The update subscription for your Magento 2 webshop

Safety, speed, security

We have all experienced it at one time or another: at a very unfortunate moment, your laptop automatically shut down because you delayed updating for too long. It is often considered irritating when the notifications come that it is time for another update. And yet they are much needed. Security, functionality. You want to continue to get optimal use out of your devices.

The same goes for your web shop. The most optimal Magento version is the most recent Magento version. However, not everyone is technical enough to perform these updates themselves. The moment it has to be outsourced, there are also costs involved and often it is postponed as long as possible for that reason.

Procrastination and its consequences

Magento is refreshed by Adobe on a schedule every three months. Bug fixes, adjustments and new features are added. The longer you delay, the more you miss out.

Especially for security, it is important to be up to date. It is not only your own data that becomes vulnerable, but also your customers' data. Obviously, you don't want strangers to get their hands on this data. Improved security is necessary to stay compliant with the AVG and provide secure payments.

In addition, there are other issues that will eventually bother you. At some point, your shop will be so far behind that support for certain devices will be missing. Your shop is not properly displayed on the latest devices. This will cost you new and existing customers. And this in turn will have a negative impact on your SEO.

Furthermore, you run the risk of being unable to work with the software yourself. Adjusting things takes more time than necessary and plug-ins may stop working. Customers can no longer pay or there are no more shipping options.

Why an update subscription?

The benefits of an update subscription are enormous. Even if it's just that you don't have to worry about it anymore. And so there are other pluses to doing update maintenance through a subscription.

You are not missing anything

We perform all updates in your Magento environment. Every fix, critical patch and new feature is immediately available within your Magento 2. More importantly, everything just keeps working. This has a positive effect on the customer experience and so does your SEO.

Schedulable

If you want to have an update done outside the subscription, we have to schedule it separately. We do not know in advance how long it will take. We always perform an analysis first. This analysis is needed every time updates are not done consistently. How many versions does it save, what plug ins are there and what customizations do we have to take into account?

In addition, we have to take into account our other work. Is your update scheduled but there are more urgent disruptions? Then we have to adjust our planning.

When we provide updates for customers who take the update subscription with us, it's a lot more efficient. We can plan it much better. Adobe works with an update schedule and it is known well in advance. Our planning is adjusted accordingly. And as an entrepreneur you also know where you stand.

Technical overview

Besides being easier for us to plan, it is also easier to execute. We perform all of our clients' updates sequentially. If a small fix is needed on an update, it can be done on all clients at once.

In this way it is more efficient and possible issues are solved at once. When updates are always performed separately, this ready knowledge is often not there. The longer it has been, the longer we have to investigate and look back in our ticket system to see what we need to take into account when updating to the latest version.

Suppose the last update was two years ago, then about eight updates may have been missed. We then have to check eight updates to see what the problems were and what needs to be done. This takes extra time and that is reflected in the invoice.

Cheaper in the long run

In the short term, you think you are being cost-effective because you will have multiple updates in one session. Yet you are paying unnecessarily much. A lot of time goes into researching what your webshop needs. We can never say in advance exactly what it will cost. That makes the update subscription a godsend. For a fixed amount per month, we guarantee you the most recent version. This is easy to include in your budget and you will not be surprised by unforeseen expenses.

In a nutshell