Ecommerce Consulting From Somebody Who Will Say Do Nothing.

Because the advice is written down and you keep it, including when it says to stay where you are. That is the only structure under which this can be worth paying for, so it is the structure. Read the recommendation and judge it: if it reads like a sales document you have lost a fee and learned something about us, which is a cheaper lesson than a migration.

Often. A store leaving because of one missing feature usually meets the same problem in a different shape somewhere else, and a store leaving because the current system is genuinely unmaintainable is a different conversation with a different answer. Distinguishing those two is most of what this engagement is.

A written recommendation: what we found, what we would do, in what order, and what it would take. It is yours, it names the trade-offs rather than only the upside, and it is useful to a developer who was not in the room. A conversation you cannot hand to anybody else is not a deliverable.

Days rather than months for most stores, because the answer usually turns on a handful of facts about how your business works rather than on exhaustive analysis. If it genuinely needs longer, that gets said before it starts.

No, and a consulting engagement that only pays off if you buy the next thing is not consulting. Plenty of these end with a plan the client executes themselves or hands to their existing developers.

Scoped and quoted before it starts, like everything else here. No day rate is published because the honest answer depends on the size of the question, and a number quoted before understanding it is a guess made at your expense.