Westerstede is the district town of the Ammerland, and the Ammerland is nursery country. Around the town, trees, rhododendrons and perennials are grown that end up in gardens, garden centres and public spaces far beyond the region. Alongside them, trades, landscape gardening, hospitals and down-to-earth mid-sized businesses shape the town, and when the rhododendrons bloom, visitors come from far afield. For digital work this means few large projects but many businesses with very specific questions. How do I sell plants online without shipping becoming a gamble? And who looks after the website in spring, when everyone is outside?
A shop for a tree nursery follows different rules from an electronics retailer. Ranges change with the season, live goods have shipping windows, pot and container sizes create large numbers of variants, and consumers want planting and care advice before they order. Resellers and landscape gardeners, on the other hand, need quantities, tiered prices and current availability. With Shopware 6 we cover B2C and B2B in one system and pull stock levels from your merchandise management system or ERP through an interface. In ongoing support we schedule larger updates outside the main planting season and apply security patches promptly after testing on staging. How quickly we respond to faults is set out in a maintenance contract with an SLA.
In Westerstede we recommend TYPO3 where several people maintain content and the structure keeps growing: hospitals and healthcare organisations, tourism providers with events and accommodation, mid-sized companies with several sites or their own careers section. New websites are built on TYPO3 v14 LTS, with permissions and approvals that follow your organisation. If you are still running an older version, we plan the upgrade path: extension audit, test instance, switch-over only after testing. After that we take on maintenance — we assess security bulletins on the day they are published, updates go to staging first and then live, and we check that backups can actually be restored.
In the Ammerland hardly any catchment area stops at the town boundary. A landscape gardener from Westerstede works between Bad Zwischenahn, Apen and Edewecht; a trade business looks for apprentices across the whole region. A website has to reflect that: services and area clearly named, references from the neighbourhood, contact routes without detours and a careers page that young people actually read. Not every one of these businesses needs TYPO3 for that. For a lean site with a small editorial team we also recommend WordPress — and we say so before the quote arrives.
Westerstede is around 20 minutes from our office in Oldenburg via the A28 — close enough to start a project at your premises. We are happy to look at your growing areas, warehouse and dispatch before we talk about a shop or website. Kick-off, workshops and acceptance take place at your business, as agreed. Development happens in Oldenburg; in between we coordinate by phone, video call and ticket system. You can reach us Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 16:00 CET, on +49 441 21 21 63 0. We have no office in the Ammerland, and at this distance we do not need one.