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Magento 2 Community Edition and Enterprise Edition -What Suits You Best?
With countless platforms for your new ecommerce website, it is very important to find the best that can meet your business needs accordingly. However, if you have found Magento to be your clear leader just like thousands of merchants all over the globe, then you are really starting right. www.idslogic.com
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But you must first choose the edition of Magento that suits your specific company needs. There are two main editions in Magento: the Community Edition (CE) which is free of charge while the other one is the Enterprise Edition (EE) that offers a wide variety of features not included in the free edition. Most merchants often face with the question while moving to Magento 2 is that which version to go with.
Here, let us discuss this in details about both the versions, so that your task to select the best one becomes easier.
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Free v/s paid: the license cost
Starting with the basic difference between Magento 2 CE and EE edition, the CE continues to be free, but the EE pricing structure is usually revised and is linked to the company’s annual turnover. What you pay also depends on how big your business in and how much you earn. Since the license cost is fixed, CE is better for small medium merchants while EE is good for big brands. www.idslogic.com
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Performance and scalability: When it is all about the performance of the site, then EE makes it easy for your site to expand and grow without any limits. There is multiple database support that can be used for order management, products or checkout etc. EE also offers great options to deploy your software through Enterprise cloud that increases the speed of deployment dramatically.
Besides these, EE also supports faster inventory updates enhancing the performance during checkout even more efficient. Full page caching is another important benefit and it allows a smoother shopping experience on the site. www.idslogic.com
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Loyalty and customer management:
In Magento 2 CE edition, if you are willing to add any other feature other than the customer attributes, you have to buy an extension to do that. But with the EE, you will have the built in functionality that enables you to manage customer attributes from the admin very easily. Based on the type of your business, the functionalities can be handy for those who have large stores and catalogues and also need different attributes / classes for each.
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The MQF (Message Queue Framework) in the enterprise edition allows the modules to easily publish messages to queues. Another benefit of EE is the gift option that gives customers the choice to select different wrappings or messages for the items ordered.
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Recommend, up sell and cross sell:
The enterprise edition allows you to recommend your products and services to your entire customer base or even for few specific segments by using the advanced rule based product-relations functionality. CE also includes the up sell or cross sell, but this is a manual process that requires you to link to each other. It is manageable with few products, but it becomes very difficult with large product portfolios. www.idslogic.com
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With EE, you can easily create advanced rule based product relations for cross sell and up sell, etc.
Extensive management tools: You will get the support of advanced permissions in Magento EE that will allow the administrators to control and also view certain actions that are carried by individual admin users. It also offers return management authorization that gives the customers the ability to initiate the return process according to the rules that are set and with the RMA, the entire return process becomes automated as it runs out step by step instructions for returning the product.
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Navigation and shopping experience:
Magento 2 EE has significant improvements in the shopping experience and navigation. It allows you to configure advanced search by using Solr where it stands as a full text search server like Tomcat and Jetty. EE offers improvements in the following navigation aspects like short and fast checkout and advanced content management. When it is about content management, both the Magento 2 versions offer the ability to manage it effectively from the admin panel.
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Visual merchandizer to boost conversions:
The enterprise edition comes with a visual merchandizer tool and the automated sorting rules and the drag and drop interface makes it convenient for businesses to organize the category pages to feature the highest margin products, best sellers, newest products and etc. The tools can dramatically save your precious time by automatically assigning the products and categories that are based on the pre-set rules and also help in conversion boosting. www.idslogic.com
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Support: The Magento 2 Enterprise edition offer great Magento hosting and support that focuses on security and also gives an easy access to the experts who provide consultations and technical advice. The support includes technical, security, account management, etc. and this helps the users to spend less time in troubleshooting issues with help from the technical team and some specific diagnostic tools. Though both Magento 2 editions have their own features and functionalities, it is based on your business objectives and needs that you need to select the best edition that severs your purpose. www.idslogic.com
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