First of all you will need to decide a perfect time to start this transition from current store to Magento 2. It’s not suggested to start working on a migration project when your sales are on its peak. Every moment when your store is broken, this faulty migration may cause you huge loss. An off season time for the migration is the perfect time to begin this.
Share us your thoughts about your business peak time, how to begin this in the best way etc. with us, Our Technical Sales Manager will help you in this regard.
If your Magento 1 store is really performing well, all the security patches, feature patches etc installed then you do not need to be in hurry. Contact us to help you on this to make an execution plan for your Magento 1 to Magento 2 migration plan.
If your Magento 1 store is highly customized with features and functionalities, your design theme is very custom and you have dozens of different extensions installed, it will be a very big challenge for everyone to give you the exact store on Magento 2. Sometime migration really breaks everything in store whether it is data, extensions data, extensions or designs. Our experienced team of developers will do their best to match the business logic and designs, you have on your Magento 1 and try to make it on Magento 2 as much as possible.
We will document all the functionalities you need to migrate from Magento 1 to Magento 2 and write down all
the design requirements, so you would get a framework of design and technical features needed to be
implemented. We will also list out what extensions you dont need anymore, what are available and what is not
possible. Below you will find the ideas on how we execute the migration in a consistent and effective way.
Store Data
Migration
Building Custom
Functionalities
SEO Data
Migration
Design
Creation
We will setup a Magento 2 development environment on our server or on your server (per your preference), the first and most important thing we need to do is to migrate your data. This is one of the most important as well as difficult step on this migration project. We do data migration many times during the migration project to make sure that we have a proper process and procedure of how we migrate everything on your Magento 2 as well as to make sure that you have up to date data before launch.
Only standard Magento data is migrated. It includes the migration of settings, attributes, orders, customers, media and store data. Migration of data created by extensions is an additional service, the cost of which would significantly differ depending on extensions and data types, etc. To evaluate the scope, we need to take a look at these details and give you the time and cost estimation.
Every store is a unique combination of dependencies, extensions and custom build functionalities. Due to a drastic difference in architecture between Magento 1 and Magento 2 systems, migration of extensions and custom code is not possible. A standard approach is the installing Magento 2 extensions. But in the majority of cases you can not recreate the whole range of functionalities with ready-to-go modules. If there are specific business processes, that need to be reflected in the Magento functionality, the only option is custom development or find a different extension available for Magento 2. We will help you on that.
We understand that SEO value does not appear in one day and is extremely important for your current Magento store. Our team of experts will help to migrate link structure and valuable SEO data like custom URL formats, meta data templates, redirects, cross-links, markup tags, etc from your Magento 1 in the best way we can. Our SEO experts will also analyze your current SEO setup and provide recommendations for its improvement.
It is impossible to transfer Magento 1 design theme to Magento 2 design theme. However, if you have your old PSD files and other design files and assets with you, our Magento Certified frontend developers will make it possible to retain the same design in a much cleaner way in Magento 2
However, migration is a great opportunity to also redesign your store. It is the time to deal with all the design issues, imperfection you’ve always noticed, but had no time to address seriously. If you have fresh ideas, our design team would give you a usability consultation and create a new look for your store based on new requirements.
