Within just two to three months, they resolved issues that previously seemed unresolvable.
Tim Johnson
Chief Technology Officer
Magento 1 to
Magento 2
migration
Move off end-of-life Magento 1 to Magento 2 without losing data, rankings or sales. It's still Magento, so the move is more direct.
Adobe Commerce gold partner
#1 Adobe Commerce partner worldwide
Hyvä Platinum Partner
40+ projects delivered
ISO 9001 & 27001
Audited every year
#1 Most Certified Hyvä Agency
Helping eCommerce since 2013
200+ Adobe Commerce Certifications
Trusted by brands globally
Every day on Magento 1 is borrowed time
Adobe ended support for Magento 1 in June 2020. The store still works, but the ground under it stopped moving.
- Official support
- Ended June 2020
- Security patches
- No longer issued
- Quality & bug fixes
- Discontinued
- Extension ecosystem
- Shrinking, vendors moved on
- Payment-gateway support
- Being withdrawn
- PCI compliance
- At risk on unpatched core
Unofficial patches buy time. They don't change the direction of travel.
The move to Magento 2 is overdue
The good news: we've made it routine
No more security patches
Adobe stopped in 2020; every new vulnerability stays open.
PCI compliance gets harder
An unpatched core is a liability at every audit.
The ecosystem has moved on
Vendors, agencies and payment providers are all on Magento 2.
Aging PHP and infrastructure
Years behind modern PHP, straining hosting and speed.
Performance ceilings
Never built for today's catalogs or Core Web Vitals.
Talent is drying up
Fewer developers remain, and they cost more.
Technical debt compounds
Every workaround on a dead platform is money lost.
The honest part:
you're already halfway home
A Magento 1 to Magento 2 move is a rebuild, yes, but it's still Magento underneath. You're not starting over, you're trading up.
What carries straight over
Because it's Magento on both ends, the familiar pieces come across without a rebuild from scratch.
The same concepts: attributes, stores and customer groups- A familiar data model, so the path is more direct
- Catalog, customers and orders come with you
- The technical debt gets left behind
- Your team's Magento knowledge still applies
Magento 1
where you are now
- Catalog & attributes
- Customers
- Order history
- Customer groups
- Technical debt
migrated & verified
Magento 2 (Adobe Commerce)
where you're moving to
- Catalog & attributes
- Customers
- Order history
- Customer groups
- + Hyvä speed
Where do you land? Your options
"Magento 2" isn't one destination anymore, and for some stores the honest answer is a different platform. We'll map the right one with you.
Magento Open Source
- Full ownership and endless extensibility
- Everything most stores need, lean and powerful
- The natural home for Magento 1 merchants
Hyvä Platinum Partner50+ certifications
Adobe Commerce
- Native B2B and advanced merchandising
- Customer segmentation, with Adobe support
- For enterprise and high-complexity catalogs
#1 Adobe Commerce partner worldwide
Shopify
- Lean D2C that wants simplicity over control
- Fast to launch, content-led, easy to run
- We'll tell you if it's the better fit
Shopify Plus Partner55+ certifications
We have no reason to push you either way
We work with both Shopify and Magento every week. Whichever answer it is, you'll hear it straight.
What changes, and what carries over
It's still Magento, so most concepts have a direct home in Magento 2, usually a more capable one.
