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Magento Consulting: Inventory, Decision and Plan Before the Project

MAGENTO CONSULTINGInventory, decision, plan

Magento consulting: clarity before the project, not afterwards

You run a Magento shop or plan one? Our Magento consulting clarifies what is technically in place, which decision is due and what it costs before money flows into implementation. Here is what we advise on, how it works and what you hold in your hands at the end.

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Magento consulting makes sense when a decision is due whose consequences can become expensive: which version, which edition, rebuild or new build, self-hosting or managed hosting, standard module or custom development? Whoever clarifies these questions during a running project often pays for them twice. Magento consulting up front provides the basis on which you or another provider can plan cleanly.

We are a web agency in which fixed freelancers work together, all from home offices, and we have worked with Magento since 2012. We are not an Adobe partner and do not sell licenses, so our Magento consulting is not tied to a sales interest. The hourly rate is openly listed on the page pricing.

Who needs Magento consulting and in which situation?

Behind the search for Magento consulting there are usually four situations. Where you find yourself determines the entry point:

You plan a new shop

The platform is still open, or Magento is one option among other systems. Here Magento consulting helps decide whether the system fits your range, your processes and your budget, and whether it should be Open Source or Adobe Commerce.

You run a grown shop

The shop runs, but updates are risky, the site is slow or nobody knows the code any more. Magento consulting first creates an overview and a list of what is really urgent.

You want to switch or extend

A move from another system, a relaunch, a new frontend with Hyvä or a connection to an ERP. Before the job, Magento consulting clarifies effort, order and risks.

You are an agency or team with a Magento project

A customer wants Magento, the team lacks the knowledge. A short Magento consulting gives you certainty for the quote and the planning before you commit.

What Magento consulting includes and what it does not

Magento consulting is analysis, classification and planning. We look at your shop or your plan, tell you what stands out, what we recommend and why, and estimate the effort. The result is a document and a conversation with which you can decide. Nothing is built in this phase.

It is separate from implementation. If a project follows the Magento consulting, we talk about it separately and with its own estimate. You can also hand the results to another agency or your own team, because they belong to you. Consulting is not a preliminary stage that obliges you to place an order.

It is just as separate from ongoing care. Updates, monitoring and error fixing are regulated by a maintenance package. Magento consulting can decide whether and to what extent you need something like that, but does not replace it.

Topics of our Magento consulting

Magento consulting covers a few core areas. Most of them have their own page with details.

Version and edition

Open Source or Adobe Commerce, which version, which support status, license and follow-up costs compared.

Migration and relaunch

Move from another system or from Magento 1, data transfer, SEO retention, order of the steps.

Hyvä frontend

Whether and how a move to Hyvä pays off, what happens to existing extensions.

Performance and Core Web Vitals

Measure, find bottlenecks, order measures by effect.

ERP, PIM and interfaces

Which systems to connect, which way fits, where the pitfalls lie.

Hosting and operation

Which environment fits shop size and team, what updates and backups need.

Magento Open Source or Adobe Commerce: how Magento consulting decides

One of the most frequent questions in Magento consulting is the one about the edition. Magento Open Source is the freely licensed base, Adobe Commerce the licensed edition with additional functions, for example in the B2B area, and with operating options from the cloud. Which functions are included in which version we check against the current documentation before we give a recommendation, because offers and versions change. Details on the license you ask Adobe, we do not sell licenses.

The decision depends less on the name than on your requirements. If you need company accounts, quote requests and approvals, we check whether the standard of the chosen edition covers that or whether a custom extension is cheaper. If you do not need that, the license-free edition is often the simpler basis, where you plan costs mainly for development, hosting and care.

In Magento consulting we name both ways with their follow-up costs over several years, not only the price at the start. That way you see what license, hosting, development and maintenance mean together and can compare the editions fairly.

How a Magento consulting runs with us

The process is deliberately short so that you see results quickly and do not end up in a long analysis phase.

Intro call

Free and without obligation. You describe starting point and goal, we ask questions and tell you whether and how Magento consulting can help.

Inventory

We look at the shop: version, modules, theme, hosting, interfaces, data quality. For a new plan we record range, processes and environment instead.

Assessment and recommendation

We order what stands out by urgency and effect, and tell you what we would do in your place and why.

Estimate and handover

You receive the results in writing, with an estimate for the recommended steps. After that you decide freely whether, when and with whom to implement.

If the state of the code is unclear, a code audit can deepen the inventory. We agree on that with you in the intro call.

