e-Commerce solution: Magento
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The eCommerce solution Magento is an Open Source platform, ideal for any
electronic commerce (eCommerce) site. Early 2011, over 80 000 sites
used Magento as their eCommerce solution. Its solidity and reliability
is even more evident by the fact that Paypal, a subsidiary of eBay and
important player in the field of eCommerce, owns 49% of Magento.
Official solution partner, Absolunet, with offices in Montreal and Boisbriand, has all the tools to develop any e-commerce project on Magento.
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Main eCommerce functions
All of these functionalities are an integral part of Magento:
- Site management
- Catalog and product management
- Evaluation and comments on all products by users
- Product search
- Promotion tools
- Optimized for search engines
- Links with main shipping companies, like UPS, Fedex, DHL, Purolator, Canada Post, etc.
- Shopping cart
- Over 50 payment solutions (including Moneris and Paypal)
- Order history
- Sales reports
- Client management
- Customer service
- Optimized for mobile devices
- Management of multiple stores and multiple languages from the same administrator account
- Upsale function
- Favorite products
- Much more
Strong community
The Magento Connect market counts over 3,000 extensions and applications developed by the community and accessible to developers all around the globe.
Themes & API
It is possible to deploy an eCommerce site using any existing theme with Magento. This approach allows rapid deployment of an eCommerce site, at a fraction of the cost.
Also, Magento provides freely its complete API (application programming interface), which facilitates the integration with external systems, such as account solutions, ERP solutions (Microsoft Dynamics, Sage ACCPAC, Acomba, etc.) or other platforms.