Adobe Commerce (formerly Magento) is the heavyweight of open-source ecommerce, built for B2B, multi-store, multi-warehouse retail at scale. Powerful but demanding: serious projects only, served by senior engineers.
Only above a certain size. At $5M+ a year with 20K+ SKUs and complex catalog logic, Magento's flexibility pays back. Under that, Shopify or WooCommerce costs less and ships faster, and we'll say so.
Magento's home turf. Customer-specific pricing, NET payment terms, quote workflows and requisition lists ship in Adobe Commerce B2B out of the box. No other open-source platform comes close.
Multi-vendor and multi-store setups running several brands or country storefronts from one admin. Magento was built for this; most hosted platforms charge per storefront or simply can't.
A Magento audit should answer three questions: what is slow or broken, why, and what it costs to fix in priority order. Most of the “free Magento audit” offers you will find are a sales call with a PDF attached. We charge for ours, because a proper store and code review takes a senior developer […]
Running an old Magento version isn’t a style problem, it’s a security and money problem. Adobe ships security patches for roughly the current and previous minor release. Once you fall two or three versions behind, you’re exposed to known exploits, your payment provider may flag you on PCI, and every new extension you want assumes […]
Before we quote any Magento extension development, we ask one question: does this already exist on the Adobe Commerce Marketplace? Half the time it does, and a $200 Amasty or Mageplaza extension will do what you need without us writing a line of code. We’ll tell you when that’s the smarter buy. Custom extension development […]
Magento is slow by default. That’s not a dig; it’s just what a platform built for 100,000-SKU catalogs does on a stock install. The good news is that most slow Magento stores are slow for the same handful of reasons, and we’ve fixed all of them before. We start with an audit, show you the […]
Most Magento support pages say the same three things: 24/7, certified experts, fast response. Then they hide the price behind a “request a quote” form. We do it the other way around. Here are the tiers, the prices, and the response times we actually commit to, so you can decide before you talk to anyone. […]
Most Magento development pages read the same: “certified experts, 400+ stores launched, scalable and secure.” None of them tell you what a build costs or when Magento is the wrong tool. We will. We build Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source stores out of the US, we quote fixed brackets up front, and we turn […]
B2B on Magento done right from day one: company accounts, per-customer pricing, quick order, and request-a-quote. We configure native Adobe Commerce B2B or build an equivalent on Open Source, then load your price lists and test with a real trade account.
Magento set up properly from day one. We install Magento 2, provision hosting that can run it, style a theme, load your catalog, and wire payments and shipping, so you get a store ready to take orders instead of a half-configured admin.
Magento 1 hit end of life in June 2020: no patches, no PCI compliance. We move you to Magento 2 as a clean rebuild, data migrated with the official tool, theme rebuilt, every extension replaced or rebuilt. Fixed price, fixed scope, audit-first.
The most popular plugins we work with daily. We can install, configure, or customize any of them.
Amasty sells around 150 Magento 2 extensions. Strongest on catalog, navigation and admin tooling; sold as an annual subscription that licenses Magento installations rather than domains.
Stripe now ships its own free connector for Magento 2 and Adobe Commerce, and it is the one we install on most stores. Here is what it does well, where it bites, and when a paid Stripe extension is still worth the money.
The official B2B extension for Adobe Commerce: company accounts, shared catalogs, negotiable quotes, and requisition lists, built into the standard Magento checkout. Open Source editions cannot run it.
The free SEO extension we install on most Magento 2 stores, what Magento core already does for nothing, and when you actually need to pay for Mirasvit or Mageworx instead.
Which one-step checkout extension we actually install on Magento 2 stores, when it lifts conversion, and when it quietly costs you sales. An honest review with Amasty as our default pick.
Short answer: Magento is worth it if you are doing several million dollars a year in online sales, sell to other businesses, or have catalog and pricing rules that break simpler platforms. For almost everyone else in 2026, it is the wrong tool, and we will tell you that before you spend a dollar with […]
Magento is the most demanding platform we host. People come from WordPress or Shopify expecting to drop it on a $10 shared plan, and it either refuses to install or crawls the moment a real customer shows up. Magento is not a website in the usual sense. It is a stack of services that happen […]
Magento 1 reached end of life on June 30, 2020. If you are reading this in 2026 and still running it, your store has gone almost six years without official security patches. That is the real headline. The migration to Magento 2, now Adobe Commerce, is not an upgrade you click through. It is a […]
Search “best Magento extensions” and you get marketplaces selling you their own catalog. Amasty lists hundreds. Webkul lists 650+. The Adobe Commerce Marketplace lists thousands. None of that tells you what a real store actually needs. We build and maintain Magento and Adobe Commerce stores, and the list of extensions we install on most of […]
Magento extension marketplace at commercemarketplace.adobe.com (~3,500 extensions, with verified Adobe-Commerce-compatible badges). Modules ship as namespaced PHP under app/code/<Vendor>/<Module>/ with an ecosystem of plugins (interceptors), observers (event/listener), and DI configuration via di.xml.
Multi-store, multi-website, multi-warehouse and B2B features are first-class, this is what separates Magento from every other ecommerce CMS. PWA Studio support for headless storefronts; GraphQL API on every endpoint.
Shopify if your business is under $5M annual revenue, your catalog is under 5K SKUs, and you don’t need complex B2B features, Shopify’s SaaS convenience is genuinely worth the platform fees at that scale. Magento (Adobe Commerce) if you have B2B price tiers, multi-warehouse logistics, multi-brand storefronts, custom checkout flows, or you’re processing $5M+ annually where Magento’s flexibility starts to outweigh Shopify’s convenience.
