Magento wasn’t built to be easy
Magento was designed to be powerful, extendable and incredibly detailed– but not easy.
As someone who has developed gigantic Magento multistore shops with 10+ different storefronts, complex product attributes and interdependencies, 50+ brick and mortar locations and 250,000+ products—- trust me there is a reason for it to be as dense, complicated and therefore as difficult as it is.
That’s not to say that Magento is all forethought and genius, it’s incredibly flawed software and particularly because of its complexity and extendability (extensions).
Unless you have $1M+ in annual store sales or more than 1,000 products you should not use Magento; if you have more than a million in sales and more than 1,000 products you probably shouldn’t use anything else. With something like Shopify you’ll never own your software or extensions, never be able to truly customize it and you’ll be stuck behind their walled garden forever, and the longer you stay in their ecosystem the more difficult it is to escape.
Unless you have $1M in store sales or more than 1,000 products you should not use Magento; if you have more than a million in sales and more than 1,000 products you probably shouldn’t use anything else.
Andy Fox
65% of replatforming projects fail— after all the work, designs, consultants, meetings, licenses etc– organizations decide to just stick with what they have. Imagine how much money and man hours are wasted every year on failed replatforming projects worldwide.
So again Magento is not easy, and moreover Magento is not, in my opinion, consumer software— it’s professional software– and unless you are or have access to a very capable Magento developer I would not recommend even beginning a project with Magento. But like I said, for most projects Magento is absolutely overkill– like driving a schoolbus to visit your neighbor.
