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Magento development services in the UK

Magento is powerful and demanding. It handles big catalogues and complicated pricing that simpler platforms can’t, and it needs specialist care in return.

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Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce remain a strong choice for merchants with large catalogues, multiple stores or sophisticated B2B requirements such as customer-specific pricing, company accounts and requisition lists. But they’re expensive to run well, requiring capable hosting and experienced developers. If you’re paying that cost and using only a fraction of what it offers, it’s worth asking whether it’s still right for you.

Keeping up with security patches is essential, because Magento stores handle payment data and are a well-known target for card-skimming attacks. Adobe publishes a support lifecycle for each release. If you’re on an out-of-support version, particularly anything still on Magento 1, which reached end of life in 2020, that needs to be the first thing dealt with.

Faster front ends with Hyvä

Magento’s traditional Luma front end is heavy, which often shows up in poor Core Web Vitals. Hyvä is a popular replacement theme that strips out a lot of the JavaScript, and it can bring a substantial improvement without rebuilding the back end. The theme requires a licence, and extensions may need compatibility work, but it’s often the most cost-effective upgrade for a slow store. If you’re leaving Magento altogether, read about platform migration.

What merchants usually need help with

Falling behind on patches

Skipped security updates leave the store exposed, and each one skipped makes the next upgrade harder.

A slow store

Heavy Luma themes, over-customisation and under-specified hosting.

Costly, fragile customisations

Years of third-party extensions that conflict and make upgrades risky.

Magento services

Upgrades and patching

Moving to supported versions and keeping up with security releases.

Hyvä themes

Rebuilding front ends for far better performance.

Custom modules

Features built following Magento’s architecture, so that upgrades stay possible.

B2B functionality

Company accounts, negotiated pricing, quotes and purchase orders.

Code and security audits

A clear review of your extensions, customisations and infrastructure.

Migration planning

An honest comparison of staying on Magento against moving elsewhere.

Where it fits

  • Large catalogues with complex attributes
  • B2B wholesalers with customer-specific pricing
  • Multi-brand and multi-country stores

Technology

  • Magento 2
  • Adobe Commerce
  • Hyvä
  • PHP
  • Varnish
  • OpenSearch
  • Redis
  • RabbitMQ

Magento questions

Is Magento still a good choice?
For complex catalogues and B2B needs, yes. For simpler stores, the running costs are often hard to justify compared with Shopify.
We’re still on Magento 1. What should we do?
Treat it as urgent, since it stopped receiving official security patches in 2020. The options are moving to Magento 2 or to another platform, and which is right depends on how complex your store is.
What’s the difference between Magento and Adobe Commerce?
Magento Open Source is the free version. Adobe Commerce is the paid edition, adding features such as advanced B2B and cloud hosting options, along with vendor support.

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