Magento Development Services

Expert Magento Development & Architecture

We don’t just “install” Magento. We engineer it.

Magento (Adobe Commerce) is a beast. If it is built correctly, it is the most powerful e-commerce platform on the planet. If it is built poorly, it is a slow, expensive liability. Watermelon Web Works is the agency you call when you are tired of the latter.

We are not salespeople; we are senior architects. We have seen too many stores crippled by bloated themes, conflict-ridden plugins, and messy core overwrites. We write clean, compliant code that respects the framework. Whether you need a complex ERP integration, a headless PWA implementation, or a rescue mission for a failing build, we handle the heavy lifting.

The Open Source Advantage (Stop Paying the “Adobe Tax”)

There is a misconception that you need the paid version (Adobe Commerce/Enterprise) to run a serious store. For 95% of businesses, this is false.

We specialize in Magento Open Source. We have successfully migrated multiple enterprise-level merchants from the paid Commerce edition down to Open Source. The result? They kept their functionality, their site speed improved, and they stopped paying five-to-six figures a year in licensing fees. If you want enterprise features without the enterprise bloat, we need to talk.

Performance is a Feature, Not an Afterthought

A slow Magento store is a broken Magento store. We don’t guess at performance; we engineer it using Varnish, Redis, Elasticsearch, and optimized SQL queries. If your current agency is telling you that a 4-second load time is “normal” for Magento, they are lying to you. Check out our deep dive on Magento Speed Optimization to see how we cut load times in half.

Portland Roots, National Scale

We are proudly based in Portland, OR. When you hire Watermelon, you aren’t handed off to a project manager who outsources your ticket to an offshore farm. You speak directly to the developers writing your code. We provide the architectural rigor of a large national agency with the direct communication of a local partner.

Magento Open Source Development Experts
Specialists in Open Source & High-Performance Architecture.

Enterprise Tooling We Use Daily

PHP 8
Redis
Varnish
Elasticsearch
Composer
Git CI/CD

“Our company has been working with the Watermelon team for more than 10 years to help build and grow our website and customer portal. They are not only extremely talented and responsive, but are continuously looking for ways for us to enhance our current website. They are consistent, provide excellent customer service and really know what they are doing. Highly recommend!”

— Kim Markel / Inphi Corporation


Real World Results

Magento Commerce Niche Ecommerce

Sock Dreams is a popular online retailer of Unique Colorful Sexy Socks of all shapes in sizes. It started as a basic Ecommerce site in 2000 and has been growing strong ever since. Built upon the powerful Magento Commerce (formerly known as Magento Enterprise) platform, the Sock Dreams store has thousands of unique products and is highly customized to ensure the best experience for their unique audience. The site features an advanced menu for quick and easy navigation, a detailed customer review system, a mobile-friendly responsive design, and a rewards points system to help create repeat customers. We use Magento’s multi-store capabilities for the International and Wholesale versions of the retail site, and it continues to morph / adapt to customer needs as time goes on.

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OMS Anita
22:20 29 Nov 24
Watermelon Web Works has been incredible to work with. They are patient, understanding, and quick to answer any questions (or emergencies) you might have. After switching over to them to help re-vamp our online retail store, we hired them to build our wholesale website as well. I can't recommend them enough - Thank you team!
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Garrett Lister
19:55 10 Jul 24
Jared and the watermelon team were great - they quickly interpreted our website needs and designed a wonderful site. The project management site worked great to keep track of project.
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N B
21:23 14 Nov 23
My previous web developer who I was very happy with retired and I was pretty sad about it because it seems now days it is hard to hire a web developer close by with a good set of skills who is interested in helping small business at reasonable prices. Then I found Watermelon and I have been very happy. They are responsive, are able to solve problems, and work at reasonable prices.
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Dark Star Magick
18:05 03 May 23
We hired Watermelon to help us with our website. They were very thorough and took the time to explain in layman's terms what they were doing and how we could improve SEO and site functionality. We will definitely be back for future website needs!
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Astoria Column
18:42 24 Apr 23
Great work and amazing service! We're a non-profit, and our priorities are always focused on maintaining the Astoria Column. We had a website built by someone else a few years ago, but without regular updating and maintenance, sections of our site were no longer functional. Joanna and the rest of the team came in and had everything working within a week and it's been smooth sailing since then!
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Ben Harris
19:25 26 Aug 19
Watermelon has been a fantastic web development partner. Through every phase of our project they have always been 100% responsive to our requests and have always provided highly knowledgeable, creative, prompt, and personable team members to work with. As a financial institution we’re always concerned about the security and maintenance or our website and Watermelon has always provided the appropriate resources in order to meet and/or exceed our compliance and security requirements. We would surely refer them to any business associates looking for a qualified WordPress web designer in the future. – Denali Federal Credit Union
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Mohr IP Law Attorneys
00:33 11 Apr 19
Watermelon Web Works did a great job creating a custom shopping cart page for our firm. Gavynn in particular was especially helpful and responsive. We appreciated the upfront costs and the technical competency of Watermelon Web Works and would not hesitate to work with the people there again.
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Kim Markle
23:36 08 Feb 19
Our company has been working with the Watermelon team for more than 10 years to help build and grow our website and customer portal. They are not only extremely talented and responsive, but are continuously looking for ways for us to enhance our current website. They are consistent, provide excellent customer service and really know what they are doing. Highly recommend!
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Rick Brodner
23:23 12 May 17
I cannot say enough good things about Watermelon. They are terrific communicators, highly competent coders, and really, really nice people. They were instrumental in helping us to assemble a very usable, easily maintainable website for our organization. They' have demonstrated great flexibility in accommodating our evolving needs. They have been highly responsive to any technical issues, typically resolving them in less than 4 hours. Watermelon Web Works will make your organization better, and your CFO/Treasurer will be happy when they see the bill - what more can you ask for?
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