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I am new in magento. I want to make a site in which approximately million products should be uploaded and can also handle around 20 million customers like as in flipkart or snapdeal etc.

Is magento platform will fulfill my requirement or i will go for some other framework?

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  • You can opt for Magento enterprise edition. I have worked on a project which had 28 Lakh products in catalog. – Mukesh Jul 01 '15 at 11:02
  • Thanks muk. Can you please send me any reference link so that i can know more about the enterprise edition and can clear my doubts – Prince Jul 01 '15 at 11:08
  • But magento enterprise edition is payable around $15,500. Whether it is valid for life time once it is purchased or some time limit is there? – Prince Jul 01 '15 at 11:30
  • @Prince your question is based on suggestion and opinion. What Muk said is correct but you must analyse enterprise edition to check its feasibility with your requirement. Also how would you go on uploading 10 lakh of products and manage 2 crore users ? – Slimshadddyyy Jul 01 '15 at 11:32
  • Yes enterprise edition is fulfilling my requirement. Its our requirement as per our client so would u please tell me whether enterprise edition is valid for life time or for a year once it is purchased? can you please explain – Prince Jul 01 '15 at 11:39
  • @Prince Got to this link http://magento.com/products/overview#enterprise Request for a demo. – Mukesh Jul 01 '15 at 11:39
  • Ya i already go through this. But I am confused in price system for enterprise edition. Can you please clear me out. – Prince Jul 01 '15 at 11:43
  • @Prince http://enterprise.magento.com/explore/contact-sales Using the details given on this link you can contact Magento for pricing.They will surely help you. – Mukesh Jul 01 '15 at 11:45
  • As you have said before that u have already worked in enterprise edition so you better know about the price system for enterprise edition – Prince Jul 01 '15 at 12:16

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What is Magento Enterprise Edition?

Let's start with the basics: Magento EE is not an 'inexpensive' solution. It costs about a $16,000 a year (check Magento's website for specifics).

So, what do you get for this investment? Among other items:

  • A mobile-friendly store
  • A service level agreement (SLA) with Magento for support (see the note below)
  • Improved search functionality with Solr: definitely a worthwhile investment given the poor default search in Community Edition!
  • Full page caching: simply, your website loads faster. And faster websites mean more sales.
  • Enhanced content management and catalogue management tools

It's worth noting that the support provided by the SLA is limited to Magento's core, whereas in my experience, problems are often caused by third party extensions installed which would then require additional development time at extra cost to fix.

So, is Magento Enterprise Edition for you?

If you're planning a ground breaking store and you turn over more than around £100,000 – £200,000 per year, then probably!

The enhanced search feature, catalogue (product) management tools and page caching itself are probably worth the fee alone.

However, if you're operating on a smaller scale, that money may be better invested by retaining your Magento Community Edition store, and looking at site improvements to improve your conversion rate and search engine optimisation of key pages in your website.

Some useful links

MAGENTO ENTERPRISE DEMO REQUEST

Magento General and Enterprise Feature List

Comparison Chart

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  • ok i agree. But is it possible to upload huge no of products in community edition......The site will hang and too slow as well – Prince Jul 01 '15 at 12:26
  • @Prince you can not have the best of both worlds. The key is to carefully evaluate your current needs and long-term plans to find the right solution for you. Once you make that selection, the next step is to determine how you will manage the data flow between Magento, your other sales channels and your back-end systems – Slimshadddyyy Jul 01 '15 at 12:44
  • Enterprise Edition (EE) is the same as Community (CE) but with added features like those listed above. It does nothing to help with the number of records, that is most likely limited by the performance of your MySQL server. Both editions work with MySQL in the same way (except for Solr search). – clockworkgeek Jul 01 '15 at 13:01
  • @ clockworkgeek yes i understand but if i am using community edition then in future i will face a lot of problems mainly for site loading and for speed. It is ok if i will go for opencart...........what do you say? – Prince Jul 01 '15 at 13:13
  • As opencart provides features like Unlimited Categories Unlimited Products Unlimited Manufacturers Multi Currency Multi Language Product Reviews Product Ratings Open Source Free Documentation Templatable Automatic Image Resize 20+ Payment Gateways 8+ Shipping Methods – Prince Jul 01 '15 at 13:14
  • I have not used opencart so cannot say. There are plenty of blogs on the net which compare these better than I ever could. – clockworkgeek Jul 01 '15 at 13:41
  • @Prince whichever framework you choose, you might face speed issues. There could be 101 ways to speed up your 'X framework ' e-commerce website. Google is using site speed in web search ranking. Speed is important for your site, and not only for Google but mainly for the User Experience (UX) on your site irrespective of the framework you are using. – Slimshadddyyy Jul 02 '15 at 04:33