite a steep learning curve, you may get the software for free but spend weeks customising it.

We use OMC on our uPrint site with some modifications and it integrates well with Kash Flow - our accounting software package.

Cheers

Steve

Cherrypip · #6 (**permalink**) 12-03-2008, 12:37

Don't..... She is addicted already to shopping carts - don't feed her addiction!

Sleepytopia · #7 (**permalink**) 12-03-2008, 23:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cherrypip

Don't..... She is addicted already to shopping carts - don't feed her addiction!

yes I am addicted

you know me too well

Spiderden · #8 (**permalink**) 31-03-2008, 17:36

The production version was released today. You can download Magento V1.0 from here.
As stated above, I'd recommend waiting a few months before using it on a live store.

petemason · #9 (**permalink**) 31-03-2008, 21:54

Heh, I'd be tempted to use it today if I needed to. I've looked at other open source carts and they're all horrific. Zen Cart gives me nightmares to this day

Sleepytopia · #10 (**permalink**) 01-04-2008, 00:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spiderden

The production version was released today. You can download Magento V1.0 from here.
As stated above, I'd recommend waiting a few months before using it on a live store.

I'm going to download and install on a test site over the next couple of days