Magento

Magento development
for stores big enough to need it.

Adobe Commerce and open-source Magento, built by engineers who know what it costs to run well: large catalogues that stay fast, B2B pricing that mirrors your contracts, upgrades treated as routine.

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Brands our teams have delivered for

What we do

PixelCrayons builds, upgrades and rescues Magento and Adobe Commerce stores, for enterprise catalogues and B2B commerce. A senior Magento team designs catalogues that stay fast at scale, sets up company accounts and negotiated pricing, and plans staged upgrades instead of emergency ones. We'll tell you when Magento's overhead isn't justified. We work direct for brands and white-label for agencies.

Enterprise catalogues that stay fastAttribute sets, indexing and caching designed for tens of thousands of SKUs, not defaulted.
B2B commerce as the platform intendsCompany accounts, negotiated price lists, quotes and purchase-order payment, set up around how you trade.
Upgrade and patch disciplineSecurity patches on a schedule and upgrades rehearsed on staging with checkout regression checks.

Related work · Fragrance & Oud · eCommerce

Al Majed for Oud: a fragrance house's whole catalogue, online in two languages.

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Fit check

Is Magento
worth the overhead?

Right for you if

Your catalogue runs into tens of thousands of SKUs
You need B2B contracts with negotiated pricing and approval workflows
You're running multiple stores, languages or currencies from one install

Not the right fit if

You're running a straightforward D2C store, where the hosting and patching overhead will quietly outrun the benefit
You haven't budgeted for serious hosting, licence fees and an ongoing engineering retainer
A managed platform like Shopify, or a WordPress-native WooCommerce store, would sell just as well for less upkeep

Selected work

Judge the work,
not the adjectives.

Outcomes tied to real engagements, not averages.

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2004

Established

500+

Agencies served

4,500+

Projects delivered

340%

Revenue growth · 7 months

eCommerce

+127%

Organic traffic · 5 months

SaaS

85%

Faster delivery · backlog cleared

via agency partner

Checked 15 September 2026

Where the work happens

In every engagement

What a Magento build
actually includes.

Enterprise catalogues that stay fast

Magento exists for catalogues that break simpler platforms. Tens of thousands of SKUs, layered navigation, configurable products, multiple stores and currencies from one install. That scale only works when attribute sets, indexing and caching are designed rather than defaulted. We architect the catalogue first, and treat index and cron health as production concerns. A slow Magento store isn't a platform problem. It's unfinished engineering.

Every build

B2B commerce as the platform intends

The features that justify Adobe Commerce for wholesale and distribution. Company accounts with buyer roles and approval chains, negotiated price lists per contract, quote workflows, requisition lists and purchase-order payment. We configure them around how your sales team actually trades. Credit limits and account data are integrated with the systems that already govern them. The storefront reflects the contract instead of contradicting it.

For B2B

Upgrade and patch discipline

Unpatched Magento stores are a well-documented target, and version upgrades postponed for years become re-platforming projects by stealth. We keep stores current the boring way. Security patches on a schedule, upgrades rehearsed on staging with automated checkout regression, and extension conflicts resolved before the production window. If you've inherited a store several versions behind, we'll map the real path up, including what it costs.

Ongoing

Integrations that keep systems agreeing

At Magento's end of the market the store is rarely alone. ERP, PIM, WMS, CRM and finance systems all hold part of the truth. We build and maintain the integration layer so stock, orders, prices and customer records agree everywhere. Failures are queued and retried, never silently dropped. When the integrations are right, your operations team stops re-keying data and month-end stops being archaeology.

Every build

Total-cost honesty, before you commit

Magento's power is real and so is its overhead. Serious hosting, licence fees on Adobe Commerce, and ongoing engineering that managed platforms fold into their subscription. We put those numbers in front of you before you commit. If your catalogue and workflows don't need what Magento uniquely offers, we'll recommend the cheaper platform and our migration playbook for getting there. The store has to justify the stack, not the other way round.

Before you build

How it starts

NDA to
working software.

Start

Brief and a call

We sign an NDA and go through the store: version and patch state, extensions, catalogue, integrations and what's hurting. There's no discovery fee.

Once the brief is complete

Itemised proposal

We confirm the date your proposal arrives. It lists catalogue work, B2B features, upgrade path and integrations, in what order and for how much.

Your decision

You sign off

You confirm the scope, the payment and the access we need. Nothing starts before this.

Typically 2 to 3 business days later

The team starts

Magento engineers put the codebase under version control in your accounts, stand up staging and CI, and map any upgrade or migration.

