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Alessandro
Verified reviewer
Food & Beverages, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2018
A robust solution for e-commerce
Aimeos is a huge system to build e-commerce solutions: from simple shops to complex marketplaces, it has a host of features to accommodate every need. Multi-language, multi-currency, multi-site projects with hundreds of thousands of products are possible, plus it is compatible with multiple PHP frameworks like Laravel, Symfony etc. It's very fast, is costantly updated and support is good.
CONSDepending on the type of project and on the amount of customizations to do, the learning curve can be steep, but I guess this is normal for such big software packages. Documentation is extensive but not always helpful. Fortunately the dedicated online help forum is a good resource to receive tips from the package creators.
Rubén
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2019
Probably the most scalable Ecommerce framework
It was and is a very positive experience and our customers love it, specially because we managed to connect Aimeos with Vue Storefront, creating this way a PWA ready Ecommerce, prepared for the future.
PROSVery robust and scalable framework with loading times below every Ecommerce system we have seen in the market. Super fast!
CONSThe backoffice design is functional, although it could be more attractive and user friendly.
Reason for choosing Aimeos
Customizability
Reasons for switching to Aimeos
Licence fees of Magento + Oportunities with Aimeos
Anonymous
2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed February 2019
Aimeos review
Developer-oriented
CONSpoor documentation for Typo3 Fortunately, there is an excellent support
Vendor Response
There's a lot of documentation especially for the Aimeos TYPO3 integration available and we got no feedback what we could improve :-/ https://aimeos.org/docs/TYPO3
Replied February 2019
Kurt
Internet, 1 employee
Used monthly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2019
Not easy to start with
We replaced a small Magento 1 multi-language shop with Aimeos. After a short introduction and help of the Aimeos support, the new shop was running. Also the additon of some common changes was possible - sometimes with help of the Aimeos support (thanks to Norbert).
PROSI like the feature scope of the software. The support is very good, too.
CONSThe documentation could be better to understand, and there should be some examples.
Reasons for switching to Aimeos
First, because Magento 1 was running out, and something has to be done. Second, because we already had TYPO3, and there is an extension which integrates Aimeos into TYPO3. Third, because Magento nowadays is too big and very uncomfortable for me to maintain.
Ranko
Automotive, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2021
I wish I could give 6 stars for customer support
Our old Magento developers could not deliver a working solution in 3 months. Importing 10 million products with their system took days. With two weeks left to our launch date we decided to scrap the old project and start from scratch with Aimeos. Best decision ever. In two weeks we were able to launch our new ordering platform. Currently we import the 10 million products in around 30 minutes. None of it would have been possible without extensive help from Aimeos. Greetings to [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN]! He's a real professional.
PROSWith the #gigacommerce extension Aimeos can easily work with over billion products. That is 1 with 9 zeroes. I don't know of any other software that can do it out of the box. We currently have around 10 000 000 products in our database and Aimeos does not even break a sweat. In addition to that, the software package is extremeley customizable and extensible. Our requirements are in some aspects quite different from a regular e-commerce site but we have been able to get all the needed functionality up and running in no time.
CONSThe user base is obviously smaller than that of Woocommerce's or Magento's. So you get less results when googling how to do something in Aimeos. But there is a comprihensive documentation available and user support is the best I have ever encountered.
Joel
Internet, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2019
Great Professional shop package
Aimeos is our default go to shop system.
PROS- Open source. Can be used for very small shops because no license is needed - Good software architecture build with extensibility in mind - Supports multiple frameworks. Learn it once and use on a variety of projects - Scales to very large shop systems (https://aimeos.com/de/gigacommerce/) - Free support forum - Professional support option directly from the developer available - Regular updates, new features (https://aimeos.org/business/roadmap/)
CONSReserve some time to fully understand the framework and its architecture before you start to extend it’s functionality - it’s worth it.
Max
Verified reviewer
Internet, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed April 2019
Flexible E-Commerce solution
- Useable for laravel and TYPO3 - very easy to integrate into the respective system. - Very flexible data model - highly customisable - Complex b2b/b2c projects possible - clean code/architecture - No real alternative system on the market which is capable to realize content heavy ecommerce (typo3+aimeos)
CONS- not that easy to use for frontend developers - young system with some bugs - but everything gets solved fast
Aleksandar
Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2018
Flexible E-Commerce Solution
Aimeos allowed us to quickly adapt to a client's very custom needs without much fuss. We wrote our own frontend, and were able to turn it into a headless E-Commerce solution. The integration with a CMS (Typo3) was good, and one of the main selling points of our product.
PROSVery customizable, good performance, sane and very flexible database layout. Neat backend interface.
CONSThe templates are messy. The API around creating and updating records for products and their attributes is somewhat unwieldy, but that was apparently addressed in a newer version. Having mandatory attributes and attribute sets would be nice, but I hear it's in the works.
Andreas
Verified reviewer
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2019
A top e-commerce framework
We created a shop using aimeos with TYPO3, some products only but currently growing.
PROSAimeos is a large and nevertheless very fast e-commerce system. It is suitable for small to giant shops and contains all kinds of sales possibilities ("normal" articles, download articles, variant articles ...) The possibilities to create and combine languages, countries, regions, payment and shipping methods are highly configurable, so that there is no application that cannot be covered. The connection to several PHP frameworks is also good (TYPO3 is fine for me ;-)). The support is very good and fast!
CONSThe documentation is large, but partly still a bit complex. But you can get help in the forum easily.
