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title: "Platform migration"
description: "From WooCommerce, Magento 1, or a custom stack to a platform that won't trap you. Catalog, customers, orders, and SEO are preserved through cutover."
language: "en"
canonical: "https://zapolu.com/services/platform-migration/"
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# Platform migration

Moving an e-commerce store is risky. Catalog data drifts, SEO rankings
drop, customer data ends up fragmented, and the project doubles in
scope as unplanned additions accumulate. We've done enough migrations
to know where each of these goes wrong.

## Migrations we run

- **Magento 1 to Magento 2 / Mage-OS**, including extension audits and
  custom-module rewrites. Magento 1 is end-of-life; if you are still
  running it, you are exposed to known CVEs.
- **WooCommerce to Shopify or Magento** is the most common path, for
  shops that outgrew WordPress: WP-plugin-to-app mapping, content
  migration, SEO preservation.
- **Custom / legacy to Shopify or Magento**, for when the bespoke stack
  has become the constraint.
- **Shopify and Magento, either direction**, comes up more rarely, and is usually driven by
  B2B requirements or a change in catalog complexity.

## What we preserve

- **SEO.** Full URL inventory, a 301 redirect map, canonical handling,
  hreflang. We benchmark organic traffic before and after.
- **Catalog:** products, variants, prices, custom attributes, media,
  and inventory locations, validated row by row.
- **Customer data**, meaning accounts, addresses, and order history,
  with GDPR-aware handling of marketing consent.
- **Integrations.** Every ERP, PIM, WMS, and payments hook that exists
  today gets re-implemented and tested before cutover.

## How we cut over

We parallel-run the old and new shops with shadow traffic instead of a
big-bang launch. The old shop stays authoritative until the new one
has demonstrably matched it, and we keep a rollback path open until
30 days post-launch. A written go/no-go checklist is signed off
before cutover, so the decision is not improvised on launch night.