Magento DropShipping

Magento is an open source and free shopping cart system for eCommerce sellers to build their own web store. Written using the popular PHP language, it’s simple to setup, flexible and there are plenty of themes and extensions available to suit your business’ needs, no matter what.

First released in 2008, Magento was acquired by Adobe for $.68 billion in May 2018, Magento’s code has been downloaded more than 2.5 million times, and it’s currently on version 2.0 as of November, 2015.

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How Magento is different from other shopping carts?

With a company as big as Adobe behind it, not to mention the fact it’s used by 31.4% of the top 100,000 eCommerce sites, Magento is definitely a capable solution. But being an open source product, you can either buy a package that includes support and hosting to get you up and running, or you can arrange hosting separately and install and configure it yourself (depending on how technical you are). This means you’ll also need to be confident promoting your site and brand, rather than relying on your marketplace as you would on eBay, for example, to promote.

Why Dropship with Magento?

Magento is a powerful and flexible solution for eCommerce websites. As such, if you’re developing a strong brand and curating a relationship with your customers, it and its plugins (plus a developer, possibly), give you all the tools you need to create a world class online store.

Pros and Cons of Magento DropShipping

When you need to set up a new eCommerce website, there are some solid reasons to use Magento – although there are some serious challenges too.

Pros:

  • Powerful and customisable
  • Used by over 31% of the top 100,000 eCommerce websites
  • Thousands of plugins and modules to customise, both free and paid

The challenges that you’ll face are significant: you’ll require either support within your team, or a good quality support and hosting package to maintain it at its peak, while because it is a stand-alone webstore, you’re responsible for design, promotion and customer relationship management from end to end.