On the date in your proposal

First deliverable

Working software on staging, demoed on a call: a patched install, a B2B flow or an upgrade dry run. Then work runs in fixed blocks ending in demos.

Inside Prism

Your engagement, week to week,
in one workspace.

Prism is the client workspace where your requests, approvals, tasks and weekly reviews live.

Where the engagement includes it, your build runs in a Prism workspace you log into: requests, approvals, the task list and the weekly review, beside the repository your team already owns.

See how Prism runs an engagement

01
Requests and approvals
One queue, beside the repository your team owns.
02
Owned tasks
Every task has one owner and a date.
03
Weekly review
Each decision recorded, with the expectation attached.

How we report it, in Prism

The store readiness checklist,
before launch day.

What you receive in month one

A commerce build is reported against a launch checklist agreed before the build starts. In the first month you receive the catalogue and data audit with every field mapped, the integration map covering payments, shipping, tax and stock, and the checkout test plan with the orders that must complete before go-live. The weekly review in Prism tracks the checklist, not the mood in the room.

01Catalogue and data audit: products, variants, customers and orders, field by field
02Integration map: payments, shipping, tax, stock and email, with owners
03Checkout test plan: the orders, payment types and edge cases that must pass
04Performance budget: page weight and response targets for key templates
05Launch checklist: what must be true on the day, and who signs each line

Related workAl Majed for Oud: a fragrance house's whole catalogue, online in two languages.Fragrance & Oud · eCommerce · A published case in this discipline.

Al Majed for Oud’s site, Internet Archive copy, 1 April 2026

Related services

Heavyweight commerce,
and the alternatives.

Our Magento and Adobe Commerce development services fit a specific class of store. If yours is a different class, or you're deciding, these are the neighbouring services.

01eCommerce DevelopmentPlatform-agnostic store builds: the place to start if the platform is the question.02ShopifyThe managed alternative when Magento's overhead isn't justified by the catalogue.03WooCommerceWordPress-native commerce for stores where content and catalogue live together.04MigrationsMoves onto or off Magento with zero data loss and redirects mapped first.05PerformanceCore Web Vitals rescues for heavyweight stores that got slower every release.

A big catalogue is an SEO liability, or an asset.

Layered navigation, faceted URLs and thin variant pages make large catalogues an index-bloat machine unless the SEO is engineered alongside the build. Our eCommerce SEO service works catalogue-scale problems on the same roadmap as the platform work.

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Who is accountable

The people accountable
for the work.

Leadership and how we’re built →

Parvessh Agarwal

Founder & CEO

An entrepreneur at heart who connects business analysis, strategy, clear objectives and ROI with practical technology solutions.

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Saundaraya Gupta

Technical Manager

Brings technical delivery, client communication and project management together so work moves from brief to release smoothly.

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Every engagement

A named coordinator and escalation contact

Know who coordinates your engagement, who owns the work and how to escalate an issue.

All engagements. Roles may be combined and vary with your engagement.

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Before you sign

Our commitments

Each one says where it applies and links to its full terms.

Response and start times

We typically respond within four business hours. Eligible engagements can typically start within two to three business days after scope, payment and required access are confirmed.

Business hours are Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm IST, excluding published company holidays. Typical expectations, not guaranteed service levels.

Full terms

30-Day Corrective Maintenance

Applicable development work includes 30 days of corrective maintenance after production launch.

Development engagements only; not marketing services or retainers.

Full terms

Clear IP & Ownership Terms

Your materials remain yours. Bespoke deliverable rights, licences and handover are agreed before work starts.

All engagements.

Full terms

Clear Delivery & Escalation Ownership

Know who coordinates your engagement, who owns the work and how to escalate an issue.

All engagements. Roles may be combined and vary with your engagement.

Full terms

How we handle claims, credentials and your data: group credentials, dated ratings, how case figures are signed off, client permissions and data handling.

Upgrade or rebuild

Patch, upgrade, rebuild
or move off Magento.

Where your store stands decides the work. We audit the version, patch level and extension list first, then recommend one of these paths with what it costs in front of you.

Where the store stands	What we do	Why
On a current version, but behind on patches	Apply security patches on a schedule	Unpatched Magento stores are a well-documented target.
Several versions behind, still supported	Rehearse the upgrade on staging with automated regression around checkout, pricing and integrations, resolve extension conflicts there, then run it in a planned window with a tested rollback	Upgrades postponed for years become replatforming projects by stealth.
On an end-of-life version	A frank conversation first: upgrade or rebuild	At some point an upgrade becomes a rebuild, and the arithmetic between them deserves daylight.
The catalogue and workflows no longer need what Magento offers	Migrate to a lighter platform	Products, customers, orders and every URL that has earned a ranking are mapped first, and the overhead stops outrunning the benefit.

