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Yes, for the right kind of store. Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce 2.4.9 reached general availability on 12 May 2026, adding PHP 8.5 support with a support window running to roughly May 2029, so the platform is actively maintained. It remains the strongest option for deep attribute driven catalogues, multi store and multi currency setups, negotiated B2B pricing and heavy ERP integration. It is the wrong choice for a small catalogue sold at list price, where a hosted platform will cost far less to run for the same result.

Open Source is free to licence and gives you the catalogue engine, checkout, customer groups, tier pricing and full API access. Adobe Commerce adds the licensed capabilities: B2B company accounts, shared catalogues, requisition lists and quotes, plus Adobe hosted Live Search and Product Recommendations, staging and content management tooling, and Adobe support. The decision usually comes down to whether you need the B2B module and AI merchandising. If you would rebuild those from extensions anyway, the licence often works out cheaper than the custom equivalent.

Licence is only one line. Budget for hosting sized to your catalogue and traffic, which is materially more than shared hosting because Magento needs adequate memory, a search engine and a caching layer. Then extensions, which carry annual renewals, a payment and shipping stack, and a maintenance retainer covering security patches, minor upgrades and monitoring. The cost that surprises teams most is major version upgrade work every year or two. Ask any prospective partner to quote maintenance and upgrades explicitly, not just the build.

Most migrations run a few months rather than a few weeks, and the driver is data rather than design. Product, customer and order history migration, attribute mapping, URL preservation for search rankings, and reimplementing every extension behaviour from the old store all take longer than the build itself. Teams that begin the data audit during discovery finish on schedule. A useful early test is exporting your full catalogue and reviewing the attribute quality, because that single exercise predicts the migration timeline better than any other input.

No. Magento 1 reached end of life in June 2020 and has received no official security patches since. Stores still running it depend on third party patch services and are exposed to vulnerabilities disclosed after that date, and increasingly to payment compliance problems because card handling on an unsupported platform is difficult to certify. If you are still on Magento 1, the realistic options are migrating to Magento 2 or Adobe Commerce, or moving to a hosted platform. Neither gets cheaper by waiting.

Very. Sansec's research on the CosmicSting vulnerability, CVE-2024-34102, found roughly 75 percent of Magento and Adobe Commerce stores were still unpatched a week after the fix shipped, and thousands were subsequently breached. Magento is a high value target because a compromised store yields payment data at checkout. The practical defence is unglamorous: apply security patches within days of release, keep an inventory of third party extensions and their patch status, and run file integrity monitoring so an injected skimmer is detected rather than discovered by a bank.

Measurement first. Google's Core Web Vitals thresholds are Largest Contentful Paint at or under 2.5 seconds, Interaction to Next Paint at or under 200 milliseconds and Cumulative Layout Shift at or under 0.1, at the 75th percentile of real visits. On Magento the recurring causes are unoptimised images, extension JavaScript blocking the main thread, uncached category pages with heavy layered navigation, and full page cache being bypassed by personalised blocks. The work is diagnosis then targeted fixes, not a generic speed package.

Certification is useful evidence, not a guarantee. It confirms someone has covered the platform's architecture and conventions, which matters on a codebase where the wrong approach to a customisation creates upgrade debt for years. What it does not show is judgement about when not to customise, integration experience with your specific ERP, or the discipline to write upgradeable code. Ask to see a real module a candidate team wrote and how they handled a major version upgrade. That conversation tells you more than the certificate.

Yes, and the mechanics are well established for products, customers and order history. The parts that need real care are URL structure and redirect mapping so search rankings survive, recreating discount and promotion logic that behaves differently on each platform, and reconnecting payment and fulfilment integrations. Before committing, be clear about why you are moving. Migrating to Magento for flexibility you will not use trades a low maintenance platform for a demanding one, and that decision is much harder to reverse than it is to make.

At minimum: security patches applied promptly, quarterly review of extension updates and compatibility, database and index health monitoring, log and cron monitoring since silent cron failures are a classic Magento outage, backup verification by actually restoring rather than assuming, and a planned major version upgrade every year or two. Add performance monitoring against real field data so regressions are caught in weeks rather than at the next audit. A retainer that only covers incident response is not maintenance, it is insurance.

Look past the portfolio screenshots. Ask which of those stores the company still maintains, because building and living with a store are different disciplines. Ask how they handle upgrades, whether their customisations survive a major version change, and to see their approach to extension selection. Ask who owns the code and the hosting, and how a handover would work if you left. Request references from clients two or more years in, since problems with Magento work surface at the first major upgrade, not at launch.

Start with a review of where you are. For an existing store that means an audit of the codebase, extensions, performance against real field data, patch status and integration health, returned as a prioritised list of what to fix and in what order. For a new build or a migration it means a discovery session covering catalogue structure, pricing model, integrations and timeline, returned as a scoped plan. Either way you get the findings and the plan whether or not you engage us for the work.