Top 10 Reasons Why Upgrade to Hyvä Commerce

My first question—what if you could gain all that Magento power without the headache?

You chose Magento because you needed power, flexibility, and the ability to build something truly awesome.

But now, it feels outdated and complicated, doesn’t it? Especially when you’re operating the Magento open source (the free version)!

So, this is one of the reasons why you need an upgrade to Hyvä Commerce—the best version of Magento you’ve ever seen.

Need more reasons to believe??? That’s okay.

We’ve prepared 10 reasons why upgrading to Hyvä Commerce isn’t just a good idea; it’s the best decision you can make for the future of your Magento store. Here, we’re talking about performance, user experience, cost savings, and so much more.

So, grab your favorite coffee, settle in, and let’s explore how Hyvä Commerce can help you finally achieve Magento mastery.

Here are the reasons why Magento merchants should consider upgrading to Hyvä Commerce:

1. New and Better Admin Experience

“Magento is so powerful, but why is it so outdated?“— You or your team have thought it at least once, haven’t you?

Your developers and marketers are probably wasting hours wrestling with a clunky interface instead of focusing on growth. That’s time and money down the drain.

And sure, you’ve learned to live with it. You’ve built your workarounds, your shortcuts, your coping mechanisms. But deep down, a little voice whispers: “I wish…there has to be a better way“!

Hyvä Commerce throws that old admin experience in the trash and replaces it with something modern, intuitive, and actually enjoyable to use. It’s a complete rethink of the admin experience, designed to make everyone’s lives easier and more productive.

A better admin UI means your marketers can update content without constantly bugging the developers. Your developers can focus on actual development instead of babysitting the backend.

But.. but… but…it’s optional!!

The Hyvä team understands that change can be scary. That’s why the new admin theme is completely optional. You can stick with the old one if you really want to, but I’m betting once you try the Hyvä version, you’ll never go back.

Look, I’m not saying a new admin panel is going to solve all your problems. But it’s a start. It’s a chance to breathe, to streamline your workflow, and to finally feel like you’re in control of your Magento store, instead of the other way around. It’s a small change that can make a huge difference.

 It might even make you enjoy logging into your store’s backend… okay, maybe not enjoy, but at least tolerate it. And in the world of Magento, that’s a pretty big win.

2. Enhanced Page Builder for Non-Technical Teams

Frankly speaking, we don’t find the default Magento page builder to be user-friendly.

Content management is often difficult, campaigns are delayed, and your marketing team feels like they’re constantly fighting the system.

The typical workflow for a content update on your current Magento store:

1. Marketing identifies a need for a new landing page or a change to an existing one.
2. They create a brief and send it to the development team.
3. Developers, already swamped with other tasks, schedule the work.
4. Days or weeks later, the change is finally implemented.
5. Marketing reviews, requests revisions, and the cycle continues.

Yes, this process is slow, inefficient, and creates conflict that prevents your marketing team from reacting quickly to market trends, launching timely promotions, and optimizing the customer experience.

Hyvä Commerce offers a completely reimagined content management experience (Hyvä CMS) with an enhanced Page Builder that’s actually easy to use – even for non-technical users.

What makes it so much better?

Live Preview

What you see is actually what you get. No more saving, refreshing, and praying that your changes look right on the live site. Hyvä’s Page Builder shows you a real-time preview of your content as you create it.

Drag-and-Drop Simplicity

Seriously, it’s drag and drop. No coding required. You can arrange content blocks exactly where you want them, without needing to understand HTML or CSS.

Reusable Components

Create a banner, a product highlight, or a call-to-action section once, and then reuse it across multiple pages. This saves time, ensures consistency, and makes it easy to update your content across the board.

Version Control

Accidentally delete something important? No problem. Hyvä’s Page Builder includes built-in version control, so you can easily revert to previous versions of your content.

With Hyvä’s enhanced Page Builder, you can create a beautiful, engaging experience that reflects the quality of your products and services. It’s about empowering your team to tell your story, connect with your audience, and drive sales.

3. Powerful Business Insights at a Glance

Right now, you’re probably piecing together reports from different sections, exporting data to spreadsheets, and spending way too much time just trying to understand what’s going on.

Guess what… Hyvä Commerce fixes this.

It gives you a dashboard – a single place where you can see the key metrics that matter to your business right now.

Here’s what you can find in the new dashboard:

• Customizable Widgets: You pick what you want to see. Sales charts, order summaries, top-selling products, customer behavior – put it all on your dashboard. If it’s important to you, it’s front and center.
• Real-Time Data: No more waiting for reports to generate. See sales trends, track visitor behavior, and react to changes in real-time.
• Cart Conversion Rate Analysis: Are people adding stuff to their carts, but not buying? You can track why and where customers are abandoning their carts, so you can fix the problem and stop losing money.