Formats of Magento consulting at a glance

Not every question needs the same format. Depending on the situation these ways fit:

Format	Fits when	Result
Short assessment	A single, clearly defined question is due	Verbal answer and a short note
Inventory	An existing shop is to be assessed	Report with action list
Decision workshop	Several participants must agree on a way	Joint decision, minutes
Project planning	A larger undertaking has been decided	Order, dependencies, estimate
Accompanying consulting	A project runs with your team or another agency	Regular review and feedback

The formats can be combined. Many customers begin with an inventory and then move into project planning or accompanying Magento consulting.

Magento consulting for your situation

Describe briefly what is due. In the free intro call we clarify whether and to what extent Magento consulting helps.

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What you hold in your hands after the Magento consulting

Good Magento consulting does not end with an impression but with documents you can work with:

Report on the current state

What is in the shop, which version and which modules run, where deviations from the Magento standard lie.

Prioritized action list

Every item with reasoning, urgency and rough effect, sorted so that you can begin with the most important.

Recommendation with alternatives

Not only one way but the options with their pros and cons so that you can follow the decision.

Written estimate

Effort per step, shown in hours, with assumptions and open points. Price only as an estimate after an inventory, EUR 30 net per hour.

Questions a Magento consulting clarifies before the start

These points can be answered early in Magento consulting and save time later:

Does Magento fit range and processes?
Number of articles, variants, price logic, customer groups, connection to merchandise management.
Who looks after the shop after the start?
Own team, agency or maintenance package, with clear responsibility for updates.
Which systems must be connected?
ERP, merchandise management, PIM, shipping, payments, marketplaces, with direction and rhythm of the data exchange.
What does operation cost over several years?
Hosting, maintenance, licenses, extensions and ongoing adjustments, not only the start.
What risks does the switch carry?
Data transfer, redirects and rankings, payment methods, legal texts, staff training.

Whoever answers these questions early makes better decisions and receives comparable quotes because all providers have the same basis.

Hyvä frontend: when the move becomes part of Magento consulting

Many shops ask about Hyvä in Magento consulting. The frontend replaces Knockout, jQuery and RequireJS with Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js and gets by with far less JavaScript. Whether a move makes sense for you depends mainly on the extensions in use: whatever is not prepared for Hyvä must be adapted or replaced.

That is why Magento consulting on Hyvä begins with a list of your modules and the theme. We tell you what keeps running, what has to be adapted and roughly what the move costs before you commit. Statements on load times we make only after a measurement on your shop, not from experience values of other sites.

Performance, security and updates in Magento consulting

A second frequent topic of Magento consulting is the state of the running shop. With performance we measure first instead of guessing: where is time lost, in images, scripts from third-party modules, database queries or caching? Then we order the measures by effect and effort.

With security and updates we check how far the version is from the current one, whether security updates were applied and whether modules block. From this Magento consulting an order emerges that brings the shop up to date step by step instead of touching everything at once. Implementation can lie with us, with your own team or with another provider, and updates in operation are covered by the update service.

ERP, PIM and interfaces: what Magento consulting clarifies in advance

As soon as Magento is to talk to other systems, the preparation decides the effort. In Magento consulting we clarify which system leads the data, in which direction it flows, how often it is synchronized and what happens on errors. For many common systems there are pages of their own, the entry is the Magento connector.

Sometimes the result of the Magento consulting is also that a connection does not pay off because Magento can take over the task itself. How far that carries is shown on the page Magento as ERP. We tell you openly when an external system makes more sense.

Magento consulting for agencies and teams

Shop owners are not the only ones looking for Magento consulting. Agencies and development teams get a second opinion before they offer or take over a Magento project. Typical questions: how realistic is the estimate, where are the risks in the existing system, which extensions are critical? More on taking over can be found in our guide Taking over a Magento project.

On request we work as a white-label partner, which means we do not appear in front of your customers and follow your processes. The terms are on the page white label for agencies. Here too Magento consulting stays separate from implementation so that you can decide without obligation.

Magento consulting, implementation and maintenance compared

Three services that are often confused. They can be commissioned separately:

Service	Question	Result
Magento consulting	What is there, what is to be done, what does it cost?	Report, recommendation, estimate
Implementation	How is it built?	Working shop or module
Maintenance	Who keeps it current and is it running securely?	Updates, monitoring, error fixing
Emergency help	The shop has failed or is faulty	Fixing the fault

Whoever commissions Magento consulting from us is not bound to our implementation. That keeps the consulting independent and the results transferable.

