Magento migrations
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Magento migrations demand serious investment. We make sure you never pay double, sparing you from downtime, missing data, lost SEO, tangled integrations, or a frontend do-over one year later
Magento migration types
Magento 1 → Magento 2
Still the most common migration in 2026, and the most urgent for anyone still running it. Official Magento 1 support ended in June 2020. No security patches have been released since. Payment providers — Visa in particular — can flag Magento 1 stores as non-compliant with PCI DSS, which in turn can cost you the merchant account you need to take card payments. If you're still on Magento 1, you're running without a net, and a migration should be a current-quarter priority, not a next-year one.
Scope is substantial. Magento 1 and Magento 2 are architecturally different platforms — different codebase, different database schema, different extension model, different frontend framework. You're rebuilding, not upgrading.
Magento 2 version upgrade
If you're already on Magento 2 but a few minor versions behind the 2.4 version, such an upgrade can be as complex as a migration. It's smaller in scope than M1→M2 but still involves extension compatibility work, theme adjustments, and regression testing.
Magento Open Source → Adobe Commerce or Adobe Commerce Cloud
Adobe Commerce adds licensed features that Open Source doesn't: native B2B (shared catalogs, company accounts, approval workflows, requisition lists), customer segmentation, content staging, advanced reporting, official SLAs. Adobe Commerce Cloud bundles that with managed AWS hosting.
Worth moving to when the licensed features justify the annual cost (usually €20,000+ per year depending on revenue). For most merchants under €20M revenue without heavy B2B requirements, Open Source is still the right answer. Our detailed breakdown of Magento vs Adobe Commerce walks through the decision in depth.
Another platform → Magento
Happens when custom business logic, B2B complexity, or integration depth outgrows what the current platform can handle. Common triggers:
- Shopify merchants who need multi-store operations with complex pricing rules that Shopify Plus price lists can't handle
- WooCommerce stores where the WordPress stack starts buckling under catalog size or traffic
- BigCommerce stores hitting API rate limits or customization ceilings
- PrestaShop merchants who want Magento's extension ecosystem and B2B features
Magento → Shopify
If your business doesn't actually use what Magento is good at, like flexibility, multi-store, complex product logic, deep integrations, B2B, then Magento is overhead. Shopify is cheaper to launch, faster to change, and easier to staff for. Check our Shopify migration services.
Magento → headless frontend
Technically not a replatforming because you keep Magento as the commerce backend and build a new frontend that runs independently. This makes sense when the frontend is a real differentiator (custom UX, very high traffic, PWA requirements) or when the frontend team needs to ship on a different cadence than the backend team.
We handle:
✓ Magento 1 → Magento 2
✓ Magento 2 → latest Magento 2 version
✓ Magento Open Source → Adobe Commerce or Adobe Commerce Cloud
✓ Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, or PrestaShop → Magento
✓ Luma → Hyvä (usually paired with one of the above)
✓ Magento monolith → headless frontend (Alokai)
Modernize while you migrate: Hyvä and headless
A 2026 Magento migration without modernizing the frontend is a missed opportunity. You're already paying for a rebuild; the same budget can replace the Luma legacy with Hyvä or a headless stack — and that's where most of the ROI actually lives.
Luma → Hyvä during migration
Luma is the default Magento frontend that's shipped since 2015. It's heavy, JS-dependent, and most independent PageSpeed audits on Luma stores come back in the red. Hyvä is a modern Magento frontend built on Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS, designed specifically to replace Luma.
What changes technically:
- 200+ CSS and JS files on Luma reduced to roughly two
- Alpine.js + Tailwind replace Knockout.js + RequireJS
- PageSpeed scores routinely above 90 out of the box
- A simpler developer model: less framework-specific knowledge to maintain
What changes commercially: faster pages, better conversion rates, a frontend your team can actually modify without pulling in a specialist, and Core Web Vitals scores that Google actually rewards. Our published Luma vs Hyvä benchmark documents the gap in detail.
Switching during a migration is logistically easier than doing it later as a separate project. You're already disturbing frontend, design, and QA — disturbing them once costs less than disturbing them twice. We're a Hyvä Silver Partner and have been working with Hyvä since its first release.
Magento → headless
For merchants where the frontend matters more than the default monolithic setup can serve, we migrate to a headless stack:
Alokai (Vue Storefront) — the most mature Magento-compatible PWA frontend
Shopify Hydrogen — when you're moving to Shopify anyway and want a React-based custom storefront
Custom Next.js — when specific requirements don't fit off-the-shelf
Headless doubles your infrastructure complexity and needs a bigger engineering budget. Worth it when the frontend is a differentiator, not worth it otherwise.
When monolith is still the right answer
Not every merchant benefits from headless. If you don't have a frontend team, a heavy PWA requirement, or traffic that justifies the separate deployment, Hyvä on a monolith is cheaper, simpler, and entirely capable of delivering a fast, modern store. Honest advice from people who build both.