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Multi Store Wars - Magento moving into our territory

  • March 10, 2009 8:01 am


Magento says:
“Multi Store Management has been a hot topic in the eCommerce market and we are proud to feature such functionality as part of Magento’s core product.”

Here is the link to their 45 minute web seminar about Magento Multi Store Management.

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I didn’t really have the chance or the patience to go through the 45 minute documentation. Maybe my personal attention span just happens to be real low at the moment. I am unable to compare Magnum Multi Store to Magento Multi Store at this point, other than the fact that our product is priced at $1200, while Magento’s stuff is free. Our support fees are way lower though.

Overall, I find this all to be rather amusing. This is all soo Internet. We come out with something, 5 mins later somebody else jumps on it. Perfect examples are Magnum Multi Store, now Magento copies the Multi Store part and Magnum MVS 8.4 which CRE tried to copy.

But CRE did such a lousy job of integrating MVS into their CRE 6.3 B2B.
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Magento vs. CRE Loaded - Frontend Feature Comparison (Round I)

  • February 25, 2009 1:57 pm

There are a few things we really liked about Magento and couldn’t resist incorporating into our Magnum line - using our own code of course - as osCommerce code and Magento code is like throwing Ketchup on cake. It doesn’t go well together.

Anyhow, the 4 front-end features we really liked are:

1. Subscribe to RSS Feeds feature
Real nice!

2. Product image zoom with double click
Also very nice. Seems to work well with real large product images.

3. Ability for users to add tags
I liked this too. Very Web 2.0!

4. Switch between Grid view and List view
This is a switch CREloaded has in the admin already. But Magento is right. This shouldn’t be for the admin. Let the user pick their favorite view. The ones who are allergic to grid, can go with list view and vice versa.

There is actually one more feature which will be seen in Magnum products and can be seen in Magento and some other carts also which is the “recently viewed products” feature.

Note that none of these features are currently offered in any CRE version.