5 Top Reasons for Choosing Magento

eBay has revolutionized the e-commerce market. Magento The easy to use platform for selling and buying goods is attracting millions from all over the world – individuals seeking to earn money as sellers and others, looking to enjoy the online buying experience.

Guest Blog post by: 3Dsellers.com

Today, eBay is among the largest websites on the internet with business spanning over billions of dollars per year.

Likewise, there exist other emerging e-commerce platforms that enable sellers to set up their own online stores. One great example is Magento, a company that was acquired by eBay during 2011.

Why choose Magento:

• 1) Magento is the e-commerce store development platform and can be equated to WordPress, the blog and website platform. Magento is used by millions of users worldwide and has a large installed base; many well-known companies use this service and infrastructure.

•  2) Magento has great functionality, providing sellers and buyers an outstanding shopping experience. Buyers are able to purchase different items directly from Magento powered websites in an easy manner. In addition, to make the shopping experience better, Magento extensions available via MagentoConnect are offered (similar to WordPress plugins).

These extensions offer a variety of functions and enhancements such as:

• Improvement of customer shopping experience with faster checkout processes.
• Effective site management tools: CRM, billing and invoice features.
• Integration with e-mail and shipping and fulfillment platforms.
• Marketing, advertising and analytics capabilities.
• Store themes which offer beautiful and versatile designs.

•  3)  In addition to the common self-hosted installation, a “cloud” based service named “Magento Go” is available and offers the power and flexibility of Magento at a very attractive price with trial periods. “Magento Go” is offered as a cloud based Software as a Service (SaaS), which makes deployment an easy process, while maintaining high availability, scalability and security.

• 4) Magento gives you the ability to manage all store content, sales, invoicing and items from your personalized and secure back office. In addition, the back office offers an extensive and user friendly reporting system for managing and displaying sales and customer related activity. Analytics is also activated by default, so you can fully track and analyze customer behavior.

• 5) Security: Magento takes security very seriously and as a highly rated priority (# 1 as they like to say). The platform was developed with security in mind and as an integrated part of the functional environment.

To sum things up, the massive channels of selling and buying on the internet are global, popping up and appearing in every corner. That’s exactly why selling and buying on both eBay and Magento are good ideas and the places to be in.

 Special thanks to 3Dsellers for sharing and blogging with us at PSM.

*3Dsellers offers free consultancy helping you set up your Magento store.

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