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Magento vs Saleor: What are the differences?

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Magento and Saleor are both popular e-commerce platforms that offer various functionalities and features for online businesses. However, there are several key differences between the two platforms that make them unique and suitable for different types of businesses.

  1. Customization Options: Magento provides extensive customization options, allowing businesses to tailor their online store to their specific needs. It offers a wide range of themes, extensions, and integrations, enabling businesses to create a fully personalized and unique shopping experience. On the other hand, Saleor has a more limited range of customization options, but it focuses on providing a faster and more streamlined development process.

  2. Scalability: Magento is known for its scalability, making it suitable for large businesses with high volumes of traffic and transactions. It can handle thousands of products and millions of visitors without compromising performance. On the other hand, Saleor is more suitable for smaller businesses as it may face limitations when it comes to managing a large number of products or handling high traffic loads.

  3. Architecture: Magento is built on PHP and follows a modular architecture, allowing businesses to easily extend and customize their online stores. It provides a robust and flexible framework that supports complex business requirements. Saleor, on the other hand, is built using Python and GraphQL and follows a microservices architecture. It focuses on simplicity and ease of use, making it a good choice for developers who prefer a more lightweight and modern approach.

  4. Pricing: Magento offers both a free open-source version (Magento Community Edition) and a paid enterprise version (Magento Commerce) with additional features and support. Saleor, on the other hand, is open-source and free to use, which makes it a cost-effective option for small businesses with limited budgets.

  5. Community and Support: Magento has a large and active community of developers and users, providing extensive documentation, forums, and resources for support and troubleshooting. It also has a vast marketplace with thousands of themes and extensions developed by third-party vendors. Saleor, being a newer platform, has a smaller community, but it is growing rapidly and has an active GitHub repository and community forum for support and collaboration.

  6. User Interface and Ease of Use: Magento has a more complex and feature-rich user interface, which may require some level of technical expertise to navigate and manage. It offers a wide range of options and settings, which can be overwhelming for beginners. Saleor, on the other hand, has a simpler and more user-friendly interface, making it easier to set up and manage an online store. It offers a more intuitive and streamlined user experience, which is ideal for businesses that prefer a simpler solution.

In summary, Magento and Saleor have several key differences that make them suitable for different types of businesses. Magento offers extensive customization options, scalability, and a robust architecture, making it ideal for large businesses with complex requirements. Saleor, on the other hand, focuses on simplicity, ease of use, and cost-effectiveness, making it suitable for smaller businesses with limited budgets and technical expertise.

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I am consulting for a company that wants to move its current CubeCart e-commerce site to another PHP based platform like PrestaShop or Magento. I was interested in alternatives that utilize Node.js as the primary platform. I currently don't know PHP, but I have done full stack dev with Java, Spring, Thymeleaf, etc.. I am just unsure that learning a set of technologies not commonly used makes sense. For example, in PrestaShop, I would need to work with JavaScript better and learn PHP, Twig, and Bootstrap. It seems more cumbersome than a Node JS system, where the language syntax stays the same for the full stack. I am looking for thoughts and advice on the relevance of PHP skillset into the future AND whether the Node based e-commerce open source options can compete with Magento or Prestashop.

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Kyle Harrison
Web Application Developer at Fortinet · | 8 upvotes · 25.4K views
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Where im confused is why you think PHP isn't commonly used. It powers the grand majority of the internet, and as a language designed entirely around making websites (as opposed to general purpose languages like Java that have crammed in an http server to make it work for websites too), its a language that's incredibly easy to jump into, and offers a lot of flexibility and versatility on how to navigate web facing challenges.

Also don't kid yourself about the node "one language" ecosystem. You will find yourself often visually confused as you jump between editor tabs which .js is aimed at the browser, and which .js is aimed at the server, and gets even weirder when using js based templating engines. (This is why in my node projects with a front-end, I use Angular, which uses TypeScript),). JS was never intended to run outside of a browser based VM context, its just yet another language we've jimmyrigged an http compatible socket listener into and given filesystem access.

