Around Diepholz, farming sets the pace — the town is the administrative seat of an extensive, largely rural district. In the surrounding area work farm machinery dealers and workshops, agricultural contractors, agricultural traders and mid-sized companies, many of which manufacture for exactly this clientele. Add the district administration, schools and the institutions of a district town, as well as tourism at the nearby Dümmer lake. The digital tasks are correspondingly practical: making spare parts orderable online, supplying dealers and customers with current data, presenting information for residents and visitors so that everyone can find and use it. Much of it is aimed at people who rarely sit at a desk during the day and order on their smartphone in the evening.
In farm machinery, sales depend on data. A spare part fits certain series and model years, has predecessor and successor numbers, and is either in stock or it is not. A shop here is only as good as its connection to merchandise management and manufacturer data. Then there is the rhythm of the season: if a machine stands still during harvest, every hour counts, and the shop has to work then, not on the Monday after. The harvest knows no weekend — our business hours do. If you need cover outside Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 16:00 CET, you agree an on-call arrangement; without an agreement it does not exist.
Shopware 6 is the basis for the spare-parts and accessories shops we build for farm machinery dealers and manufacturers around Diepholz: parts search by machine and series, compatibilities, stock levels from the ERP, B2B terms for workshops and contractors, B2C for farmers and private customers. Interfaces to merchandise management and manufacturer data we develop ourselves rather than leaving them to plugins that break with the next update. After launch we take over support: testing patch releases on staging, applying security updates, monitoring overnight imports. A maintenance contract with an SLA sets the response time; for the season, the 4- or 2-hour tier is worth it.
In Diepholz we use TYPO3 for organisations with a lot of content and many editors: bodies connected to the district administration, schools and education providers, tourism businesses around the Dümmer, mid-sized companies with a dealer network and product pages in several languages. We build accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA into the templates — TYPO3 v14 does not meet Germany's Accessibility Strengthening Act automatically. New sites are built on v14 LTS; older installations we bring there along a planned upgrade path, with an extension audit and a test instance. The maintenance contract covers security updates, extension maintenance and backup tests; we classify security bulletins on the day they are published.
The drive from Oldenburg to Diepholz takes around an hour. The initial meeting, workshops and editor training we hold at your premises, as agreed, gladly with a look into the workshop and the parts store. At acceptance we go through the ordering route together, from searching for the part to the confirmation. Development and support then come from Oldenburg — remotely, with a fixed contact, video calls and a ticket system. For questions, call us on +49 441 21 21 63 0, Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 16:00 CET. Hosting runs on our own Proxmox servers in the Hetzner data centre in Falkenstein; we have no office in Diepholz.