Platform Migration
Migrate From Magento / Adobe Commerce
Magento / Adobe Commerce migrations are technically demanding — exporting complex catalog structures with all custom attributes. Done wrong, you lose rankings, data, and months to cleanup. We've run enough of these to know exactly where they go wrong — and how to prevent it.
3–12 months
Typical migration timeline
Complex
Migration complexity
Shopify or WooCommerce
Where we'll move you
Platform Overview
Understanding Magento / Adobe Commerce: Who It's Built For
Magento (rebranded Adobe Commerce) is an open-source ecommerce platform owned by Adobe. The open-source version (Magento Open Source) is free but self-hosted. Adobe Commerce is the enterprise offering with cloud hosting, advanced B2B, and AI-powered merchandising. It's the platform of choice for large retailers with complex catalog structures, multi-site needs, and dedicated development teams.
Typical Magento / Adobe Commerce User
Enterprise ecommerce manager supported by an in-house development team or a dedicated Magento agency. Not suitable for self-managed operation — Magento requires ongoing developer attention for updates, security patches, and optimization.
SEO Capability
Good — full technical SEO control, but requires developer implementation
Magento's SEO power is in its configurability. The risk is duplicate content from faceted navigation — requires careful implementation of canonical tags and robots directives for large catalogs.
Platform Constraints
- →Performance requires significant infrastructure and developer investment
- →Extension conflicts are common and require QA
- →Major version upgrades can break customizations
- →Admin UI is complex and requires training
Why Businesses Migrate Away From Magento / Adobe Commerce
Magento / Adobe Commerce works well for the right use case. These are the points where businesses outgrow it.
Very high total cost of ownership — development, hosting, and maintenance are expensive
Requires a dedicated development team or agency — not self-manageable
Slow page loads by default — requires significant performance work
Complex upgrade process — major version upgrades break customizations
What Makes Magento / Adobe Commerce Migrations Hard
Migration Challenges We Solve
Every platform migration has unique technical hurdles. Here's what makes Magento / Adobe Commerce migrations specifically difficult — and how we handle each one.
Exporting complex catalog structures with
Exporting complex catalog structures with all custom attributes
Custom Magento extensions have no
Custom Magento extensions have no equivalents on destination platform
Migrating order history and customer data
Migrating order history and customer data at enterprise scale
Rebuilding ERP and third-party
Rebuilding ERP and third-party integrations on new platform
Team retraining
Team retraining
Where We'll Move You
We recommend the right destination based on your business goals, not just what's easiest to build on. These are the platforms we move Magento / Adobe Commerce stores to most often — and why.
Shopify
Shopify Plus cuts your total cost of ownership dramatically — managed infrastructure and a modern app ecosystem replace your development-heavy Magento setup at a fraction of the ongoing expense.
WordPress + WooCommerce
The power of self-hosted ecommerce without Magento's complexity or cost — WooCommerce on managed WordPress hosting delivers comparable flexibility at a fraction of the development overhead.
Not sure which destination is right for you? Tell us about your business and we'll recommend the platform that fits your goals, budget, and technical comfort.
Our Process
What's Included in a Magento / Adobe Commerce Migration
A clean migration is more than moving files. Here's how we move your Magento / Adobe Commerce store without losing rankings, data, or your sanity.
Magento / Adobe Commerce Audit
Before any work begins, we map everything in your Magento / Adobe Commerce store — products, variants, collections, customer records, installed apps, order history, and your current URL structure. We document what exists so nothing disappears during the transition.
Migration Roadmap
We build a redirect map from your existing Magento / Adobe Commerce URL structure to the new platform, a data export sequence for products and customers, and a go-live checklist. Given Magento / Adobe Commerce's exporting complex catalog structures with all custom attributes, the roadmap includes specific steps to handle that complexity without losing data or traffic.
New Platform Build
We build your new Shopify or WordPress/WooCommerce store in parallel with your live Magento / Adobe Commerce store — your customers see zero downtime and can keep placing orders throughout the entire process. The build is designed around your business goals, not a carbon copy of what Magento / Adobe Commerce allowed you to do.
Data & Product Migration
We transfer your product catalog, customer accounts, and historical order data to the new platform. We specifically handle custom magento extensions have no equivalents on destination platform — a step many migrations get wrong. Every SKU, variant, image, and product description is verified before launch.
SEO Transition
Every URL from your Magento / Adobe Commerce store gets a 301 redirect to its new destination. We submit updated sitemaps to Google Search Console, verify crawlability, and monitor rankings through the transition window. Magento / Adobe Commerce's URL structure constraints — magento's seo power is in its configurability — are resolved on the new platform.
Launch & Handoff
DNS cutover is coordinated for minimum-traffic periods to limit exposure. We run a full post-launch QA checklist — broken links, payment flow, form submissions, mobile experience, and page speed. You get a recorded walkthrough of your new store so your team can manage it confidently from day one.
Magento / Adobe Commerce Migration at a Glance
- Typical timeline
- 3–12 months
- Migration complexity
- Complex
- Hosting model
- hybrid
- We migrate to
- Shopify, WordPress + WooCommerce
Magento / Adobe Commerce Migration FAQ
Ready to Move Off Magento / Adobe Commerce?
We'll audit your current Magento / Adobe Commerce store, identify every migration risk, and give you a fixed-price quote — before you commit to anything.
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