If you're worried about wasting your time jumping into bed with PHP, don't be. Its not only extremely widely used, but after 20 years its still incredibly relevant, high performing (you will be shocked to see how fast php7 actually is), high paying (yes, six figures), and the language itself has evolved leaps and bounds into a multi-paradigm beast of a toolkit bespoke to solving web challenges.

If you liked Spring, check out Symfony sometime. Its a PHP7 web framework that takes a LOT of inspiration from Spring, and pairs up with Doctrine, a PHP7 ORM that takes a great deal of inspiration from Hibernate. The company that makes Symfony, is also the same people behind Twig, which is so ridiculously good and popular, its been ported to pretty much every language including Java and node.

As for free packaged out of the box storefronts, Magento is a total beast of a package, and isn't for the feint of heart. But it is also THE most complete and ridiculously configurable self hostable e-commerce system you'll ever come across. Many web professionals have made entire careers completely around Magento. I am not one of them, but I have used Magento, PrestaShop, and several others, and I keep coming back to Magento. Outside of hosted shops like Shopify, Magento is, as far as I'm concerned, where you wanna be for a totally custom, plug-in based shop front for a website. The only time I'd recommend different, is if a customers website is powered by WordPress, then WooCommerce is where you wanna be.

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anas mattar
Technical Lead at DPO International · | 2 upvotes · 8K views
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I prefer to use Magneto because it open source and has a lot of extensions in it so it's so faster for building a website

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Giovanni Gatto
Developer at Whiskynet · | 3 upvotes · 11.2K views

We were about to migrate our older PHP 7.0 + Symfony 2.8 + Sylius 0.17 based E-commerce site to a more recent PHP stack. We were leaning towards Laravel as that has become our primary Framework in the recent years.

We chose Vanilo because it is so modular that it let us do the migration step by step and we could add the components we needed on the run. In total it took us 9 months to migrate everything from the old PHP 7.0 Symfony codebase to PHP 7.4/Laravel/Vanilo. We could also copy the old Admin theme to Vanilo thus the Admin users don't see any difference.

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David Swift

We devised SwiftERM to generate additional income from existing consumers on ecommerce websites. Available for those using Shopify, Magento, Woocommerce or Opencart, it runs in alongside (not instead of) existing email marketing software like Mailchimp, Drupal or Emarsys. It is 100% automatic so needs zero additional staff. It uses predictive analytics to identify imminent consumer purchases. The average additional turnover achieved is 10.5%. It is the only software in the world authorised to send Trustpilot to send product ratings in outbound emails. Developers and ecommerce retailers are invited to try to it for free, to establish viability this predictive analytics system is. SwiftERM is a certified Microsoft Partner MPN ID 6197468.

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Pros of Magento
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    Open source
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    Robust
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    Powerful
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    Widespread community support
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    E-commerce made easy
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    Mature
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    Flexible
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    Powerful
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    Open source
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    Headless API
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    Offline browsing
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    GraphQL
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    Free

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Cons of Magento
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    System is too complex
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    Slow
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    Processor hungry
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    Poor documentation
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    API should be javascript only, not React or
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    No marketplace b2c or b2b options

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What is Magento?

Magento Community Edition is perfect if you’re a developer who wants to build your own solution with flexible eCommerce technology. You can modify the core code and add a wide variety of features and functionality.

What is Saleor?

Saleor is a rapidly-growing open source e-commerce platform that has served high-volume companies from branches like publishing and apparel since 2012. Based on Python and Django, the latest major update introduces a modular front end powered by a GraphQL API and written with React and TypeScript.

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What are some alternatives to Magento and Saleor?
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is the most popular WordPress eCommerce plugin. And it's available for free. Packed full of features, perfectly integrated into your self-hosted WordPress website.
WordPress
The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
OpenCart
It is an online store management system. It is PHP-based, using a MySQL database and HTML components. Support is provided for different languages and currencies. It is freely available under the GNU General Public License.
BigCommerce
It is a true all-in-one ecommerce platform with the power to grow your business & help you sell more. It empowers you to rise above complexity – and ultimately focus on optimizing your business for growth.
PrestaShop
PrestaShop is written in PHP, is highly customizable, supports all the major payment services, is translated in many languages and localized for many countries, and is fully responsive (both front- and back-office).
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