Magento Migration Without Losing Orders, Customers Or Rankings

A typical Magento 1 to Magento 2 migration runs 8 to 16 weeks. The range depends on catalog size, how many custom modules the old store carries, how much of the theme needs rebuilding and how many integrations have to be re-tested. The audit at the start produces a dated plan for your specific store, so you are never working from a generic estimate.

Not if the redirect work is done properly. We crawl the old store before anything changes, map every indexed URL to its exact new counterpart with a 301 redirect, rebuild XML sitemaps and canonical tags on the new store, and monitor Search Console closely after cutover. Rankings transfer with correctly implemented redirects; they are lost when URLs are left to 404.

No. The new store is built and tested in parallel while your current store keeps trading. The only switch is a planned DNS change in a low-traffic window, preceded by a final delta sync of any orders and customers created during the build. The old store stays intact as a rollback target until the new one is proven.

Products, categories, attributes and images, customer accounts and address books, complete order history with invoices and credit memos, CMS pages and static blocks, promotions and coupon rules, product reviews and ratings, SEO URLs and metadata, and multi-store, tax and shipping configuration. Every data type is reconciled against source counts before cutover is even discussed.

Yes. Replatforming to Magento 2 from another cart follows the same discipline as a Magento 1 migration: audit the source store, map its data model to Magento attribute sets, migrate in scripted dry runs, rebuild the theme and integrations, and cut over with a full 301 redirect map. It is the right move when multi-store, B2B pricing or catalog scale has outgrown the current platform.

Magento 1 extensions do not run on Magento 2, so each one is mapped during planning to one of three outcomes: a native Magento 2 feature that replaces it, a maintained marketplace equivalent, or a scoped custom build if the functionality is business-critical and has no substitute. You see and approve that mapping before the migration starts, so nothing silently disappears.

Customer accounts, addresses and order history migrate fully. For Magento 1 to Magento 2 moves, password hashes are migrated and upgraded transparently, so customers log in with their existing passwords. When replatforming from other carts, password portability depends on how the source platform stored them; where hashes cannot be carried over, we set up a smooth one-time reset flow instead of losing the accounts.

Three mechanisms. First, a content freeze pauses catalog changes at an agreed time. Second, a final delta sync copies every order and customer created since the last full migration run. Third, record counts are reconciled between the old and new databases before DNS switches. Orders placed during the build window are captured by the delta sync, not abandoned.

The full data migration is executed on a staging copy exactly as it will run for real: same scripts, same mapping rules, same order of operations. The result is tested, problems are fixed in the scripts, the staging target is wiped and the run is repeated until it completes cleanly. The final production run is then a repeat of something that has already succeeded, not a first attempt.

Yes, server and host moves are a migration service of their own. We rebuild the environment on the new infrastructure with Nginx, Varnish, Redis and Elasticsearch or OpenSearch configured for Magento, sync files and database, test the store on the new server behind the scenes, then switch DNS in a low-traffic window with the old server held as rollback.

Every migration includes 2 to 4 weeks of post-launch care: 404 and error monitoring, Search Console checks, performance tuning and rapid fixes for anything QA did not catch. After that, you can continue with an ongoing Magento support retainer with the same engineers who ran the migration, or hand over to your own team with full documentation.