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Magento vs Easy Digital Downloads: What are the differences?

Developers describe Magento as "Flexible eCommerce solutions, a vibrant extensions marketplace and an open global ecosystem". Magento Community Edition is perfect if you’re a developer who wants to build your own solution with flexible eCommerce technology. You can modify the core code and add a wide variety of features and functionality. On the other hand, Easy Digital Downloads is detailed as "The easiest way to sell digital products through WordPress". It is a complete eCommerce solution for WordPress. Use it right out of the box or tailor it to your business with add-ons.

Magento and Easy Digital Downloads belong to "Ecommerce" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Magento are:

  • Analytics and Reporting
  • Product Browsing
  • Catalog Browsing

On the other hand, Easy Digital Downloads provides the following key features:

  • Choose Buy Now or Add to Cart buttons
  • Customize action button text
  • Allow potential customer cart saving

Magento and Easy Digital Downloads are both open source tools. It seems that Magento with 7.84K GitHub stars and 6.81K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Easy Digital Downloads with 706 GitHub stars and 424 GitHub forks.

Decisions about Easy Digital Downloads and Magento
David Swift

We devised SwiftERM to generate additional income from existing consumers on ecommerce websites. Available for those using Shopify, Magento, Woocommerce or Opencart, it runs in alongside (not instead of) existing email marketing software like Mailchimp, Drupal or Emarsys. It is 100% automatic so needs zero additional staff. It uses predictive analytics to identify imminent consumer purchases. The average additional turnover achieved is 10.5%. It is the only software in the world authorised to send Trustpilot to send product ratings in outbound emails. Developers and ecommerce retailers are invited to try to it for free, to establish viability this predictive analytics system is. SwiftERM is a certified Microsoft Partner MPN ID 6197468.

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Pros of Easy Digital Downloads
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      Open source
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      Robust
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      Powerful
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      Widespread community support
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      E-commerce made easy
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      Mature
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      Flexible

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    Cons of Easy Digital Downloads
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        System is too complex
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      What is Easy Digital Downloads?

      It is a complete eCommerce solution for WordPress. Use it right out of the box or tailor it to your business with add-ons.

      What is Magento?

      Magento Community Edition is perfect if you’re a developer who wants to build your own solution with flexible eCommerce technology. You can modify the core code and add a wide variety of features and functionality.

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