Magento Commerce Built to Perform, Integrate, and Scale Complex Business Operations.
Recognized for delivering digital transformation projects on the Magento platform
Magento stores can gradually lose ground as performance slows, workarounds proliferate, and overdue updates increase business risk.
Codilar helps Chicago businesses strengthen their Magento stores through technical audits, targeted fixes, new implementations, version upgrades, migrations, performance improvements, and ongoing support. For manufacturers, wholesalers, and distributors managing complex catalogs or connected inventory and order systems, the store must do more than add features. It needs to help teams launch faster, manage ownership costs, convert more customers, and maintain reliable performance as demand grows.
Years in Digital Transformation
More than a decade of turning enterprise commerce ambition into proven revenue engines.
Magento Stores Delivered
From boutique launches to large-scale enterprise rollouts across categories and regions.
Digital Technology Awards
Industry recognition for implementation, migration, and complex commerce engineering.
Magento Platform Experts
A team built entirely around commerce, from strategy through engineering.
Certified Developers
Magento-certified engineers building to the platform's highest standard.
Years of Average Client Retention
A track record of building lasting growth partnerships with our clients.
Magento stores can gradually lose ground as performance slows, workarounds proliferate, and overdue updates increase business risk.
Codilar helps Chicago businesses strengthen their Magento stores through technical audits, targeted fixes, new implementations, version upgrades, migrations, performance improvements, and ongoing support. For manufacturers, wholesalers, and distributors managing complex catalogs or connected inventory and order systems, the store must do more than add features. It needs to help teams launch faster, manage ownership costs, convert more customers, and maintain reliable performance as demand grows.
Years in Digital Transformation
More than a decade of turning enterprise commerce ambition into proven revenue engines.
Magento Stores Delivered
From boutique launches to large-scale enterprise rollouts across categories and regions.
Digital Technology Awards
Industry recognition for implementation, migration, and complex commerce engineering.
Magento Platform Experts
A team built entirely around commerce, from strategy through engineering.
Certified Developers
Magento-certified engineers building to the platform's highest standard.
Years of Average Client Retention
A track record of building lasting growth partnerships with our clients.
Magento Open Source 2.4.5 lost standard support in August 2025, while 2.4.6 reached its support deadline on August 11, 2026. Version 2.4.4 is also out of support. Stores running these releases no longer receive standard security updates from Adobe.
Unlike Adobe Commerce, Magento Open Source has no extended-support option. Adobe follows a three-year standard support window for each release line, with a major release each May and consolidated security updates scheduled for May and November. Most merchants now fall into one of three groups: Unsupported Today - Running 2.4.4, 2.4.5, or 2.4.6. These releases are outside standard support, leaving your store without official Magento Open Source security patches for newly discovered issues. Plan an upgrade now rather than allowing the risk to continue. Supported But Ageing - Running 2.4.7, with standard support ending May 31, 2027. This gives you time to plan an upgrade and assess whether moving to a Hyvä frontend in the same project makes sense. Current Version - Running 2.4.8 or 2.4.9. Standard support runs through May 31, 2028, for 2.4.8 and May 31, 2029, for 2.4.9. Version 2.4.9 also adds PHP 8.5 compatibility. Keep your store patched and review its performance, dependencies, and technical health.
Support Timeline
Unsupported Today
Running 2.4.4, 2.4.5 or 2.4.6.
No new security patches. Every disclosed vulnerability stays open on your store permanently. This needs a plan now, not next quarter.
Supported But Ageing
Running 2.4.7, supported until mid-2028.
Enough runway to plan properly, and the right moment to combine the upgrade with a Hyvä frontend rather than running two projects.
Current Version
Running 2.4.8 or 2.4.9.
Released May 2026, with PHP 8.5 support and 560+ fixes. The work here is staying patched and getting more out of the platform.
We align commerce architecture and customer experience with business goals, from initial launch and upgrades to replatforming and expansion. For Chicago, IL manufacturers, wholesalers, and distributors, this can include simplifying buyer journeys, improving repeat ordering, and planning how the storefront connects with inventory and order systems.
