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BigCommerce to Magento migration
Move from BigCommerce to Magento or Adobe Commerce with your catalog, customers and rankings intact. Options, modifiers and price lists mapped, and every URL accounted for.
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#1 Adobe Commerce partner worldwide
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Audited every year
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BigCommerce vs Magento 2: key differences
BigCommerce is a capable hosted platform. But if your store runs on apps from a dozen vendors bending a fixed core, you've outgrown the model.
Hosted core
Fixed checkout
B2B Edition app
Pricing app
+14 more apps
Commerce core you own
Catalog to checkout
Yours to change
ERP
PIM
B2B
Payments
Plenty of stores are well served by BigCommerce
The differences below matter once your requirements go beyond what it does natively.
A hosted core you rent
BigCommerce's core is shared; Magento's core is yours.
Made to be customized
Magento expects heavy customization, with defined extension points.
An integration backbone
REST and GraphQL APIs, queues and indexers, built for ERP and PIM sync.
Commerce is native
Multi-store, multi-currency and pricing built in, full B2B on Adobe Commerce.
Scale is the design assumption
Magento assumes big catalogs and complex pricing from day one.
Extensions that share a framework
Magento extensions share one framework; apps share only an API.
Code you can change
Checkout, pricing and fulfillment logic editable without waiting on a vendor.
What gets migrated from BigCommerce to Magento 2?
Nothing you rely on gets lost in translation. Every BigCommerce concept has a Magento home.
BigCommerce
Where you are now
- Products and variant options
- Modifier options
- Custom fields
- Categories and brands
- Customer groups and price lists
- B2B Edition
- Multi-storefront
- Stencil theme
- Apps
- Hosting included
Magento 2
Where you're moving to
- Configurable products and their simple variants
- Custom options, or configurable attributes where they affect stock
- Product attributes, which can be made filterable and searchable
- Categories, with brands as an attribute or their own category tree
- Customer groups and tier pricing, or shared catalogs on Adobe Commerce
- The Adobe Commerce B2B module, or Open Source with B2B extensions
- Websites, stores and store views in one installation
- A new storefront built on Hyvä and Venta
- Magento extensions, integrations or custom modules
- Your own hosting, or Adobe Commerce Cloud
Each row is BigCommerce → Magento 2
BigCommerceProducts and variant options
Magento 2Configurable products and their simple variants
BigCommerceModifier options
Magento 2Custom options, or configurable attributes where they affect stock
BigCommerceCustom fields
Magento 2Product attributes, which can be made filterable and searchable
BigCommerceCategories and brands
Magento 2Categories, with brands as an attribute or their own category tree
BigCommerceCustomer groups and price lists
Magento 2Customer groups and tier pricing, or shared catalogs on Adobe Commerce
BigCommerceB2B Edition
Magento 2The Adobe Commerce B2B module, or Open Source with B2B extensions
BigCommerceMulti-storefront
Magento 2Websites, stores and store views in one installation
BigCommerceStencil theme
Magento 2A new storefront built on Hyvä and Venta
BigCommerceApps
Magento 2Magento extensions, integrations or custom modules
BigCommerceHosting included
Magento 2Your own hosting, or Adobe Commerce Cloud
Should you migrate from BigCommerce to Magento 2 or Shopify?
Magento 2 (Adobe Commerce)
- Complex catalogs, B2B and multi-store, native
- Full ownership of code, data and infrastructure
- Everything this page describes
#1 Adobe Commerce partner worldwide
Shopify
- Lean D2C brands that want simplicity over control
- Fast to launch, content-led, easy to run
- We build and maintain these too
Shopify Plus Partner55+ certifications
Top-tier partner status on both destinations
The consultation maps your catalog and operations to the right one.
When to move to Magento, and when to stay
Sometimes, and not always. Both halves of the answer matter.
Move to Magento when
Your commercial logic has outgrown apps
Pricing, checkout or fulfillment rules that need real code rather than another subscription.
B2B is becoming central
Company accounts, quotes, approvals and ERP-driven pricing at a depth the platform's B2B layer can't reach.
You run several brands or markets
And want them in one installation with shared catalog data, instead of separate storefronts.
You want to own the code
Every customization yours to change, with no platform limit on what can be built.
Stay on BigCommerce when
Your catalog fits what it does natively
If nothing important needs custom code, a move adds cost without adding much.
You don't want to own hosting and upgrades
Magento gives you control, and control comes with responsibility.
Your growth is marketplace-led
BigCommerce's built-in channel tools may already cover what you need.
The real problem is design
A redesign fixes a dated storefront faster and cheaper than a replatform.
