Platform migration
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.
Moving an e-commerce store is risky. Catalog data drifts, SEO rankings drop, customer data ends up fragmented, and the scope grows as unplanned additions accumulate. The plan below is organized around those four failures.
Migrations we run
- Magento 1 to Magento 2 / Mage-OS, including extension audits and custom-module rewrites. Adobe ended support for Magento 1 on 30 June 2020, so a store still running it is exposed to known CVEs.
- WooCommerce to Shopify or Magento is the most common path, for stores 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 stores with shadow traffic instead of a big-bang launch. The old store stays authoritative until the new one has demonstrably matched it, and we deploy so that a release can be rolled back. A written go/no-go checklist is signed off before cutover, so the decision is not improvised on launch night.
Related services
- Magento 2 / Mage-OS / Adobe CommerceEnterprise commerce for complex catalogs, B2B, and multi-store, on Mage-OS and Adobe Commerce.
- ShopifyThe fastest path from idea to checkout, with Hydrogen for headless builds when storefront speed is the product.
- Initial Technical AuditAn assessment of your store's technical condition in six areas, plus any further areas agreed in the order, for a fixed price paid in advance. You get a written report with the findings, their severity, the recommended steps and an indicative cost estimate, and we present it at an online meeting.