Magento Hosting

Magento is a fast growing and powerful ecommerce script, which is created by Varien.  This is an open source platform which uses MySql and Zend PHP databases. Magento gives great flexibility through modular architecture, and is completely scalable and having a very wide range of control options which the users appreciate.

Magento is world’s favorite platform for online shops. Because of complexity of this software, most of the Magento web hosting companies offer the installation as service. Along the side hardware needed to operate Magento based web server, user get benefit from the experts which are much familiar with demand of Magento, i.e MySql databases and PHP scripting language. If you having proper architecture and knowledge in place to install software, then you need to order web server with enough of power to run system.

 Magento Community Features
Open source of Magento is an ecommerce platform, it is not a freeware edition. If you are agree and are able to take time to setup and configure software, then it is very little that you can’t do with Community Edition. Here are some highlights which are most important features which are shared in both the versions.

Promotionals and Marketing

• Wish lists and send-to-friend functions.
• Email newsletters
• Polls and Surveys
• Multiple shipping options, including support for free shipping
• New item promotionals
• Display Recently Viewed items to customers
• Packaged products and bundling
• Category Landing Pages
• Tiered pricing and volume discounts
• Highly customizable coupons and special pricing rules
• Upsell offers and cross promotionals
• Display related items on product pages

Search Engine Optimization

• Google Content API.
• Popular search terms page
• HTML Meta-data for products, categories and content pages
• Popular search terms page
• XML Site Map

 Site Management

• Anti-spam measures such as CAPTCHA.
• Tax calculation, based on multiple areas and customer types
• Built-in CMS (Content Management System) for pages, blog posts, announcements, landing pages, and other content.
• Batch import and export of all data (product, orders, customers, etc.)
• Web Services API for third-party integrations
• Internationalization and localization built-in, including currency support.
• Web Services API for third-party integrations
• Full customizable theming and templating engine
• User types with customizable permissions
• Manage multiple sites from one administration login

 Catalog Management

• Easy to configure product groups and variations
• Support for personalized products (embroidering, monogramming, photo printing, etc). Multiple configurable options for customer input.
• Crowd-sourced tags and reviews, with full moderation capability
• Search term rewrites and result-page redirects
• Specialized pricing rules with multiple options and conditionals
• Automated product image resizing and watermarking
• Batch updates to product groups
• Complete inventory management tools, with RSS alerts
• Group custom attribute fields into attribute sets for quickly creating similar products within a class of items
• Unlimited product attributes
• Digital/downloadable products and sample excerpts
• Variable pricing for different customer groups (retail vs. wholesale; members vs. visitors, etc.)

 Catalog Browsing

• Category and product specific page designs and templates.
• Breadcrumb navigation
• Catalog search, with auto-suggest
• Compare Products
• Filter and sort by price or price range
• Multi-layered navigation with search results and product categories

 Product Display

• Share to social media.
• Send to a friend
• Wish list
• Grouped products
• Product options
• Tiered pricing upsell
• Availability (inventory)
• Image zoom
• Multiple images for a product

Shipping, Payment and Checkout

• Order tracking.
• Shipping rates calculated by weight, volume, and number of items
• Flat rate and free shipping
• “Bill Me Later” option
• Accept checks, money orders, and POs.
• Integration with multiple payment gateways, including PayPal and Authorize.net
• Invoice billing
• Shipping and tax estimates
• Gift messages (per order, per product)
• Saved shopping carts
• SSL / HTTPS support for orders
• Ship to multiple addresses in a single order
• Checkout as guest or with account
• Single page checkout

Order Management

• New order notifications via email or RSS.
• Order duplication and re-ordering
• Custom Order Statuses
• Call-center order-taking interface and assisted shopping
• Shipping integration and label printing, with real-time rates from UPS, USPS, FedEx, and DHL
• Multiple invoices per order
• View, edit, create and fill orders from backend

Customer Account
– Access to downloadable products.
– Product reviews and tagging history
– Email subscription management
– Reordering
– Order status and history
– Tracking
– Wish list with commenting
Tracking
– Order status and history
– Unlimited Ship-to and Bill-to addresses, with default selection