Pharmaceutical website maintenance
Support and continuity

Pharmaceutical
website maintenance

Measured in years, not in tickets.

Pharmaceutical website maintenance for companies whose site carries product information, regulatory content and restricted areas: monitoring, controlled updates, backups and journey testing, with someone who already knows the platform.

Scope
What is included

What maintenance means
on a regulated site

What it involves

On a pharmaceutical site the risk is not that the homepage goes down, it is that a product page shows a superseded specification, a professional area stops verifying properly, or a form silently stops delivering. Those failures are invisible until someone reports them, which is why pharmaceutical website maintenance is testing as much as patching.

What we deliver

Uptime and error monitoring, security and platform updates applied in a controlled sequence, verified backups, periodic testing of the journeys that matter, and a named point of contact who knows your build.

Content decisions stay with your team

We monitor and maintain the platform while leaving what may be published where it belongs, with your medical and regulatory teams, so the technical and the regulatory review never get tangled.

case studies

Clients we've worked with

Real projects for industrial and pharmaceutical companies.
Maintenance track record
Track record

Pharmaceutical platforms
kept running over years

The continuity behind our pharmaceutical website maintenance work.

+10
years building for regulated industries
+200
organisations have trusted Code
+1.500
documents migrated with their access permissions intact
+160
scientific papers in a single managed repository
Maintenance by segment
Who needs it

What breaks quietly on a
pharmaceutical website

The maintenance risk is specific. Pharmaceutical website maintenance starts from what fails silently on your particular site.

Maintenance process
Four stages

How we run pharmaceutical
website maintenance

Four ongoing workstreams rather than a queue of tickets.

TAKEOVER
01
01

We learn the platform before we touch it

Taking over someone else's build starts with understanding it. Undocumented customisations are the usual reason a routine update breaks a site.

What we audit

We audit the platform version and every dependency it relies on, read through any custom code rather than assuming the documentation matches it, and map the integrations and hosting configuration actually in place. Backup state is checked directly rather than taken on trust, and we specifically look for modifications made outside the theme, because those are what a routine update usually breaks.

Result

You get a written picture of the platform as it actually exists, and it is common for this to reveal plugins, accounts or customisations nobody currently at the company remembers adding.

MONITORING
02
02

Watching more than uptime

Monitoring that only checks whether the homepage responds misses everything that matters on a pharma site. We instrument the parts that fail quietly.

What we watch

We watch general availability and error rates, but also the things a basic uptime check misses entirely: whether forms are actually delivering submissions, whether restricted-area access is behaving correctly, and how the integrations are responding rather than just whether they are connected. Certificate expiry and search indexation are tracked too, since both can fail silently for weeks before anyone notices.

Result

A form that stopped delivering or an integration returning errors gets flagged by the monitoring the same day it happens, rather than surfacing weeks later through a frustrated customer email.

CONTROLLED UPDATES
03
03

Updates applied in sequence, not automatically

Automatic updates are how customised sites break. Everything goes through a staging environment first and is applied deliberately.

What we handle

Security patches are applied on priority rather than bundled into a general update cycle. Every platform and dependency update is tested in staging first against your actual customisations, not against a clean install, and a verified backup is taken before each change goes to production, with a rollback path ready in case something behaves differently than staging suggested.

Result

Updates happen on a predictable schedule and stay boring, because the risk was absorbed in staging beforehand rather than discovered live on your production site.

PERIODIC REVIEW
04
04

Testing the journeys nobody watches

On a schedule we exercise the flows that matter and report on the state of the platform, so decisions are based on evidence rather than on the absence of complaints.

What we test

On a defined schedule we test forms end to end rather than just checking they load, verify restricted-area access behaves correctly for each role, and re-check the market availability logic still works as intended. We also watch for performance and accessibility regressions that creep in through routine content edits, and check indexation for any drift from the baseline.

Result

You get a dated report with clear findings, and where something does not need action we say so explicitly, because a maintenance report padded with recommendations nobody needs is not useful to anyone.

Pharmaceutical website maintenance questions

What companies ask before handing over a platform.

Do you maintain sites you did not build?

Yes, after an audit. We need to understand the platform properly before taking responsibility for keeping it running, and occasionally the audit concludes that maintaining it as it stands is not the right recommendation. We state that clearly before recommending any retainer, rather than signing one regardless of what we find.

What is not included?

Content review and approval. We keep the platform running and we can publish content on request, but whether a specific claim may be published is a decision for your medical and regulatory teams, not ours. New functionality is also scoped and quoted separately from the ongoing maintenance agreement itself.

How fast do you respond?

It depends on the agreement, and we set response times against what your site does for the business, not a generic default. A corporate brochure site and a distributor portal used for daily ordering require very different response commitments, and the maintenance agreement should reflect that distinction clearly.

Do you apply updates automatically?

No, updates are never applied automatically on a live pharmaceutical site. Automatic updates are one of the most common causes of a customised build breaking, especially where third-party plugins or integrations are involved. Every update goes to a staging environment first, gets tested against the actual site, and only then is applied deliberately to production, always after a verified backup exists in case something needs to be rolled back.

Related pharmaceutical web development services

Other pharmaceutical
web development services

Maintenance usually starts after a build, a migration or a takeover. These are the services it follows on from.

Website maintenance

Hand over your pharmaceutical
website maintenance

A platform nobody is currently watching, or one you would rather stop worrying about. Tell us what you have and we will tell you what the pharmaceutical website maintenance should cover.

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