Plans range from the entry-level $15/month (titled “Get Going”, which is limited to 3 administrative accounts, 100 SKU’s, 200MB of storage and 4GB bandwidth) to the $125/month (“Go Anywhere”, which includes 30 administrative accounts, up to 10,000 SKU’s, 5GB of storage, 32GB of bandwidth and a custom SSL certificate).

Magento Go’s web-based visual store designer allows you to select from a limited number of design templates, customize your store’s design and upload your own logo. Ciplex can help your business develop a fully custom web presence for your Magento Go storefront with custom HTML, CSS and interactive JavaScript effects. Once your fully custom Magento Go storefront is launched, you’ll be ready to leverage Ciplex’s industry-leading ongoing SEO and social media marketing services.

On the subject of marketing and customer engagement, Magento Go delivers a full suite of tools, including customized polls, product comparison charts, customer-driven ratings and reviews, wish lists, and configurable product recommendations. Need immediate onsite SEO? Magento Go gives you full control over each product’s url, meta tags, keywords and titles. The site map and Google Site Map are generated and updated automatically. Magento Go works extremely well with targeted marketing campaigns, allowing you to create customized landing pages for unique products and special offers.

What is the right Magento package for my business?

If you want to manage multiple storefronts from a singe administrative interface and have more advanced control over CMS content elements and design, you’re going to want to go with a customized Magento CE, Pro or Enterprise installation.

Magento Community Edition (CE) is 100% free and offers a wide range of community-developed plug-ins. As with most open-source plugins, it is a good idea to use an experienced Magento development firm like Ciplex to ensure that your Magento CE extensions function properly and follow today’s best practices for reliability and system security. Magento CE does not include a warranty or complementary support from Magento. However, a customized installation of Magento CE can deliver all of the needs your business requires if recurring expenses are a budgetary concern.

Magento Professional plans start at $2,995 per year and include PCI compliant features, warranty, and support.

Magento Enterprise plans start at $12,990 per year and include Enterprise Features such as Magento’s exclusive CMS, Rich Merchandising Suite, Gift Registries, email autoresponder, assisted shopping (which allows your customer service representatives to edit your customers’ shopping cart contents), and more. Enterprise customers will also receive Magento’s complete end-to-end product support with world-class Service Level Agreements.

Small business owners will want to consider the Magento Go eCommerce solution for near-immediate results, attractive price points and hassle-free hosting. Magento Go does not support the community-generated plugins for Magento CE, however, Magento Go offers a rich and powerful suite of CMS, SEO, marketing and design tools right out of the box. Magento Go, coupled with some award-winning design work by Ciplex, will help your business launch a unique and competitive Magento eCommerce website in record time.