White-Label Joomla Services for Agencies — Your Brand, Our Specialists

Your agency designs brilliantly, manages clients well, and ships great work — and somewhere in your client portfolio sit Joomla websites that nobody on your team enjoys touching. Upgrades stuck on Joomla 3. Maintenance done reluctantly. The occasional hacked site that eats a week. You do not need to hire a Joomla developer for that. You need one on tap, under your brand.

We provide white-label Joomla services to agencies, freelancers, and IT companies across Europe: upgrades, maintenance, recovery, custom development, and compliance work — delivered to your clients as your work, with your relationship untouched. We are the Joomla department you invoice as your own.

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Who This Is For

Design and marketing agencies whose talents are strategy, brand, and content — and who inherited Joomla sites they would rather have an expert run quietly in the background.
WordPress-focused studios with a handful of legacy Joomla clients: too valuable to drop, too unfamiliar to serve confidently. (We are the mirror image — Joomla only — which makes us a complement, never a competitor.)
IT companies and managed service providers who handle their clients' infrastructure and keep being asked about "the website" — a deliverable they can now say yes to.
Freelancers and small studios who hit capacity, land a Joomla project beyond their depth, or want emergency backup for the 2 a.m. problems.
Agencies facing the Joomla 3/4 wall across a whole client portfolio: dozens of sites on end-of-life versions, every one of them a project. We industrialise exactly that — it is the core of our upgrade practice.

What We Deliver Under Your Brand

Everything on this website is available white-label:

Version upgrades and migrations — Joomla 1.5/2.5/3/4 to Joomla 5 or 6, including the complex multi-language and custom-component cases other shops decline.
Ongoing maintenance — the full maintenance regime (staged updates, security monitoring, backups, reporting) running behind your own care plans. Our reports arrive unbranded, ready to forward or restyle as yours.
Emergency recovery — when a client's site is hacked, you get to be the agency that fixed it fast, with our forensics and cleanup behind you.
Custom development — components, plugins, and integrations built to spec, delivered through you.
Compliance work — GDPR/cookie implementations and EAA accessibility audits and remediation, increasingly the services your clients ask about first.
Specialist consultancy — a Joomla expert in your pitch meeting or architecture call, introduced as part of your team.

How the Partnership Works

Your client stays your client

This is the foundation, so it comes first: we never market to, solicit, or build a direct relationship with your clients. Communication runs through you, or — where direct technical contact is more efficient — through us acting explicitly as members of your team, on your email domain if you wish. Our partner agreements put this non-solicitation commitment in writing, because "trust us" is not a contract.

Two visibility models

Invisible: the client never hears of CMS Pros. Deliverables, reports, and staging environments carry no branding of ours; you present the work as yours, because contractually it is. Introduced: we appear as "our Joomla specialists" — useful for technical calls and emergencies where direct contact saves days. You choose per client, and we hold the line you set.

Engagement models

Per project — an upgrade, a recovery, a build, quoted fixed to you with room for your margin. The most common starting point.
Portfolio retainer — a block of capacity covering maintenance and small works across all your Joomla clients, with portfolio-level reporting so you always know the health of every site you are responsible for.
Emergency bench — no ongoing commitment; we are simply the number you call when a Joomla problem exceeds your team, at agreed partner rates.

Pricing built for resale

Partner pricing is structured so the economics work for you: fixed quotes you can mark up confidently, no surprise overruns transferred to your invoice, and scoping language you can paste into your own proposals. Many partners simply forward our specification with their logo and their number on it.

Why Agencies Keep the Arrangement

The first project is usually a rescue — a stuck upgrade or a hacked site. What turns it into a standing relationship is narrower and more valuable: depth you cannot economically hire. A full-time senior Joomla developer is expensive and hard to find; a fraction of one, on demand, with EU-jurisdiction compliance expertise attached, is exactly the shape of the actual need. Add the commercial effects — Joomla work you previously declined becomes revenue, legacy clients become upgrade projects instead of liabilities, and "do you also handle accessibility compliance?" becomes a yes — and the partnership pays for itself on the first proposal it wins you.

There is also a defensive angle agencies raise privately: when a client's neglected Joomla site finally fails, the client rarely blames the site. They blame their agency. A quiet maintenance arrangement behind your brand is how that conversation never happens.

A Worked Example

A composite of real partnerships, with the identifying details sanded off: a twelve-person design agency holds fourteen Joomla sites across its client base — inherited through acquisitions and old relationships, spanning Joomla 3 to Joomla 5, maintained "when someone remembers". One site gets hacked; the scramble costs the agency a week of senior time and a bruised client relationship, and prompts the call to us.

