Magento is one of the biggest most complex open source e-commerce application. From 10 customers I've encountered so far 4 or 5 believed Magento is the best. The other 5-6 were alternating between the other 10-15 open-source solutions.

I personally believe that Magneto it's not a good option unless you want to use Magento particularly for other reasons.

Why not Magento?

- Magento has bugs unfixed for more than 2 years

- The community support for magento is limited comparing with other solutions

- Magento prefers to have full write permissions over his folder structure

- Magento community doesn%u2019t benefit from the same amount of support comparing with the other commercial types

- Magento Go is preferred over the community version therefore Magento%u2019s staff is not focusing at all over the community version

- Major errors in Magento doesn%u2019t make it even a platform to test on. You can easily create content duplicate within your own web site by submitting a wrong sitemap to - - Google Base

- Google or other platforms constantly change their software methods in relation with - Magento but the community version doesn%u2019t get updated.

- It takes a huge amount of memory to work properly with Magento

- The Zend framework makes difficult to perform front-end changes. Difficult is not impossible - if that would%u2019ve been the only problem I would%u2019ve skipped it long time ago.

At the end of the day it%u2019s all about the UX therefore instead of working with a Magento Community platform we%u2019ve developed at BOGDAN%u2019S our own e-commerce CMS which solves all the issues above.

I am very impressed with Magento. It has a ton of out-of-the-box functionality and is a solid choice for ecommerce. The admin section is very good, but order taking on the admin (for example by a customer service rep) is problematic. With very good developers you can have a excellent website for about $10,000.

- No support for recurring fee (subscription) products.

- No support for affiliate program

- Only one newsletter per store can be sent to customers. Extensions may change it.

- Highly fragmented system