Magento Developer & Web Design Brisbane – Gold Coast

Magento is an e-commerce web application built with PHP and MySQL and incorporates the Zend Framework. Varien, Magento's developers, originally planned a fork of OsCommerce but decided on a build from scratch instead. Magento is targeted at medium to large retail companies with access to advanced web administration and development skills.

Magento licenses come in two flavours. The community version is free but the only support available is from the Magento Community Forum. The commercial version starts at a whopping $12K per year. However the commercial version offers complete end-to-end support via a Service Level Agreement.

As far as e-commerce platforms go, Magento is at the top of the pile for features and flexibility. Those features demand advanced to expert level web development skills to be flexible though. Magento is also very demanding on server resources. Unless your inventory and customer base are small in numbers, Magento requires a dedicated server to host your site.

v2Media has attempted to host Magento e-commerce on shared hosting solutions but has found that it will hog resources and upset other website owners due to drops in server performance. Varien recommends dedicated hosting and at least 512mb of RAM. You can take that recommendation with a grain of salt as we've clocked Magento eating 1Gig of RAM and pigging out on the swapfile resources.

Magento Development & Web Design at v2Media

v2Media are specialists in helping those who want to migrate their existing e-commerce website to Magento. There are import and export utilities built into Magento, however they are only useful once the data for import has been shaped to Magento's requirements. If your current website is OsCommerce, the importation task is made easier with an OsCommerce importer.

Inventory and customer import is only half of the migration process though. v2Media can also adapt your existing website design into a custom Magento theme. Then there's the sales and inventory email templates, company policy and content pages. All of these tasks take a very long time for first time Magento users. If our migration is on a tight deadline, then v2Media has the experience to meet your deadline.

Custom Magento Development

Do you need to customise Magento to suit your operations?

v2Media can help you with custom Magento development. We have helped customers with a range of needs from retail order pick-lists to order csv file exports for shipping companies, and running multiple ecommerce websites with separate domain names from a single Magento installation.