How long does a Hyvä build or migration take?
For the last few months, a frequently asked question we get at in-person events is: “How long does it take to build a Hyvä store?” This comes from merchants and new agencies who have heard about us and the value we bring but aren’t familiar with our technology yet.
As with any project, it depends on how much resource you put in, as well as the extent of the features needed and requirements.
The short answer is that most agencies tell us that for their first Hyvä project, they take no more time than they would for a Luma project, but from the second project on, they can cut development time by up to 50%.
A more detailed answer comes from sharing actual timings from real-life projects so you can have a sense of the complexity of the requirements and type of resource gathered.
In this article, we will share more details about the technology ramp-up and will extract the key pieces of information from our Case Studies to help you make more accurate estimates for your projects.
Hyvä Technology ramp up: an easy learning curve
For Magento developers, the learning curve is not that steep. The only new technologies used with Hyvä are Alpine JS and TailwindCSS. The following resources are available to guide teams through their discovery:
- Hyvä Documentation
- Hyvä Slack channel: once you purchase a Hyvä Theme license, you can join over 4,500 developers who have been there before and are open and happy to share learnings and their experience with you.
- How to Hyvä Videos
- Tailwind CSS getting started docs
- Alpine getting started docs
- External resources (paid)
Hyvä projects can be completed in 6 weeks up to 8 months
Here are several real project examples that our agencies and merchants were willing to openly share to help you make informed decisions.
Royal Dutch Post revamp in 12 weeks
- B2B online store selling packaging solutions to businesses
- Magento Open source
- Scope: migration from Shopware 6 to Magento 2 with Hyvä Theme and Hyvä Checkout
- Tight brief around the brand look and feel and guidelines
- Resource: 8 people in total
- 2 project managers
- 2 frontend developers
- 1 full stack developer
- 3 backend developers
- Total of 277 hours on this project (35 hours on project management and 242 hours on development of which 193 hours by a single front-end developer)
Megadental budget and timing revealed
We were very lucky to have Julien Anquetil openly share his experience on stage at Meet Magento Florida 2024.
- B2B business selling professional equipment to dentists
- On Magento Open Source
- 7 months for the initial project with a technical lead and a junior Read the full case study
- €100K for initial development
- 2-3 weeks learning curve
- 1 month for their second project
- 2 days per month allocated to upgrades and improvements
Now that Hyvä UI has been released and a lot more extensions are compatible with Hyvä, it can only get easier for anyone who wants to get started.”
JC-Electronics implemented Hyvä’s full suite in four months
- B2B business selling electronics equipment
- On Adobe Commerce with B2B features
- First live store with all three Hyvä products: Theme, Checkout and Enterprise
- Integrated the full suite in just four months with 2 in-house Magento experts
Adopt Parfums high volume B2C brand migrated in four months just before the holiday peak
- B2C cosmetic brand with over 230 physical stores in France and Spain
- High visibility brand with media budget including Miss France TV show sponsorship
- Rebuilt their front-end by building an atomic design system in 4 months with four resources: 2 front-end developers, 1 backend developer and 1 project manager
Hyvä accelerator packages
To meet the needs of SMBs or online businesses at an early maturity stage, many Magento agencies have come up with bundles or prebuilt stacks of technologies that make it simple for merchants to go online with a good-looking and fast-performing eCommerce site.
The package usually includes hosting, Hyvä Theme licenses, a set number of customisation hours and basic eCommerce functionalities. It is similar to what one would get with SaaS solutions such as Shopify, even pricing is also structured as a monthly fee or a one-off fee.
The key advantage of going through such a package is that as a merchant, you own your store, you own your data and youcan choose to enrich it and add more functionalities as you grow.
Here are a few Accelerator packages offered by Hyvä Agency partners
- Vendic Elements from €999 per month, Dutch live in 2 weeks
- Foundation Commerce Hyvä Accelerator Package: from 4 weeks and from £10,000 one-off, UK market
- Aureate Lab Instabuild, very cost-effective pre-built templates
- Ecoplan Proline, specialised towards German B2B businesses since 1998, offers all the features you’ll ever need
We hope this page has been answering your questions.
Feel free to seek advice from our Partner Agencies.