BigCommerce to Shopify migration
If you need less platform to own, a move to Shopify may fit better, and we run that migration too.
What BigCommerce does for you that you’ll own on Magento
The real cost of the move, worth seeing plainly before you commit. These are bundled into BigCommerce and become yours on Magento.
Responsibility
Hosting, uptime and PCI scope
Choose your host, or run on Adobe Commerce Cloud.
BigCommerce
Built in
Magento
Your hosting choice
Platform updates
Upgrades and security patches, on a schedule.
BigCommerce
Built in
Magento
Planned upgrades
Search, caching and CDN
Tuned deliberately, it’s where the speed comes from.
BigCommerce
Built in
Magento
Configured
Marketplace and social channels
Each channel becomes an extension or integration.
BigCommerce
Built in
Magento
Extension or integration
Every app you rely on
Each mapped to a native feature, extension or code.
BigCommerce
Built in
Magento
Mapped one by one
None of this is a reason not to move. It belongs in the budget from the first conversation, and it’s what ongoing support covers once the store is live.
From BigCommerce B2B Edition to Adobe Commerce
For trade sellers, B2B is often the reason to move. Adobe Commerce has company accounts, quotes and approvals built in.
- Company accounts, roles and permissions carried across
- Price lists rebuilt as shared catalogs per company
- Quotes and approvals buyers run themselves
- ERP-driven pricing, with Magento kept in step
What carries across, and what gets rebuilt
Almost everything moves as data. Two things get rebuilt, and one needs a plan.
Carried across
Every data type moves through the API, then gets checked record by record against the store you’re leaving.
Rebuilt, not copied
The Stencil theme becomes a new Hyvä storefront, and each app gets a Magento equivalent.
Passwords don’t transfer
Returning customers choose a new one at next sign-in. We write the announcement and brief your support team.
BigCommerce to Magento 2 data migration
Extracted through BigCommerce's API, mapped to Magento's model and loaded into staging long before launch. Then checked, record by record.
Products
Full catalog with options, modifiers, images and custom fields.
Customers
Accounts, addresses and customer groups, straight from the API.
Order history
Complete, so support and reporting don't lose their memory.
Price lists
Rebuilt as tier pricing, or shared catalogs on Adobe Commerce.
Content
Blog posts, pages and existing redirects carried across.
Validation
Record-by-record reconciliation, run by our AI migration agents.
API access, planned in advance
BigCommerce keeps password hashes to itself, so sign-in continuity is a deliberate launch decision: a reset flow planned, announced and supported.
BigCommerce to Magento SEO migration
Magento's URL rewrites can reproduce many of your existing BigCommerce paths, so fewer pages need to move at all.
Migration
A Magebit migration
Paths kept through URL rewrites, so less to redirect- Metadata and structured data carried over
- A Core Web Vitals leap on a Hyvä storefront
A careless migration
Paths thrown away for a new URL structure- 404s pile up as old links and bookmarks die
- Rankings drop while search engines relearn the site
How we preserve SEO during a BigCommerce to Magento migration
- 1
Benchmark before touching anything
Full crawl of the BigCommerce store, current rankings, traffic and top-earning pages recorded as the baseline.
- 2
Preserve URLs first
Magento's URL rewrites can mirror many BigCommerce paths. 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
Titles, descriptions, canonicals and structured data carried over, not rebuilt from memory.
- 5
Rebuild internal links
Menus, categories and cross-links reconnected so ranking value keeps flowing.
- 6
Test on staging
Sitemaps ready and Core Web Vitals passing while staging stays blocked from search engines.
- 7
Cut over clean, then watch
Redirects live at the switch, sitemap submitted, then daily rank and 404 monitoring against a 30, 60 and 90-day benchmark.
Our migration process: FLOW
Your BigCommerce store keeps trading throughout, until the moment it's switched off.
Everything is figured out before anything is touched, and on a BigCommerce migration “everything” has a specific shape.
- Products, options, modifiers and custom fields inventoried, ready to map into Magento 2
- Every app cataloged and given a destination: native feature, extension or rebuild
- API extraction planned: what we take, how, and what gets cleaned on the way
- Price lists, customer groups and B2B Edition logic mapped, each risk named
- Team assigned: you meet your project manager, everyone aligned on what and why
Discovery & planning
Data audit
12,480 products
Apps and connections
18 apps, 11 replaced
Risk register
7 risks
Clarity
of next steps
Reduced
risks
Time
efficiency
The foundation is ready before a single record arrives.
