Cloppenburg lies in the Oldenburger Münsterland, which belonged to the state of Oldenburg until 1946 and is still closely interwoven with the Oldenburg area economically. The district is shaped by the agricultural and food industry: livestock farming and meat processing, animal feed, barn and agricultural technology, plus trades, construction and logistics. Many firms grew out of family businesses and today sell well beyond the region. Their digital systems have often grown step by step alongside them — with websites and shops that at some point nobody updated any more, because the agency that built them is no longer responsible.
Agricultural technology in the Oldenburger Münsterland has its own requirements. Barn equipment, feeding and climate systems are sold to farmers, dealers and service partners, often with different prices and terms per customer group, and spare parts must still be easy to identify years after installation. Food manufacturers, for their part, need websites that present products, quality standards and certifications clearly. And almost all of them are looking for skilled staff: careers pages that HR maintains itself are not an afterthought here. For us this translates into a clear brief — systems that work with product data from ERP and merchandise management, support roles for different editors and stay maintainable for years.
In the Cloppenburg district Shopware 6 is particularly suited to spare-parts and accessories shops in agricultural technology and to manufacturers selling directly to dealers or end customers. We build shops with customer-group prices, spare-part search by installation or assembly, and an ERP link for stock and orders. Missing features we develop as our own plugins; Sharpness is a Shopware Extension Partner. After go-live the same team takes over maintenance: updates after testing on staging, security patches, plugin upkeep, monitoring of logs and imports. An SLA with four tiers between 24 and 2 hours sets binding response times; the monthly fee is available on request.
For company websites we use TYPO3 when several brands, locations or languages come together — a common situation for groups that grew out of a family firm and export today. If your TYPO3 still runs on a version without free security updates, we plan the upgrade to v14 LTS: extension analysis, adapting your own extensions, test environment, switchover. After that we look after operations — security bulletins, patches, PHP version, backups with restore tests — and after your editors when they need help. We are glad to train new editors on site in Cloppenburg; the distance is short.
Cloppenburg is about 40 minutes from Oldenburg. That makes meeting in person easy: kick-off, workshops with sales, marketing or IT, and sign-offs take place at your premises by arrangement, without turning into a day trip. The actual development happens in our office on Edewechter Landstraße; interim builds are made available on a staging environment, and tasks and decisions are documented in the ticket system. Hosting runs on our own Proxmox servers in Germany. For questions and incidents you can reach us Monday to Thursday, 9:00 to 16:00, and Friday, 9:00 to 13:00 CET, on +49 441 21 21 63 0.