Hyvä Solstice

What is the latest ? 

1. Hyvä is continuing to invest heavily in the platform

• Over 7,600 live sites
• Enterprise brands such as Sony, Levi's and Crocs are adopting Hyvä
• Continued investment indicates long-term platform maturity and confidence

💡 Client takeaway: Investing in Hyvä today is supported by a rapidly growing ecosystem.

2. Open Source is becoming more competitive with SaaS

Hyvä Commerce brings more functionality into a single platform while keeping the flexibility of Magento Open Source.

💡 Client takeaway: If you are evaluating a new frontend, Shopify or other SaaS platforms, it is worth reviewing whether Hyvä Commerce delivers the capabilities you need without vendor lock-in.

3. Performance continues to be a competitive advantage

Hyvä remains focused on:

• Core Web Vitals
• Speed
• SEO
• User experience

💡Client takeaway: Faster websites can improve conversion rates, search visibility and customer experience.

4. New features may reduce implementation costs

Several new capabilities could replace bespoke development or third-party extensions.

💡 Client takeaway: Review your current technology stack to identify opportunities to simplify and reduce ongoing maintenance.

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In more details:

New capabilities:

• Hyvä CMS
  
  • A major enhancement to Hyvä's content management capabilities, introducing richer content editing, reusable templates and components, improved workflows, scheduling, previews and a more intuitive editing experience.
  • New tools make it easier to create, manage and reuse content across products, categories and landing pages.
  • Significant improvements to the editor, navigation and content management workflows provide a more efficient user experience.
  • Enhanced support for managing store-specific content and multilingual websites.
• Menu Builder
  
  • A new visual menu management tool that enables businesses to quickly create and manage navigation menus with support for multiple menu types, category imports, rich content, flexible page linking, scheduling and preview functionality.
• Admin Dashboard
  
  • An enhanced admin experience with customisable dashboards, unlimited saved views, role-based access and shared workspace configurations for different teams.
  • New dashboard widgets provide quick visibility into key business metrics, including abandoned carts, customer totals, top-performing coupons and installed module versions.
  • A new API layer enables dashboard widgets to be developed independently of the core Commerce platform, making them easier to extend and integrate with external systems.
• Media Optimisation

• New Image Editor

• Improved Admin Theme

• Hyvä Theme & UI : 
  
  • Ongoing optimisations to the Hyvä frontend, including more PHP-rendered content, reduced JavaScript, improved Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), a 10% reduction in HTML output, enhanced optimisation for LLM-driven search experiences, and new swatch preselection functionality.
  • New Google Maps components allow interactive maps to be embedded into any page or content block, with support for multiple location markers, custom tooltip content and the latest Google Maps APIs.
• Hyvä Checkout: 
  
  • Continued improvements to checkout performance through request bundling, with simplified custom checkout attribute management coming soon
• Hyvä POS (2 terminals)

Benefits : 

• Lower Maintenance 
• Faster Upgrades 
• Better Compatibility 
• Lower long term cost

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What do these Hyvä announcements mean for your business?

Hyvä continues to evolve at a rapid pace, introducing new capabilities that help merchants build faster, simpler and more scalable ecommerce experiences. But beyond the product announcements, the key question is: what do these updates mean for your business?

We have reviewed the latest Hyvä roadmap and highlighted the announcements that we believe will have the greatest impact on our clients. Below, you will find our perspective on each update, who is most likely to benefit, and where we recommend considering these capabilities as part of your ecommerce roadmap.

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