Additional Info about Magento & Redstage

In the past few years since the launch of the Magento E-commerce platform, Varien, the developers of the solution have revolutionized the world of e-commerce. Magento is an incredible step forward for businesses everywhere, allowing them access to an extremely powerful system with thousands of extensions and a feature set that traditionally would cost a fortune.

Now, e-commerce businesses can use Magento to run their online stores and the cost of the platform is FREE. Magento offers some of the most advanced features which usually were reserved for the largest e-commerce businesses. Now, any e-commerce business can use Magento and offer features like one-page checkout, shipping to multiple addresses in one order, and multiple payment options.

This is such a step up from what the e-commerce industry had seen before, Magento's popularity skyrocketed. Here you can see a chart from Google Trends that shows how popular Magento has become in the past 3 years or so:



Magento is not only popular, but has been very well received by the business and development communities. Many large corporations are switching to Magento and there are more choosing the Magento platform every day. Here at Redstage, we chose to specialize in Magento for one simple reason... it's Awesome! Seriously, compared to most of what's out there, you will not find a better open source system with even half the features.

Well, what features are really important, and why? What makes Magneto so great?

There are a ton of reasons that Magento is an amazing platform for e-commerce.

• Magento offers advanced marketing promotions and marketing tools including coupons and promo-pricing.
• Magento is iPhone optimized! The iPhone is one of the most popluar smart phones of all time and mobile commerce is widely thought of as the next game changer. It's exciting that Magento offers this capabiltity, so e-commerce business owners using Magento can be a step ahead of their competition.
• Almost no other platform available allows buyers to choose multiple addresses to ship to per order. Magento does! This works great during the holidays when customres are shopping for family members and want to send items to different locations.
• The Magento backed is extremely powerful. The admin section offers analytics, order management, customer managemtn and much more.
• Magento is SEO friendly! The sytem automatically generates a Google Sitemap and creates (very) SEO friendly URLs (plus more!).
• Magento has multi-language support for international businesses.

...and so much more!

The system is incredibly powerful. The combination of the features offered by Magento plus the marketing, design and development expertise offered by Redstage Networks is a great choice for your e-commerce business. Contact us today to learn more!