The portfolio scan lands a week later: three sites critically exposed on Joomla 3, five drifting on unpatched 4, six healthy but unmaintained. The agency takes the map to its clients as its own proactive security review — and converts eleven of fourteen into upgrade projects or care plans at its own pricing within a quarter. We deliver the upgrades in a planned sequence behind their brand, the whole portfolio lands on a retainer, and the agency's account managers now sell "website care" with an actual department behind it. The hacked-site week never recurs; the agency's Joomla problem became a product line.

The pattern generalises beyond this composite: the scan reprices the portfolio, the first project proves the working relationship, and the retainer makes it boring — which is the goal. Variants we see regularly: the IT company whose Joomla exposure was a single large municipal client (the scan became the renewal pitch); the freelancer who used the emergency bench twice a year and nothing more for three years, happily; and the design studio that white-labelled one complex migration, watched it land cleanly, and quietly moved its whole care-plan backend to us the following quarter. The entry point varies; the destination — Joomla stops being the thing your team dreads — is consistent.

The Economics, Plainly

The build-or-buy arithmetic for an agency runs like this: a senior Joomla developer is a six-figure annual commitment — salary, employer costs, tooling, and the recruitment search itself — that most agencies cannot fill to capacity, because the Joomla workload is real but lumpy. Our partner model prices that same expertise as a variable cost: project quotes you mark up, or retainer blocks sized to your actual portfolio. Your margin on resold work is yours to set; partners typically apply their standard agency multiplier and remain comfortably competitive, because our specialisation makes the underlying delivery efficient. The number that convinces finance directors, though, is the avoided cost: one prevented emergency — with its unbillable senior hours and client-relationship damage — typically exceeds a year of retainer. You are not buying capacity so much as removing a category of bad week from your calendar.

Communication, Protocols, and Control

White-label only works if the seams never show, so the operational rules are explicit and agreed up front: a single channel into us (shared inbox, your ticketing system, or ours — partner's choice), defined response expectations by severity, and an escalation path with names on it. Your project manager remains the conductor: we report progress to you in language you can forward, we never improvise scope with your client, and anything client-facing — emails, calls, deliverable documents — follows the visibility model you chose, down to the email domain and the staging URL. Internally, you get direct access to our engineers when speed demands it; externally, your client experiences one coherent agency. The choreography sounds fussy written down; in practice it is a one-page protocol agreed at the start, and it is the reason long-running partnerships never have an awkward moment to survive.

The Portfolio Problem Most Partners Arrive With

There is a specific historical reason agencies hold so much stranded Joomla right now. Joomla 3 had an unusually long reign — many agency sites built between 2012 and 2020 sit on it — and the jump to Joomla 4 was a genuine architectural break: old templates and many extensions did not cross. A large share of the freelancers and small shops who built those sites exited the ecosystem at exactly that wall, leaving agencies holding clients whose sites nobody on staff can confidently touch. Joomla 4's own end of life in 2025 then stranded a second cohort.

This is precisely the terrain we industrialised: multi-version migrations, dead template frameworks, abandoned extensions, and undocumented custom components are our daily work, with a documented process for each. For a partner, that history lesson has a practical meaning — your stranded portfolio is not a liability to apologise for; it is a backlog of billable modernisation projects with the delivery risk already solved. The portfolio scan turns it into a priced, sequenced plan you can sell from.

Quality You Can Inspect, Not Take on Faith

Reselling work under your own brand means your reputation rides on our output, so we make the quality inspectable rather than asserted. You get direct access to the staging environments where work happens, before your client ever sees it. Every project runs against written checklists — upgrade verification, security review, accessibility basics, SEO preservation — and the completed checklist is part of your deliverable package, restyled to your brand if you wish. "Done" has a definition agreed in the quote: what is tested, what is documented, what the warranty covers. And the warranty itself flows through you cleanly — if something we delivered does not behave as specified, we fix it at our cost, on your timeline, without your client ever needing to know there was a subcontractor to argue with.

Partners with their own developers sometimes spot-review our work in the early projects. We encourage it: the fastest route to a relaxed partnership is letting your technical people kick the tyres until they stop wanting to.

Before Delivery: Help Winning the Work

The partnership starts earlier than the first ticket. When you are pitching or scoping Joomla work, we function as your pre-sales technical bench: we review the prospect's site and give you the honest assessment of effort and risk, we draft the technical sections of your proposal in your voice, we price the delivery so you can quote with a protected margin, and — in the introduced model — we join the pitch call as your specialists when a client wants to interrogate the technical plan. There is no charge for reasonable pre-sales support on real opportunities; we win when you win, and an agency quoting confidently is the best business development either of us can do. The quiet benefit partners mention most: being able to say yes, and here is exactly how in the meeting, instead of we will come back to you on the technical side.

