We’ll be frank — running on e-commerce portal is no easy task. There is an abundance of factors you must carefully consider and each one of them play a crucial role in deciding the success of the venture. However, no consideration is quite as important as the system you build your e-commerce portal on.
While the platform you start off the e-commerce portal with may have served your business’ requirements initially, there’s a good chance that you will face issues with it that will make you reconsider your choice of platform. If you are at that point, it is indeed time to jump ship and adopt a more reliable system, like Magento 2.
However, before you make the switch to Magento 2, here are some things that you must give thought to first.
1. Pick the version you need: Since the company offers the Magento platform in two versions, namely, an Open Source edition and the Commerce edition — a premium iteration of the offering with two distinct monthly payment grades. It may help to know that Magento Commerce provides additional enterprise-level features right from the start. Besides that, it also offers better flexibility and scope for customizations.
Also, keep in mind that both Magento Commerce and Magento Open Source offer a varying set of features. It means you will be able to decide which one of the two versions is better suited for your business’ requirements.
2. Hosting: The next step in the process is selecting a hosting solution. It can be especially challenging since there is virtually an abundance of hosting solutions for websites in the market. Nonetheless, it is imperative to select a hosting partner that specializes in Magento. The other factor you must mull over is the cost of the hosting plan.
3. Design and theme: The next aspect of assessing and analyzing before you make a decision is a design and theme. It is vital since it has a significant impact on how the end product, i.e., the e-commerce store, turns out and the kind of customer experience it enables and delivers.
Based on the design strategy that your website currently uses, you might want to consider sitting down with the development company you are working with to discuss using a new theme for the Magento website. Though it might sound like a massive task, rest assured that an expert team will be sure to leverage some of your existent media assets on the new website to either be at par with the current design or devise an entirely new look and feel for the site.
4. Data backup: Do not forget to formulate a plan about how you will back up and preserve the current e-commerce website along with the content on it. Besides that, also put together a strategy for building frequent backups of the new Magento 2 website.
We understand that developing an e-commerce store using Magento, irrelevant of the version you pick, can seem a bit daunting. But if you keep these pointers in mind, the process will be significantly simplified.
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