The faster you can understand what’s happening in your business, the faster you can make decisions, and the more money you’ll make.

Hyvä Commerce isn’t just about making your website look better; it’s about making your business run better. And that starts with having the right information at your fingertips.

4. Overcome Performance & SEO Limitations

The biggest elephant in the room when it comes to Magento is performance.

Pages take longer to load than they should, and every click feels like you’re waiting for dial-up to reconnect. This isn’t just annoying; it’s actively costing you money.

Now, I’m not saying Magento is inherently slow. But, optimizing it for speed is like trying to solve a puzzle with a bind-folded. Possible, sure, but incredibly frustrating and time-consuming.

So, how can Hyvä Commerce be a solution?

With Hyvä Commerce, you get access to Hyvä Theme and Hyvä Checkout, which are specifically designed to address this performance bottleneck. They’re built to meet Google’s Core Web Vitals, which are basically the gold standard for website performance.

What does that actually mean for you?

• Higher rankings: Google smiles upon fast websites, and that means more eyeballs on your store.
• Improved engagement: Happy customers are engaged customers. They’ll browse longer, click more, and actually buy stuff.
• More sales: This is the big one, right? Better website speed and performance directly converts to more money in your pocket – unexpected and awesome.

Hyvä isn’t just about making your website look pretty (though it does that, too). It’s about making it perform.

Because in the end, nobody wants to wait. Not for a page to load, and definitely not for success.

5. Built-in Image Editor & Media Optimization

Your images are probably HUGE and slowing down your site. You know you need to optimize them, but it’s a hectic process.

Every time there’s a need to crop, resize, or adjust an image, your team likely follows this inefficient routine:

• Edit images in Photoshop or another external tool
• Export and save optimized versions
• Upload to your Magento site
• Check that they display correctly on the frontend
• Repeat this process dozens or hundreds of times

Not only is this time-consuming, but it’s also error-prone. Worse yet, unoptimized images directly impact your store’s performance metrics, hurting both customer experience and SEO rankings.

Again, you shouldn’t need to be a Photoshop expert every time to get your images looking good and loading fast, but you need a solution.

And Hyvä Commerce delivers exactly that.

Hyvä Commerce empowers you with two powerful features: (1) a built-in image editor and (2) comprehensive media optimization tools that work right within your Magento admin panel.

Built-in Image editor 

Hyvä brings professional image editing capabilities directly into your Magento admin panel. So, you can:

1. Crop, rotate, and resize product images without leaving Magento
2. Adjust brightness, contrast, and sharpness to make your products shine
3. Apply filters and add annotations to highlight key product features
4. Edit non-destructively – experiment freely knowing you can always revert to the original

No more switching between applications or waiting for your design team to make simple adjustments—you can handle everything yourself in seconds.

Automated Media Optimization

Beyond editing, Hyvä Commerce solves one of Magento’s biggest performance killers with built-in media optimization:

1. Automatic image resizing ensures images are precisely sized for their display context
2. WebP and AVIF support deliver modern compression formats that reduce file sizes by 25-50% without quality loss
3. CLI-based bulk optimization lets you transform your entire product catalog with a single command
4. Developer API for optimized image URLs enables fine-tuned control for custom implementations

Suppose a merchant with 1,000 products and 5 images per product could easily save 50-100MB of unnecessary page weight and directly increase the page speed.

For Magento Open Source merchants who have been forced to rely on multiple third-party extensions or custom development to solve these challenges, Hyvä Commerce offers an elegant, integrated solution that just works!

6. Lower Checkout Abandonment

I must say — Cart abandonment is the silent revenue killer in eCommerce, with industry averages hovering around 70%.

If you’re still relying on the standard Magento, this problem is often amplified by the platform’s default checkout experience. You’re probably familiar with these checkout pain points:

1. The default Magento checkout relies on heavy JavaScript that can take seconds to load—especially on mobile devices where every millisecond counts
2. The multi-step process creates friction points where customers drop off
3. Adapting the checkout to match your brand or add custom features often requires significant developer intervention
4. Responsive design issues that make mobile checkout particularly frustrating

All these factors contribute to “lost revenue” that you might not even realize you’re missing.

Let’s calculate this in numbers:

If your store generates $500,000 in annual revenue with a current checkout abandonment rate of 70% (industry average), even a modest improvement to 65% abandonment could mean an additional $25,000 annually.

Metric	Current	After Improvement
Annual Revenue	$500,000	$500,000
Checkout Abandonment Rate	70%	65%
Checkout Completion Rate	30%	35%
Revenue Captured After Checkout	$150,000 (30% of $500,000)	$175,000 (35% of $500,000)
Additional Revenue Gained	—	$25,000

For larger stores, the impact is even more dramatic. A $2 million revenue store improving checkout conversion by just 5 percentage points could see an additional $100,000+ in annual revenue.

