Miracle of Magento - Multiple store supporting feature

• Magento - an opensource ecommerce + CMS solution. It provids variety of tools for building a successful online shop. One of them is platform for mulitple websites, with different billing counter.
  
  
  It supports :
  
  1) It provides excellent catalog system.
  2) With having backend system - Admin - one can utilize all the feature which an admin wants to control the website.
  3)It also provides Search Engine Optimization - It is 100% Search Engine Friendly, Google SiteMap support.
  4) It provides Analytics and Reporting feature, in which the script is integrated with Google Analytics and so it can support to many different reports.
  5) In addition, provides SSL security with 8-bit encyption.
  6) Google Checkout is pre installed with Magento
  7) Also supports Paypal and Paypal pro
  8) Multiple languages
  9) One page checkout System
  10) Checkout with multiple shipment at different address
  11) Provides Add tag through which everybody can share what they think
  
  
  You must be thinking why Magento is the GURU of all. Its just because Magento 1.2 supports which probably no other open source ecommerce multishop feature.That Means there can be more than one shop created having one brand. And every shop can have there own billing system. Thus through this mulitple shop feature, magento has acccumulated and lured people praise!
  
  By giving simple example : Bigbazar type of website can be easily made by other opensource system like Joomla and x-cart. But A website which contains many shops for one brand,for every website having their own billing counter.
  
  
  Thus Magento is the GURU of all opensource ecommerce + CMS System!
• Enjoy using Magento !!!

Learning Joomla

One of the best advantage of Joomla is it provides platform where multi- vendor can make there shops/websites, having one admin(billing counter).

Joomla - A great open source framework and Content Management System through which one can create a highly interactive website having following features:

• Multilingual website
• Online communities
• Media portals
• blogs
• eCommerce Application

While talking about joomla, how one can forget to talk about VirtuMart - An eCommerce component.

Following are the best video example for joomla and Virtuemart :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdo2xRARh5M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m84gwIzsvCI

Joomla Benefit :

• One of the best advantage of Joomla is that it provides platform where multi vendors can have their website/shops, having one unique admin/billing counter.
  

• In simple term, one can say that its just the case of BigBazar, where there are mulitple stores, but for one brand there is only one shop.
  

Limitations:

• One of the limitation of Joomla - it dont provide platform of multiple seller having one brand and having different billing counter for different website/shops.

• So, for example : One wanted to make such a website where there are mulitple seller for one brand it is not possbile with Joomla.
  

stay tuned…