We build tailored B2C, DTC, and marketplace storefronts using certified Magento expertise. Maintainable, standards-based code supports growing catalogs, higher traffic, and future upgrades without making everyday changes harder to deliver.
We develop B2B workflows such as company accounts, negotiated pricing, quote requests, approval processes, bulk ordering, and credit-related processes. Where Magento Open Source needs functionality beyond its core capabilities, we extend it with purpose-built modules and integrations.
We assess upgrade paths against PHP and database requirements, extension compatibility, custom code, and theme behavior before implementation. Many mid-sized upgrades take around 4-8 weeks; complex stores or projects combining an upgrade with a Luma-to-Hyvä migration can take longer. We define scope and dependencies upfront.
We migrate stores from Magento 1, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, and legacy custom platforms. Migration planning covers product, customer, and order data, URL redirects, downtime, and SEO checks to reduce disruption. Codilar has delivered 50+ migrations across industries and regions.
We build mobile commerce experiences connected to Magento and the wider commerce ecosystem. Capabilities can include product discovery, personalized experiences, checkout, payments, order tracking, and push notifications. Depending on requirements, we use React Native, native mobile technologies, APIs, and GraphQL to support performance and continued development.
We build Hyvä themes and migrate Luma storefronts using Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js. We assess theme compatibility, checkout behavior, extensions, and frontend dependencies, and can coordinate frontend work with a version upgrade where it makes sense. Performance outcomes depend on the existing store and implementation.
We develop custom modules, middleware, and extensions for capabilities beyond Magento's standard functionality. This includes PII Shield, Codilar's framework for encrypting customer data at the database layer. Solutions are designed for security, reuse, documentation, and upgrade compatibility, with dependencies and future maintenance considered from the outset.
We connect ERP, PIM, CRM, OMS, POS, payment systems, and other commerce applications to keep product data, pricing, inventory, and orders aligned. Integrations can include warehouse stock synchronization, order routing, and shipment updates, with logging, retries, and error handling designed for reliable data exchange.
Magento Open Source requires merchants to arrange and manage hosting. We design and operate infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or bare metal, using Varnish, Redis, OpenSearch, CDNs, CI/CD, monitoring, and auto-scaling where appropriate. Capacity, resilience, and cloud costs are planned around actual traffic and operational needs.
We provide ongoing support beyond the platform itself, including proactive patching, security hardening, uptime monitoring, bug-fix SLAs, and continuous improvements. Support plans can define escalation paths, response coverage, and reserved engineering capacity to prepare for peak trading periods and keep the store reliable.
We investigate slow pages, checkout friction, tracking gaps, and other barriers to conversion through analytics, CRO, performance profiling, and quality testing. PowerListing, Codilar's Magento performance accelerator, can also be assessed as part of a wider optimization plan.
We help Magento stores improve product visibility across search engines, AI Overviews, voice search, LLM platforms, and answer engines. Connected marketing technology can then help align product data, customer interactions, and campaigns across the shopping journey.
We apply AI and analytics to use cases such as product discovery, personalization, UCP readiness, and data-informed merchandising. Performance dashboards and event data help teams monitor customer behavior and identify opportunities for ongoing optimization.
We extend Magento beyond its standard feature set, engineering the performance, security, discovery, and connected workflows businesses need to turn commerce traffic into sales.
We optimize Magento across catalog search, caching, image delivery, and frontend code to reduce unnecessary processing and improve page responsiveness. Elasticsearch or OpenSearch powers catalog search, while full-page caching, Varnish, and CDN delivery help serve content efficiently. We establish performance budgets and monitor Core Web Vitals against the store's existing baseline.
Standard Magento installations do not encrypt every customer detail stored in the database. We add field-level encryption for sensitive information such as names, email addresses, and physical addresses while preserving authorized storefront and admin workflows. This helps limit exposure if database records are accessed without authorization, alongside appropriate access controls, key management, and security monitoring.
We improve how commerce content is rendered and understood across search experiences. Server-side rendering or pre-rendering, structured product data, clean hreflang implementation, and well-organized content help search engines and AI-driven discovery tools interpret product pages. The implementation is tailored to the storefront architecture, content structure, and target markets.
