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Migrations

Moving from Magento to WooCommerce

Usually a cost decision: Magento is capable and expensive to run. Catalogue and customers move well; product types and passwords are where the care goes.

Before anyone quotes

What survives the move, and what does not

Most migration disputes come from this list being assumed rather than agreed. So we agree it first.

Comes across

  • Products, attributes and attribute sets
  • Category tree
  • Customer accounts and addresses
  • Order history

Gets rebuilt

  • The theme and any custom frontend
  • Checkout, shipping and tax rules
  • Extensions and custom modules
  • Multi-store setups, which WooCommerce models differently
The expensive surprises

Three things specific to Magento

Passwords cannot be carried over

Magento hashes differently from WordPress, so no import can preserve logins. Every customer needs a reset flow ready on launch day, or your support inbox becomes the launch.

Product types do not match cleanly

Configurable, bundle and grouped products in Magento only roughly correspond to WooCommerce variable and grouped products. Complex catalogues need the mapping agreed before import.

Large catalogues need batching

Tens of thousands of SKUs will not import in one pass. Batched imports with verification between runs, so a failure halfway does not leave a half-built catalogue.

How it runs

Five steps, same every time

  1. 1

    Crawl what is live

    Every URL currently indexed, exported to a sheet. This becomes the redirect map and the definition of done.

  2. 2

    Audit the export

    What the platform gives us, compared against what the crawl found. The difference is the rebuild, and it gets priced before we start.

  3. 3

    Build on staging

    The new site goes up somewhere private, with real content imported, so you review the actual thing rather than a mockup.

  4. 4

    Map every redirect

    Old URL to new URL, one row at a time, tested as 301s on staging before anything points at production.

  5. 5

    Cut over and watch

    DNS moves, then we monitor crawl errors and traffic for the fortnight that follows, because that is when problems surface.

Before you commit

Leaving Magento, answered

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From Magento we can bring over: products, attributes and attribute sets; category tree; customer accounts and addresses; order history. Everything else on the site has to be rebuilt, and we agree which is which before quoting.

The parts with no equivalent on the other side: the theme and any custom frontend; checkout, shipping and tax rules; extensions and custom modules; multi-store setups, which woocommerce models differently. This is where the cost sits, so it is priced up front rather than discovered halfway through.

Not if the redirects are done properly. We crawl every URL that is currently indexed, map each one to its new address, and test those as 301s on staging before anything points at production. Then we watch crawl errors and traffic for the fortnight after cutover.

Magento hashes differently from WordPress, so no import can preserve logins. Every customer needs a reset flow ready on launch day, or your support inbox becomes the launch.

Configurable, bundle and grouped products in Magento only roughly correspond to WooCommerce variable and grouped products. Complex catalogues need the mapping agreed before import.

Start here

Send us the Magento site

We will crawl it, work out what the export actually gives us, and come back with a fixed price and the redirect map included.

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  • A free audit first

    We'll look at your site and tell you straight what needs doing.

  • Fixed scope, fixed price

    Agreed in writing before any work starts. No hidden fees.

  • A real engineer on the call

    You talk to the people who do the work, not a sales script.