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| The world’s fastest growing ecommerce platform |
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Magento is an advanced ecommerce platform which can be operated on many skill levels.
Versatility and Freedom; Magento can be run as an "out of the box" self build shopping cart, or can be run as a platform behind your own bespoke website managed by The Works. We offer Magento setup and hosting services, all the way through to custom building and managing your ecommerce website, which will run on the powerful and stable platform.
With basic PC skills you can manage and run your successful online store, those with more experience can explore advanced aspects of the software, all the way to developer level.
The software is know in the industry as the "platform for growth" which means your website will always be current in today’s fast paced and evolving technical world.
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| Why We Choose Magento |
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We started working with open source shopping carts in 2006, we developed our own version of osCommerce and heavily modified it to run as an advanced online store.
As technology has improved and innovations are so fast moving in the online world, we realised that osCommerce was quickly been "left behind", although it boasts many advantages such as its easy operation and wide range of modules available, development didn’t keep up to date.
There are many versions of osCommerce re-written such as Zencart, CRE loaded, however Magento has so much more to offer and in our opinion is in a league of its own!
The quality and feel of the Magento product is instantly recognisable as a true state of the art shopping cart. It is used by many well known businesses around the world, and has had over 1.5 million downloads with over £20 Billion in transactions.
Our honest opinion of Magento is; "a powerful and professional sales tool in the right hands", when it is installed correctly on a dedicated custom built server it is an impressive package. Poorly installed versions, on incompatible or shared servers render the product unstable and slow.
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Magento is an open-source ecommerce web application launched on March 31, 2008. It was created by Varien, building on components of the Zend Framework.
Varien, the company that owns Magento, formerly worked with osCommerce (one of the first open source shopping carts available). They originally planned to fork osCommerce but later decided to rewrite it as Magento.
Magento officially started development in early 2007 Seven months later on August 31, 2007, the first public beta version was released.
The German magazine t3n featured Magento in the December 2007 edition.
In March 2008, Magento was selected to present at the Under the Radar: The Business of Web Apps conference, where it won the audience favourite
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