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Predictable Magento support, without the agency overhead

Pick a tier, pay by card, file your first ticket the same day. Productized retainers for Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source — security patching, version updates, and monitoring included. No discovery call, no SOW.

Founders Discount

20% off your first 6 months — sign up before 2026-12-31. No code needed; the discount applies automatically at checkout.

Essential
Single-store merchants with light maintenance needs.

/mo

Billed monthly · Overage $165/hStart Essential

5 hours / month

1 business day response, standard window

Security patches (-pN) within 3 days; minor releases (2.4.X) within 6 weeks, staging-validated

Pulsar Sentry (HTTP + SSL with email alerts) + Orbit Solo deployments — covers your one supported server, up to 3 monitored sites and 3 deployment environments (dev / staging / prod)

Cargoman Cloud workspace included

Shared Slack support channel + ticket portal

P2–P4 priority access

Recommended
Growth
Active merchants shipping features regularly.

/mo

Billed monthly · Overage $155/hChoose Growth

15 hours / month

4-business-hour response (weekday + weekend cover)

1 business day P1 resolution, 2 days P2

Security patches (-pN) within 48h; minor releases (2.4.X) within 3 weeks, staging-validated; vetted module updates

Pulsar Guard (checkout flows + 20 health collectors, email + Slack alerts) + Orbit Solo — covers your one supported server, up to 3 monitored sites and 3 deployment environments

Cargoman Cloud workspace included

Dedicated Slack channel — chat with support, Pulsar alerts piped in

P1–P4 priority access

Scale
High-traffic and Adobe Commerce Cloud merchants.

/mo

Billed monthly · Overage $145/hBegin Scale

25 hours / month

1-business-hour response, 4-hour P1 resolution

Named primary engineer + backup

Security patches (-pN) within 24h; minor releases (2.4.X) within 1 week, staging-validated first

All vendor modules including custom code maintenance

Pulsar Fortress (5-min checks, email + Slack + PagerDuty) + Orbit Agency — covers your one supported server, up to 3 monitored sites and 3 deployment environments

Cargoman Cloud workspace + custom code distribution included

Dedicated Slack channel with PagerDuty escalation

Quarterly code reviews

Reference ad-hoc rate: $200/hour — the retainer discount is up to 40%.

What's in each tier

Full coverage matrix — choose the one that matches your monthly engineering volume.

FeatureEssentialGrowthScale
Hours / month

5

15

25

Response SLA

1 business day

4 business hours

1 business hour

Resolution target

3 business days (P2/P3)

1 business day P1, 2 days P2

4 hours P1, same-day P2

P1 (production down)
P2 / P3 / P4 access
Standard weekday cover
Extended weekday + weekend
Security patches (-pN)

Within 3 days

Within 48 hours

Within 24 hours

Minor releases (2.4.X)

Within 6 weeks, staging-validated

Within 3 weeks, staging-validated

Within 1 week, staging-validated

Vendor module updates

Vetted modules

Vetted modules

All incl. custom

Server / OS maintenance
Code reviews

Quarterly

Pulsar monitoring included

Sentry — HTTP + SSL, email alerts (up to 3 sites)

Guard — checkout flows + health collectors, email + Slack alerts (up to 3 sites)

Fortress — 5-min checks, email + Slack + PagerDuty (up to 3 sites)

Orbit deployments included

Solo — up to 3 environments

Solo — up to 3 environments

Agency — up to 3 environments

Cargoman Cloud workspace
Customer Slack channel

Shared support channel

Dedicated — Pulsar alerts piped in

Dedicated — Pulsar + PagerDuty alerts, named engineer pinned

Named engineer

Primary + backup

Minimum term

3 months

3 months

6 months

What's not included

These need scoping and quoting — not retainer hours.

UX redesigns

End-to-end visual overhauls, theme rebuilds, or design-system work over 2 hours.

Ground-up custom modules

Bespoke Magento extensions with their own database schema, admin UI, and tests.

Third-party integrations beyond config

New ERP, PIM, OMS, or marketing-stack integrations that need fresh code and field mapping.

Performance projects

Full-stack tuning engagements with database, caching, and frontend phases.

How it works

1

Subscribe

Pick a tier, pay by card. Time-to-first-ticket under 10 minutes — no discovery call, no SOW.

2

File tickets

Portal at app.byte8.io or email. Tag each ticket P1–P4; hours are tracked at ticket close.

3

We fix

Routed by tier and priority. Status updates land in the portal and via email — every action is auditable.

4

Monthly summary

End-of-period email with hours used, tickets closed, patches applied, and next-period balance.

Already on Pulsar, Orbit, or Cargoman?

Every support tier ships Pulsar monitoring + Orbit deployments + a Cargoman Cloud workspace, scoped to your one supported server (up to 3 monitored sites and 3 deployment environments). Need more reach? Subscribe to standalone Pulsar or Orbit at byte8.io/pricing — your bundle access drops automatically, so you're never double-charged. Already pay for one of them? Talk to us about a bundle credit.

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Frequently asked questions

Do unused hours roll over?

What counts as an hour?

What happens if I go over my hours?

Can I cancel anytime?

Who actually fixes my tickets?

Do you cover Adobe Commerce (paid) and Magento Open Source?

How fast do you apply Magento updates?

What's the Slack channel like, and how does it relate to Pulsar alerts?

What does the Cargoman Cloud workspace give me?

What's not included?

Multi-store pricing?

What if I need to monitor more than 3 sites or deploy to more than 3 environments?

Need more than 25 hours a month?

Enterprise covers custom hour banks, dedicated engineers, contractual SLAs, MSA, and DPA. Tell us about your stack and we'll come back with terms.