What we will not do is patch a live store and hope.

Questions

Frequently
asked.

It's right when your requirements exceed simpler tools: tens of thousands of SKUs, B2B contracts with negotiated pricing and approvals, or multiple stores, languages and currencies from one install. For most straightforward D2C stores, its hosting, patching and development overhead outruns the benefit, and Shopify or WooCommerce sells as well for less upkeep. We build on all of them.

More than the licence line suggests. Beyond Adobe Commerce licensing (or none on open source), a properly run Magento store carries serious hosting, scheduled patching, staged upgrades, extension maintenance and an engineering retainer, which managed platforms fold into their fee. We itemise that total in the proposal, and if your store doesn't need Magento, we say so before you spend.

Yes, and the method is deliberately boring. We audit the version, patch level and extensions, rehearse the upgrade on staging with automated regression around checkout, pricing and integrations, then execute in a planned window with a tested rollback. Stores on end-of-life versions get a frank conversation first, because at some point an upgrade becomes a rebuild.

Both directions, with the same discipline. Products, categories, customers, order history and every ranking URL are inventoried and mapped before anything switches, redirects ship with the launch, and nothing is decommissioned until the move is verified. The commerce case on this page, not a Magento build, shows the same mapping-first playbook.

Longer than lighter platforms, so we scope per engagement rather than quoting one number. Once we have a complete brief, we confirm when your proposal arrives. Patch and rescue work lands in weeks; a full B2B build or replatform runs months, and if a date is at risk you hear early, with options.

Yes. Magento capability is expensive to keep on staff, so many agencies use us instead of hiring for it. It's NDA-backed. We don't approach the clients you introduce to us for direct business, through the work and for twelve months after the last assignment for that client ends, and it's written into the agreement.

The range

What it costs,
at the direct rate.

Fixed quotes for the build and for the upgrade path, plus the engineering retainer a properly run Magento store carries; the running cost is itemised before you commit, because the platform's overhead is real.

ProjectStore build or B2B implementation$10K–$60Kfixed quote, one-time
ProjectVersion upgrade or patch programme$3K–$20Kfixed quote, one-time
RetainerEngineering retainer$1.5K–$8Kper month

Indicative: every figure is refined into an itemised proposal.INR figures shown excl. GST.

PricingSee indicative pricing for this serviceDirect and wholesale, in ₹ and $ →

Practitioner notes
on this work.

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How firms compare
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Get Magento run
like it's meant to be.

Tell us where the store stands: version, catalogue, B2B ambitions, or the doubt about whether Magento is even right. Once we have a complete brief, we confirm the date you will receive your itemised proposal, estimate yours to keep either way.

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Magento developmentfor stores big enough to need it.

Is Magentoworth the overhead?

Judge the work,not the adjectives.

What a Magento buildactually includes.

Enterprise catalogues that stay fast

B2B commerce as the platform intends

Upgrade and patch discipline

Integrations that keep systems agreeing

Total-cost honesty, before you commit

NDA toworking software.

Brief and a call

Itemised proposal

You sign off

The team starts

First deliverable

Your engagement, week to week,in one workspace.

Requests and approvals

Owned tasks

Weekly review

The store readiness checklist,before launch day.

Heavyweight commerce,and the alternatives.

A big catalogue is an SEO liability, or an asset.

The people accountablefor the work.

Parvessh Agarwal

Saundaraya Gupta

A named coordinator and escalation contact

Our commitments

Response and start times

30-Day Corrective Maintenance

Clear IP & Ownership Terms

Clear Delivery & Escalation Ownership

How do we know the work will be good?

Who owns the ad accounts, the data and the work?

What if we want to stop?

How will we know what you are doing?

Patch, upgrade, rebuildor move off Magento.

Frequentlyasked.

What it costs,at the direct rate.

Practitioner noteson this work.

Is Magento right for your store? Lessons from Al Majed for Oud’s bilingual build

Magento migration: how a full catalogue moved with zero data loss

Get Magento runlike it's meant to be.

Magento development
for stores big enough to need it.

Is Magento
worth the overhead?

Judge the work,
not the adjectives.

What a Magento build
actually includes.

NDA to
working software.

Your engagement, week to week,
in one workspace.

The store readiness checklist,
before launch day.

Heavyweight commerce,
and the alternatives.

The people accountable
for the work.

Patch, upgrade, rebuild
or move off Magento.

Frequently
asked.

What it costs,
at the direct rate.

Practitioner notes
on this work.

Get Magento run
like it's meant to be.