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Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce power many large and complex online stores, especially in B2B, multi-store and highly customised setups. Its flexibility is unmatched, but it demands experienced developers, solid hosting and regular maintenance to stay fast and secure.
We help Magento merchants in three ways: improving and extending existing stores, upgrading them safely to supported versions, and — where the business would be better served elsewhere — migrating to Shopify or another platform.
Problems we solve
- A store on an outdated Magento version with security patches pending
- Slow page loads and checkout
- Extension conflicts after upgrades
- High maintenance costs for the current setup
- Uncertainty whether to stay on Magento or migrate
What’s included
Custom development
Modules, integrations and theme work following Magento best practices.
Upgrades & patching
Version upgrades and security patches with testing.
Performance optimisation
Caching, Varnish, Redis, indexing and code profiling.
B2B features
Company accounts, shared catalogues, quotes and requisition lists.
Hyvä themes
Modern, fast front ends replacing legacy Luma themes.
Migration
To Magento from other platforms, or from Magento to Shopify.
Making Magento fast
Magento performance depends on many layers: hosting and PHP configuration, full-page caching with Varnish, Redis for sessions and cache, Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, database indexes and cron health, plus front-end weight. Replacing the legacy Luma front end with a Hyvä theme often brings dramatic improvements in Core Web Vitals. We profile before changing anything, so effort goes where it has most impact.
Stay or migrate?
Magento remains a strong choice for complex catalogues, B2B and heavy customisation. For simpler stores, its total cost of ownership — development, hosting, upgrades — may exceed the benefits compared with Shopify. We compare costs and capabilities honestly, considering your roadmap rather than just today’s features.
Magento Open Source vs Adobe Commerce
| Open Source | Adobe Commerce | |
|---|---|---|
| Licence | Free | Paid, priced by revenue |
| B2B features | Via extensions | Built in (company accounts, quotes, shared catalogues) |
| Hosting | Self-managed | Adobe Commerce Cloud option |
| Best for | Merchants with in-house or partner technical skills | Larger merchants needing support and B2B |
Keeping Magento fast and secure
- Apply security patches promptly
- Full-page caching with Varnish and Redis for sessions and cache
- OpenSearch tuned for catalogue search
- Minimise third-party extensions and audit their quality
- Separate staging environment for testing upgrades
- Monitoring of errors, cron jobs and indexers
Upgrading or re-platforming
Older Magento stores often carry heavy customisation that makes upgrades difficult. We audit the code and extensions, then recommend whether to upgrade, refactor or move to another platform such as Shopify or a headless setup. See headless commerce.
Common Magento services
- Custom module development and third-party extension integration
- Theme development, including Hyvä themes for faster storefronts
- Performance audits and optimisation
- Version upgrades and PHP compatibility updates
- ERP, PIM and marketplace integrations
- Multi-store and multi-language configuration
- B2B features such as company accounts and negotiated quotes
Before taking over an existing store, we run a code and infrastructure audit to identify risks such as core modifications, abandoned extensions or missing patches, and prioritise fixes with you.
Questions to answer before you start
For an existing store, we start with these questions:
- Which Magento version, PHP version and hosting setup are you running?
- Which extensions are installed, and are they still maintained?
- Have core files been modified?
- What are the main performance or reliability issues today?
Auditing an existing Magento store
Most Magento work starts with a store that has been running for years, often built by several teams. Before recommending fixes or a migration, we audit it so decisions rest on facts rather than assumptions.
| Area | What we check |
|---|---|
| Version and patches | Magento or Adobe Commerce version, applied security patches and end-of-support dates |
| Extensions | Installed modules, whether they are maintained, conflicts and unused code |
| Customisations | Core overrides, plugins and observers that complicate upgrades |
| Performance | Caching (Varnish, Redis), indexers, cron health, database size and slow queries |
| Hosting | Server configuration, PHP and database versions, search engine (OpenSearch/Elasticsearch) |
| Security | Admin access, two-factor authentication, file permissions and known vulnerabilities |
The result is a prioritised list of risks and improvements with rough effort estimates, which you can use whether or not you continue working with us.
Extension discipline
Magento’s extension ecosystem is powerful, but each third-party module adds code that must be compatible with every future upgrade. Stores that accumulate dozens of extensions often become slow and difficult to update. We review each module’s purpose and quality, remove those that are unused or duplicated, replace poorly maintained ones and write small custom modules where a heavy extension is used for one simple feature.
Integrating Magento with the rest of the business
Magento rarely works alone. Orders flow to ERP and warehouse systems, products arrive from a PIM, customers sync with a CRM and marketing platforms. We use Magento’s REST and GraphQL APIs and asynchronous message queues so integrations do not slow down the storefront, and we build retries and alerts so a failed sync is noticed and corrected.
- ERP: orders, inventory, pricing and customer accounts
- PIM: product data, attributes and media
- Shipping and fulfilment: carriers, labels and tracking
- Marketing: email platforms, reviews and feeds for marketplaces and ads
- Payments and tax: gateways and tax calculation services
B2B features in Magento
Magento is a strong option for businesses selling to other businesses. Adobe Commerce includes company accounts, shared catalogues, negotiable quotes, requisition lists and purchase approvals. On Magento Open Source, comparable features can be added with extensions or custom development. We help you choose based on your pricing complexity, number of buyer accounts and budget for licences versus build effort.
A safe upgrade process
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Audit and plan
Identify incompatible extensions and custom code before any upgrade begins.
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Upgrade in a copy
Upgrade a staging copy with production-like data and resolve errors there.
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Regression test
Test checkout, payments, integrations, admin workflows and key customer journeys.
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Deploy with rollback
Release during a quiet period with backups and a tested rollback path.
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Monitor
Watch errors, performance and orders closely for the first days after go-live.
If a re-platform is the better option, our Shopify and headless commerce teams can plan the migration with SEO preserved.
Hosting Magento properly
Magento is demanding on infrastructure, and many performance problems blamed on the platform are really hosting problems. A healthy setup separates the web, database, cache and search layers and is sized for peak traffic rather than average days.
We also make sure cron jobs and indexers run reliably, since stalled indexes are a common cause of wrong prices, missing products and slow admin screens.
Questions to ask before your next Magento project
- How long will our current version receive security patches?
- Which extensions are blocking upgrades, and can they be replaced?
- What does our hosting cost compared with a hosted platform plus apps?
- Which custom features would we lose or need to rebuild if we migrated?
Related services
Part of eCommerce development. See also B2B eCommerce and Shopify.
This page is part of eCommerce Development Services — see the full overview for related services, approach and pricing.