Magento's blind spots

At the beginning of the chapter, we mentioned the shipping process from a bird's eye view. Before you can actually ship anything, you have to purchase goods as well (unless you dropship). By default, many facets of logistics are not handled by Magento. These will be briefly discussed later. The main goal of this is to give you an idea of what things should be arranged either outside of Magento or through Magento extensions. The reason Magento does not include functionality for the following aspects of logistics is because most of them are highly company-specific and as such difficult to include in a general e-commerce system like Magento. The fact that Magento has blind spots is not bad per se. Magento is an excellent marketing tool, product catalog, and transaction processor, and was built with the reasoning that more detailed business processes are better suited to be handled by other information systems that were built to support those processes specifically.

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