Magebit has been our development partner for many years, it's been great!
Dennis Wilms
Chief Executive Officer
Magento 2
upgrade service
Already on Magento 2 but stuck on an old version? We bring you to the latest Magento, strip out years of bloat, and rebuild on Hyvä.
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
Falling behind on versions catches up with you
Magento 2 doesn't hit a cliff like Magento 1 did, it drifts. Version by version, an un-maintained store gets slower, riskier and harder to change.
You’re here
2.3 / early 2.4
Latest Magento
Supported & fast
The widening gap
Security patches missedPHP unsupportedExtensions aging
The longer an upgrade waits, the more it costs
In risk today, and in effort tomorrow
Security patches missed
Every skipped release is unpatched vulnerabilities you're carrying.
Unsupported PHP
Old Magento needs old PHP that hosts are dropping, forcing the issue.
Extension debt
Modules pile up, overlap, and half of them you no longer use.
Slow Luma frontend
The default theme is heavy; Core Web Vitals suffer, and so do rankings.
Upgrades that scare you
The longer you wait, the bigger and riskier the eventual jump.
Custom code rot
Years of overrides, by developers long gone, that nobody dares touch.
Falling further behind
New Magento features and performance gains you simply can't access.
We upgrade by removing,
not just updating
Most agencies upgrade by dragging everything forward. We do the opposite: strip your store to what you actually use, then rebuild it clean on the latest Magento, with your data intact.
The strip-down, and the payoff
Four decisions that make the difference between a real upgrade and a drag-forward.
Redundant extensions removed, Magento covers them natively- Unsupported modules replaced, solid custom code kept
- The Luma frontend retired, rebuilt on Hyvä for speed
- Only what your team actually uses carried into the clean build
- The payoff: a Magento store built to run great for another 10 years, where future updates are routine, not headaches
Your store today
everything you've accumulated
Duplicate search extCheckoutOld page builderUnused loyaltyLegacy Luma themeCatalogDead cron jobsOrders
Rebuilt clean
latest Magento, your data intact
CatalogCheckoutOrders+ Hyvä storefront
The strip-down, step by step
Seven steps, in order. Development is the last of them, not the first.
Audit what you have
What's good, what's bad, what upgrades easily, and what's already unsupported and needs replacing.
Replace the unsupported
For anything that can't come forward, a modern extension or a replacement built from scratch.
Cut the extra layers
What's now covered natively by the latest Magento, and the extra extensions duplicating it, removed.
Retire the old theme
The legacy frontend comes off, rebuilt on Hyvä / Venta for speed.
Keep the good custom code, rebuild the rest
Code that's solid gets adjusted; code that's rotten gets rebuilt properly.
Keep only what's used
The functionality your team actually uses, everything else stripped away to keep the store light.
Then, and only then, develop
On a clean, fresh, latest-version Magento, still carrying your data.
Start
Stripped
Rebuilt
- Fewer moving parts, cheaper to maintain
- Faster pages, better Core Web Vitals
- Future updates stay routine
Where do you want to land?
An upgrade is also the moment to reconsider your edition. We'll move you in whichever direction fits, and yes, that includes switching editions either way.
Latest Magento Open Source
The free, open-source core, fully up to date and stripped clean, the natural home for most upgrades.
Full ownership and endless extensibility- Everything most stores need, kept lean
- Rebuilt on Hyvä for Core-Web-Vitals speed
Adobe Commerce → Open Source
Paying for Adobe Commerce features you don't use? Side-grade down to Open Source and simplify.
- Keep the functionality you actually rely on
- Drop the licensing weight you don't
- A leaner, cheaper store to run
Latest Adobe Commerce
The commercial edition, up to date, with the power large or complex operations need.
- Native B2B: company accounts, quotes, pricing
- Advanced merchandising and customer segmentation
- Adobe support behind the platform
Open Source → Adobe Commerce
Outgrown Open Source? We upgrade and move you up to Adobe Commerce in one planned project.
