Hyvä Silver Partner in London

Magento and Shopify specialists to secure, upgrade or move your store.

Refined Commerce is a London Magento, Adobe Commerce, Hyvä and Shopify agency. You deal directly with the founder, Rowan Burgess, backed by a senior team with low overheads, at £80 an hour.

  • 5.0 on Google from 23 reviews.
  • Bronze, Best Ecommerce Boutique Agency, Ecommerce Awards 2025.
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5.0 from 23 Google reviews

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What you receiveExample report
Magento Security and Upgrade Health Check
example-store.co.ukNeeds attention
Platform
Magento Open Source 2.4.4-p3
Adobe support
ended 12th April 2025
PHP
8.1, end of life
Frontend
Luma
Security headers
2 of 6 present
Hijack indicators
none found

What we would do first. Apply the outstanding security fixes, then plan the upgrade to a supported release.

Every Magento merchant faces three decisions before May 2027.

Secure and upgrade what you have, move the frontend to Hyvä, or leave Magento for Shopify. We do all three, for small stores and large ones, as one-off projects, ad hoc work or a monthly retainer.

  1. June 2020Magento 1 support ended. 916 live .co.uk stores were still on it when we looked in early 2026. Moving on from Magento 1.
  2. 11th August 2026Magento 2.4.6 standard support ended. Open Source stores on 2.4.6 and below now depend on backported fixes.
  3. TodayWe found 722 UK Magento stores already hijacked and serving spam pages in October 2026, almost all on unsupported versions.

Not sure where your store sits on this line?The free health check tells you

Secure and upgrade your Magento or Adobe Commerce store

Patching, upgrades to a supported release without taking the shop offline, Mage-OS where Adobe's calendar no longer suits, and a monthly security retainer covering monitoring, patching and incident response.

All Magento and Adobe Commerce services

Also: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central integration with our partner n.vision. If what you need is not here, ask; if it is not something we should do, we will say so and point you somewhere better.

Use AI in your store where it earns its keep.

AI is changing how stores are built and maintained. It is already how we work, and we help merchants work the same way: we do it for you, set it up with you, or oversee what your own team ships.

Everything we do with AI for ecommerce

Rowan Burgess, Founder of Refined Commerce
Rowan BurgessFounder. Your point of contact from the first email onwards.

Why a small senior team costs less and moves faster.

A typical agency bills you for account managers, project managers and office space before an engineer touches your store. We do not have those. You deal with one person, who has led Magento projects since 2008, backed by a team of senior engineers. It works as well for a small independent shop as for an enterprise retailer.

That is why the rate is £80 an hour rather than £100 to £150, and why a question asked on Monday morning is usually answered on Monday morning. How pricing works

  • £80an hour, the same for every merchant
  • 1point of contact, from your first email onwards
  • 2008Rowan’s first Magento project; the company followed in 2013
Ecommerce Awards 2025: Bronze, Best Ecommerce Boutique Agency
Bronze, Best Ecommerce Boutique Agency, Ecommerce Awards 2025.

Typical agency

  • Deep collective experience
  • Commercially accountable
  • Capacity for large projects
  • Full-service network of partners
  • Usually £100 to £150 an hour
  • Account and project managers between you and the engineer
  • Slow to start, slow to change course
  • Staff turnover loses knowledge of your store
  • One consistent point of contact
  • £80 an hour
  • Senior engineers only
  • No outsourcing
  • Decades of collective experience
  • Commercially accountable UK limited company since 2013
  • The right size for a small store and for an enterprise project
  • Quick to start and to change course
  • Works as an extension of your team
  • Cover for holidays and illness
  • Written estimates and itemised invoices
  • Not a full-service marketing agency: no paid media or PR in-house, so we introduce partners for those

Freelancer

  • Cheap and direct
  • Quick to start
  • No layers
  • One person, so holidays and illness stop the work
  • Limited capacity for large projects
  • Often no process, tickets or cover
  • No commercial accountability when it goes wrong
  • Experience varies widely

Measured, not claimed.

Figures from real stores and real customers, each with where it comes from.

  • 97mattack requests stopped before they reached one storeTotal Fishing Tackle, at Cloudflare, in twelve months to 11th November 2026
  • 1.1sfor the main content to load on a phone, for real customersTile Merchant, Google’s Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 31st October 2026
  • 5.0on Google, from 23 merchant reviewsGoogle Business Profile, quoted on this site word for word
  • 18years building and maintaining Magento storesSince 2008, from Magento 1 through Magento 2, Adobe Commerce and Hyvä

Stores we build, rebuild and maintain.

A selection of our clients. Open any one for the full story: what we built, how it performs for real customers, and what the client says.

See all case studies

In their words, from our Google reviews.

Platforms we build on and partners we work with

  • Cloudflare
  • Algolia
  • Stripe
  • PayPal
  • Adyen
  • Klarna
  • Mailchimp

Questions merchants ask before they get in touch.

Can you take over a store that another agency or a freelancer built?

Yes, and most of our clients came to us that way. We start with a read-only review of the code, the hosting and the patch state, then give you a written picture of what you have before anything is changed.

Our Magento version is out of support. Do we have to upgrade?

Not immediately, but you need a plan. Out-of-support stores can be kept patched with backported fixes for a period, which buys time to upgrade properly, move to Mage-OS, or migrate to Shopify. We will tell you which of the three fits your store and budget.

Magento or Adobe Commerce: which do we have?

Magento Open Source is the free edition; Adobe Commerce is Adobe's paid edition of the same platform with extra features and a licence fee. Both follow the same release and support calendar, and we work on both. The free health check tells you which you are running.

Can you guarantee our store will not be hacked?

No, and you should be wary of anyone who says they can. We can keep the store patched within an agreed window of each release, monitor it for the indicators that precede most compromises, and respond quickly when something happens. That is what the security retainer covers.

What size of store do you work with?

Every size. We have helped start-ups on small budgets get trading, and we work on stores turning over many millions of pounds a year. The senior team and the single point of contact are the same for both; what changes is the size of the plan.

Do we have to commit to a monthly retainer?

No. Many merchants work with us ad hoc: you ask for what you need, and everything requested that month is itemised on one invoice at the end of it. A monthly maintenance or development retainer suits stores that change every month. How pricing works.

Magento or Shopify: which is right for us?

It depends on what you sell and how. Magento suits large or complex catalogues, pricing that differs by customer, several stores on one admin and deep integrations. Shopify suits merchants selling a catalogue to consumers who would rather not maintain a platform. We build on both, so we will tell you which fits rather than sell you the one we happen to offer.

Are you still supporting Magento 1?

Yes. We keep Magento 1 stores patched and trading, and we move them to Magento 2 with the catalogue, customers, orders and rankings carried across. See Magento 1 to Magento 2 migration.

Do you work with other agencies?

Yes. We work alongside design, marketing and development agencies, under our own name or white-labelled under theirs, on single tasks or whole projects.

Can AI help us do more of the work ourselves?

Yes, and we help merchants do it safely. We set up the foundations with you, your team makes changes with AI tooling, and a senior engineer reviews what is deployed and steps in when needed. See your team, AI and us.

Where are you based?

We are a UK limited company registered at 124 City Road, London, with clients across the UK and Ireland. Most work is done remotely; we travel for discovery sessions and reviews when it helps.

How quickly can you start?

Urgent security work, usually within a working day. Retainers, usually within a week. Projects, as soon as the scope is agreed.

Tell us about your store.

A store address and a sentence about what you need is enough. You get a reply within one working day, and written findings with an estimate within two.

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