Metric	Current	After Improvement
Annual Revenue	$2,000,000	$2,000,000
Checkout Abandonment Rate	70%	65%
Checkout Completion Rate	30%	35%
Revenue Captured After Checkout	$600,000(30% of $2M)	$700,000(35% of $2M)
Additional Revenue Gained	—	$100,000

It’s far exceeding your investment in Hyvä Commerce.

Hyvä Commerce includes Hyvä Checkout (valued at €1,000) as part of the package—a purpose-built solution to dramatically reduce abandonment rates. So, you can expect:

• 10x faster loading through optimized code structure and minimal dependencies
• Instant field validation for a smoother experience
• No page refreshes between steps, creating a seamless flow
• All major payment providers (PayPal, Braintree, Payplug, Stripe, Mollie, Adyen)
• More sales without increasing their marketing and advertising spend
• Future updates are included in your Hyvä Commerce subscription

Unlike many checkout optimizations that require weeks of developer time, Hyvä Checkout can be implemented in days!

7. Seamless Multi-Store Management

If you’re running multiple stores on Magento, this one is for you!

Magento’s default administration can feel like switching between entirely different systems. With each store requiring separate navigation, reporting, and management, what should be a unified business operation becomes fragmented and inefficient.

Hyvä’s admin dashboard brings all your stores together in one comprehensive view. Instead of logging in and out or switching between different admin panels, you can monitor performance metrics, track sales, and manage inventory across your entire business ecosystem at once.

This means you’ll immediately spot trends like:

• Which stores are outperforming others
• Where inventory needs rebalancing
• How promotional campaigns are performing across different markets

So, if your business strategy includes expansion to new markets, adding B2B channels alongside B2C, or launching brand extensions, Hyvä Commerce’s multi-store capabilities provide the foundation you need.

The platform grows with you, maintaining manageable administrative overhead even as your business complexity increases.

With Magento’s inherent multi-store capabilities now fully optimized through Hyvä Commerce’s streamlined interface, you can finally utilize one of Magento’s strongest features without its traditional implementation challenges.

8. Exclusive Hyvä Bundle Value

When evaluating any investment for your Magento store, the question always comes down to “value”.

With Hyvä Commerce, this value proposition is stronger than ever thanks to its all-inclusive bundle approach.

What makes Hyvä Commerce’s bundle value truly exclusive is that it includes  Hyvä Theme (€1,000), Hyvä UI, and Hyvä Checkout (€1,000), and all its innovative admin tools under a single license.

This means you’re not just getting isolated improvements—you’re getting a complete, integrated ecosystem where every component is designed to work seamlessly with the others. No more compatibility headaches or integration challenges.

Currently, the Hyvä Commerce is available at a discounted price of €2,500 as an “Early Access Special” offer.

The Hyvä cashback program makes upgrading financially sensible, even if you’ve already invested in individual Hyvä products:

• Already purchased Hyvä Theme? That investment applies toward your Hyvä Commerce license.
• Using Hyvä Checkout? The same principle applies.
• Prepaid for support? That value gets credited too.

For example, if you’ve previously invested in both Hyvä Theme and Checkout, along with prepaid support, you could receive up to €2,750 in savings on your first year of Hyvä Commerce.

Perhaps the most compelling aspect of the Hyvä Commerce bundle is that you’re not just paying for what exists today—you’re investing in what’s coming tomorrow.

Why patch together solutions from different vendors when you can have a platform designed specifically for Magento?

9. Future-Proofing with Upcoming Features

With Magento Open Source, you might have experienced the pain of piecing together various extensions to achieve functionality that should be core to the platform.

No doubt, you may often face challenges like:

• Compatibility issues between extensions
• Inconsistent user experiences
• Security vulnerabilities
• Higher development and maintenance costs

Hyvä Commerce provides a unified solution developed by a team with a proven track record. The same team that revolutionized Magento performance with Hyvä Theme is now transforming the entire merchant experience.

The Hyvä team doesn’t just fix what’s broken—they anticipate what merchants will need next. In the next 6-9 months alone, several exceptional features are set to roll out:

Timeframe	Feature	Description
Next(3-6 months)	Category Merchandising	Visual product merchandising tools for PDP/PLP.
	Linked Products	Show multiple variations on PLP with discrete URLs for SEO.
	Menu Builder	Create and manage multiple menus using Hyvä CMS.
	Admin Dashboard Enhancements	Expanded widget types (sales, marketing) and ACL-based widget permissions.
	Media Optimization	AVIF support, auto-optimization, and resize-by-declarations (XML/JSON).
Planned(6+ months)	CMS Page Hierarchy	Multi-level page structures with SEO-friendly URLs.
	Customer Segmentation	Dynamic content based on customer rules or external solutions.
	Email Templates	A new framework for managing and customizing transactional emails.
	Layered Navigation Enhancements	Filter by multiple attributes, stock status, and sale items.
	Social/Simplified Login	Login via Apple/Google accounts or email-based one-time codes.
	Admin Dashboard Advanced Features	Multi-view support, role-based default dashboards, and additional widget types.
	Media Optimization	Queue-based optimization and full storefront image standardization.

