More than likely you’re using WordPress as your online store’s platform; and that is perfectly fine since it is one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) out there. Originally launched in 2003, WordPress hosts nearly a fifth of all sites in the digital world. According to a W3Techs survey in January 2015, WordPress was used by more than 23.3% of the top 10 million websites. Although WordPress offers unlimited flexibility and is used by many for its user-friendly style, it may not be the best platform for you, especially if you are selling products via an online catalogue.
In its early stages, WordPress was built as a blogging platform, to write articles, show pictures, and collect visitor data. However, over the years it has evolved in terms of functionality and can now do much more than that. However it still is essentially a content management system platform. Typically people say that WordPress is good for small stores. Our experience has been that if you want your business to grow, Magento is the best platform for you.
Magento is a platform that is dedicated solely to ecommerce. From its inception, Magento was created to sell people’s goods online. Which is why it’s always surprising to us that it’s not being utilized by more companies. The bigger brands like Samsung, Ford, Nestle, Olympus, Men’s Health, Vizio, Nespresso, and Nike use Magento because it brings success. And they are not alone. Numerous small and medium-sized ecommerce companies around the world have realized the potential Magento offers. Not to mention that according to report of askhivemind.com Ecommerce Market Share Report April 2015, Magento retains 26% of the e-commerce market share in the Alexa Top 1 Million.
Why Now?
Even though you seem to be performing well and conversion rates are okay; do you feel like you are missing something? Do you feel like something is holding you back from becoming a powerhouse in your industry?
More than likely if you currently own an ecommerce site, you are facing the following issues:
- URL Issues like: www.yourstore.com/index.php?action=product&id=785461&category=74&sku=Jhasdh79
- Lack of flexibility for customers
- When updating a small functionality, you need to re-write 200 pages of code and waste time to complete regression to ensure that your existing functionality is intact.
- You have the urge to integrate third party APIs with your website to leverage more out of your shopping site.
If you run into any one of the above issues, it is time to switch to Magento eCommerce development. Magento development for your ecommerce website provides features such as:
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Open Source
The ‘Magento Community Edition’ is completely FREE. This means you can install it, and with help from our team, customize it with new features and functions as desired. These functions will take the form of extensions and there are THOUSANDS out there. If you want it, our team is ready and willing build it.
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Community Support
Magento has a large community of developers working on it on a daily basis, ensuring your Magento site is up to date, secure & fast.
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Built for E-Commerce
As mentioned above, Magento was built purposefully for ecommerce. Your platform will consist of dozens of features and specifications needed to put up a functional e-commerce website,
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Highly Scalable
Magento is suitable for large, medium and small e-commerce companies. It is able to grow with your business; regardless of the kind of e-commerce features or enhancements you need.
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High Performance
When it comes to page load speed, query processing time and other such performance factors, Magento emerges as a winner again compared with its competitors. Think about the last time you shopped online and the time it took to load the page and how long it took to make your purchase. Sites like Amazon have it nailed it with their 1-click functionality leaving less time for you to ponder ‘should I?’ Slow load times can literally kill an e-commerce website’s conversion rate in seconds. This is why Magento has counteracted this with high-end caching techniques to prevent any such issues from occurring.
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Flexible
ystem architecture; meaning our Magento certified developers can help create appealing and highly personalized user experiences targeted to different types of devices and business needs. Magento has a modular solution at its core, meaning you’re in control of how you want your ecommerce website to look like and perform. We will design exactly to your specifications.
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Multi-Tenant
Magento lets you to create multiple online stores and catalogues. This enables you to control online, all of your inventory, billing, customer records and invoices all from a single dashboard.
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Easy Integrations
Integrating Magento with your current ERP and/or third party extensions including payment gateways, shipping, shipment tracking etc. is fast and stress-free.
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SEO Friendly
Magento is a SEO-friendly ecommerce platform that comes as standard with a number of features, including search friendly URLs, sitemaps, layered navigation, meta tags and meta descriptions to name but a few. All of which will help you to get your business to the top of Google’s search engine results.
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Support for Mobile Commerce
All editions of Magento have incorporated multiple HTML5 capabilities, which allows for better mobile shopping experiences. In today’s fast paced world, mobile optimization is crucial as more and more customers look to shop on tablets and phones rather than PCs. This translates to making mobile optimization for ecommerce a priority.
Why Us?
A lot of web development companies talk about customer service, but don’t know how to perform it. At ParadoxLabs, we mean what we say — 100 percent of the time. We are confident that you will like the Magento ecommerce site we can create for you because we work with you until it’s done right. Our skill with utilizing Magento’s features is impressive as we have created numerous ecommerce sites, built on the Magento platform and have our very own team of Magento certified experts. Check out some of our work.
Ready to learn how we can help you? Be sure to contact us today to discuss online strategies that will help your business grow!