- Your data and store carried straight across
- B2B and merchandising switched on natively
- One project, not two
Upgrades, upgrades-with-a-side-grade, either direction, the consultation maps the edition to what you actually need.
#1 Adobe agency worldwide
200+ Adobe certifications
Adobe Subject Matter Expert
Your storefront, rebuilt and ahead
An upgrade retires the old Luma frontend. We rebuild on Hyvä Commerce as the base, then layer Venta, our head-start theme, on top.
The fast, modern storefront foundation we rebuild on: radically lighter than Luma, with a broad, ready-made commerce toolkit underneath everything else.
- Page Builder and content scheduling, built in
- Core Web Vitals in the green, radically faster than Luma
- Faster checkout and a faster theme, out of the box
- A modern admin dashboard, easier to run day to day
Hyvä Platinum Partner
40+ projects delivered
#1 Most Certified
Hyvä Agency
Storefront speed
Typical theme frontendHeavy, slow to load
Hyvä storefrontRadically lighter
Page BuilderContent schedulingFaster checkoutFaster themeAdmin dashboard
Core Web Vitals in the green
- LCP
- CLS
- INP
- 90+Performance
On top of that base sits Venta, our production-ready theme. We perfected the foundations we kept rebuilding, so your storefront starts branded, not from a blank page.
- Conversion-ready components, branded from one central config
- Magebit-built extensions: SEO, GDPR, tracking, feeds and more
- Performance patterns from 40+ Hyvä projects baked in
Trusted by brands running Venta
demo.ventatheme.com
Magebit’s production-ready theme on Hyvä
What an upgrade protects
An upgrade keeps everything, this is your store, modernized, not replaced.
Your data
Products, customers, orders and content stay exactly where they are.
Your integrations
ERP, PIM, payments and shipping reconnected and tested.
Your rankings
Same store, so URLs are preserved; SEO carries forward intact.
Your team's workflow
The functionality your team actually uses, kept and improved
Validation
Record-by-record reconciliation, accelerated by our AI agents.
Your performance headroom
Magento and Hyvä unlock speed the old version couldn't reach.
SEO through an upgrade: keep what you've earned
An upgrade is the lowest-risk SEO event of all, it's the same store, so there's little reason for URLs to change.
Cutover
A Magebit upgrade
- An upgrade shouldn't move your URLs
- Metadata, canonicals and structured data carried over
- Hyvä front end, faster scores, better rankings
A careless upgrade
URL keys thrown away when the store is rebuilt- 404s pile up as old links and bookmarks die
- Rankings earned over years reset to zero
How rankings survive, step by step
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Benchmark before touching anything
Full crawl and URL inventory of the current store before any work begins.
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Preserve the URL keys
An upgrade shouldn't move your URLs. Where any do change, each gets a 1:1 301 redirect.
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Carry the on-page layer
Metadata, canonicals and structured data carried straight across.
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Ship the speed win
Core Web Vitals dramatically improved by the move to Hyvä, a tailwind, not a risk.
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Cut over clean, then watch
Rank and traffic monitoring before and after go-live, with a 30/60/90-day benchmark.
How we run an upgrade:
FLOW, phase by phase
FLOW (Frame, Lay Groundwork, Output, Win) is our 12-year delivery framework. Here's how it runs for a Magento 2 upgrade and rebuild.
Everything is figured out before anything is touched, so the upgrade is a strip-down, not a drag-forward.
- Full inventory: attribute sets, variations and media, ready to map
- Extension audit: every extension kept, replaced or removed as redundant
- Database access planned: what we take and what gets cleaned on the way out
- Custom code sorted: what's solid gets kept, what's rotten gets rebuilt
- Risk register: unsupported extensions and undocumented code, each owned
- Team and plan agreed: you meet your project manager before work starts
Discovery & planning
Data audit
12,480 products
Extensions & modules
18 extensions: 12 replaced
Risk register
7 risks
Clarity
of next steps
Reduced
risks
Time
efficiency
A clean foundation on the latest Magento, native-first, before any extension is added back.
