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Our Competition:

SearchFit vs. Magento Shopping Cart*

What does Magento have to offer?

Magento offers both a paid and free version of their e-commerce platform. For this comparison, we will compare their free version to SearchFit.

The Magento Community e-commerce platform contains a robust core feature offering and can integrate with many plugins. Because the Community edition is free, it allows store owners the ability to pick and choose which features they need most and use a plugin either paid or free, to meet that need. The core feature set allows for many basic features such as Compare Products, Dynamic Filters, Product Reviews, Upsell Product and Promotions. Its publishing and design features offer theming and responsive design abilities. Its SEO features include full control over meta content at the category and product levels, and it can generate an automated XML sitemap.

How Does Magento compare to SearchFit’s features?

General
SearchFit
Magento

Fee charged based as a percentage of your revenue
Yes
No

Bandwidth included in Premium Shared Hosting Package
Yes
No

Reliable Customer Support & Help Documentation
Yes
No

Hosting & Setup Included
Yes
No

Administration
SearchFit
Magento

Reporting
Yes
Yes

Built-In Analytics
Yes
No

User Cart Administration Permissions by User Role
Yes
Yes

User Cart Administration Permissions Per User
Third Party
Third Party

Customer Friendly Shopping
SearchFit
Magento

Advanced Learning Search including Facets & Auto-Complete
Yes
No

Advanced Search
Yes
No

Compare Products
Yes
Yes

Dynamic, Filterable Menu
Yes
Yes

Product Reviews
Yes
Yes

Upsell Page & Promotion Popup during Checkout
Yes
Yes

View & Repeat Past Orders
Yes
Yes

Sell in Any Language and Currency
Yes
Yes

Automatic Shop By Brand Categories
Yes
No

Marketing – Integrations
SearchFit
Magento

Automated Export to Google Base
Yes
Third Party

Google Adwords Integration
Yes
Yes

Bing Shopping Feed
Yes
Third Party

PriceGrabber Feed
Yes
Third Party

Shopzilla Feed
Yes
Third Party

Marketing Reports
SearchFit
Magento

Affiliate & Seller Commissions Reporting
Yes
Third party

Marketing
SearchFit
Magento

Rebates
Yes
No

WordPress – Integrations
SearchFit
Magento

WordPress Plugin
Yes
Third Party

Mobile
SearchFit
Magento

Dedicated Mobile with same URL’s
Yes
No

Resposive design coming soon
Yes
Yes

Social – Integrations
SearchFit
Magento

Open Graph Protocol
Yes
Third Party

SEO
SearchFit
Magento

Full Control Over All Page Names, Titles, and Metatags
Yes
Yes

Adjustable Naming Rules for All Page Names, Titles, and Metatags
Yes
No

Automated XML Sitemap
Yes
Yes

Order Management
SearchFit
Magento

Drop Shipping System
Yes
Third Party

Single User Order Management
Yes
Yes

Multi User Order Management
Yes
Third Party

Automatic Order Exports
Yes
Third Party

Automatic Order Status Update Imports
Yes
Third Party

Order Management Integrations
SearchFit
Magento

FullCircle
Yes
Third Party

Shipworks
Yes
Third Party

ShipWire
Yes
Third Party

StoneEdge
Yes
Third Party

SalesForce
Yes
Third Party

QuickBooks
Yes
Third Party

MaxMind
Yes
Third Party

Axsess
Yes
No

Epicor Eagle
Yes
Third Party

API Integrations
SearchFit
Magento

Web Services including Order Data Retrieval, Product Data Update & Retrieval, & More
Yes
Yes

Products
SearchFit
Magento

Downloadable eProducts with unique registration numbers
Yes
No

Dynamic, Filterable Menu  
Yes
Yes

Combined Sku’s
Yes
No

Wish List
Yes
Yes

Gift Cards
Yes
Third Party

Automated Product Exports
Yes
No

Automated Product Imports
Yes
Third Party

Google Analytics
SearchFit
Magento

Google Analytics Integration
Yes
Yes

Google Analytics Advanced Ecommerce
Yes
Third Party

Google Analytics Remarketing
Yes
Third Party

Sub Stores
SearchFit
Magento

Publish Multiple Stores from the Same Database/Control Panel
Yes
Yes

Sub Stores May Use Different Templates, Category Names, Product Names
Yes
No

Offer Separate Products on sub Stores
Yes
Yes

B2B
SearchFit
Magento

Freight
Yes
Yes

Publish Access Restricted Website
Yes
Third Party

Tiered Pricing
Yes
Third Party

Member Group Pricing
Yes
Yes

Settings – Shipping
SearchFit
Magento

Create Custom Flat Rate Shipping Tables
Yes
Yes

Create Custom Shipping Scripts
Yes
No

Freight
Yes
Yes

Shipping Zones
Yes
Third Party

Settings – Tax
SearchFit
Magento

Tax Zones
Yes
Yes

Final Analysis?

While the core feature set of the Community edition is sound, it is minimal. And, the a la cart plugin ability to select various features has drawbacks. Although, the team maintaining Magento has solid standards for their plugins, each plugin must be maintained or debugged for your store by the company that wrote it. Magento does not include hosting for either version of their software. This means store owners must either install the software on a server themselves, or outsource this service. In addition, server maintenance is also the store owner’s responsibility.

Why Choose SearchFit?

Rich Feature Set

Each SeachFit package includes 99% of all features offered, server configuration, hosting and server maintenance. Support for any of the features used in any of the packages comes from a single source, the SearchFit Support Team. You can contact the support team via email, forum, or by creating a support ticket. Right from the start every feature is available to be used.

SearchFit outpaces Magento in other areas as well. Although Magento provides the ability to edit each meta content field, SearchFit’s SEO Naming Rules feature allows a store owner to set rules for every page to pull from specific database fields allowing a store owner consistency and control over all types of pages’ meta content, urls, category names, product name, manufacture names and image names.

For store owners who need to publish multiple websites from a single shopping cart, SearchFit is an excellent fit. From a single SearchFit installation, a store owner can publish numerous websites, with each website using their own domain name, product offering, or product content, pricing, and template allowing store owners the ability to expand their reach from a single cart.

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