The fast-paced future of Magento webshops
As the first Hyvä partner in the Netherlands, we have been building Magento webshops based on the Hyvä theme since 2020. The Hyvä theme is ideal for building cost-efficient, fast Magento webshops that pass the Google Core Web Vitals tests with flying colors.
Hyvä is our partner for Magento frontend technology. Hyvä offers two products: the Hyvä Theme and Hyvä Checkout.
The Hyvä Theme is an ultra-fast & lightweight theme. With this theme and the implementation we will do on top of it, you are guaranteed to achieve your speed objectives. Hyvä has an excellent developer experience. This means that developing features on the frontend will be faster and with fewer errors. An additional advantage is that Hyvä stays close to the basics of Magento. In short, anyone who is used to developing in Magento should be able to work with it just fine.
The Hyvä theme has quickly become the industry standard for Magento 2 shops. We are the first agency in the Netherlands to launch a webshop on Hyvä. Since then, we have done more than 20 implementations, making us the agency with the most Hyvä experience in the Netherlands.
How much does a Hyvä Theme implementation cost?
That depends on a number of factors, of which I will explain the most important ones here.
In practice there are three variants: a retrofit, a design created using Hyvä UI components, and a fully custom design. We call a design a retrofit when we convert an existing design into a Hyvä theme.
A second option is to design the storefront using Hyvä UI components. By using these components you stay within the Hyvä standard, which allows us to implement it relatively quickly. The more custom work and specific requirements there are, the more hours are needed and the higher the costs will be.
The third and often most expensive option is to implement a fully custom design. In this case the standard Hyvä UI components are not used and everything must be built from the ground up.
Over the past few years we have seen that a retrofit usually takes about 200–400 hours, a design based on Hyvä UI components about 300–500 hours, and a fully custom design about 400–700 hours.
Can I keep my current design and convert it to a Hyvä Theme?
Absolutely. We call that a retrofit. In this case we keep the current design and rebuild it as a Hyvä Theme.
Are all extensions compatible with Hyvä?
Not all extensions are compatible with Hyvä, but a large percentage of the most commonly used extensions are. The major well-known extension vendors increasingly provide Hyvä support in their extensions. We also make sure that our own extensions are always compatible with Hyvä.
Are you an official Hyvä partner?
Yes, absolutely. In fact, in the Netherlands we were the first company to launch a Magento 2 store built on Hyvä, in November 2020. This makes us the company with the longest experience with Hyvä in the Netherlands.
Will a Hyvä Theme give me a higher Google Core Web Vitals score?
That is almost always the case if you are coming from a Luma-based or PWA Studio theme. Out of the box, the Hyvä Theme scores 95+ in Lighthouse and easily passes the Core Web Vitals.
Do you use the Hyvä UI library?
Yes, that is certainly possible. Using Hyvä UI as a foundation reduces costs compared to a fully custom design that is not based on Hyvä UI. See also the question “How much does a Hyvä Theme implementation cost?”
What is the advantage of Hyvä compared to a PWA solution?
The current trend in the market seems to suggest that a PWA is the solution to everything. In our view this is far from true. A PWA solution is often more expensive, more complex, and slower than a Hyvä-based solution. To make a PWA work well, companies often need an internal JavaScript team capable of handling the complexity of a PWA. In addition, the PWA still needs to be connected to a Magento installation, which effectively requires two teams: a separate frontend team and a separate backend team. Some organizations can support this, but most cannot.
Furthermore, the supposed advantages of a PWA solution are often not applicable, or simply not true. The claim that a PWA is inherently faster is not correct. Adobe’s default Magento PWA solution scores significantly lower out of the box than a standard Hyvä installation. It can be made faster with considerable effort, but if you invested the same number of hours into a Hyvä implementation it would still be faster, or it would reach its maximum performance with fewer hours.
The claim that a PWA can double as an installable mobile app is only partially true, because only Android fully supports this. In addition, the same result can usually be achieved more cheaply with a Hyvä installation.
We implemented a Hyvä Theme for Haibu.nl's consumer shop. Read the full case study here: https://elgentos.nl/cases/haibu
Hyvä Checkout revolutionizes the checkout experience for all parties involved. For shoppers, it offers a fast, smooth, and intuitive checkout process, with a loading time on mobile devices that is 13 times faster than the standard Magento Luma checkout page.
You can find more information about Hyvä Checkout in our blog article “Improve your Magento 2 checkout with Hyvä Checkout”.
What is the advantage of Hyvä Checkout compared to the Luma (or Luma-based) checkout(s)?
It is much simpler, and therefore faster and cheaper, to build custom functionality in the Hyvä Checkout. The checkout is built in a simpler way and has fewer moving parts, which makes it less error-prone than the older Luma checkout.
In addition, the checkout is faster and comes with two standard variants: the “one-step” checkout (everything on a single page) and the “multi-step” checkout, where each step (address, payment method, shipping method, overview) has its own page.
Which payment providers support Hyvä Checkout?
At the moment, Mollie, MultiSafePay, Buckaroo, Adyen, Pay.nl, Stripe, and PayPal support Hyvä Checkout. A complete overview from Hyvä itself can be found here.
Which shipping providers support Hyvä Checkout?
Currently PostNL and ShipperHQ support Hyvä Checkout. In addition, we have implemented support for Paazl ourselves. A complete overview from Hyvä itself can be found here.
Which address validation providers support Hyvä Checkout?
At the moment Postcode.nl supports Hyvä Checkout. In addition, we have implemented support for Loqate ourselves. A complete overview from Hyvä itself can be found here.
How much does a Hyvä Checkout implementation cost?
There is also quite a wide range here. The biggest factor influencing the cost of a Hyvä Checkout implementation is the set of features that need to be included in the checkout.
Examples include address validation (such as PostNL and Loqate), shipping platforms (such as Sendcloud, Paazl, MyParcel, and individual carriers), and payment platforms (such as Mollie, MultiSafePay, Buckaroo, Adyen, and all individual payment methods), and so on.
Extensions for Hyvä Checkout exist for some of these providers, but for many others they do not (yet). The Hyvä Checkout implementations we have completed so far typically range between 50 and 200 hours.
For Fotoopaluminium.nl, we implemented Hyvä Checkout with automatic address completion based on postal code and Multisafepay payment methods.
Want to know more about Hyvä?
Then check out the Hyvä website!
