Sylius Is Ruffling Feathers in the Ecommerce Industry – But Can it Rub Shoulders With Magento?

Sylius is a powerful open source ecommerce platform built on Symfony. It looks like one of the better choices for developers and business and as Sylius v1.0.0 is released, a lot of discussions have been going on on social platforms about it. I read a thread on Reddit in which people are comparing it with Magento. So I decided to test Sylius myself to understand what the hype is all about, and I’m going to discuss what I find and I’ll also tell you about all the features Sylius has! But before all of that, I would like to congratulate team Sylius for launching this great ecommerce platform. From what I experienced, Sylius looks like a promising ecommerce solution keeping in mind that it’s still the first version. The platform sports a simple yet focused backend UI that allows you to keep an eye on your sales figures and the number of customers you have, etc: And here is what the frontend of the platform looks like: Sylius comes loaded with all the basic and necessary features every ecommerce platforms must have, like: Catalog

• Taxons
• Products
• Inventory
• Attributes
• Options
• Association Types

Sales

• Orders

Customer

• Customers
• Groups

Marketing

• Promotions
• Product Reviews

Configuration

• Channels
• Countries
• Zones
• Currencies
• Exchange Rates
• Locales
• Payment methods
• Shipping methods
• Shipping categories
• Tax categories
• Tax rates

What’s Missing?

There are, however, many features missing from the platform that can be critical for your ecommerce success. So far, they have only a few extensions and themes (which can’t be held against Sylius since it’s such a recent release). People, though, are comparing Sylius with Magento, but for Sylius to compete with the ecommerce veteran, it still has a long way to go in terms of features, extensions, themes, support and many other aspects. Nonetheless, this is the first Sylius version and it looks like a great overall solution for your ecommerce store needs. All of us at Magenticians wish Sylius the best and hope they grow huge in the coming years!