Magento 1
Where you are now
- Catalog, attributes & attribute sets
- Customer groups & tier pricing
- Magento 1 extensions
- Bespoke custom modules
- Legacy RWD theme
- CMS pages, blocks & static content
- Cart price & catalog rules
- Payment & shipping methods
- Your existing URL structure
- Aging admin & workflow
Magento 2
Where you're moving to
- Carried over natively, the model is familiar
- Native in Magento 2, mapped 1:1
- Magento 2 versions, or native features you own
- The same logic, on Magento 2's architecture
- Hyvä storefront with Venta, our production-ready theme
- Native Magento 2 content tools
- Native, and more granular than Magento 1
- Re-integrated on supported Magento 2 modules
- Preserved 1:1 where possible, 301s where it changes
- Modern Magento 2 admin your team already half-knows
Each row is Magento 1 → Magento 2
Magento 1Catalog, attributes & attribute sets
Magento 2Carried over natively, the model is familiar
Magento 1Customer groups & tier pricing
Magento 2Native in Magento 2, mapped 1:1
Magento 1Magento 1 extensions
Magento 2Magento 2 versions, or native features you own
Magento 1Bespoke custom modules
Magento 2The same logic, on Magento 2's architecture
Magento 1Legacy RWD theme
Magento 2Hyvä storefront with Venta, our production-ready theme
Magento 1CMS pages, blocks & static content
Magento 2Native Magento 2 content tools
Magento 1Cart price & catalog rules
Magento 2Native, and more granular than Magento 1
Magento 1Payment & shipping methods
Magento 2Re-integrated on supported Magento 2 modules
Magento 1Your existing URL structure
Magento 2Preserved 1:1 where possible, 301s where it changes
Magento 1Aging admin & workflow
Magento 2Modern Magento 2 admin your team already half-knows
Your data, moved and verified,
all of it
The Magento 1 to Magento 2 advantage: it's Magento on both ends. We know exactly where every record lives, and where it belongs.
Products
Catalog, attributes and media, mapped to the Magento 2 model.
Customers
Accounts, addresses and customer groups, from the Magento 1 database.
Order history
Complete, so support and reporting don't lose their memory.
Promotions & pricing
Cart and catalog price rules and tier pricing, carried across.
Content
CMS pages, blocks, categories and navigation, carried into Magento 2.
Validation
Record-by-record reconciliation reports, built by our AI agents
Passwords come with you
Because it's Magento on both ends, password hashes migrate too, so customers keep signing in exactly as before. No forced reset, no scramble.
First login after launch
- j.novak@gmail.comReset link sent
- a.brooks@gmail.comNew password set
- m.sullivan@yahoo.comSigned in
- s.kowalski@outlook.comReset link sent
SEO: the move where
you can keep your URLs
Your Magento 1 URL structure can usually carry straight into Magento 2. That changes the whole SEO story of this migration.
Migration
A Magebit migration
- Your URL structure mirrored 1:1, so there's little to redirect
- Metadata, canonicals and structured data carried over
- Core Web Vitals passing on staging before cutover
A careless migration
URL structure thrown away for a fresh Magento 2 default- 404s pile up as old links and bookmarks die
- Rankings earned over years reset to zero
How rankings survive, step by step
- 1
Benchmark before touching anything
Full crawl of the Magento 1 store, current rankings, traffic and top-earning pages recorded as the baseline.
- 2
Preserve URLs first
Magento 2 keeps flexible URL rewrites, so your Magento 1 URLs can often be mirrored 1:1. The fewer URLs change, the less there is to redirect.
- 3
Redirect what changes, 1:1
Where URLs do change, each gets its own 301. No chains, no blanket redirects.
- 4
Carry the on-page layer
Metadata, canonicals and structured data carried over from Magento 1, not rebuilt from memory. Core Web Vitals passing on staging.
- 5
Cut over clean, then watch
Redirects live at the moment of switch, new sitemap submitted, Search Console updated. Then daily rank and 404 monitoring against a 30/60/90-day benchmark.
How we run a Magento 1 migration:
FLOW, phase by phase
FLOW (Frame, Lay Groundwork, Output, Win) is our 12-year delivery framework. Here's each phase when the store you're leaving runs on Magento 1.
Everything is figured out before anything is touched, and on a Magento 1 migration "everything" has a specific shape.
- Attribute sets, variations and media inventoried, ready to map straight into Magento 2
- Every extension and custom module catalogued and given a destination: port or rebuild
- Direct extraction planned: what we take, how, and what gets cleaned on the way out
- Aging PHP, undocumented code and accumulated technical debt, each risk named
- Team assigned, you meet your project manager, everyone aligned on what and why
Discovery & planning
Data audit
12,480 products
Tools & connections
24 extensions: 18 reused
Risk register
7 risks
Clarity
of next steps
Reduced
risks
Time
efficiency
A fresh Magento 2 is installed and environments are verified. The landing zone is familiar, but it’s still designed before anything moves.