We build Hyvä themes, headless and PWA storefronts, Next.js and React interfaces, React Native applications, and custom Magento modules. These approaches help improve shopping experiences while allowing the frontend to evolve independently of the commerce backend where the architecture supports it.
We connect Magento with ERP, PIM, CRM, and OMS platforms through custom middleware and event-driven integrations. Data mapping, retry handling, logging, and error recovery help keep product information, pricing, inventory, and orders synchronized as transaction volumes fluctuate. For manufacturers and distributors, this can include coordinating stock across locations and connecting wholesale orders with established fulfillment workflows.
We extend Magento Open Source with maintainable modules for company accounts, contract pricing, quote-to-order workflows, approval processes, bulk ordering, and tailored checkout rules. These capabilities help manufacturers, wholesalers, and distributors bring negotiated terms and established purchasing processes into their online ordering experience.
Codilar has helped us to build a robust omnichannel ecommerce platform for Carter’s, HomesRus, Monsoon and OshKosh. The team at Codilar follows the latest development trends and highly focus on a customer centric approach which resonates well with our values.
Group Head of eCommerce
Codilar has been a game changer for Marina Home. Their deep understanding of our brand vision and technical expertise helped us build a fast, intuitive website and streamline our backend operations. We've seen significant improvements in customer experience, operational efficiency, and online sales since partnering with them.
Head of eCommerce
Being India's top jewellery ecommerce brand, we were struggling in scaling our ecommerce technology stack. With Codilar, we have been able to boost our Magento store performance and have our catalog and products listed in an optimized way. Codilar's services has been outstanding and I recommend them to all the other player in the market.
CEO
Move from an outdated version, a legacy build, or another commerce platform to Magento while protecting business data, organic visibility, and trading continuity.
Magento 1 reached end of life in June 2020 and no longer receives security patches. We plan migrations around data integrity, core workflows, and customer experience. For EGC Supply, that meant moving more than 500,000 SKUs while accounting for complex B2B requirements and ERP/PIM coordination. Our three phases cover data stabilization, commerce improvements, and UX optimization. Projects target zero data loss, SEO preservation, and performance gains of 50% or more, with timelines of 4-13 weeks depending on complexity.
Before upgrading, we assess PHP and database compatibility, extension dependencies, custom code, and theme behavior, then run regression tests across critical journeys. If frontend improvements are already planned, moving from Luma to Hyvä in the same project can reduce duplicated effort. The target version depends on your current stack and support needs. Magento Open Source 2.4.8 and 2.4.9 are supported release lines.
When a business needs capabilities or support options beyond Magento Open Source, we assess whether Adobe Commerce justifies its licensing and operating costs. Depending on requirements, the move may include Page Builder, Live Search, and a suitable cloud setup with CDN, scaling, caching, search, and inventory architecture. We define the required features and infrastructure before migration rather than assuming every enterprise capability is necessary.
When catalog complexity, B2B purchasing, custom pricing, or integrations become difficult to manage on a hosted platform, we plan the move around the workflows the business needs. Migration covers products, customers, orders, URL redirects, metadata, and essential integrations, with platform-specific functionality rebuilt for the new store.
For businesses constrained by API usage, checkout customization, or multi-storefront requirements, Magento provides more room for tailored commerce logic. We migrate catalog and customer data, plan URL and metadata handling to protect search visibility, and reconnect external systems. For multi-brand operations, we assess whether one Magento instance can simplify management while preserving distinct storefront experiences.
When catalog growth, order volume, custom requirements, or multiple storefronts strain a WordPress-based setup, we plan a move to Magento Open Source. Products, customer records, order history, URL structures, and SEO metadata are mapped and validated before launch. For wholesalers and distributors, the project can also cover catalog restructuring and connections to inventory and order systems.
Businesses reassessing licensing and platform costs can evaluate Magento as an alternative. We review total ownership costs, required functionality, integrations, and ongoing responsibilities before planning the migration. The work covers commerce data, search visibility, custom workflows, and connected systems, with the target architecture shaped around business needs.
Codilar consolidated TGR Ventures' two Magento stores into one instance, with dedicated headless PWA frontends for each brand. The solution supported a 60GB+ database, 150+ customer groups, 11 currencies across nine countries, two-way Odoo ERP synchronization, and six payment gateways. For multi-brand businesses, consolidation can reduce duplicated maintenance while retaining distinct storefronts and operating rules.