- Hosting and staging environments provisioned
- The Magento and Venta foundation installed and configured
- Data mapping agreed with you, field by field
- Repository, access and deployment pipeline set up
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
Storefront and data move forward in parallel, reviewed with you every week.
- The storefront designed and built on Hyvä and Venta
- Data migrated and rehearsed on staging, more than once
- Apps replaced by extensions or custom modules
- Weekly progress on hours, blockers and next steps
Your Store
Data & functionality
- Subscriptionsrebuilt
- B2B pricing tiersrebuilt
- ERP syncconnected
- Products · 12,480imported
Launch day is the least dramatic day of the project.
- Acceptance testing on your real, migrated data
- A rehearsed switchover with a way back ready
- Redirects live and Search Console updated at cutover
- Close support while the new store beds in
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
Build your new Magento 2 store on Hyvä and Venta
Leaving BigCommerce shouldn't mean starting from a blank page. With us it doesn't: the storefront foundation is already built.
Storefront speed
Typical theme frontendHeavy, 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.
40+ Hyvä projects delivered
+52+5255+ certified developers
Venta: our own theme, built on Hyvä
We kept rebuilding the same foundations, so we perfected one. Your migration starts from a proven store that we brand and extend for you.
- Conversion-ready storefront, branded in one config
- Magebit extensions: SEO, GDPR, tracking and feeds
- 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
Ready to start your ecommerce 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 VentaMagento work we’ve shipped
View our case studies.
Migrating a billion-dollar company to Hyvä and Venta
- Full frontend rebuild on Hyvä & Venta
- Algolia search integrated across the catalog
- 5 major brands in 5 months
Haircare and styling tools for Drybar, part of the Helen of Troy portfolio
- Magento storefront rebuilt from legacy Luma to Hyvä
- Algolia search and Stripe payments with gift cards tuned
- Core Web Vitals optimization to a 90+ score
A ground-up platform for a heavy-duty truck & trailer distributor
- Unbxd AI search with a large company import
- ACL roles, PTO configurator & RFQ with PDFs
- Multi-warehouse inventory wired to the ERP
Multiple brands in one, for the largest hardware seller in the United States
- 12 hardware brands unified on one platform
- ERP-driven catalog of 300K+ SKUs
- Mobile-first headless PWA storefront
A UK gifting and jewelry brand built around personalization and the moment
- Personalized jewelry with engraving and charm options
- Gifting moments and “a little message” built into the buying journey
- Wholesale and stockist ordering alongside the public store
What partners say about us
The team has been behind every one of our successes, and I recommend them without hesitation.
Bob Toeppner
E-commerce Manager
Magebit rebuilt our B2B platform from the ground up and made the whole process painless. Our customers love the new site.
Robin Pedro
Executive VP, S&S Truck Parts
There is no challenge for which they can't find a solution.
Will Aubuchon
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.
Learn more
Tell us what you run on BigCommerce
A BigCommerce migration lives or dies on two decisions: how your modifiers and price lists map, and which URLs you keep. Show me your catalog and your apps, and I'll tell you what the move takes, including whether it's worth making.
Reviewed by Kristaps Rjabovs
Co-founder of Magebit, Forbes 30 Under 30
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.
Catalog size, the number of integrations and how custom the storefront is decide it. The Frame phase produces a plan with real dates rather than a range, and your BigCommerce store keeps trading until the day it's switched off.
Not if the migration is planned for it. Magento's URL rewrites can keep many of your existing paths, every URL that does change gets a one-to-one redirect, and rankings are watched daily after launch.
Variant options become configurable products. Modifiers become custom options, or configurable attributes where they affect stock. We agree the mapping with you before any data moves.
Yes. A BigCommerce to Adobe Commerce migration makes most sense if you use BigCommerce's B2B Edition or price lists heavily, since the Adobe Commerce B2B module covers company accounts, shared catalogs and quotes natively.
They can't be carried across in a usable form. Each returning customer picks a fresh password at their next sign-in, and we handle the announcement and prepare your support team ahead of launch.
The same team, if you'd like. Ongoing support covers Adobe's security patches, version upgrades and improvements, which are the responsibilities that move from BigCommerce to you.
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Plan your migration
Send us your catalog, your app list and why you're considering the move. You'll get an honest read on the effort, including whether staying put would serve you better.
- 1
We understand your business
Your goals, challenges and growth opportunities, into a clear Adobe Commerce strategy.
- 2
Get expert Adobe Commerce advice
Opportunities in performance, UX, integrations or scalability, free of charge.
- 3
Accelerate your Magento growth
A personalized proposal to boost results, conversions and revenue.