Drupal Commerce vs Magento - Outlier

hi my name is Jed and I'm a partner haired outlier and I also had our dev team especially in the e-commerce realm one of the first questions I get asked a lot is to compare of Magento to Drupal commerce so I want to discuss that at outliar we are a Drupal development shop we have standardized on Drupal since Drupal 4.7 back in 2007 we did a shoot out we did a test between WordPress expression engine Joomla Drupal OS commerce x-cart a number of products Drupal one because you can easily customize it as a developer Drupal was the one option that let us use the product and customize it with our own skillset with Magento you wouldn't have to have a lot of developer skills you can install Magento and you're gonna have an e-commerce store right out of the box Magento is meant to be that product it is a product where Drupal Commerce is meant to be a product and an API and the difference is when you install Drupal commerce it may not look as much like a stores Magento you're still gonna have that options to add products and prices there is a cart there is a checkout procedure but it's expected that your developer is going to do some configuration we have developed Magento sites I can remember a situation where the customer wanted a portion of the profile that was sent in the email customized and this should be easy but what we found were parts of this feature were hard-coded into Magento you could use the standard customization features found in Magento to change the verbage but not the functionality this made this small feature request more difficult and more expensive for the customer we've written a blog post about it and that's become one of our most popular blog posts so many developers out there are trying to solve that same small issue and struggling so hard you're not going to have that with Drupal the small changes are gonna be easy and the big ideas are going to be possible and that's why we choose Google commerce and we hope your next e-commerce project you'll consider outliar and Drupal commerce you

Channel: Outlier

Views: 6,158

Rating: 4.875 out of 5

Keywords: Drupal (Software), Magento (Software), Web Development (Interest), Web Design (Interest), drupal commerce, Software (Industry), creative agency portland, drupal developer portland, drupal development portland, drupal vs magento, drupal ecommerce opinion, web development in drupal

Id: bldsv_Ld_qc

Length: 2min 6sec (126 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 03 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/nvahalik]

This is a great video. In a little over 2 minutes, it gives a clear picture of the developer experiences of Magento and Drupal Commerce. While there are plenty of other scenarios that parallel the experience Outlier had with Magento, this offered a reachable example for those who might be interested.

[u/mr-nice_guy]

The beauty of the Drupal Commerce approach is quite under appreciated. Things like disengaging the product entity from the product display page and using rules to handle purchase workflows creates so much flexibility it tingles. But off course this leads to an even steeper learning curve.

Drupal Commerce is awesome and Commerce 2 will be unstoppable.

[u/Toast42]

I have my Dev+ certification for Magento and did a few years of Magento development. I've only picked up Drupal in the last 3 months.

The bit about being unable to customize the customer email in Magento is wrong. The "popular" blog post from the video breaks Magento best practices by editing core code. This failure to grasp the basics explains why they think it's hard-coded and makes me question how much time they spent actually learning Magento.

After seeing this video, I would never hire this company for any development, Drupal or Magento. Editing core files is bad enough, but a blogpost encouraging this behavior is just dumb.

Magento and Drupal seem to share a lot of common design practices, and Magento is definitely the more mature framework (if only because it uses classes). But unless you're setting up a multimillion dollar ecommerce site, I wouldn't recommend it. I think Drupal's admin is more powerful and easier to use, and most small ecommerce sites will never take full advantage of Magento's features. Plus there's no paid version of Drupal that houses the best features.

tl;dr: The only thing that sucks worst than Magento development is this company. Obvious blogspam is obvious. Stick with Drupal unless you really know Magento and need the features it offers.