Typical findings of Magento consulting

Every shop is different, but some findings come up again and again in Magento consulting. They are not individual cases from customer projects but patterns that often show in grown shops:

Changes directly in the core

Whoever has made changes in the Magento core or in third-party modules notices it at the latest with the next update. Magento consulting shows which interventions can be turned into clean extensions.

Too many modules for the same purpose

Several extensions do similar things and interfere with each other. That costs load time and makes errors hard to find.

Interfaces without a log

The synchronization with merchandise management runs, but nobody sees when a record gets stuck. An error log in the admin is often the first recommended measure.

Hosting does not fit the shop size

Environments that are too tight or set up wrongly slow the shop more than any code. A sober assessment helps here before money flows into optimization.

Whether any of this applies to your shop only the inventory shows. We name findings only if we can prove them on the shop.

Effort and price of Magento consulting

A flat figure for Magento consulting would be unreliable because the scope depends on your situation. A single question is answered in a few hours, the inventory of a grown shop with many modules and interfaces takes longer. What drives the effort is the number of modules, the state of the code, the number of interfaces and how good the existing documents are.

We work with an open hourly rate of EUR 30 net, without emergency surcharge. Your Magento consulting begins with a free intro call, after that you receive a written estimate after an inventory that lists the steps individually. All prices are on the page pricing.

Tax and legal questions, for example about invoices, contracts or privacy policies, we do not answer. Your tax adviser or legal adviser is responsible for them. We implement technically what is defined there.

How to recognize good Magento consulting

These points help with any provider, including us:

Analysis first, then recommendation
Good Magento consulting begins with questions and an inventory, not with a ready-made offer.
No hidden interests
Whoever sells licenses or hosting has an interest in certain answers. Ask about it.
Options instead of one way
You should see alternatives with pros and cons, not only one solution.
Results on paper
Report, action list and estimate in writing so that they can be compared and passed on.
Open limits
Good advisers say what they do not know or do not offer instead of promising everything.
Understandable language
Decisions must be traceable even without technical knowledge.

Access, privacy and confidentiality in Magento consulting

For an inventory we need insight into code and configuration. We work with as few rights as possible, with personal accounts instead of shared passwords and, where possible, on a copy of the shop instead of the running system. Access that is no longer needed after the Magento consulting is removed.

As soon as we could get access to personal data, for example customer accounts or orders, we conclude an agreement on commissioned data processing beforehand. Where possible we work with anonymized data. On request we sign a confidentiality agreement before you tell us details. This is not legal advice, the concrete arrangement you clarify with your legal adviser.

What Magento consulting cannot do

Honest consulting includes naming the limits. We cannot promise rankings in search engines or revenue, because both depend on factors we do not control. We can find causes and recommend measures, we do not guarantee success.

In addition we work remotely and without our own office. Conversations run by video call, documents through secure ways. If you are based in the Nuremberg region and want a personal meeting, talk to us. We name customers only with their consent, and in the intro call we gladly tell you about comparable constellations.

Let us talk about your plan

Describe your shop or project in a few sentences. We reply within 24 hours on working days and tell you how we would approach Magento consulting in your situation.

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Frequently asked questions about Magento consulting

What does Magento consulting cost?

We calculate with EUR 30 net per hour, without emergency surcharge. How many hours your situation needs we estimate in writing after an inventory. The intro call is free. All prices are on the page pricing.

Do I have to have the implementation done by you after the consulting?

No. The results belong to you and can be passed on to your own team or another agency. We offer implementation separately, with its own estimate.

Are you an Adobe partner?

No. We do not sell licenses and have no interest in doing so. Our recommendation on the edition follows your requirements and the follow-up costs.

Do you also advise on Adobe Commerce?

Yes, on Magento Open Source and on Adobe Commerce. The page on Adobe Commerce consulting lists the topics in detail.

How fast can we start?

That depends on current workload. In the intro call we name a realistic start date and promise nothing we cannot keep.

Do you need access to our shop?

For an inventory yes, but with as few rights as possible, personal accounts and, where possible, on a copy. For personal data we conclude an agreement on commissioned data processing beforehand.

Can you also accompany a project that another agency implements?

Yes, as accompanying Magento consulting with regular review and feedback. It stays independent of the implementation so that the feedback is unbiased.

Do you also advise agencies?

Yes, for example on estimating a project or taking over an existing system. On request we work as a white-label partner, see white label for agencies.