What is Magento? Why Magento?

Magento, created by a company called Varien, is the most affordable e-commerce platform that will change the way people do business online. It has the best out-of-the-box e-commerce module to help you to scale up your e-shop or e-business as big as you want. With cutting edge features like product tagging and multi-address shipping and minimal hassles of third-party integration, Magento is a must-have for all business owners.

6 reasons why you can trust Magento software:

• It has won several awards including InfoWorld Bossie Awards and SourceForge.net's prestigious "Best New Project 2008"
• It is distributed as an open source solution under the OSL 3.0 (Open Software License). In other words, the software is totally free to download and use
• It is currently growing at the fastest rate in the market, with more than 30,000 community members and over 1,000,000 downloads to date
• It has unrivalled cutting edge features that is completely flexible and scalable with different modules and third-party solutions
• Its shopping cart functions are distinguished by cutting edge features, rivalling that of OSCommerce, Zen Cart or Cubecart
• It is backed by a company with highly innovative designers, developers and project managers with a proven track record of more than 15 years of e-commerce experience and a strong online community in Magento Connect