What Your Commerce Setup Really Costs

Commerce projects are usually decided on the basis of the offer. Implementation, licences and hosting are compared, and the cheapest setup wins. Over five years, however, implementation and initial licences typically make up only 15 to 25 percent of the total cost of ownership (TCO). The larger share arises after go-live, in maintenance, further development, performance, incident handling and scaling.

In this e-book, we show which cost types are systematically underestimated and how frontend and hosting decisions affect your budget for years. Magento with Luma and Hyvä serves as the practical example throughout. A decision framework with ten key questions helps merchants and agencies evaluate a new build, replatforming or relaunch on a solid financial basis before the contract is signed.

What you'll find inside

• Ten chapters, from TCO basics to a decision framework
• Luma and Hyvä compared on requests and page weight
• Hosting and operations as a cost factor, including the cost of downtime
• A TCO scorecard to fill in for your own setup
• Scenarios and case studies from maxcluster practice