Magento Stores Built To Survive The Next Upgrade, Not Just The Launch

It covers everything needed to take a Magento 2 store from plan to production: discovery and technical architecture, custom theme development, custom module development for your pricing and workflow logic, ERP, CRM and payment integrations, performance tuning with Varnish, Redis and OpenSearch, QA testing and launch. On existing stores it can also mean refactoring, extension cleanup or a B2B build on top of what you already run.

It depends on catalog complexity, how much custom logic you need and which integrations are involved. A focused storefront build sits at the lower end, while B2B builds with ERP integration and multi-store setups cost several times more. We scope from a written discovery brief, so the quote reflects your actual requirements rather than a template price. Adobe Commerce licensing, if you need it, is a separate cost paid to Adobe.

A focused Magento 2 storefront on an existing catalog usually takes 8 to 12 weeks from discovery to launch. Projects with heavy custom modules, B2B pricing logic, ERP integration or multi-store architecture typically run 3 to 6 months. The discovery phase produces a stage-by-stage timeline before development starts.

Magento Open Source covers most B2C stores well, including large catalogs and multi-store setups. Adobe Commerce earns its licence fee when you genuinely need its built-in B2B suite (company accounts, shared catalogs, quotes), content staging or Adobe support. We assess this during discovery and will tell you honestly if Open Source is enough, because for many merchants it is.

It means no Magento core or vendor files are ever edited directly. All custom logic lives in isolated modules that use plugins, observers and service contracts, and the whole codebase is managed through Composer. When a new Magento version or security patch ships, it can be applied and rehearsed on staging without your customizations breaking or being overwritten.

Yes. B2B is one of Magento's genuine strengths. On Adobe Commerce we build on the native B2B suite: company accounts, shared catalogs with negotiated pricing, requisition lists, quotes and approval workflows. On Magento Open Source we build the specific B2B features you need as custom modules, which often costs less than the Commerce licence if your requirements are narrow.

Yes. For most new builds we recommend Hyva over the default Luma frontend because it ships dramatically less JavaScript and reaches Core Web Vitals scores Luma cannot. PWA Studio over Magento's GraphQL API makes sense for app-like experiences or when a separate frontend team owns the storefront. We recommend by fit, and will say so if Luma is fine for your case.

Yes, this is a large part of our work. We start with a code audit that documents core modifications, extension conflicts and security patch status, so both sides know exactly what we are inheriting. Then we fix the riskiest issues first, usually anything blocking security patches, and refactor the rest in planned stages while the store keeps trading.

It will be measured, which matters more. We agree a Core Web Vitals budget at the start of the project and verify it before go-live, with Varnish full-page caching, Redis, OpenSearch and a lean frontend doing the work. Magento is not slow by nature; it is slow when themes, extensions and caching are never tuned together.

Yes. Magento's website, store and store view hierarchy is built for exactly this: several brands, countries, currencies or languages running from one admin and one codebase, with shared or separate catalogs per storefront. Designing that hierarchy correctly at the start is critical, because restructuring it after launch is disruptive.

Yes. Most stores we build sync products, inventory, orders and customers with an ERP, CRM or PIM through Magento's REST and GraphQL APIs, message queues for reliability, and scheduled reconciliation so the two systems never quietly drift apart. Integrations are specified in the architecture document and tested with real data flows before launch.

Every build includes 30 days of hypercare: daily monitoring, priority fixes and performance checks while real traffic hits the store. After that, most clients move to an ongoing support plan covering security patches, version upgrades, extension updates and a monthly health check, so the store never drifts back into an unpatchable state.