Zero-downtime migration to Magento 2 with your data — and your search rankings — preserved.
Magento 1 reached end-of-life in June 2020. It no longer receives official security patches, which is both a serious risk and a PCI-DSS compliance problem for any store taking payments. Extensions are aging out, fewer developers still support it, and every month on Magento 1 widens the gap. A Magento 1 to 2 migration is the way off that risk — but it is important to understand it is not a simple upgrade.
Moving from Magento 1 to Magento 2 is a re-platform. The codebase, theme, and extension architecture are different, so the work involves migrating your data (products, customers, orders, categories), finding Magento 2 equivalents for your Magento 1 extensions, rebuilding the theme, and porting custom functionality. The single most important — and most frequently botched — part is preserving SEO so you do not lose the rankings you have spent years earning.
This page is for merchants still on Magento 1, or on an old, unmaintainable Magento 2 build that needs a clean re-platform. As Magento-focused specialists, we run migrations with zero downtime at cutover and SEO preserved by design, and we are candid below about timelines, data, and when migrating is — and is not — the right move.
A migration is more than copying a database. A complete Magento 1 to 2 migration service covers:
A full accounting of your extensions, customizations, integrations, and data volume, so nothing is discovered halfway through the project.
Products, categories, customers, orders, reviews, and store configuration moved using Magento's Data Migration Tool plus custom scripts for anything non-standard, with reconciliation to confirm nothing is lost.
Every Magento 1 extension mapped to a Magento 2 equivalent, replaced, or rebuilt — so you launch with the functionality you rely on, not a stripped-down store.
A new frontend on Magento 2: Luma, a fast Hyva theme, or a headless React/Next.js storefront, depending on your goals and budget.
A complete 301 redirect map, preserved URL keys, migrated metadata and structured data, and an XML sitemap — the work that protects your rankings through the move.
Business logic, integrations, and API connections rebuilt for Magento 2's architecture.
An incremental delta sync of orders and customers created during the build, so we switch over without freezing your store or losing recent data.
Full testing, your team's sign-off, and a performance pass after go-live so you do not land on a slow Magento 2.
We inventory data, extensions, customizations, and integrations, and agree on the target frontend (Luma, Hyva, or headless) before any code is written.
We run the migration repeatedly on staging, fixing mapping issues each time, so the final run is predictable rather than a launch-night gamble.
We build the Magento 2 frontend and re-implement custom features and integrations for the new architecture.
We build and test the 301 redirect map and URL structure against your live site — the step most often rushed, and the reason migrations lose rankings when they do.
We test checkout, payments, integrations, and edge cases, then hand it to your team for user acceptance before anything goes live.
We sync the orders and customers created since the last data run and switch over with zero downtime.
We watch rankings, errors, and Core Web Vitals after launch and tune, so the migration is a step up in performance, not just a platform change.
We have migrated live Magento stores to Magento 2 with their catalogs, customers, orders, and search rankings intact. Most of that work is covered by client confidentiality, so we do not publish individual migration projects here — but we are glad to walk through relevant examples, our approach, and the results confidentially during scoping. What we commit to publicly is the method on this page: data migration with reconciliation, full SEO and URL preservation, and a zero-downtime cutover.
If you are on Magento 1, doing nothing is not really an option — but migrating straight to Magento 2 is not automatically the right move either. Here is the honest version.
When Magento is the right platform, we migrate you cleanly. When it is not, we will say so before you spend the budget.
No. Magento 1 reached end-of-life in June 2020 and no longer receives official security patches. For any store processing payments that is both a real breach risk and a PCI-DSS compliance failure. Third-party patch services exist as a stopgap, but they are a holding measure, not a substitute for migrating to a supported platform.
Not if the migration is done properly. Ranking loss in migrations comes from broken URLs and missing redirects, not from Magento 2 itself. We preserve URL keys where possible, build a complete 301 redirect map, and carry over metadata, structured data, and your sitemap. We test all of it on staging before cutover, because recovering lost rankings after the fact is far harder than preserving them during the move.
Yes. We migrate products, categories, customers, orders, reviews, and configuration using Magento's official Data Migration Tool, plus custom scripts for any non-standard or heavily customized data. We reconcile counts and spot-check records after each run so you can confirm nothing was dropped.
It depends on catalog size, the number of extensions and customizations, and how much frontend work you want at the same time. A relatively standard store is a shorter project; one with many custom extensions, complex integrations, or a full headless rebuild takes longer. We give a firm timeline after the migration audit, once we can see exactly what has to move.
We don't publish fixed prices, because a migration is scoped to your store and quoted per client. The main cost drivers are the volume of catalog and customer data to move, the custom extensions and theme that have to be rebuilt for Magento 2, the number of integrations to reconnect, and any data-cleansing the move calls for. A clean, standard store is a smaller project; a heavily customised store with years of data and many integrations is a larger one. We give a firm quote after the migration audit, once we can see exactly what has to move — get in touch and we'll scope it with you.
We can recreate your existing design on Magento 2, but Magento 1 themes cannot be carried over directly — the frontend has to be rebuilt regardless. That is actually an opportunity: since the theme is being rebuilt anyway, many merchants use the migration to move to a faster Hyva theme or a headless storefront instead of replicating an aging design. We lay out the options with their cost and performance trade-offs.
Get a free migration audit — a review of your data and extensions, and a clear plan to move to Magento 2 without losing rankings.
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