- Attribute sets and store structure mapped from Magento 1, confirmed before import
- Magento 2 extensions and rebuilt modules go in first, so every record has a home
- Hyvä / Venta foundation stood up, so design starts immediately
- Quote Workshops lock extension decisions item by item
- Closes with kick-off: timeline agreed, no open questions
2.4.7
- Products0 of 12,480
- Customers0 of 8,120
- Orders0 of 41,000
The store runs, verified and empty. Data lands next
Environments
- Local
- Dev
- Staging
Extensions
- Hyvä theme
- Algolia search
- ERP sync
- Payments
- 1
Fresh Magento 2
Installed, environments set up and verified
- 2
Attribute sets
Mapped from Magento 1, confirmed before import
- 3
Extensions & modules first
Rebuilt for Magento 2, so every record has a home
- 4
Hyvä + Venta foundation
Stood up, so the design track starts immediately
Two tracks run in parallel, reviewed with you as they go
- Short iterations with regular client reviews
- QA every day, not at the end
- A weekly report covering progress, hours, budget and blockers
Design & storefront
Starts alongside the migration, not after it. There's no cheaper moment to redesign.
Data migration & functionality
Data moves to staging, verified and reconciled. Anything the old platform did and the new one doesn't, we rebuild.
Your Store
Data & functionality
- Subscriptionsrebuilt
- B2B pricing tiersrebuilt
- ERP syncconnected
- Products · 12,480imported
Launch day is the least dramatic day of the project.
- UAT runs on your real, migrated data, and you sign it off before anything ships
- A full go-live rehearsal, including the redirect map for every URL that changes
- Go-live is a DNS switch away from Magento 1, with rollback standing by
- Through hypercare, rankings are monitored, 404s triaged and orders keep flowing
- Magento 1 stays warm through hypercare, retired once the new store is proven
GO
4 of 4
Checks passed
- UAT signed off
- Dry run clean
- Checklist complete
- Team on call
After launch
Hypercare, then SLA
Standing by
Rollback plan
The same FLOW, proven
The same FLOW that's run 100+ migrations, Snap-on's Magento 1 to Magento 2 move among them.
The fast lane: Hyvä + Venta
Leaving an aging Magento 1 frontend shouldn't mean starting from a blank page. With us, it doesn't: the storefront foundation is already built.
Same backend, different frontend
Luma, the aging defaultHeavy, slow to load
Hyvä storefrontRadically lighter
Core Web Vitals in the green
- LCP
- CLS
- INP
- 90+Performance
Hyvä: the storefront technology
Hyvä replaces Magento's default frontend with a radically faster one: Core Web Vitals in the green, pages that load like the SaaS store you're leaving promised to.
Hyvä Platinum Partner
40+ projects delivered
+5255+ certified developers
Our own theme, built on Hyvä
We kept rebuilding the same foundations, so we perfected one. Your Magento 2 storefront starts from a proven base we brand and extend for you.
- Conversion-ready storefront components, from one config
- Magebit-built extensions: SEO, GDPR, tracking and more
- Compatible with the whole Hyvä ecosystem
- Performance patterns from 40+ Hyvä projects baked in
- Configure-first and cleanly upgradeable after launch
demo.ventatheme.com
Magebit’s production-ready theme on Hyvä
The storefront track shrinks.
Configure and brand a proven foundation instead of coding from scratch.
The two FLOW tracks converge sooner.
While data migrates, the Venta storefront is branded and extended in parallel.
Quality isn't rushed, it's pre-built.
The speed comes from starting further ahead, not from cutting corners.
Trusted by brands running Venta
Are you ready to start your
e-commerce success with Hyvä?
By improving site speed and user experience, Hyvä helps your store meet Google's Core Web Vitals, leading to better SEO rankings and increased visibility in search results.
Read more about VentaSee what we've done
The move is one project. The team behind it is the same one running stores for brands you know.
