Introducing the Magento Enterprise Edition!

Apr.17, 2009 in Magento Development

Over the past year Magento seen the tremendous success and uptake of Magento in the market and the opportunities for the product are indeed exciting. Over 750,000 downloads, 85,000+ community members and the leadership position as the #1 enterprise grade open source eCommerce solution in the market.
Yesterday marked a major milestone for Varien and Magento with the release of the Magento Enterprise Edition. The product is a culmination of months of work and countless feedback from our community, partners and customers. The commercially licensed Magento Enterprise Edition software is the premium grade Magento product. It is geared towards larger companies and includes additional features, including ROI specific features, not available in our open source, Community Edition product. In addition to features, our Enterprise Edition will include SLA based support with guaranteed response times, warranties, indemnification and soon, PA-DSS certification. Learn more about the Enterprise Edition product and compare product editions.
With the launch of our Enterprise Edition, it is important to note our commitment to the open source, Community Edition product. The release of the Magento Enterprise Edition aids us by allowing us to focus on the distinct groups of Magento users, small or large, and to engage each according to their needs, and now, contribute more time and resources to the success of each. More information regarding magento community and open source initiatives is detailed below.

Enterprise-Exclusive Features

Administrator Permission Roles on Website and Store Levels

Leverage Magento’s multi-store functionality to create multiple sites, and with the Enterprise Edition you can restrict access roles so that staff view only the data for the stores relevant to them.

Gift Certificates/Cards (Physical and Virtual)

Allow customers to purchase physical (physical card mailed to recipient) and virtual (code provided via email to recipient) gift certificates/cards. Customers can include a personal message when purchasing, and recipients can use the value to purchase items as credit in the store.

Content Staging and Merging. Support for both on-demand and scheduled merges and rollbacks of content.

Create a staging site to test new categories, product information, promotions and more. Content can be merged to the live site after approval, either on-demand or on a scheduled basis.

Private Sales including Events, Invitations and Category access permissions

The ability to restrict the catalog, allow customers and admin users to create invitations, and the ability to create events for limited time sales of products makes the Magento Enterprise Edition the perfect solution for Private Sales.

Logging of Administrator Actions

Track and review all actions taken by administrator users, with the ability to see views, edits and deletions of information. Logs are associated to specific administator usesr, with the ability to see the action taken, when it was made, and more.

Customer Store Credits

Store Credits can be created and tied to customer accounts, for instance orders can be refunded for store credit, and customers can use the credit to purchase items during checkout.