Tobias
Verified reviewer
Internet, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2019
Aimeos - a feature rich, easy to use and extend mulitshop system
We created a multishop system with Aimeos. One shop had ajax based web-to-print products, where the customer could customise the print products. Several suppliers, one of them the print company, have a real-time connection to the shop. The overall project complexity was rather high, but Aimeos made it a lot easier.
PROS- Everything can be changed - Easy to use - Two templating engines to choose from - 100% TYPO3 integration - Typoscript in combination with the Aimeos class rewrite system takes extendibility to a whole new level.
CONSThere is a lot of php magic happening inside, making debugging a little bit difficult. But once you get the hang of it, it's gets easy really fast.
Dominik
Verified reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed April 2020
Modernes Shop-System mit hoher Integrationsfähigkeit
Die Möglichkeit das Produkt in ein Content-Management-System zu integrieren, in unserem Fall in TYPO3. Womit Content und Produkte wirklich sinnvoll kombinierbar werden. Viele "alte" Produkte bieten zwar Optionen Content im Shop-Backend zu pflegen, aber den Funktionsumfang eines CMS erreicht keines von Ihnen.
CONSDas Backend ist noch recht nüchtern und manches mal komplizierter als es sein müsste. Dies ist aber ein
Reasons for switching to Aimeos
- Verbindung von Content und Produkten - Flexible Schnittstellen zur Anbindung von Dritt-Systemen - OpenSource + gute Entwickler Basis in der Community
Jonathan
Internet, 11-50 employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2020
Flexible and well integrated Shopsystem (used with TYPO3)
Having a setup up-and-running quickly sets the tone for working with aimeos. It is possible to dive right into things. After the initial hick-ups that happens with most unfamiliar software are a thing of the past after a couple month work with the framework. Support from the lead developers in Slack is quick and helps a lot (even reading through previous problems and solutions).
PROSThis is our second review after some time with the software. The main advantage remains: Aimeos integrates very easy and very well with TYPO3. The provided Extension for TYPO3 and example Page-Tree with pre-configured Plugins and Demo-Data helps a lot.
CONSOur view has changed a bit since the last review. The class structure and documentation still need a bit of getting-used-to as developer. We find a lot of Libraries use similar approaches and conventions (TYPO3, Symfony) which Aimeos does differently. Mainly the use of very generic class names makes it difficult to navigate the code with tools like PHPStorm. Since our last review our internal process has changed to fit the needs of Aimeos. We set our expectations accordingly and plan a possible longer turn-around time for developers when switching projects.
Ralf
Government Administration, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2021
Fast, customizable e-commerce framework for Symfony based applications
The aimeos e-commerce framework is a stable, complete out of the box web shop component for Symfony based PHP applications. Due to its architecture, it can be adapted and expanded as required. With the market place extension we have built a fully functional marketplace.
PROSThe open source code contains all the features of a web shop . The range of functions is very large. The code is well structured. The architecture is modular. The shop can be adapted and expanded as required. Great support with fast response times. The backend user interface can be operated intuitively. Editors don't need any programming knowledge to manage products and orders.
CONSIf the aimeos framework needs to be extend, the architecture should be understood.
Ralf
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2018
A very good shop framework / system with a great feature set
It works very good, never had big problems and the performance feels really, really good.
PROSIt is written to fit in multiple existing frameworks. Such as for us, it was easy to get a working setup by integrating Aimeos into TYPO3. It was even possible to use an existing product domain model in combination with Aimeos which mainly added the basket and checkout process, and also does some more shop specific things. Contact to a usergroup or directly to Aimeos works very good and they have very fast response times. Help is appreciated, and as we could offer some small bugifxes on Github, too, there was a very fast response time on the "how to contribute" issues.
CONSWell, while being familar with TYPO3, the MVC pattern and the Extbase framework, it was a bit hard to find the ways to extend Aimeos. But as documentation is becoming more and more completed, this is not a rel "Con" but more a task for us to update our skills.
Gabriel
Retail, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2022
Very Professional Platform
after changing from many platform, finally the Aimeos was the one which i looking for.
CONSit was the theme part, but recently they improve it so now its fantastic
Robert
Information Technology and Services, 1 employee
Used more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2019
Great ecommerce solution with broad feature set
First and foremost the extensibility and integration in other frameworks and software packages. From a TYPO3 point of view it´s in my opinion todays best possible ecommerce solution to accompany the CMS. The manufacturer offers quality and fast support. In my cases this were development related questions when integrating functionality extending Aimeos already broad feature set.
CONSI haven´t encountered any real problems until today.
Moritz
Program Development, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2019
Top extendable and flexible e-commerce shop
With aimeos I replaced an old shop of a customer. That worked very well because I was able to adapt the whole frontend presentation. Also the implementation of some new special features was possible. In my opinion aimeos have so much places were you can interfere with your own code that you can use this shop in every use case.
PROS- allround shop that brings many features out of the box (e-mail delivery, coupons, subscriptions etc.) - nice backend with statistics of the placed orders - easy configuration of basic functionality - highly extendable in functionality and GUI - great support for getting help when you have difficulty by implementing custom features
CONSI can't say anything negative about aimeos that is appreciable.
Sebastian
Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2018
TYPO3 Website with integrated products through Aimeos
Integration of eCommerce aspects (especially products) into a TYPO3 website. Aimeos was exactly what we needed, some aspects of an eCommerce system but without loosing the features of a fully fledged CMS system. No need to remove those features we do not want or write an integration of a complete eCommerce system into a CMS.
PROS- Good extendibility of code and product data structure - Fast reaction time to issues or pull requests on GitHub - Opensource - Well structured code - Fast
CONS- Some complex systems - Stucture/Content of the templates
Vendor Response
Templates will be simplified until next LTS release
Replied December 2018