- A fresh install of the latest Magento on modern, supported infrastructure
- Native-first: what the latest Magento covers is on before extensions
- Hyvä / Venta foundation stood up, plus only the extensions you need
- Quote Workshops lock keep, replace and remove 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
Native-first, before any extension is added back
- 3
Extensions & modules first
Built for Magento 2 with structured records
- 4
Hyvä + Venta foundation
Stood up, so the design track starts immediately
Data and design run side by side, reviewed with you as they go.
Track 1 · Data & functionality
- Your data carried into the clean build
- Good custom code kept, rotten code rebuilt
- Reassembled with only what’s actually used
- AI agents accelerate mapping and verification
Track 2 · Design
- Luma frontend retired, rebuilt on Hyvä
- Venta foundation, branded for you
- Runs in parallel with the data work, not after it
- Both tracks land in UAT together
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 301 redirect map for every URL that changes
- Go-live is a scheduled, rehearsed cutover, with rollback standing by
- Through hypercare, rankings are monitored, 404s triaged and orders keep flowing
- The old version 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+ projects, here, tuned to make your store lighter than we found it.
See what we've done
The upgrade is one project. The team behind it is the same one running stores for brands you know.
Upgrade from Magento 2.1 to the latest Magento, years of versions in one leap
- Multiple platform versions jumped in a single planned move
- Legacy storefront rebuilt on Hyvä for real speed
- Built on Venta, our production-ready theme foundation
Luxury catalog commerce, crafted to exacting standards on Magento
- Design-led product presentation worthy of the showroom
- A large premium catalog, merchandised with precision
- Built to the standards a luxury brand demands
A global icon's storefront, served fresh on Magento 2 + Hyvä
- Pixel-perfect brand-guideline design, rebuilt for real commerce
- Smart store locator with postcode-based regional delivery zones
- Launched MVP-first, growing feature by feature ever since
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
100+
Migrations in 12 years
40+
Hyvä projects delivered
100+
Brands' stores actively managed
What partners say about us
Magebit did a great job with the new SBS platform, now used widely across the automotive industry. I can definitely recommend them for complex digital commerce projects, their strategic approach helps us massively save on operational costs.
Kevin Hughes
European Technical Director
Appreciate everyone’s hard work and effort in moving us forward!
Alex Brynou
Director of Systems Architecture
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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200+ Adobe certifications
Most certified Hyvä agency
Adobe Subject Matter Expert
Your next step is one conversation away
An old Magento 2 doesn't need replacing, it needs modernizing and lightening. Tell us your version and what's on it, and we'll show you the leanest path to the latest Magento.
Reviewed by 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!
Because a real upgrade from an old version isn’t a button-press: extensions, custom code and the theme all have to come forward or be replaced. We treat it as a rebuild on the latest version with your data intact, which is also the chance to strip out years of bloat.
Good custom code is kept and adjusted; outdated or rotten code is rebuilt properly. The audit tells you exactly what falls into each bucket before work starts.
No. Your data carries into the clean build, and because it’s the same store, URLs are preserved, an upgrade is the lowest-risk SEO event there is.
Yes, both directions. Upgrading up to Adobe Commerce or side-grading down to Open Source are both routine; the consultation maps the edition to what you actually need.
Hyvä is the fast modern storefront we rebuild on. Hyvä Commerce adds extra capabilities on top for stores that want more. We’ll cover whether it fits in the consultation, full detail is on our Hyvä page.
It depends on how much has accumulated: extensions, custom code, integrations. The consultation gives a phased plan with real dates, and design runs in parallel so re-theming doesn’t extend the timeline.
Tell us what you're running today
Version, edition, extensions and integrations. A consultation gives you the leanest path to the latest Magento, before any pitch.
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A real specialist replies
Not a sales script.
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Straight platform advice
If you shouldn't move, we'll say so.
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No obligation
The plan is yours to keep.