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- 9 min readMarketing
Checkout: where you lose the orders you've already paid for
You paid for the ad, brought the visitor, they added the product. Lose them at checkout and you paid for the whole journey for nothing — and the causes are nearly always the same.
- 9 min readMagento
Why your store scores well on PageSpeed and is slow for customers
The PageSpeed score is a simulation on a phone that doesn't exist, on a network that belongs to nobody. The data that matters is different, and it's free.
- 10 min readMagento
Magento for B2B: what you get out of the box and what gets built anyway
Selling to companies has rules a B2C store doesn't: per-customer pricing, repeat orders, approvals, payment on terms. What the platform covers and what it doesn't.
- 8 min readMagento
In-house team or agency: the four costs nobody puts in the calculation
The comparison is usually salary versus retainer. That's the wrong comparison — which is why the decision comes out badly in both directions.
- 12 min readMagento
Romanian e-invoicing in Magento 2: what the law wants, and what actually breaks
Mandatory since 1 January 2025, with a five-working-day deadline. The hard part isn't the law — it's the nine places in Magento where the implementation gives way.
- 9 min readPlatforms
Adobe Commerce or Magento Open Source: what you're actually paying extra for
The same platform underneath, two licences. The difference isn't in features — it's in who carries the risk, and that changes the maths above a certain volume.
- 11 min readMigration
How to migrate an online store without losing SEO traffic
A practical migration guide: what actually gets lost, the redirect map, what to check before launch, and what to do in the first six weeks after.
- 9 min readMarketing
How to get your store ready for Black Friday, starting in summer
What to check three months out, what to check in the final week, and what to do on the day itself. Infrastructure, speed, campaigns and stock.
- 10 min readMagento
Technical SEO for large-catalogue stores
Layered navigation, duplicate content and crawl budget — the three problems that appear in any store above a few thousand products.
- 9 min readMagento
What a Magento 2 store really costs
Development, licences, hosting and maintenance — every cost of a Magento 2 store, including the ones agencies leave out of the quote.
- 10 min readPlatforms
Magento or Shopify? How to choose without regretting it in two years
An honest comparison between Magento 2 and Shopify: catalogues, checkout, long-term costs, and the situations where each one is the wrong answer.
- 8 min readHyvä
The store is on Hyvä and it's still slow. Where the problem actually is
Hyvä fixes the frontend, not the backend. If you've migrated and the score hasn't moved, the cause is almost certainly in one of these five areas.
- 6 min readMarketing
Building an online store on the Magento 2 Hyvä framework — with a team that has done it before
As a Hyvä partner agency, VONTEQ builds fast, scalable stores on Magento 2 — from implementation through to marketing.
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Magento7
- Magento extensions — the debt you repay at upgrade
- Good PageSpeed score, slow for customers — why
- Magento for B2B — what you get and what gets built
- In-house team or agency for Magento
- Romanian e-invoicing in Magento 2 — a technical guide
- Technical SEO for large-catalogue stores
- What a Magento 2 store costs — the real numbers
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