WooCommerce is a WordPress plugin, fast to launch, fine for stores up to 5K SKUs and simple business logic. Magento is a dedicated commerce platform, much heavier, but built for complex catalogs, B2B, multi-warehouse, and the kind of business rules WooCommerce starts to choke on around 10-20K SKUs. The break-even is roughly: under 5K SKUs and simple needs → WooCommerce; over 20K SKUs or B2B → Magento; in between → it depends on the specific complexity.
A Magento Open Source store with custom theme, basic integrations and 5-10K SKUs: $25K-$60K. An Adobe Commerce build with B2B features, multi-warehouse, ERP integration, custom checkout and 50K+ SKUs: $80K-$250K+. Migration from another platform to Magento adds $15K-$40K depending on URL preservation complexity. We quote fixed scope after a 60-minute discovery call.
Magento Open Source is free (OSL-3 license, no platform fees). Adobe Commerce (the paid SaaS tier) is licensed per-revenue, typical pricing is $25K-$200K+/year for mid-market retailers. Most of our projects ship on Open Source unless the client specifically needs Adobe’s SaaS infrastructure or paid B2B features.
Yes. Custom Magento extensions are one of our most-requested service lines, particularly for clients who need integrations the marketplace doesn’t cover (custom ERP/PIM sync, region-specific payment gateways, complex shipping logic, custom B2B workflows). We follow Adobe’s coding standards, use plugins (interceptors) for non-invasive customization, and ship modules with PHPUnit tests and a README that the next developer can actually read.
Yes, Magento 1 → Magento 2 is still our most common migration in 2026 (some retailers held off as long as possible). We also do Magento → Shopify (when scale dropped and SaaS convenience now wins) and Magento → BigCommerce. Every migration is URL-preserving, runs on a staging clone first, and includes 30 days of post-launch fixes.
For Magento Open Source under 25K SKUs: managed VPS at Cloudways, Hetzner, or Webscoot ($60-$150/month). For larger stores: dedicated infrastructure with Elasticsearch, Redis, Varnish and a CDN ($300-$2,000/month). For Adobe Commerce: Adobe Cloud (included in license) or AWS/GCP for self-hosted. We don’t resell hosting; we configure your account directly.
Yes, Adobe ships monthly security patches and runs a coordinated disclosure program. The platform itself is mature and battle-tested. Most “Magento got hacked” stories trace back to: outdated installations (didn’t apply patches), dodgy third-party extensions, or weak admin credentials. Our maintenance retainer includes monthly patching, extension auditing, and 2FA enforcement on all admin accounts.
Custom Magento Open Source store: 8-16 weeks from kickoff to launch. Adobe Commerce build with B2B features and ERP integration: 16-32 weeks. Magento 1 → 2 migration: 8-20 weeks depending on extension count and customizations. We send a real Gantt chart, not vibes.
Magento, now branded Adobe Commerce, is what serious mid-market and enterprise retailers run when Shopify’s platform restrictions and WooCommerce’s scaling limits become deal-breakers. It’s the most powerful open-source ecommerce platform available, and it asks for senior engineering effort in return.
We pitch Magento for: B2B retail with customer-specific pricing, NET payment terms and quote workflows; multi-store retailers running multiple brands or country-specific storefronts from one admin; merchants with 20K+ SKUs and complex catalog logic (configurable products with hundreds of variations); high-revenue stores ($5M+ annually) where Magento’s flexibility outweighs Shopify’s convenience; and headless commerce projects where PWA Studio or a custom React/Vue frontend talks to Magento’s GraphQL API.
We don’t pitch Magento for: small businesses under $1M annual revenue (the platform’s overhead doesn’t pay back); stores under 5K SKUs with simple needs (Shopify is genuinely better there); content-led brands where editorial matters as much as product pages (WooCommerce or headless Sanity + commerce backend wins); or projects on tight $5-15K budgets (Magento’s minimum project size is around $25K to do properly).
Ground-up Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce builds with bespoke themes, custom modules with PHPUnit coverage, B2B-specific configurations (price tiers, quote management, requisition lists), ERP and PIM integrations (SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Akeneo), Magento 1 → Magento 2 migrations with URL preservation, performance audits and Core Web Vitals optimization, and flat-fee maintenance retainers including monthly security patching.
We work with merchants and engineering teams who already know what they need. If you’re not sure whether Magento is the right platform, that’s the first conversation, not a sales pitch.
Magento is an ecommerce engine. If you need a content-led enterprise site, multilingual at scale, or government-grade permissions and audit trails, that is a job for Drupal, not a commerce platform.
Ready to scope a build, migration or B2B setup? See our Magento development services for fixed-scope pricing and timelines.
Magento is the heavy option. For a leaner store under roughly 50,000 SKUs that you want to own outright, OpenCart is usually the better-fit, lower-cost platform, and we will say so.
New on the blog: Magento vs Shopify in 2026, an honest comparison of cost and fit. More guides on the Magento blog.
Need ongoing help? Our Magento support and maintenance plans publish pricing and response times up front.
Slow store dragging down your rankings and conversions? Our Magento speed optimization service fixes TTFB, sets up Varnish and Hyva, and proves the gain in Core Web Vitals.
Thinking about ecommerce specifically? Read when a Magento online store beats Shopify and WooCommerce, and what it costs to build.
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