The Pimcore Audit – your situation in one picture, at a fixed price.
Before anything gets migrated, rescued, or remodeled, there's an honest assessment. The audit is the first step of every engagement: clearly scoped, at a fixed price.
An audit isn't a sales pitch with a slide deck. We look at your Pimcore system (data model, version, customizations, technical debt) and tell you honestly where you stand. No blaming the last vendor, no scare tactics. Just a solid basis for your next decision.
Assessment
Data model, version, customizations, infrastructure.
Risk Evaluation
What's stable, what's at risk, what's acutely critical.
Result Document
Written, with prioritized recommendations and a realistic next step.
Four Starting Points
Your Pimcore project is stuck, or a vendor has walked away
You're planning an upgrade or migration and want a realistic read on the effort
You're taking over an existing Pimcore system and want to know what you've inherited
You're considering a switch from a SaaS PIM like Akeneo or Salsify
What a Pimcore Audit Examines Technically
An audit is a structured review along the places where Pimcore systems typically accumulate risk:
Data model. Class structure, inheritance logic, variants, and relationships. Does the model carry the current and foreseeable requirements, or has it been extended with workarounds over the years?
Version status and update backlog. How far behind the current line is the Pimcore version in use, which security updates are missing, how many major versions would an upgrade need to bridge?
Customizations and bundles. Which custom code uses defined extension points, which reaches directly into the core, and which bundles are even still compatible with current Pimcore versions?
Performance and infrastructure. Response times, database indexes, cache configuration: often the difference between a system that feels like it's in its first year and one that grows noticeably slower with every added record.
Data quality. A sample check for duplicates, orphaned objects, and inconsistent required fields. An early indicator of how seriously the system's governance actually holds up.
The result is not a gut feeling but a prioritized list: what is acute risk, what should be addressed in the medium term, and what is genuinely running stably.
Why an Independent Audit Makes Sense Even If You Already Have a Vendor
The obvious objection: "My current vendor already knows the system, why an external audit?" That's exactly the point. A vendor who built your system or has maintained it for years rarely evaluates it entirely independent of its own history. An external audit brings a view without that baggage, not to expose anyone, but to name risk and condition the way a third party with a purely technical lens would see them. The same holds if you have no active vendor at all and are facing the decision of whom to engage.
Why the Fixed Price Isn't a Marketing Trick
Many agencies offer a "free intro call" that is really a sales pitch with a slide deck, the actual analysis begins only once the contract is signed. An audit at a clearly scoped fixed price works the other way around: you pay for a real deliverable with a real result document, whether or not a follow-on engagement comes out of it. That is risk reversal in the other direction, we carry the risk that you go elsewhere after the audit, rather than you carrying the risk of a sales round that leads nowhere.
Clearly Scoped, Fixed Price
The audit has a clearly scoped deliverable at a fixed price, deliberately with no number on this page. Pimcore systems differ too much for a credible flat figure. We therefore clarify the required scope in a free intro call. You know the deliverable and price before engaging the audit.
When an Audit Isn't Enough: Acquisition, Takeover, or Platform Change
If what's on the table isn't ongoing support but a purchase decision, a company takeover, or a full platform switch with high financial stakes, a Pimcore Technical Due Diligence is the better-suited format: a standalone, more deeply scoped assessment that delivers a red/yellow/green valuation report, not a recommendation for a next step.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does a Pimcore Audit cost?
A fixed price, which we tell you once we know the scope and condition of your system. Not upfront as a flat number that likely wouldn't hold for your case anyway. You know the price before you decide.
How long does a Pimcore Audit take?
It depends on the scope and condition of your system. We set the concrete timeframe in the intro call, once we know what we're looking at.
What do I get at the end of the audit?
A written result document with prioritized recommendations and a realistic next step (not a verbal impression on a call).
Does the audit commit me to a follow-on engagement?
No. You pay for the audit itself, not a promise of more, whether a follow-on engagement happens afterward is entirely your call, made with the result document in hand.
Is the audit worth it if my Pimcore system is currently running fine?
Yes, that's exactly when it's most useful: it surfaces technical debt early, before it turns into an expensive rescue.
Do I have to inform my current Pimcore vendor before the audit?
No. An audit is an independent assessment from your perspective as the system operator. It's up to you whether and when you involve an existing vendor.
What if the audit shows my system is actually fine?
Then that's precisely the result. An audit is an honest read, not an occasion to manufacture a need for action where none exists.
Where does your Pimcore stand today?
A written result document with prioritized recommendations, at a fixed price.
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