Features of Magento

Features of Magento

Magento-customization.com deals with the Magento e-Commerce platform. Currently Magento is one of the most popular open source ecommerce solutions. Its user-friendly interface and usability suit online store owners perfectly. Currently Magento is one of the most popular open source ecommerce solutions, which enables you to have complete control over your online store. Through Magentos available features, you can easily develop and manage a successful online store. We have provided a number of bespoke modules, we design and host Magento, and we provide a managed service which offers our clients our expertise in populating their system at a very reasonable cost.

Success of ecommerce depends on the marketing and promotion. Magento offers great features for Marketing and promotions such as you can convince and get permission from the users to send email newsletters. You can issue flexible coupons for stores, customer group, time periods, products and categories. You should use Magento if you want to run an online store that looks and works exactly the way you want it to. Here are a few key features Magento offers:

Site Management:

  • Control multiple websites and stores from one Administration Panel with ability to share as much or as little information as needed
  • Multi-Lingual
  • Support for localization
  • Support for multiple currencies
  • Administration Permission System Roles and Users
  • Web Services API for easy integration between Magento and any third-party application
  • Flexible tax rate management with support for US and International markets
  • Fully 100% customizable design using templates
  • Customer Groups
  • One-Click Upgrades
  • Content Management System for Informational Pages

Search Engine Optimization:

  • 100% Search Engine Friendly
  • Google Site Map
  • URL Rewrites give full control of URL’s
  • Meta-information for products and categories
  • Auto-generated Site Map for display on site
  • Auto-Generated Popular Search Terms Page

Marketing Promotions and Tools:

  • Flexible Coupons (pricing rules) with ability to restrict to stores, customer groups, time period, products, and categories. For example: Percent Discount | Fixed Amount Discount | Free Shipping | Buy x, get y free. | Buy x, get y with percent or fixed amount discount | Buy x, get free shipping on order | Buy x, get percent discount | Buy x, get fixed amount discount.
  • Catalog Promotional Pricing by percentage or fixed amount with ability to restrict to stores, categories, products
  • Free Shipping Option
  • Multi-Tier Pricing for quantity discounts
  • Bundled Products
  • Customer Group-specific pricing and group-specific tier pricing
  • Landing Page Tool for Campaigns
  • Search Engine Friendly URL’s
  • URL Rewrites
  • Recently Viewed Products
  • Recently Compared Items
  • New Items Promotional Tool
  • Up-sells in Shopping Cart
  • Cross-sells on product pages
  • Send to a Friend for all visitors, or registered users only
  • Send Wishlist to a Friend by Email or RSS
  • RSS Feeds for New Products, New Specials and New Tags
  • Auto-generated Site Map
  • Google Site Map
  • Polls
  • Newsletter Management
  • International Support
  • Multi-Lingual
  • Support for Multiple Currencies
  • Tax rate support
  • Localization
  • Configurable List of Allowed Countries for: Site Registration
  • Shipping Destination Addresses with ability to specify per shipping method
  • Billing Addresses with ability to specify per payment method

Checkout:

  • One-Page Checkout
  • SSL security support for orders on both front-end and back-end
  • Shipping to multiple addresses in one order
  • Checkout without account/Guest Checkout
  • Shopping Cart with tax and shipping estimates
  • Checkout with account to use address book
  • Option to create account at beginning of checkout
  • Accept gift messages per order and per item
  • Saved Shopping Carts with configurable expiration time

Shipping:

  • Integrated for real-time shipping rates from: UPS, UPS XML (account rates), FedEx (account rates), USPS and DHL
  • Shipping to multiple addresses in one order
  • On-site order tracking from customer accounts
  • Multiple shipments per order
  • Ability to specify allowed destination countries per method
  • Flat rate shipping per order
  • Flat rate shipping per item
  • Free Shipping
  • Table rates for weight and destination
  • Table rates for product sub-totals and destination
  • Table rates for number of items and destination

Payment:

  • Configurable to authorize and charge, or authorize only and charge on creation of invoices
  • Integrated with multiple PayPal gateways: Website Payments Standard, Website Payments Pro (Express and Direct), Website Payments Pro UK (Express and Direct), and PayPal
  • PayFlow Pro
  • Integrated with Authorize.net
  • Integrated with Google Checkout (Level 2)
  • Saved Credit Card method for offline payments
  • Accept Checks/Money Orders
  • Accept Purchase Orders
  • Payment Extensions Available through Magento Connect

Catalog Management:

  • Inventory Management with Backordered items, Minimum and Maximum quantities
  • Batch Import and Export of catalog
  • Batch Updates to products in admin panel
  • Simple, Configurable (e.g. size, color, etc.), Bundled and Grouped Products
  • Virtual Products
  • Customer Personalized Products – upload text for embroidery, monogramming, etc.
  • Tax Rates per location, customer group and product type
  • Attribute Sets for quick product creation of different item types
  • Create Store-specific attributes on the fly
  • Media Manager with automatic image resizing and watermarking
  • Advanced Pricing Rules and support for Special Prices (see marketing tools)
  • Search Results rewrites and redirects
  • Approve, Edit and Delete Product Tags
  • Approve, Edit and Delete Product Reviews
  • RSS feed for Low Inventory Alerts

Order Management:

  • View, edit an fulfill order from the control panel
  • Call center – process phone orders through the control panel – including new customer account creation
  • Create multiple invoices, shipments, credit memos and store credits per order
  • Process refunds
  • Print invoices and packing slips

Customer Accounts:

  • Customers Can Create Accounts any time while browsing or during checkout
  • Online order status and history
  • Re-orders from account
  • Recently ordered items
  • Address Book with default billing and shipping addresses
  • Wish lists
  • Newsletter subscription management
  • Product Reviews submitted
  • Product Tags created
  • Customer Account dashboard

Hosting and Security:

  • CI Compliant
  • Tier 4 data center
  • Totally data security
  • Images delivered via Content Delivery Network (CDN)

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