Magento Development

We start by reading the store you already have, or the requirements you already wrote. For a rebuild we take an inventory of every extension, every customisation in the code, and every integration that talks to the outside world. That inventory is where the real cost of a project lives, and it is usually the thing other agencies skip. You get a written scope with fixed milestones before a line of code is touched.

Magento gives you a lot of structure for free, and it punishes you hard when you fight it. We decide early where custom logic belongs: a proper module with its own dependency injection, a plugin on a core method, or a service contract. Store data, especially product attributes and customer records, gets modelled so that a future upgrade does not rewrite half of it.

Development happens on a staging environment that mirrors production. We commit small, we write the module so the next developer can read it, and we keep third-party extensions to the ones that actually earn their place. Every custom module is documented enough that you are never hostage to us. This is where a good Magento development company separates itself from a cheap one: the code is boring, predictable, and yours.

Before anything reaches your customers it goes through functional QA on real devices and real payment sandboxes. Then it goes to our own security team for a review of the checkout, the customer account area, and any custom endpoint we added. Adobe Commerce handles a lot of card data adjacency, so we treat those flows the way we would treat a client we were paid to attack.

The default Luma theme is heavy. For new builds we lean toward Hyvä, which strips the front end back to something fast and maintainable, and the difference in Core Web Vitals is not subtle. Where a client is committed to a PWA Studio front end we build that too, but we will tell you when a headless setup is more cost than benefit for your catalogue size.

A store with forty extensions is a store that breaks on every upgrade. We audit what you have, remove the overlap, and write custom modules only where an off-the-shelf one genuinely does not exist. When we do buy an extension, we pick vendors with a track record of patching, because an unmaintained extension is a security liability as much as a technical one.

If you are still on Magento 1, you are running unsupported software that stopped getting security patches in 2020. Migration to Magento 2 is a project in its own right: the data moves, but themes and custom code have to be rebuilt against a new architecture. We map catalogue, customers, orders and SEO URLs so that search rankings and customer logins carry over. For merchants already on Magento 2, we keep the version current on a patch cycle rather than letting three years of updates pile into one scary jump.

Slow Magento is almost always fixable. We tune Varnish and full-page cache, get indexing onto a schedule that does not lock the catalogue, move search to a properly sized Elasticsearch or OpenSearch cluster, and profile the slow pages with real tooling instead of guessing. Merchants running seasonal spikes get load testing before the spike, not a post-mortem after it.

We integrate the providers European merchants actually use, from Adyen and Stripe to local acquirers and 3-D Secure flows that satisfy PSD2. If you need a deeper treatment of card handling and PCI scope, we have a dedicated page on payment gateway integration, and the same developers do that work.

ERP and PIM connections get built to fail safely. If the ERP is down, orders still capture and queue rather than vanish. That sounds obvious. It is the single most common integration bug we are called in to fix on stores other people built.

When a payment brand or an enterprise customer asks for evidence, our offensive team can run a proper application penetration test against the finished store and produce the report and attestation letter. That is a separate, security-side engagement with its own quote. Buying the development does not commit you to it, and the two are priced independently.

You get the repository, the deployment setup, and modules documented well enough that another developer could pick them up. We do not hold your store hostage with undocumented custom code, and we do not lock you into a proprietary framework bolted on top of Magento.

At launch you get a written handover covering the architecture, the integrations, the cron and indexing schedule, and the things to watch. If your own team takes it from there, they have what they need. If you want us to stay on for the patch cycle, that is a separate, clearly-priced arrangement.