Magento and Joomla Virtuemart
Now a days open source is in great demand. Open source E-Commerce platform like Joomla, Magento, osCommerce, X-Cart, Zen Cart are the most preferred choices of developers. Within the few years open source e-Commerce platform share a high percentage in development. They are one of the best choice for small and middle level e-commerce site development.
Joomla and Magento both are PHP based. Joomla virtuemart and Magento both offers the user lot of great functionalities. What should you consider when making your choice? Let us go for a brief introduction of both.
Magento
Magento e-commerce platform came in the market after Joomla so Magento platform is new. Varien is the parent company of Magento offers a rock solid scalable platform. Magento offers many useful features including analytics integration, landing pages, extensive ACL management, advanced marketing promotions, and many other default functionality. It is highly flexible to meet the requirement of the online stores. The development has been set up properly and is advancing fast, there are regularly updates available packed with new functionalities.
However, Magento does have a drawback like the web shop package is extremely heavy and not every hoster can therefore accept it (more hosters can support Joomla! and Virtuemart on their servers).
Magento requires a great knowledge of PHP. If a developer is not much proficient in PHP then expanding or customizing Magento can be tough, also because Magento uses advanced programming techniques that not all programmers are familiar with. One also has to take his time to learn Magento and then can get to work.
Joomla Virtuemart
Joomla Virtuemart requires less technical knowledge. Joomla Virtuemart supports quick development. Virtuemart allows you nevertheless to quickly put your shop online and maintain it easily as there are many extensions readily available so developers don’t have to program these themselves. If a person is expert in Joomla then he can easily work on Joomla Virtuemart as functioning of both are based on the same principles.
Virtuemart is fully integrated in Joomla! and offers several payment methods. Joomla has more than 3500 extensions and Virtuemart will usually function seamlessly with these. The biggest advantage of this is that you can easily transform your website into a community including a forum, blog, guestbook, photo album and so on. Your web shop will rank higher in Google because of this and you’ll also retain more customers.
A major drawback of Virtuemart is the slow development and a lack of (default) advanced functionalities.
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