Magento / Adobe Commerce
- Magento 2 and Adobe Commerce, including release lines approaching end of support, where the question is upgrade, migrate, or move to Mage-OS.
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Lazy Ants · eCommerce · Fixed-price review
eCommerce Architecture ReviewMigrate, or fix what you have. Answered in two weeks.
The eCommerce Architecture Review costs $3,850 and ends with a decision you can take to your board.
Most replatforming calls get made on vendor opinion instead.
The agency that builds Shopify stores
“You have outgrown this platform. Time to move.”
The team maintaining your Magento
“Migration is risky. We can optimise what is here.”
Both are answering a question they have a stake in. This review answers it from measurements taken in your own systems. Sometimes the answer is that migration is not worth doing yet. We say that too.
- $3,850
- fixed price
- 2 weeks
- from day zero
- 3
- possible verdicts, including wait
Systems we have built and maintained
When this is worth doing
You are close to a platform decision and the evidence is thin:
End of support
Your platform version is approaching end of support — Magento 2 and Adobe Commerce release lines most often — and extending costs real money either way.
Release risk
Integrations break in ways nobody predicts, and every release carries risk you cannot size.
Second opinion
Someone has proposed a replatform, and you want a read that does not come from a platform vendor.
Growth ceiling
Growth is flattening, and it is unclear whether the platform is the ceiling or something else is.
Conversion
Page speed and Core Web Vitals are costing conversion, and nobody can say whether the performance problem is fixable where you are.
If none of these describe your situation, this review is early.
The real failure mode
Replatforming rarely fails on the storefront
It fails where two systems disagree about the same record.
Platform vs ERP
Orders that exist in the platform but not in the ERP.
Warehouse vs catalogue
Stock counts that drift between the warehouse and the catalogue.
Provider vs platform
A payment that succeeded on the provider side and failed on yours.
Each of these is cheap to fix in isolation and expensive to discover a week after launch, under live traffic, when the team that built the migration has moved on.
These faults only appear under real volume and real edge cases. Finding them takes access to the systems and a deliberate look at the seams between them, which is most of what these two weeks are spent on.
This is what the report looks like
Two pages from it. The structure is what every review produces; the figures here are illustrative.
Contested rows are where two systems write the same field. That is where migrations fail, and it stays invisible until real volume hits it.
Every finding carries what it is, how much of it there is, what it costs you now, and what it takes to fix.
What you get
Report
Built from your systems, not a template. Performance on your live templates, integration failure patterns across ERP, PIM and CRM, order state handling, where the platform limits you and where it does not.
Walkthrough
A recorded call where we show you what breaks. The recording stays with you, so people who missed the call still see the evidence.
Fix list
Prioritised by what costs you most, not by what is easiest to sell.
Verdict
Migrate or optimise, with the reasoning behind it.
Range
Budget and timeline for whichever path the evidence supports, including what would move the range up or down.
The report is written to be forwarded. Your CFO should be able to read it without you translating it first.
Two weeks, from day zero
Day zero is the day access is granted and one person on your side is named as the owner. It is not the day the invoice is signed. Getting admin access inside a large company can take a week, and that week should not come out of your two.
What day zero requires
- Admin access to the platform
- Analytics access
- Read access to the systems you integrate with: ERP, PIM, CRM, whatever carries your order and product data
- One named person who can answer a question within a working day
Platforms this review covers
Shopify Plus
- Shopify Plus stores where the constraint is usually app sprawl, checkout customisation limits, or the cost of what sits around the platform.
Sylius Plus
- Sylius and Sylius Plus estates, where the review reads the custom code as closely as the platform.
Shopware
- Shopware 5 and 6 stores, including Shopware 5 estates past end of support, where the question is upgrade to 6 or move.
BigCommerce
- BigCommerce stores, where the review reads what the API and the apps around it carry, and where the catalog or the pricing stop fitting the platform.
WooCommerce
- WooCommerce stores, where the review follows the plugins that write orders, subscriptions and prices, and the WordPress install underneath them.
Salesforce Commerce Cloud
- Salesforce Commerce Cloud, where the platform is rarely the limit and the integrations and licence cost usually are.
Who runs the review
Senior engineers do the work and present the verdict. The person who analysed your system is the person on the call. You will not be handed to an account manager after the first meeting.
The technical read
Goes through the platform, the integrations and the order data, then writes the verdict and defends it on the call.
Kickoff and next steps
Sets up day zero with your side, runs the walkthrough, and scopes whatever the verdict points to.
Partner program
Partner Network
Lazy Ants is part of the Claude Partner Network, Anthropic's partner program for organizations helping businesses adopt Claude.
What it costs
$3,850, fixed. No hourly billing and no scope negotiation after the fact. If you go ahead with the work we recommend, the fee credits toward that project, up to 10% of its value, for 60 days.
If the verdict is migrate
Migration project$50,000
Review credited−$3,850
You pay$46,150
If the verdict is optimise
Optimisation work$15,000
Review credited, capped at 10%−$1,500
You pay$13,500
The credit does not change with the verdict. We have no financial reason to prefer one answer over the other, which is the point of paying for the review rather than asking a vendor for a free opinion.
How it ends
Three endings, and we commit to all three.
Migrate
Scope, a price range, a timeline and the reasoning. That package works with any vendor. We would like it to be us, and it does not have to be.
Optimise
The same package for the smaller piece of work, usually with a faster return.
Wait
Sometimes the platform is not the constraint. If the real cost sits in a process, a data model, a team structure or the total cost of ownership of what surrounds the platform, we say so, and the review has still saved you a six-figure decision.
You are buying a decision. What you do with it is yours.
Where the evidence comes from
Phased replatformingA platform move done in stages, with no planned stop in sales.Read the caseCheckout stabilised under loadCheckout fixed while revenue kept running through it.Read the caseMagento legacy to controlled cutoverA legacy estate moved through a cutover that was planned rather than discovered.Read the caseQuestions we get before booking
If yours is not here, ask on the first call. We would rather talk you out of this than sell you a review that does not fit.
How much does it cost, and how does the credit work?
$3,850, fixed, invoiced once. If you go ahead with the work we recommend, the fee credits toward that project, up to 10% of its value, for 60 days. The credit does not change with the verdict.
Is this a replatforming quote?
No. A quote comes from someone who has already decided you should move. This review decides whether you should. If the verdict is migrate, you get the scope, a price range and a timeline, and that package works with any vendor.
Do you do the migration if the verdict is migrate?
If you want us to. It is a separate engagement, and the review fee is credited against it. We would like it to be us, and it does not have to be.
Which platforms and versions do you cover?
Shopify Plus, Sylius and Sylius Plus, Magento 2 and Adobe Commerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Shopware, BigCommerce and WooCommerce. For Magento 2 and Adobe Commerce that includes release lines approaching end of support. If you run something else, ask on the first call.
What access do you need, and what if we cannot give admin access?
Admin access to the platform, analytics, and read access to the systems that carry your order and product data. If admin access is not possible, tell us on the scoping call: we will say what can still be measured, and the report will name what it could not.
How soon can you start?
Start dates are booked in order of request. Tell us when the platform decision has to be made and we will say honestly whether two weeks still fits before it.
Request the review
Tell us what platform you run and what decision is coming. If the review would not earn its price for you right now, we will say so on the first call.