Magento, Shopify, WooCommerce or B2B custom, we advise objectively which platform fits your scale and stack, and build it with the technology and marketing in one hand.
An objective side-by-side comparison, no affiliate deals, no preferences. The best platform is the one that fits your scale, team and stack.
Perhaps you recognise this: the shop loads slowly on mobile, your ERP integration creaks as soon as you add a new supplier, and your marketing agency complains that the site is “not really set up for conversion”. Meanwhile you simply have to keep going, processing orders, tracking stock, and secretly still working on that one product feature a customer has been asking about for months.
What you need at this stage is not a new platform religion. You need a partner who first investigates what works, what should stay, and only then advises: build on what you have, renew in phases, or move everything to another platform in one go. That is what we are good at.
We have run that process since 2013 for hundreds of entrepreneurs, from a sole trader with a first Shopify shop to a multinational on headless Magento. The approach differs per situation, the method is constant.
One partner for both the technology and the marketing, that is exactly why we have been doing what we do since 2013. No finger-pointing between agencies, just results you can measure.— Exceptis · online marketing & web design since 2013
The first two weeks we do no wireframe and no mood board. We talk to your team, dig through your analytics, compare your positions in Google, and look at what competitors do better. Only once we know why people come to your site, what they cannot find, and where they drop off do we start making design decisions.
The choice between Magento, Shopify, WooCommerce or headless is not religious, it is arithmetic. How many SKUs? How many orders per month? Which ERP do you run? Do you do B2B, B2C or both? How many countries, how many currencies, which VAT rules? We ask those questions, you give the answers, together we choose the platform that can last the next three to five years.
Most shop builds put SEO off until the end: “we will do some title tags”. That is why many shops never rank well. We involve our SEO specialists in week one, in sitemap design, URL structure, technical foundation, content strategy and category structure. No retrofit, just built right.
A shop by itself does not sell, that is done by orders that flow through, stock that is correct, customer data that lands in your CRM, and invoices that are created automatically. We connect your shop to Business Central, Exact, SnelStart, AFAS and POS systems like Lightspeed and Cyclesoftware. Our middleware approach (see the ERP page) enables real-time sync without direct API integrations falling over at volume.
After launch the real work begins. We monitor your shop continuously, run A/B tests on the pages that matter (checkout, product, category), and review every month what the data says. Not a non-committal retainer, a concrete development budget per month, with reporting on what we did, what it delivered, and what we propose this month.
Each platform page goes deeper on architecture, prices and cases, no overlap with this hub.
Enterprise e-commerce for wholesalers and multi-channel retail. Native B2B features, strong at ERP integrations.
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Read more →For WordPress sites that also want to sell. A strong combination of content and commerce in one CMS.
Read more →Different sectors, different platforms, the same approach.
Fixed phasing with clear delivery moments and transparent pricing per phase. No “we will see where we end up”.
Stakeholder interviews, analytics audit, competitor benchmark, keyword research.
Platform choice with TCO analysis, sitemap, feature prioritisation, fixed-price proposal.
Wireframes, design system, hi-fi mockups in Figma. Sign-off per template before we code.
Frontend, integrations, ERP integration, content migration. Weekly demos.
UAT, performance test, security scan, 301 redirects, soft launch.
Four-weekly iteration cycle, A/B tests, further development, marketing fit.
Concrete answers, no marketing talk.
It depends on platform and scope. WooCommerce builds start around €3,000, Shopify around €5,000, Magento around €7,500, and fully custom/B2B on request. Our quotes are always a fixed price per phase, no open ends.
A simple WooCommerce or Shopify shop is live in 6–10 weeks. Magento 12–18 weeks. Custom/B2B 16–24 weeks. Including discovery, design, build, QA and launch.
No fixed answer, it depends on your situation. We do a 3-year TCO analysis, look at your team, your ERP and your growth path. The advice comes in week 2, and is not driven by which platform we prefer to build.
Yes. We regularly take over from other agencies. We audit the codebase, plugin stack and hosting, and propose a plan: build on, renew in phases or fully re-platform.
Nothing, if you do it right. Before launch we create a 301 redirect map of all old URLs, preserve metadata, and monitor rankings for the first 4 weeks after launch. SEO loss during migration is a planning error.
Yes, it is one of our strongest competencies. See the ERP page for the approach with Business Central, Exact, SnelStart and AFAS.
Yes. On Shopify we use Markets, on Magento native multi-store, on WooCommerce WPML/Polylang. We are experienced with VAT rules per EU country, local payment methods and language-specific SEO.
Per project a fixed project lead (Payam for larger projects), plus the developer and marketer who actually do the work. No call center, no ticketing system.
Often. Many marketing and design agencies outsource the technology to us. Fully discreet, with or without client contact, own branding optional.
We host Magento on managed dedicated or cloud. Shopify is SaaS, so no separate hosting. WooCommerce on managed WordPress hosting. We arrange hosting at delivery or hand it over to your IT.
Yes. As standard you get 30 days of free aftercare. After that you choose a tailored maintenance package: monitoring and health checks, or an ongoing development budget. No obligation, but recommended.
Yes, that is our other half. We are an official Google Partner and run SEA, SEO, Performance Max and Shopping for clients. One partner for technology and marketing, that is literally our positioning.
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