Your store still makes money. Nobody has looked after it in years.
The developer who built your WooCommerce or PrestaShop store moved on, and nothing has been updated since. Nobody sends store owners a letter when their software stops getting security fixes — PrestaShop 1.7 stopped in June 2025, and the PHP most older stores run on is already out of support or will be by December 31, 2026. Not sure what your store even runs? Put its address in the booking form and we'll tell you on the call — free, in plain words.
We take neglected stores over — upgrade the platform and the software under it, clean up the database, lock down the server, and move you onto infrastructure we run and monitor. 30 working days, fixed price.
SwiftForge Web is a specialist store-rescue agency, founded by Aleš Gaber — building web software since 1998, online stores since 2005, 400+ projects behind us. Small and senior-led: no account managers, no ticket queue, and we do one thing well.
Why this can't wait forever
A WooCommerce store nobody has touched in years runs on outdated plugins, an old theme and an old PHP — none of which matters to you until an update breaks checkout. PrestaShop ended maintenance for version 1.7 when version 9 shipped in June 2025. PrestaShop 8 is now in extended support — critical fixes only, no new features. PHP 8.2 reaches end of life on December 31, 2026, and everything below it already has.
Meanwhile the agency that built your store moved to Shopify, or shut down, or stopped replying. Half your plugins and modules are abandoned by their authors, and one of them will break checkout during an upgrade. The server was configured once, by someone, and hasn't been touched since. Every change is a gamble because there's no staging and no rollback.
None of it is urgent, right up until it's the only thing that matters — usually on the busiest day of your year.
What a rescue includes
The offer
Technical Review
Fixed price. 3 business days from receipt of access. Deliverable: written findings, ranked by business impact, plus the fixed quote for Stage 2. Credited in full against Stage 2 if the client proceeds.
Store Rescue
Fixed price, quoted at the end of Stage 1. Never quoted before. 30 working days. 50% on start, 50% on delivery. Guarantee: if the acceptance criteria are not met, the second 50% is not invoiced.
Managed Engineering
Month to month. No contract. No notice period. Begins the day the rescue goes live.
The guarantee, in plain words: your key pages open fast on a phone, measured by Google's own tools — and if we miss, the second half of the invoice is never sent.
Precisely. On the three templates named in your Stage 1 report — home, top category, top product — measured with Lighthouse mobile via the PageSpeed Insights API from a US test location, median of three consecutive runs:
LCP under 2.5 seconds · CLS under 0.1 · Total Blocking Time under 200ms · Lighthouse Performance score of 85 or better.
Baseline captured before any change, using the same method. Third-party scripts added after handover — analytics, chat, pixels, review widgets, A/B tools — are excluded. Real-user field data from the Chrome User Experience Report is reported monthly once 28 days of data exist, but is not guaranteed, because we do not control your traffic mix or your visitors' devices.
The 30 working days begin when we have SFTP or SSH, database, admin, DNS, and repository access — not at signature. The clock pauses on any client-side blocker, confirmed in writing.
Full pricing and the math behind it →
Small and senior-led, on purpose.
No account managers relaying messages, no ticket queue, no sprawling generalist shop. Just a team that does one thing — rescue and run WooCommerce and PrestaShop stores — led by a founder who has been building e-commerce since 2005. When it matters, you reach someone who actually knows your store.
Questions
Where are you based?
Slovenia, in Europe. SwiftForge Web LLC is a US company so you can contract and pay in dollars. We hold 9am–4pm ET every business day for US calls, and our working morning is your overnight — which is when you want a migration running anyway.
Why hire a team in Europe?
You shouldn't, if what you want is a US agency with an office and an account team. You should if you want the senior people doing the work themselves — a team that has been inside PrestaShop and WooCommerce code for close to twenty years — on a US contract, at a fixed price, with the result guaranteed in writing.
My store is a mess. Is that a problem?
It's the job. We don't take clean stores away from other agencies. We take the ones that were left behind.
How small is too small?
Below roughly $30,000/month in revenue a monthly retainer usually isn't worth it for you, and we'll say so on the call rather than sell you one.
What happens if you disappear?
Credentials stay yours. Code stays in your repository. Infrastructure is documented so another engineer can pick it up.
Do you work on Shopify?
No. PrestaShop, WooCommerce, and custom PHP only.