Browsing products by category in the admin : there are many examples of opensource ecommerce systems that can do that. Among them, Prestashop backoffice is built around this navigation paradigm, and even Oscommerce displays products by category in its 10 years old backoffice.

Of course none of those two have the flexibility that Magento allows in terms of category / product association in a multistore environment.

But in Magento you can't search product by category in the admin : can you imagine that this feature is missing in Magento ! As of version 1.4 this is still the reality, easily enhanced by the PoleOuest_CategoryProductEditLink Magento extension.

Installation is pretty straightforward and we provide full explanations and 24/7 assistance on our dedicated blog page