Magento
Magento is a web shop CMS(Content Management System) that allows you to build a web store. A CMS is the 'back end' of your website or webshop. Especially developers and IT people have to deal with the CMS. So it's okay if you don't immediately understand what a 'webshop CMS' means. In the CMS, pages are created, orders are visible and all functionalities are set up and managed. Basically, the CMS is the basis of your webshop. A webshop CMS such as Magento is a special CMS platform on which companies can run a webshop.
Advantages of Magento as a web shop system
Magento is one of several web shop CMS systems. Besides Magento, other systems include Lightspeed, Prestashop, Shopify and Wordpress in combination with Woocommerce. Many companies still choose Magento when starting their webshop, as Magento offers the following advantages:
- The most comprehensive base of all webshop systems to build on
- Huge amount of freedom and possibilities for a good webshop
- First, you can build almost anything yourself, as long as you have a little knowledge of programming
- The ability to link multiple web shops to one "back end" (backend), allowing you to easily switch between and work on the web stores
- Ability to incorporate specific modifications/additions to your website
There are already many parties that work with Magento, this allows you to easily create integrations and links. On the one hand, you would expect that many websites look alike that work with Magento. But the opposite is actually the case! Thanks to the power to create the most unique looking webshop possible, webshops made in Magento are not recognizable next to each other.
