Staylime provides end-to-end Magento consulting services, helping ecommerce companies oversee and execute changes for better business performance and customer experience. Whether you seek technical advice and guidance or look for an expert opinion in business-strategic decision making, our Magento consultants will share all the information and expertise you need to get the most value from your Magento store.
Before rendering any Magento services Staylime dives deep into existing tasks and operations to come up with the most suitable solution for efficient business process management and routine automation.
Based on your current infrastructure and strategic goals, we will design a proper workflow for each system within your software environment, including Magento, to increase your productivity and business performance.
Replatforming to Magento
We help businesses willing to capitalize on the powerful ecommerce toolset of Magento plan and execute the transition from other platforms.
Our team will draw up an optimal path to switching to either Open Source, Commerce or Commerce Cloud editions, guiding you through every step of the replatforming journey.
Replatforming process
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Analysis
Analysis of the existing platform and elaboration of your business requirements.
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Selection
Selection of the relevant Magento edition and a cost-effective hosting/server.
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Implementation
Implementation of the required functionality.
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Integration
Integration with third-party applications and consolidation of the architecture.
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Estimation
Estimation of redesign with itemized costs and timeline.
Migration planning
For existing businesses, our Magento experts and consultants take charge of preparing a comprehensive migration plan to ensure a smooth and fast shift to Magento 2 and seamless operation upon go-live.
Our analysts will perform an all-round audit of your existing Magento environment and will help you launch your Magento 2 migration project by:
Analysing the configuration
Analysing the configuration of the existing store, including data, extensions, customizations, integrations, and design specifics.
Revising the extensions
Revising the extensions in place to detect the ones you no longer need and coming up with the list of applicable Magento 2 alternatives along with their purchase, installation, and setup costs.
Analysing custom functionality
Analysing custom functionality with recommendations on how to implement it best on Magento 2.
Assessing the data
Assessing the data of the existing extensions and the efforts required to migrate it to Magento 2.
Defining the best approach
Defining the best approach towards the re-integration of third-party systems and estimating implementation costs.
Estimating custom theme
Selecting an appropriate ready-made Magento 2 theme or estimating custom theme development based on the new configuration.
Related insight
Want to know what migration to Magento 2 entails?
Brace yourself: Magento 1’s end of life is coming. Read our guide to learn what a proper migration from Magento 1 to Magento 2 entails. And remember—time is short, so you should plan the migration now to ensure seamless, uninterrupted operation of your business.
Should our clients miss any particular feature or require a functional upgrade of their Magento stores, Staylime will uncover the reasons behind the need of change and assess the tasks to be tackled.
Depending on your requirements and existing infrastructure, our analysts will work out the most rational way to implement the new functionality and estimate delivery efforts and TCO of the preferred option:
Ready-made extension installation
Ready-made extension customization
Custom extension development
Extension selection
Staylime helps you choose the most appropriate extensions for your store, allowing you to take advantage of proven Magento solutions available on the market without overloading your store.
To finalize the list of the Magento extensions you need and ensure their compatibility, our team will:
Match your functional requirements to capabilities of ready-made extensions and validate reliability of their vendors;
Carry out a comparative analysis of suitable extensions, outlining their features, costs and restrictions, and selecting the ones that will work best for you;
Analyze compatibility with the extensions already in place to provide for their seamless interoperation upon installation;
Estimate customization and styling efforts required to align new extensions with your existing theme.
Server selection & configuration
We take hosting considerations off your shoulders, providing an all-round audit of your server environment, including current settings, load limits and bottlenecks, if any.
Depending on your budget expectations and business goals, our team will propose an optimal hosting approach and configuration that enable high performance of your Magento store with no compromise on security.
Types of hosting:
Managed hosting
Your hosting setup, administration, management and support are handled by the hosting provider, so that you focus on strategic objectives rather than server management.
Unmanaged hosting
You get full autonomous control over your hosting environment, taking advantage of optimized monthly costs, server customization flexibility, and the ability to introduce any changes immediately.
Aiming to optimize Magento performance for better conversion, our team reveals any weak points and issues that slow down your store and eliminates them.
We investigate store’s performance end-to-end, taking care of:
Identification & analysis
Identification and analysis of resource-heavy operations that impact server load.
Code audit
Audit of the custom code and evaluation of refactoring efforts.
Action plan
Creation of an action plan to tackle performance issues, starting from minor changes to extension logic to extension deactivation.
Development
Development of a sound approach to frontend optimization to give a boost to your page load times and PageSpeed Insights score.
Assessment
Assessment of the existing server configuration and, if required, estimation of efforts required to design a new architecture and its subsequent TCO.
SEO consulting
We deliver relevant data-driven SEO strategies for your Magento store to help you skyrocket your positions in search engines.
Within an in-depth SEO audit, Staylime analyses limitations and pitfalls in current settings and detects reasons for the traffic drop either during regular store operation or after Magento 2 migration.
As a result, you get a detailed report full of insights and recommendations and a clear remedy plan with cost and timeline estimation so you could embark on a new chapter in your SEO practice straight away.
User experience audit
Staylime builds a solid foundation for an effective UX redesign, allowing you to get a new perspective of your Magento store and uncover areas for its improvement.
Through exploratory domain-specific research and deep domain analysis with industry-renowned tools we create a step-by-step action plan to enhance user experience and drive better customer engagement, resulting in more sales:
Digital experience analysis of your target audience;
Detection of reasons behind low conversion and high bounce rates;
Identification and prioritization of customer journey bottlenecks to implement high-impact improvements first;
Calculation of financial benefits from enhancements and fixes;
Provision of tailored recommendations based on the research of your domain and industry’s best practices in UI/UX, as well as our own experience;
Estimation of improvement efforts and costs.
Related serviceDon’t have a design yet? We can help!
Staylime provides a full spectrum of Magento design servicesto help you create or reinforce your business identity, makeyour web store’s look and feel stand out from the competition,or enchant it with great UI/UX that will significantly improve your conversion rates.
Payment gateways, shipment integrators, marketing automation, and analytic tools, or catalog, product, stock, and any other parts of your Magento environment — our team ensures seamless connectivity of disparate systems, employing reliable extensions or custom integrations built from scratch.
Be it a direct, reverse, or two-way integration, we will propose the most effective approach and implementation roadmap to help you set up a cohesive ecommerce ecosystem.
Security audit
Our security audit embraces every aspect of store security, from server and Magento configuration checks to detection of vulnerable extensions and malicious code.
To minimize security risks and protect your online store, we draft recommendations on how to improve your current security setup, covering:
