Enovate is now a Craft Verified Partner
Pixel & Tonic, the team behind Craft CMS, have reviewed our code and spoken to our clients, and Enovate is now a Craft Verified Partner. Here's what that involves, and what it means if you're choosing a Craft agency.
Back in 2018 we wrote that we’d been accepted into the Craft Partner network. Eight years and a good many projects later, we’ve taken the next step: Enovate is now a Craft Verified Partner.
What “Verified” means
Any agency in the Craft Partner Network has shown Pixel & Tonic, the company behind Craft CMS, that it has real experience with the platform. Verification goes a step further. In Pixel & Tonic’s own words, it means they have “directly reviewed your code, spoken with your clients, and have verified that your Craft projects meet our quality standards and your clients are happy with your work.”
To become Craft Verified, an agency has to:
- Submit a project for review, including the brief, the scope of work, the templates and any custom code, for Pixel & Tonic’s own developers to assess.
- Provide client references, which Pixel & Tonic follow up directly.
- Evidence at least 2,000 hours of professional Craft development, with a full-time Craft developer on the team.
The full criteria are set out on Craft’s become a partner page.
The first two are the ones that matter. Plenty of agencies list Craft CMS among the platforms they work with. Far fewer have had the people who make Craft read their code, and then ask their clients how the project went.
Why we went for it
Craft has been our content management system of choice since 2013. In that time we’ve designed, built, hosted and supported 85 Craft projects, from brochure sites through to multi-site and multilingual builds, and most of them are still in our care today.
We were confident in that work, but confidence isn’t evidence. If you’re choosing an agency for a Craft project, or looking for a new team to take over an existing one, you have no easy way of judging the quality of code you can’t see. Verification gives you an independent answer from the people best placed to give it.
It also comes at a good moment. Craft CMS 6 is now in beta, rebuilt on Laravel, which is the other framework we’ve spent years building on. We expect to be doing a lot of Craft 6 upgrade work over the next few years, and a closer relationship with the Craft team can only help with that.
What it means for our clients
If we already look after your Craft site, nothing changes day to day. It’s the same team, working the same way. What you gain is some outside assurance that the work holds up.
If you’re looking for a Craft agency, you’ll find us among the Craft Verified Partners in the official directory, on our Craft partner profile.
A thank you is due as well, to the clients who gave up their time to act as references. Verification depends on clients being willing to vouch for the work, and we’re grateful that ours were.
Working with us
We offer Craft CMS development for new builds, support and maintenance for existing sites, including those built by other agencies, and custom plugin development for when Craft needs to do something it doesn’t do out of the box.
If you have a Craft project in mind, or a Craft site that needs a new home, get in touch.
