Magento Community Edition Features

Magento is a very popular shopping cart solution for successful merchants that want to have a robust online store. Their free community edition offers those who can't afford their paid ecommerce solution an opportunity to use many of the same features for free. While this free shopping cart doesn't have as many of the great features as the paid solution, it is still a top choice among many users. See what features are available in the Magento Community Edition with the feature list below

Marketing Promotions and Tools

• Flexible Coupons (pricing rules) with ability to restrict to stores, customer groups, time period, products, and categories.
• Catalog Promotional Pricing

Analytics and Reporting

• Admin Dashboard for Report Overview
• Abandoned Shopping Cart Report
• Best Customers Report by Total and Number of Orders

Search Engine Optimization

• Google Site Map
• URL Rewrites give full control of URL's
• Meta-information for products and categories

Site Management

• Control multiple websites and stores from one Administration Panel
• Web Services API for easy integration between Magento and any third-party application
• A/B and Multivariate Testing

Catalog Management

• Batch Import and Export of catalog
• Google Base Integration
• Downloadable/Digital Products
• Advanced Pricing Rules and support for Special Prices (see marketing tools)

Catalog Browsing

• Layered / Faceted Navigation for filtering of products in Categories
• Layered / Faceted Navigation for filtering of products in Search Results
• Product comparisons
• Product Reviews

Product Browsing

• Multiple Images Per Product

Mobile Commerce

• Phone Optimized

International Support

• Multi-Lingual
• Support for Multiple Currencies

Checkout

• One-Page Checkout
• Checkout without account/Guest Checkout
• Shipping to multiple addresses in one order

Shipping

• Shipping to multiple addresses in one order
• Multiple shipments per order
• Free Shipping

Payment

• Multiple Payment Options Supported
• Payment Extensions Available through Magento Connect
• Configurable authorization and capturing of funds

Customer Service

• Feature-rich Customer Accounts
• Order Tracking from Account

Customer Accounts

• Re-orders from account
• Downloadable Products
• Recently ordered items

Order Management

• View, edit, create and fulfill orders from admin panel.
• Create one or multiple invoices, shipments and credit memos per order to allow for split fulfillment