Münster is a city of administration, research and services. Insurers and financial service providers have large operations here, along with the regional government, the regional association of Westphalia-Lippe, chambers and associations, a large university, several universities of applied sciences and a lively IT sector. Less is manufactured than in the surrounding area; what is sold is knowledge, advice and service. For websites this means lots of content, lots of people responsible for it, and high expectations of data protection, accessibility and reliability. TYPO3 is built for exactly such sites — and after launch they need someone who keeps them secure year after year rather than relaunching every few years.
In retail Münster shows a different face: owner-run specialist shops in the old town, bicycle dealers in a city that has made cycling part of everyday life, manufacturers from the Münsterland with their own dealer networks. Add visitors and students from the Netherlands; the border is less than an hour's drive away. Selling online here means competing with big platforms and winning on range, advice and a shop that matches your brand. Shopware 6 provides the basis — with Shopping Experiences for editorial content, clean product data management and sales channels through which a Dutch version can be added.
TYPO3 suits Münster's organisations because it brings order to complexity: several websites and languages in one installation, finely graded permissions for decentralised editorial teams, workflows with approval, accessible templates to WCAG 2.2 AA. We build websites and portals of this kind on TYPO3 v14 LTS or move existing installations there — with an inventory, a staged upgrade path and a test environment alongside the live site. As part of ongoing care we check every TYPO3 security bulletin, apply patches via staging, keep extensions and PHP current and test backups for restorability. For operation on our servers in Germany, a data processing agreement is included as a matter of course.
For retailers and manufacturers in Münster and the Münsterland we build Shopware shops: B2C for specialist retail, B2B with customer prices and approvals for manufacturers with a dealer network, each linked to merchandise management or ERP. As a Shopware Extension Partner we write missing features as maintainable plugins rather than bending the core. After launch we take over maintenance: testing patch releases on a staging copy, keeping plugins in step, closing security gaps, checking logs and backups. The maintenance contract uses an SLA to set how quickly we respond to incidents — between 24 and 2 hours, billed as a monthly fee per shop.
Münster is a good two hours from Oldenburg. For the day-to-day work that hardly matters: we put requirements in writing, interim builds sit on a staging environment, check-ins run by video and tasks through a ticket system. For the kick-off, a concept workshop or the sign-off we come to Münster by arrangement — as a planned meeting, not an exception. Operation and maintenance are handled by the same team that built your system, from our only office in Oldenburg. You can reach us Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 16:00 CET, on +49 441 21 21 63 0.