1. Services
  2. Development
  3. Managed Services

Launch was
the easy part.

A named senior team on a monthly retainer for the years after go-live: roadmap sprints, upgrades and patching, monitoring, and the small fixes nobody schedules. About 60% of our revenue is this work, on purpose.

Managed Services at RMG

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+38%

Sound familiar?

The site is live.
The list is longer.

Every store accumulates a backlog after launch: the integration that needs babysitting, the patch nobody applied, the product page change marketing asked for in March. Six signs the site needs a team rather than a ticket queue.

  1. A patch backlog nobody owns

    Security releases land on a schedule you do not control. When applying them is nobody’s job, the version drifts until an upgrade becomes a project, and a breach becomes a risk you have already accepted without deciding to.

  2. One developer who knows where everything is

    The freelancer who built the checkout customization is the only person who can touch it. When they are on vacation, the store waits. When they leave, the knowledge goes with them.

  3. Marketing requests that take a quarter

    A landing page, a product page module, a new promotion rule. Each one waits behind an infrastructure fire, so the campaign ships late or on a page builder that fights the theme.

  4. Core Web Vitals that slid since launch

    Apps got added, images got bigger, the tag manager grew. Nobody watched the field data, so the store that launched fast is now slow on a phone, and rankings followed it down.

  5. Integrations that fail quietly

    The ERP sync stops at 2 a.m. and nobody knows until orders are missing. Monitoring was a launch-day checklist item that never became a practice.

  6. An agency that left after the invoice

    The build team rolled onto the next project. Support is a shared inbox with a slow reply, and every fix needs a new statement of work before anyone looks at it.

Managed services

Named team. Monthly cadence.

Sprint-based delivery against your roadmap, with the platform care underneath it handled as routine rather than as an emergency. The same engineers on the kickoff and on the roadmap a year later.

01 · Roadmap

Sprints that ship your list

The backlog you have been carrying, worked through in two-week sprints with room reserved for what marketing needs this month.

  • Two-week sprints against your backlog

  • Product, collection, and checkout improvements

  • Landing pages and campaign builds

  • Integration and middleware work

  • B2B, subscriptions, and loyalty features

  • Quarterly business reviews

02 · Care

Patching, upgrades, and versions

The unglamorous work that keeps a store supported, secure, and upgradeable, done on a calendar instead of after an incident.

  • Security patches on release

  • Version upgrades, planned not panicked

  • Theme and app updates

  • Dependency, PHP, and Node upgrades

  • Staging, review, and release process

03 · Watch

Monitoring and response

Every alert has a person behind it. Failures are caught by the monitor, not by a customer or a spreadsheet.

  • Uptime, error, and performance monitoring

  • Integration health checks

  • On-call and incident response

  • Core Web Vitals on field data

  • Hosting and infrastructure review

04 · Team

How the retainer works

A named team that joins your process rather than a vendor you file tickets with. Most of our retainer clients have an in-house team we extend, not replace.

  • Named senior engineers, no rotation

  • Your standups, your tooling

  • US-hours overlap from North America and Europe

  • DPAs, BAAs, and MSAs as standard

  • Knowledge transfer built in

  • Retainer sized to your roadmap

What goes wrong

The fires you know
by name. Handled.

Four failures that every store hits eventually, what each one costs while it waits, and how a retainer turns it into routine work.

  • The version nobody upgraded

    What it costs you

    An unsupported version stops receiving security patches. Every day on it is accepted risk, and the eventual jump costs more than the upgrades it skipped.

    What we do

    Upgrades go on the calendar the day the release notes do. Small, frequent, rehearsed on staging, with the customizations that will break listed before they break.

  • The integration that fails at 2 a.m.

    What it costs you

    Orders that never reach the ERP, inventory that lies to shoppers, and a morning spent reconciling by hand before anyone can say what happened.

    What we do

    Every integration gets a health check and an alert with a person behind it. The monitor catches the failure; customer service never has to.

  • A request that waits a quarter

    What it costs you

    The landing page ships after the campaign. Marketing builds around engineering instead of with it, and the storefront grows page-builder scar tissue.

    What we do

    A sprint cadence with room reserved for marketing work, so a product page module or a landing page is a ticket, not a negotiation.