A beauty icon in full control on Adobe Commerce Cloud
- Full checkout and catalog control at recognizable-brand scale
- Site search rebuilt on lightning-fast Algolia discovery
- Enterprise cloud commerce, run without drama
A US luxury lighting, furniture and home-decor brand
- High-resolution PDP galleries with zoom and fullscreen
- Designer and trade pricing alongside the retail store
- Lighting and furniture catalog with lead times and made-to-order
A global bestseller, running at full Hyvä speed
- Hyvä-grade page speed at global consumer-brand scale
- Algolia-powered search that surfaces anything instantly
- A large catalog kept fast in every market
Migration from Magento 1 to Magento 2, the exact move this page is about
- Enterprise B2B ordering preserved through the entire move
- Large catalogs and account pricing carried over intact
- End-of-life platform risk retired for good
What partners say about us
Appreciate everyone’s hard work and effort in getting us there!
Alex Brynou
Director of Systems Architecture
Magebit has been our development partner for many years, it's been great!
Dennis Wilms
Chief Executive Officer
Magebit rebuilt our store from the ground up and it shows. The site is faster, easier to manage, and both our brands now run on one platform.
Maxim Van Broeck
CEO
Why ambitious brands choose Magebit
#1 Adobe Commerce partner worldwide
The top-ranked Adobe Commerce agency on the planet, by Adobe themselves.
55+ Hyvä Certificates
The most certified Hyvä agency in the world. Confirmed by Hyvä themselves, twice.
Award-winning solutions
Innovator, World Traveler, and eCommerce Excellence awards across Meet Magento NYC and HIVE London, and more. Recognized year after year for global, high-performance Hyvä, Magento and Adobe Commerce builds.
Hyvä Platinum Partner
The most-certified Hyvä agency worldwide and the first Hyvä Platinum Partner in the USA. 55+ certified developers and 40+ projects delivered.
ISO certified
ISO 9001 & 27001 for quality and security.
Scrum Alliance certified team
Truly agile team that moves and adapts faster than your typical agency.
Baymard and CXL certified design team
UX grounded in large-scale ecommerce research.
Magebit team at Meet Magento, #1 Adobe Commerce agency worldwide
The world’s leading
Magento agency
By certified developers, Magebit holds the number-one spot among Adobe Commerce agencies worldwide, and we’re the most certified Hyvä agency on the planet. Proof that the depth is real, not a logo on a page.
#1 Adobe agency worldwide
200+ Adobe certifications
Most certified Hyvä agency
Adobe Subject Matter Expert
Your next step is one conversation away
Leaving Magento 1 isn't the question, it's overdue. The real decision is which Magento 2 edition fits. Tell us what you run today, and we'll map the move and the destination with you.
— Kristaps Rjabovs, Managing Director
Frequently asked questions
If you can't find the answer you're looking for, feel free to reach out to us. We're here to help!
Officially unsupported since June 2020: no security patches, no quality fixes and shrinking extension and payment-gateway support. Unofficial patches buy time, but PCI compliance and long-term risk both point the same way, to Magento 2.
A rebuild, not an in-place upgrade, because Magento 2 is a new architecture. The advantage is that it’s still Magento: the data model, concepts and much of your team’s knowledge carry straight over, and it’s the ideal moment to leave technical debt behind.
Each one gets a destination in the audit: a native Magento 2 feature, a Magento 2 version of the extension, or a custom rebuild. Bespoke Magento 1 modules are re-engineered for Magento 2’s architecture.
Not if it’s done properly, and a Magento move has an advantage: your existing URL structure can usually be preserved 1:1. Whatever changes gets a 1:1 301 redirect, with metadata and rank monitoring before and after launch.
Magento Open Source for control and a lean, powerful core; Adobe Commerce for native B2B and advanced merchandising; Adobe Commerce Cloud for managed enterprise infrastructure. Whichever you choose, the storefront is rebuilt on Hyvä. We map it with you in the consultation.
It depends on catalog size, extensions and customization; the consultation gives you a phased plan with real dates. Design runs in parallel with data migration, so a redesign doesn’t extend the timeline.
Tell us what you run on Magento 1
Catalog, extensions and customizations. A consultation tells you what the move takes, and which Magento 2 edition fits, before any pitch.
- 1
A real specialist replies
Not a sales script.
- 2
Straight platform advice
If you shouldn't move, we'll say so.
- 3
No obligation
The plan is yours to keep.