Market trends have drastically shifted over the couple of years and to cope up with the emerging business challenges companies have to act smart. Online presence in now a prerequisite to catch audience and quality of brands is often judged by their web stores. For businesses looking to power their e-stores and drive traffic need to choose the right development platform. With hundreds of eCommerce development options available in market, choosing the right platform can be a challenging task. In this blog we are going to analyze the top two PHP based open source eCommerce platforms (Magento and Shopware) that are both widely popular and closely in competition.
According to a report by a Sales Insights Platform, there are currently about 150,157 websites for Magento whereas 1,723 for Shopware ecommerce. Many similar surveys suggest that Magento ecommerce has got clear lead over Shopware in terms of market share and users. The primary reason for Magento’s lead is its orientation for both B2C and B2B sales while Shopware ecommerce focuses more on B2C.
Magento
Shopware
Pricing
Magento ecommerce is usually preferred for large-scale and mid-sized businesses and comes in three different versions. A free to install and use Community Edition, Magento Enterprise that starts from $1,250.00/monthly and Magento 2 Enterprise $1,800.00/month
Shopware ecommerce is usually preferred by small and medium scale businesses with a free to use Community Edition, a profession edition with €1,295.00 (one-time fee) and Professional Plus Edition with €5,995.00 (one-time fee). Shopware Enterprise Edition is also available upon request.
Prominent clients
Mangento ecommerce development is the most popular opensource eCommerce platform used by many large scale companies including Paul Smith, Liverpool FC, Cisco Systems Inc. and Abbott Laboratories.
Shopware is rising. According to a recent survey, hundreds of websites have migrated to shopware ecommerce since 2011. Its prominent users include Loreal, M&M’s and Discovery Channel among others
Ease of use
Magento offfers easy installation and intelligent development features. The system takes about 10-15 minutes to install the base version and take hours to set up. A PHP developer would take no time to get adjusted to the interface.
Shopware too, offers easy installation with user friendly interface. The panel is easy to use but as compared to Magento 2, the later exceeds in providing excellence. Most of the adjustments though can be made without adding any code.
support and Community
Magento offfers easy installation and intelligent development features. The system takes about 10-15 minutes to install the base version and take hours to set up. A PHP developer would take no time to get adjusted to the interface.
Shopware too, offers easy installation with user friendly interface. The panel is easy to use but as compared to Magento 2, the later exceeds in providing excellence. Most of the adjustments though can be made without adding any code.
Theme and design
With more than 1500 free and paid templates, Magento leads the design and rules among other competitors. Furthermore, the latest versions of Magento handle responsiveness automatically that makes e-store development much quicker and easier.
Shopware has a very limited amount of templates on the Shopware store. However, the platform offers excellent customization that can be done with backend programming. Moreover, the shopware story telling feature really stands out from the design perspective.
Supported integrations
Magento supports a lot of third party applications that has made it very feasible for all kinds of businesses. There include Facebook, Twitter, ePay, ERP, BankPayment, COD, eBay, PayOne, MailChimp, WebShopApps MatrixRate, ShipWorks, Live Chat, MageMonkey, Mandrill, osCommerce, Correios, Fontis Australia, BeeTailer, DebitPayment, MigraShop, SOFORT, AddThis, WorldPay, Searchanise GoMage, DHL, Social, Bcash, Ingenico and Zopim.
Shopware comparitively offers a few integrations including MailChimp, Sage Pay, PayPal, PAYTONE, Stripe, PAYMILL, Warecard, Klarna Checkout, Paymorrow, MonkeyData, DHL
Zepto's Tech review
Since the launch of Magento 2 all other eCommerce platforms have fallen short of features and feasibility giving Magento 2 development a good boost. With extensive features, high flexibility and advanced support Magento 2 supports Nginx by default, it works with a lot of tech platforms.
Although Magento has a great lead globally, Shopware has now introduced some really tech-savvy features like story telling and open-source API that makes it to customize third-party solutions. Many businesses are now considering Shopware mostly for the B2C ones but the platform sure is in good competition.
Both Shopware and Magento have incredible features that can be assessed according to your personal business needs. Both of the platforms use MySQL database for data storage to ensure cost and money savings. However, Shopware lacks some enterprise level features and can suit best with B2C oriented businesses.
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