Magento 1 is past end of life
No official security patches since June 2020. Stores still on it depend on third-party patch vendors, and card-data compliance questions get harder to answer each year.
Flagship service
We move products, variants, categories, customer accounts and order history from Magento 1, Magento 2 or Adobe Commerce onto Shopify and Shopify Plus. Every old URL gets a mapped 301. The theme is rebuilt, not skinned. Then we reconcile the data and watch your rankings through cutover.
Magento is capable software. The problem is what running it costs a mid-market merchant in servers, patches and specialist developer time. Most stores we migrate are not failing. They are paying to maintain infrastructure instead of paying to sell.
No official security patches since June 2020. Stores still on it depend on third-party patch vendors, and card-data compliance questions get harder to answer each year.
Magento 2 needs managed servers, Elasticsearch, Redis, cron tuning and a patch cycle. That is a systems job somebody has to own every month, permanently.
Licence or hosting fees, extension renewals, upgrade projects and developer retainers stack up. On Shopify most of that collapses into one subscription and app costs.
Shopify Checkout is maintained, tested and updated by Shopify, with local wallets and one-page flows. Custom Magento checkouts drift and quietly lose orders.
Simple, configurable, grouped and bundled products mapped to Shopify products, variants and metafields. SKUs, pricing, weights, barcodes and inventory levels carried across.
Magento category trees mapped to Shopify collections, manual or automated. Deep hierarchies get flattened deliberately, with navigation rebuilt so nothing becomes unreachable.
Customer records, addresses, groups and tags migrate. Magento password hashes cannot be reused on Shopify, so we plan an activation or reset flow and a comms sequence around it.
Historical orders imported with line items, totals, statuses and fulfilment records, so support and finance can look up past purchases without keeping Magento alive.
Static pages, policy content and blog posts moved into Shopify pages and articles, with authors, publish dates, tags and internal links preserved.
Existing reviews and ratings exported and loaded into your chosen Shopify review app, keeping star counts and review bodies attached to the right products.
Active cart and catalog price rules rebuilt as Shopify discounts, automatic discounts or Shopify Functions where the logic is beyond native discount rules.
Product images, gallery ordering, alt text and content media transferred to Shopify CDN, with oversized originals resized and converted during the move.
Migration risk is mostly SEO risk. Our redirect work is generated from your live URL list and crawl data, not from assumptions about how Magento built paths.
Phase 1 — Platform audit We inventory SKUs, attribute sets, customer groups, order volume, installed extensions, integrations and the full indexed URL list, then flag anything with no direct Shopify equivalent.
Phase 2 — Data mapping Every Magento entity gets a Shopify target: product types to variants and metafields, categories to collections, price rules to discounts, plus the URL-to-URL redirect map.
Phase 3 — Storefront build Theme rebuilt on Shopify, Shopify Plus or Hydrogen as a component system. Extension logic is replaced with apps, Shopify Functions or checkout extensibility, never left as guesswork.
Phase 4 — Integrations Payments, couriers, ERP and accounting connected on staging. Each integration is tested with real order shapes, including cash on delivery and partial fulfilment cases.
Phase 5 — Trial migration and QA A full data run into a development store, reconciled by row counts and spot checks on price, stock, images and order totals. Redirects tested across the entire URL list.
Phase 6 — Cutover and monitoring Final delta migration, DNS switch in a low-traffic window, sitemap resubmission, then crawl-error, ranking and conversion monitoring with a named engineer on call.
These are ranges from past projects, not quotes. Your figure depends on what the audit finds.
| Store size | Rough duration | What moves the range |
|---|---|---|
| Small — up to about 1,000 SKUs | 4 to 8 weeks | Theme complexity, how clean the product data is, and whether design is a rebuild or a fresh concept. |
| Mid-market — roughly 1,000 to 20,000 SKUs | 8 to 16 weeks | Attribute set count, number of custom extensions to replace, ERP sync, and how many integrations need real testing. |
| Enterprise — 20,000+ SKUs or multi-store | 4 to 9 months | Multi-store or multi-currency scope, B2B pricing rules, headless build, order history volume, and internal approval cycles. |
Your Magento store keeps trading throughout the build. The new store is assembled in parallel and filled by trial migrations. On cutover day we run a final delta of recent orders and customers, then switch DNS in a low-traffic window. Practical downtime is minutes, not days.
Expect some movement in the first few weeks while Google recrawls and reassigns signals. A complete 301 map, preserved metadata and working structured data usually bring positions back within four to eight weeks. Losses that stick are almost always caused by missing or chained redirects.
Yes. We import past orders with line items, totals, statuses and fulfilment records so support and finance can search them in Shopify admin. Note that imported historical orders do not behave identically to native ones for refunds, so we agree the cutoff and the process during scoping.
The audit lists every extension and what it actually does in your workflow. Each one is then matched to a Shopify app, rebuilt as a custom app or Shopify Function, or dropped if nobody uses it. That decision list is agreed with you before build starts, so nothing disappears by surprise.
Standard Shopify handles most stores under moderate order volume. Plus makes sense for checkout extensibility, B2B company accounts, multiple storefronts, higher API limits and lower effective transaction rates at scale. We model both against your order volume before you commit to a plan.
Four things mainly: catalog size and data cleanliness, how many custom extensions need rebuilding, the number of integrations that must be tested against live systems, and whether the design is a like-for-like rebuild or a new concept. Order history volume adds to it too.
Send your Magento version, SKU count and integration list. We will come back with phases, risks and a price range.