The Magento Small Business programme makes the software more accessible to smaller merchants who lack software and design expertise by matching them up with third-party vendors, ecommercebytes.com reports. While Magento Community Edition is free and merchants can add functionality through extensions for sale by third-party developers on its marketplace, Magento does not provide technical support for the software. The new programme offers a turnkey solution starting at USD 89 per month and offered through Pixafy, a strategic Magento partner.
It also teamed up with four developers that provide full-service support for those who want to take a more do-it-yourself approach to creating a Magento store. All of the Small Business programme solutions allow Magento extensions and integrations with PayPal, Braintree and eBay Marketplaces. Magento had launched a store-hosting solution for small merchants called Magento Go in 2011 that was a web-hosted service. However, eBay closed Magento Go along with its own ProStores web-hosted solution in 2014. Amazon also closed its store-hosting solution, Amazon Webstore, to new merchants in March 2015.
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