One of the biggest questions that businesses have when evaluating software platforms is scalability. Will it work when my traffic doubles? Will it work in two years when my sales quadruple? Will I have to overpay for it now in exchange for confidence that it will work later? Magento, one of the world’s most popular ecommerce platforms, is a solution for just that problem.

Magento comes in a few versions, with easy transition into the next more robust version as your ecommerce store scales up. The base version of Magento is completely open source and allows for simple to complex shopping carts. Since it is open source, you generally host it yourself and are allowed to customize any part of the platform you need, from design to shipping options to pretty much anything you might want to tweak. As you need more features, you can upgrade to the Magento business and enterprise editions for more power and support.

Our developers have built a number of Magento sites using both stock themes and custom themes. We are experts at integrating Magento into existing informational sites built on platforms like Jooma or Wordpress. When working on such integrations we pay attention to two main things: seamless user account transition, and seamless interface design. For the former we specialize in creating Magento user “bridges” which allow users to automatically sign in with their existing account on your website. For the latter we specialize in designing Magento themes that mimic your existing site, so users don’t even realize they have moved to a different backend platform.