  • One person who knows everything

    What it costs you

    When the one developer is away, the store waits. When they leave, the knowledge leaves, and the next team starts by reverse-engineering their work.

    What we do

    A named team, not a name. Documentation, shared repos, and paired handoff are part of the retainer, so nothing lives in one head.

Start here

Five days.
Then a plan.

Before any retainer, the free five-day audit. A senior engineer and a strategist go through what the store runs on, what it is costing you, and what to fix first. You keep the document whether or not you hire us.

  1. 1. What the store runs on

    Platform version, theme or codebase state, apps and extensions, integrations, and hosting, with the risks in each named.

  2. 2. What it costs to run

    Licenses, apps, hosting, and the hours going into keeping it up, set against what the same store should cost.

  3. 3. Core Web Vitals on field data

    How the store performs for real shoppers on real phones, not in a lab, and which fixes would move the numbers Google uses.

  4. 4. The backlog, prioritized

    Everything you have been meaning to get to, ordered by risk and revenue, with the quick wins separated from the projects.

  5. 5. A retainer sized to it

    Building, Scaling, or Rescuing, with the team and cadence the backlog actually needs. Real numbers, before anything is signed.

Timeline
Five business days
Price
Free
Who runs it
A senior engineer and a strategist
Get the free audit

Other options

Hire, freelance, offshore, or us.

Each has a place. The question is who is awake when the ERP sync fails, and who still knows the codebase next year.

Comparison criteria
RMG
In-house hireFreelancerOffshore body shop
Coverage
Engineering, design, and marketing under one retainer, with on-call
One or two skill sets, business hoursOne person, when availableMany hands, thin platform depth
Continuity
Same named team, no rotation, knowledge transfer built in
Leaves with the personLeaves with the personRotates by project
Platform depth
Shopify, Adobe Commerce, BigCommerce, Commerce Cloud, Shopware, headless
Whatever they were hired forUsually one platformVaries by who is assigned
Response
Monitoring with a person behind the alert, SLA-backed on Rescuing
Business hoursWhen they see the messageTicket queue, time-zone gap
Cost shape
A retainer sized to your roadmap, reviewed quarterly
Salary, benefits, recruiting, managementHourly and unpredictableCheap per hour, expensive per outcome

Results

Show you the money.

The big numbers

+30%

Avg. conversion rate lift within 12 months

+50%

Avg. order value lift

<1s

Page load speeds on the storefronts we build

+15%

Avg. revenue lift within 6 months

How it starts

Audit, scope,
kickoff, sprint.

No onboarding decks. Discovery happens with the engineers who will do the work, and the first commit lands inside the first month.

  • Step 01

    Free five-day
    audit

    What the store runs on, what it costs, what to fix first. Five business days, a document you keep.

  • Step 02

    Scoped
    retainer

    Building, Scaling, or Rescuing, sized to the backlog the audit found. Kickoff within two weeks of a signed scope.

  • Step 03

    Kickoff and
    first commit

    Discovery with the engineers who will do the work. First commit inside 30 days, in your repos, on your review process.

  • Step 04

    Quarterly
    review

    What shipped, what it moved, what is next. The retainer has to earn the next quarter every quarter.

WE GOT THE WHOLE PACKAGE

There’s a lot more

to this story.

Design, development, and digital marketing all live under one roof. The same team that builds your store also designs it and runs the paid, lifecycle, and CRO work behind it, so nothing gets lost in a handoff.

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THE QUESTIONS YOU HAVE -

Get them out
of the way.

A named team on a monthly retainer doing three kinds of work. Roadmap work: the product page, checkout, integration, and campaign items in your backlog, delivered in two-week sprints. Care: security patches, version upgrades, theme and dependency updates, done on a calendar. Watch: uptime, error, performance, and integration monitoring with a person behind every alert. Quarterly business reviews cover what shipped and what it moved. Design and marketing sit in the same building, so a retainer can include them when the roadmap calls for it.

Free five-day audit

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Long list?
Start here.

Already live and carrying a backlog? Five business days, a senior engineer, and a document you keep, covering what the store runs on, what it is costing you, and what to fix first.

Something on fire right now? Say so in the message and the first reply is an engineer, not a scheduling link.

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