Perhaps most importantly, Hyvä Commerce isn’t just a one-time improvement—it’s a commitment to ongoing innovation. Your investment today continues delivering value tomorrow as new features are regularly added to your subscription.

The Hyvä roadmap is transparent and community-influenced. It means the features being developed are the ones merchants actually need—not what a corporate boardroom thinks you should have.

Hyvä Commerce is a living platform with continuous development. Your investment today secures your access to innovations for months and years to come—without additional costs or complex licensing tiers.

10. Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

When running a Magento Open Source store, the true cost goes far beyond the initial setup. Many merchants find themselves caught in a cycle of escalating expenses—paying for multiple extensions to fill functionality gaps, hiring developers for constant maintenance, and losing revenue during performance issues or downtime.

Hyvä Commerce significantly reduces these hidden costs in many ways:

Consolidated Solution, Fewer Extensions

With Hyvä Commerce, you’re getting a comprehensive suite that includes Hyvä Theme, Hyvä UI, Hyvä Checkout, and all the new features like CMS and media optimization—bundled into one cohesive package. This eliminates the need to purchase, maintain, and troubleshoot multiple third-party extensions that often conflict with each other.

Consider the cost savings alone: if you were to purchase individual solutions for advanced CMS capabilities, checkout optimization, image editing, and performance enhancements, you’d easily spend thousands on licensing fees—not counting the integration costs.

Reduced Development Hours

The smart admin interface and user-friendly tools like Hyvä CMS drastically cut down on the development resources needed for everyday tasks. Your marketing team can create and edit content without developer assistance, your merchandisers can arrange products without custom code, and your store managers can access critical data without technical knowledge.

This independence translates directly to lower operational costs—fewer developer hours mean significant savings on your monthly maintenance budget.

Performance Efficiency Equals Revenue Protection

Hyvä’s built-in performance optimizations—particularly in media handling and frontend rendering—help protect your revenue by keeping customers engaged. When you factor in the lifetime value of customers who don’t abandon your site due to slow load times, the ROI becomes clear.

Smart Cashback Program for Existing Customers

If you’ve already invested in Hyvä Theme (€1,000) or Hyvä Checkout (€1,000), those investments aren’t lost. Hyvä’s generous cashback program allows you to apply previous purchases toward your Hyvä Commerce subscription:

• Apply up to €1,000 from your Hyvä Theme purchase
• Apply up to €1,000 from your Hyvä Checkout purchase
• Even prepaid support costs can be credited toward your new license

For example, if you bought both the theme and checkout along with prepaid support, you could receive up to €2,750 in savings on your first year of Hyvä Commerce.

Proactive Rather Than Reactive Maintenance

The Health Checklist feature allows you to identify and resolve potential issues before they escalate into expensive emergencies. By monitoring cache status, indexing performance, and system health in real-time, you avoid the costly firefighting that comes with unexpected site problems.

This shift from reactive to proactive maintenance not only reduces emergency development costs but also prevents revenue losses from site outages or degraded performance.

When you compare the all-in TCO of maintaining a traditional Magento Open Source store versus upgrading to Hyvä Commerce, the financial advantage becomes clear.

While there’s an initial investment, the long-term savings (from reduced extension costs, decreased development hours, improved conversion rates, and consolidated licensing) make Hyvä Commerce the economically sound choice for merchants serious about sustainable growth.

The question isn’t whether you can afford to upgrade to Hyvä Commerce—it’s whether you can afford not to.

Final Thoughts!

The path to a better Magento experience is clear.

So, if you want to upgrade your Magento store without the enterprise-level price tag of Adobe Commerce, Hyvä Commerce represents the perfect middle ground—powerful enterprise-level features. And, that too with the flexibility and cost-effectiveness that make Open Source appealing in the first place.

The 10 reasons we’ve explored only scratch the surface of how Hyvä Commerce can transform your Magento store. The real magic happens when these elements work together to create a cohesive ecosystem that:

• empowers your team,
• delights your customers, and
• strengthens your bottom line.

As a Hyvä Gold Partner, we’ve been privileged to experience firsthand how Hyvä Commerce works! Our team doesn’t just implement Hyvä Commerce—we help you extract maximum value from every feature, tailored to your specific business needs and goals.

If you’re genuinely excited to experience the best ever Magento version, connect with us today!