We replace disconnected or outdated systems with a maintainable Magento architecture. We also help recover stalled projects and rebuild stores affected by prolonged downtime, poor performance, or unsuccessful headless implementations. For businesses managing complex supply chains, integration reliability and data consistency are key migration priorities.
For businesses that need advanced B2B capabilities, enterprise integrations, or more complex multi-store operations, Adobe Commerce may be a better fit than Magento Open Source. We migrate products, customers, orders, SEO data, and critical workflows, then design the target architecture around business requirements and total cost.
When a Magento store falls short on speed, stability, or flexibility, the cause may be deeper than day-to-day effort can address. Magento rewards focused platform expertise, especially when custom code, integrations, or years of changes have made a store difficult to maintain. Codilar works with the teams behind the business to identify the issues, restore reliable operation, and build a practical path to improvement.
LIVEMitra Adiperkasa
DOWNTIME → STABLE
Rescued from regular downtime
LIVEAAW
SLOW → OPTIMIZED
Slow performance resolved
LIVEJPW Industries
STALLED → LIVE
Headless go-live stabilized
LIVEeCommerce
DOWN → STABLE
Recovered from downtime
A delivery process built for outcomes, not just go-live. From deep technical audit to post-launch growth, every stage is engineered to protect your historic investments, your data, and your revenue
Across manufacturing, distribution, and telecom, we bring proven Magento experience to the way your business sells, scales, and serves customers.
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Codilar develops commerce tools that address recurring challenges in performance, infrastructure costs, data protection, and storefront delivery. These ready-made capabilities help Magento teams avoid building every solution from scratch.
An OpenSearch- and Elasticsearch-powered extension suite for Magento product listing pages. Moving listing search away from MySQL queries can make listings 2 to 5 times faster and reduce infrastructure costs by up to 80%, depending on the store's configuration and workload.
A field-level encryption solution for protecting personally identifiable information within the Magento ecosystem. Powered by Libsodium, it encrypts customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses across customer, order, invoice, and shipment records while preserving authorized checkout and admin workflows.
This SaaS cache-warming solution prepares Magento pages before shoppers request them. It monitors pages and pre-warms the cache to improve response times. Reported results show server response time falling from 5 seconds to 0.03 seconds without requiring changes to the Magento codebase.
Brings together storefront technologies such as ScandiPWA, Vue Storefront, and Magento PWA Studio to simplify PWA implementation. Depending on the build and testing conditions, it can target Google PageSpeed scores above 90 and support deployment in as little as two weeks.
A Magento-based commerce solution for jewelry retailers. Its capabilities include live gold pricing, virtual try-on, Try@Home, video cart, EMI payments, custom engraving, ERP integration, and catalog management. These features support more specialized shopping journeys than a standard product page can provide.
Most Magento challenges have a practical fix. The first step is identifying what is holding the store back.
Stores on 2.4.4, 2.4.5 or 2.4.6 no longer receive security patches, and Magento Open Source has no extended-support option. Every newly disclosed vulnerability stays open permanently, while PCI compliance and cyber insurance get harder to defend each quarter.
Pages that loaded fine at launch slow to a crawl as catalogs expand and traffic climbs. Poor Core Web Vitals, sluggish search, and checkout lag quietly erode conversion and rankings, exactly when growth should be lifting them.
Dependency conflicts, extension incompatibilities, and theme regressions have made previous upgrades painful enough that staying put felt rational. The longer that continues, the larger and riskier the eventual jump becomes.
Marketplace extension quality varies enormously. Overlapping modules, unmaintained vendors and core overrides create compatibility failures, security exposure, and upgrade blockers that surface at the worst moment.
ERP, PIM, CRM and OMS connections built as quick fixes turn brittle under load. Data falls out of sync, orders stall mid-transaction, and the systems meant to run the business start slowing it down.
Self-hosted means the hosting, scaling, backups, WAF and security baseline are yours. Unmonitored cloud setups quietly waste spend, and a single outage during peak trading can undo a year of growth.
