Magento is built for brands that need more from their eCommerce – more flexibility, more control, and more room to grow. At Actuate, we’re a Manchester-based Magento agency helping businesses across the UK move faster, sell smarter, and unlock the kind of growth that actually scales.
Whether you’re starting fresh or stuck with an outdated build, we design, develop, and optimise Magento and Adobe Commerce stores that are easy to manage and built to convert.
Magento gives you full control over your store – from product logic to pricing, checkout to fulfilment. It’s ideal for brands with large catalogues, custom requirements, or B2B complexity. Magento Open Source offers full flexibility at a lower cost, while Adobe Commerce adds enterprise-grade features for scaling.
If you’ve outgrown Shopify or hit the limits of other platforms, Magento gives you the freedom to build around your business, not the other way around.
As a trusted Magento ecommerce agency in Manchester, we help you make the most of Magento’s potential.
Magento is powerful, but it takes the right tools and strategy to unlock its full potential. At Actuate, we combine technical expertise with performance-first thinking to turn Magento into a real growth engine.
As a certified Magento development company, we support version upgrades, replatforming, and full Magento 2 migration services to help you scale. Want faster load times? Our Magento 2 developers use Hyvä Themes for clean code, improved UX, and lightning-fast frontends.
From Magento solutions to conversion rate optimisation, we fine-tune your site for performance, not just polish.
As the original Magento is no longer supported by Adobe, migration to Magento 2 is essential for your cybersecurity. Unsupported your site will no longer receive updates and security vulnerability patches, putting you, and your customers at risk of a cyber-attack. To ensure your legal compliance with the UK & EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and also the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, (PCI-DSS), we highly recommend migration to the far more secure, Magento 2.
Supported by the army of Magento open-source developers, Magento 2 is highly customisable, so it grows with your business. As your Magento development agency, we’re here to custom-build additional features and functionality as an when you need it.
Although it is already super-fast right out of the box, we can also add Hyvä to Magento for blazing-fast performance and near-perfect page load speed; whilst Adobe Sensi, powerful AI-driven merchandising, helps increase your average order total by making personalised product suggestions to your customers.
As your Magento 2 agency, we’re here to make your life simpler. Our eCommerce site developers know a thing or two about third-party integrations and will advise on all potential system integrations to streamline your sales and delivery processes.
Integrating your ordering, warehouse, accountancy and logistics operational systems, you’ll reap the benefits of real-time inventory tracking, whilst your customers experience seamless delivery and returns.
Magento is the highest-ranked B2B eCommerce platform on the Internet Retailer 300 list.# and currently, over 30% of Magento stores are in the B2B sector.
Magento B2B offers a truckload of convenient and easy-to-implement features to get your B2B eCommerce store working efficiently, helping you achieve more so you reach your sales targets with ease.
As a highly experienced Magento B2B agency, we’ll support your transition away from more traditional B2B sales methods, such as catalogues and telephone ordering. Faster, efficient online procurement and inventory tracking simplifies your day-to-day business management and provides a swift, easy system for your suppliers, stockists or service providers.
Your Magento eCommerce development team understand that you want to start selling asap, (Of course, you do). We’ve been specialising in this open-source platform ever since its launch, which means our Magento-certified developers can deliver your attention-grabbing design, with all the functionality and performance you’ll ever need, in record time. Although all sites vary in size, on average, our eCommerce experts will design, build and launch your site in just 3 – 6 momths.
All of our quotations are tailored to your future eCommerce strategy and your specific requirements as a business; it is how we provide the most accurate and cost-effective quotations, saving you money overall. Prices for a brand-new, bespoke Magento 2 website start at £36,000 +VAT.
When it comes to our customers, there is no such thing as average – every business is unique, so we adapt to suit you, creating sites for all budgets. We offer flexible payment plans too to help spread the cost, if that works best for you.
If you are looking to migrate from Magento version one with a Magento 2 upgrade, the process is a little different, prices for Magento migration start from £32,000 +VAT.
We’ve designed a straightforward, 7-step design, build and launch process, helping you manage your Magento 2 website development project, so you always know where you stand. We believe that uncomplicated is always better.
As your Magento agency, we’re here for the long haul. As your eCommerce website development partners, we are here to provide Magento 2 support whenever you need us, whether that is helping you to maintain and manage your site, ongoing conversion rate optimisation developments, or to add functionality that helps you scale.