The Magento e-commerce platform, developed by California-based Varien, is a feature-rich e-commerce platform built on open-source technology that provides online retailers with unprecedented flexibility and control over the look, content and functionality of their online shops. It has a modular architecture, industry-leading features and powerful marketing and merchandising tools which have quickly made Magento the fastest growing e-commerce platform on the market.
Since 2000, Screen has developed over 100 e-commerce websites using its own implementation of Microsoft Commerce Server. Its clients – many of them household names - sell close to £10m of goods per month on the internet. Screen Pages offers “best practice”, fully bespoke e-commerce websites that uniquely reflect a brand’s design, product range and marketing strategy.
With online sales increasing, businesses want to invest in new capabilities and gain more control over their websites. As an open source platform, Magento has a wide community of users, with many publicly available extensions and it enables retailers to “own” their websites
Amongst the state-of-the-
- social & community shopping (such as reviews, social tagging, polls, RSS feeds)
- alternative payment methods such as Paypal and Google Checkout
- multi-language, multi-currency, mult-catalogue & multi-fascia websites
- best practice e-commerce (SEO, faceted/guided navigation, single-page/
- A/B split testing, integrated analytics & landing page creation
- Phone order entry and order management
New Magento customers will be able to benefit from Screen Pages’ proven e-commerce credentials, insight, and dedicated full offering service. Existing Screen Pages’ clients will be able to take advantage of the extended capabilities, increased portability and the open source approach.