Heavy customization by a single partner makes transitions difficult and raises operational risk. Undocumented code, closed repositories, and tribal knowledge turn a commercial decision into a technical hostage situation.
Talented internal teams get buried in tickets, patches and maintenance, with no capacity left for the roadmap that actually moves revenue. The store gets maintained, but it never grows.
We connect Magento with the systems behind your business, aligning storefronts, operations, and customer touchpoints through an integrated commerce ecosystem.
Our average client relationship exceeds five years, reflecting sustained technical partnership, ongoing improvements, and support beyond launch.
Our 250+ engineers include 65+ certified developers and 40+ architects and tech leads, with more than a decade of Magento experience. We apply that expertise to complex builds, integrations, and platform decisions from the outset.
Years of delivery across industries and markets have built our reputation for tackling demanding Magento implementations. Our work has also earned the trust of Adobe on projects for high-value clients.
Commerce is our focus, not one service line among many. With eleven years of Magento engineering experience, we bring platform-specific knowledge to architecture, implementation, and technical decision-making.
We develop capabilities that address requirements beyond Magento's standard feature set, supported by our own commerce products. These tools target practical needs in performance, data protection, and storefront experience.
Our recognition includes four Meet Magento Awards and three Adobe Experience Awards. We support the Magento community through official meetups and Magecafe, our content channel with videos that have attracted more than 100,000 views.
Our founders bring deep technical backgrounds and long-standing Magento experience. Their engineering-led approach shapes how we assess requirements, design solutions, and handle complex commerce challenges.
Your repositories, cloud accounts, Git environment, architecture documentation, and recorded module walkthroughs remain accessible to your business. Our contractual exit options include 30, 60, or 90-day notice periods, with handover support for a successor partner. You stay because the partnership continues to deliver value.
Our regional teams provide accessible business and technical collaboration, backed by more than 250 engineers at our Bengaluru global capability center. For Chicago, IL businesses coordinating manufacturing, wholesale, distribution, and fulfillment systems, this model combines direct project communication with the engineering capacity to support complex integrations.
Three connected capabilities work under one accountable framework: consulting sets the direction, engineering builds and connects the platform, and growth initiatives improve conversion, discovery, and revenue.
KANMO GROUP
A Retail Revolution: Kanmo Group's Digital Makeover with Magento 2.4.5
2XL HOME
How Codilar Transformed 2XL Home's Online Store for Retail Success
AJMAL PERFUMES
Revolutionizing Perfume Retails: Ajmal Perfumes' Success Story Powered by Adobe Experience Cloud
HOMELANE
Redefining Interior eCommerce: Codilar's Scalable Solution for HomeLane
Each practice is led by someone who has spent a decade or more in it - so the person setting direction has actually done the work.
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BlogBring in Magento specialists as individual contributors, dedicated teams, or an extension of your engineering department. Senior architects provide technical direction, while the engagement model adapts to your delivery needs.
Our developers bring Magento certification and hands-on experience with complex commerce builds. Their focus on commerce helps them identify platform-specific issues, contribute to implementation decisions, and become productive within your existing team.
Choose a single specialist or a team spanning backend, frontend, QA, DevOps, and architecture. Senior architects and technical leads guide delivery and connect these disciplines, giving your organization access to both focused skills and broader engineering experience.
Add a dedicated developer, extend your current team, or assign a project to a delivery team. Capacity can be adjusted quarterly as priorities change. Region-aligned project managers and overlapping working hours help keep communication and technical decisions moving across distributed teams.
Our teams use code reviews, controlled staging releases, and structured QA around high-impact journeys such as search, cart, checkout, and payments. This helps protect existing functionality while changes move forward. Delivery experience and client references can be shared under NDA, with progress measured against agreed project outcomes.
Our engineers work with evolving commerce capabilities, including AI-supported personalization, intelligent search, and product recommendations. They also use AI-assisted development and integration workflows where appropriate to improve efficiency. This helps your Magento store adapt to changing customer expectations without treating AI as a substitute for sound engineering. For Chicago businesses with complex catalogs, B2B ordering, or connected inventory and fulfillment systems, these support practical integration and delivery needs as commerce operations grow.
