Did You Know? New eCommerce Solution, Magento
After a request from a potential client with three websites and wanting each to have a similiar eCommerce solution. Knowing that VirtueMart or OS Commerce wasn’t able to provide one common database for three seperate websites, I suggested a product named Magento.
Magento is an open-source e-Commerce package, that primarily aims to pickup and improve where OS Commerce, Joomla + VirtueMart, and Zen Cart left off - streamlining a CMS (Content Management System) and E-commerce shopping cart. This also means built-in SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Paypal and Google Checkout integration, varied customer groups, and much more.
However what most interested the client was, you are able to control multiple websites shopping carts from one installation of Magento. This is a great feature that is already included in Magento?s out-of-the-box functionality.
Gap.com has recently updated its homepage to reflect an exciting new feature on its sites that allows users to shop Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, and Piperlime using a single checkout process for all stores.