Varien, the company behind Magento, has introduced the Magento Enterprise version in a webcast which, according to our knowledge, is the first shopping system with integrated event and invitation module for shopping club concepts:
The implementation (construction and maintenance of the events, etc.) is relatively straightforward. It remains to be seen if this is a solution for specialists with a multitude of events - and the corresponding volume of pictures and data.
This is however, certainly an option for merchants with a regular shop who would like to run a club on the side for clearing out overstock items, etc. Portero Private is the first club based on the Magento solution:
The Magento Enterprise version should cost $8,900 per year for a production server license and $2,225 per year for a non-production server license.
Amongst the new features are for example, gift certificates in variable denominations which customers can issue and then send to their friends by email or post.
Besides the Enterprise version, a free open source Community Edition will continue to be available. This version has recently celebrated its first birthday.
Magento has brought new impetus to the e-commerce scene in its first year, although continues to take flak due to performance issues. At the time of this post however, we haven’t heard of any independent performance tests which objectively clarifies this issue (such as case with Oxid or other open source solutions).
Addtional information on the Enterprise Edition in the German blog from Alexander Ringsdorff.
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Originally posted in German by Jochen Krisch, adapted for excitingcommerce.com by Jason Soo.
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