Choose a partner that understands both Magento engineering and your business operations. Chicago's manufacturing, metals and machinery, wholesale, and freight sectors can require complex catalogs, technical product data, account-specific pricing, and reliable connections between commerce and back-office systems. A strong development partner should be able to assess these workflows, implement the right integrations, and support the store after launch. Codilar provides Magento development, migration, integration, performance, and maintenance services.
Yes, Magento can be configured for large catalogs, configurable products, product attributes, layered navigation, and tailored category structures. For industrial suppliers, that can mean organizing products by dimensions, materials, specifications, compatible equipment, or replacement-part numbers. Catalog size alone does not determine performance, however. Search configuration, indexing, hosting resources, extensions, and frontend implementation all affect response times. A catalog and performance audit can identify bottlenecks before they affect product discovery or ordering.
Yes, but the implementation depends on the Magento edition and required workflow. A B2B store may need customer-specific catalogs, negotiated prices, bulk order entry, repeat purchasing, quote requests, purchase-order processes, or approval steps. Magento Open Source may need custom modules or extensions for these requirements, while Adobe Commerce includes additional native B2B capabilities. For manufacturers and wholesalers, map the needs of buyers, sales representatives, and distributors before choosing the technical approach.
A smaller, clearly defined project may take several weeks, while a full build or migration can take months. Complex catalogs, custom extensions, ERP or warehouse connections, and data cleanup add time because they require mapping, validation, and end-to-end testing. For businesses that depend on uninterrupted ordering and fulfillment, the plan should include integration testing, rollback options, and a controlled cutover. A discovery phase helps establish a realistic schedule based on the existing store and business requirements.
Review the current version, security patch level, custom code, extension compatibility, PHP requirements, integrations, and storefront performance before deciding. A Hyvä migration can modernize a legacy Luma storefront, but it is a separate frontend change that needs its own compatibility checks and regression testing. Combining it with a version upgrade may reduce duplicated project work, but it also expands scope and risk. For stores supporting industrial catalogs or connected ordering workflows, test search, product pages, cart, checkout, and integration-dependent journeys before launch.
Magento Open Source can support a wide range of storefronts and custom workflows, but some B2B capabilities require custom development or third-party extensions. Adobe Commerce offers additional commercial features, including native B2B functionality. The right choice depends on whether you need account-based purchasing, company structures, negotiated pricing, quoting, or other advanced workflows, as well as your budget and internal support capacity. Define the requirements first, then compare the cost of custom development with the features available in each edition.
Yes, Magento can exchange data with ERP, PIM, CRM, warehouse management, and order management systems through APIs, middleware, and event-driven integrations. The design should define which system owns product, price, inventory, and order data, how often changes sync, and how failed updates are retried and reconciled. This matters for Chicago-area distributors and manufacturers coordinating stock across facilities or sales channels. Well-designed integrations reduce manual entry and help prevent overselling, duplicate orders, and mismatched records.
The cost depends on the scope of the build, catalog complexity, design, integrations, custom features, and migration requirements. A standard retail store is different from an industrial or wholesale operation that needs ERP synchronization, multiple inventory locations, customer-specific pricing, or specialized order rules. The most reliable estimate follows a discovery and technical review that identifies dependencies and priorities. Codilar can scope the work around a defined project, time-and-material engagement, dedicated team, or managed-services arrangement.
Magento Open Source continues to receive releases, but support depends on the version and patch level installed. Adobe lists Magento Open Source 2.4.9 as released on May 12, 2026, and publishes release and security information for supported versions. Older versions may no longer receive the same level of maintenance, so check Adobe's current lifecycle and security guidance before planning an upgrade. Review extension compatibility, PHP requirements, integrations, and testing needs before selecting a target version.
Yes, the first step is a technical assessment of code quality, version and patch status, extensions, hosting, security, performance, and integrations. We then identify what should be retained, repaired, upgraded, or rebuilt and prioritize the work by business impact. For manufacturers and distributors, that review can also cover catalog data, pricing rules, inventory feeds, and order handoffs. After the transition, ongoing support can include monitoring, patching, bug fixes, performance improvements, and a planned roadmap so the store does not depend on undocumented knowledge held by a previous agency.
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