What We Ask of Partners

A short list, because good partnerships have few rules and keep them. We ask for a single empowered contact on your side — someone who can approve, decide, and unblock, so projects move at the speed your client was promised. We ask that scope agreed with your client reaches us unfiltered: the most common source of friction in any subcontracted work is a requirement that mutated between three parties, and the protocol exists to prevent exactly that. We ask for honest lead times where you can give them — surprise emergencies are part of the service, but a portfolio's worth of upgrades sequenced sensibly serves your clients better than fourteen sites declared urgent simultaneously. And we ask that the commercial arrangement stays clean: you set your client pricing freely, and our partner pricing stays between us. That is the entire rulebook; everything else is craft and communication.

Data Protection Across Three Parties

White-label arrangements create a processor chain — your client is typically the data controller, you their processor, and we a sub-processor — and European clients' lawyers increasingly check that the chain is papered properly. Ours is: a data processing agreement with you as standard, sub-processor terms compatible with your own client DPAs, EU establishment and EU infrastructure so no third-country transfer questions arise from our involvement, and confidentiality terms covering both your client's data and your own commercial information. Where a project touches personal data substantively — membership systems, form pipelines, consent implementations — the data-protection paperwork is part of the deliverable, not an afterthought your client's auditor discovers missing. For partners serving public-sector or regulated clients, we will happily complete the supplier-assurance questionnaires those clients send; we have answered most of them before.

Getting Started

A conversation — under NDA if you prefer — about your Joomla exposure: which clients, which versions, what hurts.
A portfolio scan — we audit your Joomla client sites (versions, risks, upgrade scope) and give you a private map of what you are sitting on. For many agencies this audit alone reprices their book of business.
A first project — typically the most urgent site, run end-to-end under the visibility model you choose, so the working relationship is proven on something real.
The standing arrangement — partner terms, communication rules, and whichever engagement model fits, documented and signed.

Frequently Asked Questions

Will you ever contact our clients directly with your own services?

No. Non-solicitation is contractual in our partner agreement, indefinitely — not just during the engagement. Your client list is your asset; the partnership exists because we respect that absolutely.

What do deliverables look like — is your name on anything?

In the invisible model: nothing carries our brand. Reports, documentation, and staging URLs are neutral or carry yours. Code comments, commit messages, and admin account names are agreed with you in advance — details matter, and we have a checklist for them.

Can our clients' data stay inside the EU?

Yes — that is the default, not an option. We are an EU company, work on EU infrastructure, and operate GDPR-compliant processes throughout, with a data processing agreement available for your own compliance file. For your public-sector or regulated clients, this is frequently the deciding factor.

Do you require a minimum volume or contract?

No. Single projects are welcome and most partnerships begin with one. Retainers exist for partners who want guaranteed capacity, not as a gate.

What if we only have one Joomla client?

Then you have one site that deserves proper care and one less platform to worry about. Several of our partner relationships are exactly this size — and it still beats turning the client away or serving them badly.

We are a WordPress agency. Is that a problem?

It is the most common partner profile we have. We work exclusively with Joomla, so there is no scenario in which we pitch your client a WordPress project — the platform boundary is also a competition boundary, which is what makes the arrangement clean.

Can you handle several client sites at once, or do projects queue?

Parallel delivery is normal — portfolio migrations are typically run as a planned sequence with two or three sites in flight at different stages, which is faster overall than strict one-at-a-time and far safer than all-at-once. Retainer partners get capacity planning as part of the arrangement: we look at your portfolio together each quarter and schedule the pipeline so your clients' quiet seasons, not our availability, set the calendar. Genuine emergencies jump every queue, partner or not — that is what an emergency bench is for.

Which languages and time zones do you work in?

We operate on European time and work in English as the default partner language, with multilingual capability across the major EU languages for client-facing deliverables — useful when your end client's site, documentation, or stakeholders are German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, or Polish. Multilingual Joomla itself is one of our core technical specialties, which matters more often than partners initially expect.

Whose law governs the partner agreement?

We are an EU-registered company and contract under EU jurisdiction, with GDPR-compliant data processing terms included — which keeps your own compliance documentation clean and satisfies the supplier-vetting questionnaires your larger clients increasingly send. If your legal team wants amendments, we negotiate like adults; the agreement exists to make both sides comfortable, not to win points.

What happens if the partnership ends?

A clean, documented handover — credentials rotated to you, documentation delivered, staging environments transferred or wound down, and any work-in-progress completed or handed off at your choice. No hostage-taking: your clients' sites are never structured to depend on us in ways you cannot unwind, because a partnership held together by lock-in is not one either side should want. Everything needed to continue — documentation, configurations, checklists — was delivered along the way rather than withheld as leverage, so the exit is administrative, not technical. Several former partners have returned years later precisely because leaving was easy.

Let's Talk — Confidentially

Tell us roughly what your Joomla exposure looks like. We will respond with how we would handle it, what it would cost you, and a partner agreement you can put in front of your own lawyer.