Magento is a powerful and flexible eCommerce platform used to create and manage online stores of all sizes. Its user-friendly interface, auto-scaling capabilities, third-party integrations, and more make it an ideal platform for well and truly transforming B2B and B2C experiences.
Of course, Magento development and implementation is an excellent first step, but it’s not the only step. A host of post-implementation tasks – from customizations to maintenance and support – are vital to the success of your eCommerce store. Done right, these tasks can ensure that your customers’ shopping experiences are optimized for higher conversions and retention.
That said, here’s why implementing Magento is only the first step:
Customizations
Magento is a highly customizable platform. It allows eCommerce businesses to tailor their store to their specific needs and branding. For example, after its implementation, businesses must customize product options, pricing, shipping methods, product tabs, and more.
Ongoing Maintenance and Updates
Magento releases significant updates once a year; however, there are frequent small releases concerned with patch management, bug fixing, feature addition, and more. To prevent anything from getting disrupted and complying with the security and regulatory standards, it’s essential for businesses to regularly maintain and update the platform.
Technical Support and Troubleshooting
All Magento stores will experience technical issues from time to time. These can range from slow loading to duplicate content issues, performance issues, and even functionality-related problems. As such, post-implementation technical support and troubleshooting are critical to ensure seamless store functioning.
Scalability and Performance Optimization
As the Magento store scales, businesses need to ensure that it can handle the increased traffic and load. The good thing is that Magento is highly scalable. It even facilitates personalization at scale, where businesses are able to extend their personalization initiatives across every customer touchpoint when they want. However, to realize these benefits, it’s essential to perform proper performance testing, ensure high uptime, and have a solid disaster recovery plan.
User Experience (UX)
The user experience is one of the most important factors in the success of any eCommerce store. Post-implementation user experience enhancement constitutes improving the navigation, design, and overall usability of your Magento store. This is, in fact, an ongoing and ever-evolving practice that involves running usability tests, A/B tests, and more to understand if the store serves the users well and what can be done to improve the UI and streamline the UX.
Security And Data Protection
Security and data protection are critical concerns for all eCommerce businesses. Post-implementation security and data protection services can help you implement and maintain robust security measures to protect your Magento store and your customers’ data.
Integration with Third-Party Systems
Magento can be integrated with a wide range of third-party systems, such as CRM, ERP, and marketing automation systems. Retailers can extend native app functionalities via third-party service integrations. They can also remove or replace third-party services as needed. Much like UX, this is an evolving space, and the integrations depend on the store’s current needs.
Analytics and Insights
Magento provides a wealth of data that can be put to use to improve the store’s performance. After the implementation, businesses can configure Magento Google Analytics to extract insights from visitor records. They can track conversions, demographics, and other eCommerce statistics that are pertinent to decision-making.
Why Are These Post-Implementation Services Necessary?
As elucidated above, implementing Magento is a critical step, but it’s far from the endpoint. Post-implementation tasks are necessary to ensure the store is functioning well and that it continues to provide the best possible shopping experience for end-users.
More profoundly, eCommerce businesses need to perform the aforementioned post-implementation tasks to:
- Tailor Magento to the specific needs of the store
- Keep Magento extension running smoothly and securely
- Improve the performance and speed of the store
- Prevent the eCommerce website from cyberattacks
- Improve the store’s visibility in search engine results pages (SERPs)
- Automate marketing tasks in line with personalization initiatives
- Extend the native functionalities to accommodate more features and capabilities
- Assess UX enhancements that will influence the traffic, bounce rate, and more
- Make the store more intuitive and easier to navigate
- Ensure the legal compliance of the store
Driving Success After Magento Implementation
Increased sales, improved customer satisfaction, optimized operational expenses, improved store security, improved scalability and flexibility, and more — the benefits of having a robust post-implementation strategy are numerous. Therefore, overlooking the aforementioned post-implementation tasks can be detrimental to the success of the store.
At Ignitiv, we help eCommerce businesses with cutting-edge Magento implementations and post-implementation support. Our team of experienced Magento developers can help you customize your Magento store to meet your specific branding needs, keep your store up-to-date and secure, resolve any technical issues that arise, and scale the store to meet the demand spikes.
Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you take your eCommerce business to the next level.
