Modernize your legacy e-commerce store, keep your CMS
We work with Joomla, VirtueMart, OpenCart and PrestaShop stores. We bring your legacy store up to 2026 standards for speed, security, technical SEO and AI search. Your CMS, catalog, and orders stay exactly where they are.
The store is slow, Google is dropping you.
Category pages open in four seconds or more, mobile PageSpeed is deep in the red, rankings slide. Customers leave before they see the product.
No updates for years.
Your CMS is on an outdated branch, PHP is 7.4 or older, extensions are stuck on versions the vendors no longer support. Every month raises the risk of a hack or a locked out admin panel.
Custom code held together with duct tape.
Someone wrote a module, someone else patched the core, the documentation is gone, and no agency wants to touch it. You are a hostage of your own codebase.
Invisible in AI search.
Your structured data is incomplete or outdated. In 2026, without proper JSON LD and Schema.org coverage, AI search (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews) does not know your store exists.
Joomla and VirtueMart modernization
Core upgrade, VirtueMart migration, module cleanup, speed and security fix, technical SEO and structured data for 2026.
Learn moreOpenCart modernization
Version upgrade from 1.5 through 4, extension conflict cleanup, ocmod rewrite, speed and security fix, technical SEO for 2026.
Learn moreSince 2009
Real senior expertise in PHP e-commerce, not a lifted playbook.
CMS versions modernized
Joomla, VirtueMart, OpenCart across every major release generation.
Kyiv Stend
Case study of Kyiv Stend, our own proof store running on Joomla and VirtueMart since 2013. Continuous modernization, Core Web Vitals in green, full Schema.org 2026 coverage, no CMS migration required.
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Audit.
You submit the form, we take the store on and within five business days you get a full written report: security exposure, custom code inventory, step by step modernization plan, and an approximate scope. Fixed price €250.
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Quote and schedule.
After the audit, we build a proposal tailored to your store. How many phases, in what order, how much it costs, and when it ships.
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Delivery.
We work on a staging copy. You see intermediate results, test the functionality, sign off on each phase. Your production keeps taking orders the whole time.
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Cutover and handover.
We move the modernized store to production during a low traffic window. Two weeks of hands on support after cutover: bug fixes, analytics tuning, final adjustments.
How much does modernization cost?
There is no fixed price for modernization because the scope depends on the state of your store, the number of custom modules, and the depth of the required changes. We do not name a number blind. First we run the €250 audit and deliver a written report in five business days, and only then we build a real quote tailored to your store.
Do we need to take the store offline during the work?
No. All work happens on a staging copy of the store. Your production keeps taking orders. The cutover happens in a low traffic window, and downtime is measured in minutes, not hours.
What if my store is on a very old CMS version?
We work with those. Staged upgrades through intermediate versions with data, template and module migration between them. It takes longer than an upgrade from a current branch, but it is realistic, and it is much cheaper than a full rebuild. The audit will show how many stages you actually need.
Can I book only part of the work, like security only or speed only?
Yes. After the audit you see the full list of what needs attention and you decide the priority. Security only, SEO only, speed only, or start with whatever is most critical and expand from there.
Why do you not recommend moving to PrestaShop 8, Shopify or Magento 2?
Because a CMS migration is a separate large project with data migration, integration rewrites, several months of SEO position loss, and a budget several times larger than modernization. In most cases, a legacy CMS modernized to 2026 standards covers your needs just as well as a new CMS, without any migration risk.
Ready to see what state your store is really in?
Audit in five business days, fixed price €250, full written report with a step by step modernization plan.