Comments on: Magento eCommerce – Bloated or Brilliant?

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:10:21 +0000

Magento is nice but complex, resource hungry and all the released updates applied to a live store killed the site each and every time, even without costumization.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:36:21 +0000

Magento is very complex, and I’d say it’s probably more bloated feature/size wise than it needs to be for most smaller businesses/operations.

The lack of decent, up-to-date documentation – you just have to look at the community forums to see the sheer amount of frustration this causes!

By: Eugene

Eugene — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:36:28 +0000

Magento is a complex tool. The idea was to provide extreamly flexible solution. Most of the design business have nothing to do even with the core code…just changing phtml and xml files.
But once you need anything beyond the Magento core features, It would be very difficult to use it.
In other words: from many points of customization Magento is very good, but Magento is not perfect and can not give something it was not designed for.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:25:09 +0000

We are running Magento on one of our Website and I wish I could face the idiots who designed it… Now we are looking for alternative but there aren’t many… Anyone has a suggestion ?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:34:10 +0000

forgot to say:
thanks for a good read! some useful information in the article and following discussion. I am hating magento at the moment!

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:33:06 +0000

Hi I am working right now on customizing magento to look like a site I designed earlier. Its a small photography website where, hopefully, you will be able to order prints/downloads. I have been going in circles for three days now! Am I wasting my time using magento for something like this?
Matt

By: AndyM

AndyM — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:21:09 +0000

Great discussion. As shop-owner, I miss perspective of the store-owner/administrator. Although I do love the Magento front-end feature set, I find maintaining the product catalogue quite difficult. I have configurable items in the store, and combined with multiple images per product, I find it very time consuming to change or add multiple products. The batch import module is limited (not all custom options show up, attributes have to be entered manually, multiple/custom images are difficult and will be reimported every time with a changed file name, including or excluding images needs extra scripting etc.). Manual input is very laborious, as you have to enter 70+ fields for every product and navigate through many tabs; it is impossible to change a simple product into a configurable product or vice versa etc. etc. I have tried various import scripts, MagneticOne storemanager, etc. but I haven’t found any that are working intuitively and easily especially combined with configurable items. If you have any input on this side of Magento, I am very interested to hear it

By: Jorryn

Jorryn — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:52:20 +0000

Great resources. I appreciate your hard work to write above article and share it with us. Thank you.

By: glasgoweb

glasgoweb — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:12:35 +0000

magento is a great option for customers, but can cost losts, i still think developers are rippin people off, for example i offer a 500 products , site design based on a template of customers choice , fully set up with paypal, google checkout and third party payment system, all for 2000 dollars.

Some designers charge far too much , and do very little other than buy a template strip it out and add a few new items to make it look all diffrent

By: Kat

Kat — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:53:43 +0000

My thoughts exactly!!

Fantastic article!!