Magento
Magento is an open-source e-commerce platform written in PHP that provides online merchants with a flexible system for managing product catalogs, shopping carts, checkout, and order processing. It was created by Varien and first released in 2008. The product gained prominence in the e-commerce community and was later acquired by eBay in 2010, with further development under eBay and, in 2018, Adobe acquiring Magento for about $1.68 billion to integrate it into the Adobe Experience Cloud.
Magento is available in two editions: Magento Open Source (formerly Community Edition) and Magento Commerce (formerly
Technically, Magento is built with PHP and uses MySQL or MariaDB for data storage. It employs a
Key features include catalog management with multiple product types, pricing and promotions, customer accounts, order management,