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Magento Commerce

From a standard store to your own process.

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Three situations we encounter every day.

Why choose a Magento partner?

  • Your business customers all have their own specific requirements

    Different prices per customer group, tiered pricing, quotes, and account structures: that doesn’t fit into a standard online store. In Magento, these features are built right in, so you don’t have to work around them.

  • Your product range is too large for a standard platform

    With thousands of products and their variants, a hosted platform will hit its limits—especially when you add multiple countries and languages to the mix. Magento is built for that scale and scales with you without requiring a complete overhaul.

  • Your online store needs to integrate with your other systems

    Your ERP, PIM, and warehouse system need to integrate with your online store. On a closed platform, you’re limited to what the vendor allows; here, you decide how those integrations work.

Magento as the engine behind your online store

For most companies, an online store isn’t the end point but the hub: inventory comes from one system, prices from another, and customer agreements from yet another. The more complex this becomes, the more you’ll benefit from a platform that can be customized.

Magento is the engine for that scenario. It imposes no limits on your pricing structure, your product range, or your integrations, and it runs on your own infrastructure. That freedom requires maintenance, and that’s the honest trade-off.

You remain in control of your platform. You’re not limited by what a vendor allows, and you can switch agencies without losing your online store.

What We Do with Magento

We start with your process, not the platform: how you sell, to whom, and under what terms. This determines what your catalog, customer segments, and pricing should look like. That model determines whether you’ll still be able to move forward in three years.

Next, we build the store and the integrations with your ERP, PIM, and sales channels. For the front end, we use Hyvä, because speed isn’t a given with Magento, and a slow platform costs you conversions.

After going live, we continue to develop the platform. Updates, security, and new functionality are part of a platform you manage yourself, and we budget for these upfront rather than after the fact.

What’s the difference between Magento and Shopify?

Redkiwi builds on both platforms and doesn’t profit from your choice. The difference isn’t in quality but in what you need: freedom and control versus speed and convenience. Below, you’ll see how they differ, so you can decide for yourself which one suits your organization best.

Magento

  • Voordeel: On your own hosting, full control
  • Voordeel: Prices and tiers by customer group
  • Voordeel: Strong with large, complex product ranges
  • Voordeel: Connections tailored to your needs
  • Voordeel: “Every customer has their own terms”

Shopify

  • Voordeel: Hosted platform, maintenance included
  • Voordeel: Quick deployment, low management overhead
  • Voordeel: Strong for well-organized product ranges
  • Voordeel: Large app store for add-ons
  • Voordeel: "I want sell quickly and have minimal management"

Three things you’ll notice when working with us.

Why choose Redkiwi as your Magento partner?

  • You own your platform

    You control the code, the hosting, and the platform. Every month, we review what’s needed, and you decide what takes priority. You remain in charge of the business strategy; we ensure the platform can support it.

  • Independent advice

    If your product range is a good fit for Shopify, we’ll recommend it—even if a Magento project means more work for us. Choosing a platform that’s more complex than you need will result in years of extra maintenance.

  • Development, hosting, and growth—all under one roof

    We build the store, handle the hosting, and run the campaigns on it, so if a problem arises, no one has to point fingers. You’ll work with a dedicated team that knows your platform and your market.

Frequently Asked Questions About Magento

01/ When should you choose Magento?
For complex customer-specific pricing, large product ranges, multiple countries, or a B2B process involving tiered pricing and account structures. If you’re selling a straightforward product range to consumers, Shopify is faster and cheaper to manage.
02/ What is the difference between Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce?
Open Source is free to license, and you handle hosting and management yourself. Adobe Commerce is the paid version with additional features for large organizations, including cloud hosting. For most Dutch online stores, Open Source is more than sufficient.
03/ Is a Magento online store slow?
Magento is more resource-intensive than a hosted platform, so speed doesn’t come naturally. With a frontend like Hyvä, good hosting, and careful use of extensions, you can achieve excellent load times. Without those three elements, it will be slow, no matter how much effort you put into it.
04/ Can I migrate my current online store to Magento?
Yes, including your products, customers, order history, and SEO value. Most of the work isn’t in the migration itself but in cleaning things up: you’d rather not carry over a product lineup that has grown over the years without making any changes.