Originally Posted by MrBottomTooth

I have someone that wants to switch from their wordpress-based ecommerce site to magento. I have never used magento before but have heard good things.

Is magento easy for someone to get used to if they have been using wordpress? Complicated to setup? They sell auto parts and want to be able to have a detailed product search by year, make, model, etc. that the current solution doesn't provide. Also want to be able to switch currencies on the site since they get lots of customers in both US and Canada.

Also looking for a hosting company that will handle that. I've read recommendations for siteground.com when using magento but I haven't heard much else about them. My current host doesn't seem to fit the minimum requirements so I can't even download it and play around with it yet until I setup another hosting account somewhere.

Any good magento forums you know of for newbs?