Move to Adobe Commerce without losing a sale, a customer, or a night of sleep.
From Magento 1, Shopify Plus, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, or SAP Commerce. Every product, customer, order, uniform resource locator, and ranked page moves. Cutover is tested twice before launch weekend. Rollback is one command, not a meeting.
The old way of moving stores is the reason you keep putting it off.
You already know the horror stories. Search engine optimization traffic gone for 6 months. Customer passwords broken. Orders that vanished mid-flight. A platform that took 14 months and shipped 40 percent of what was promised. Here is what changes when source-platform specificity replaces generic playbooks.
Generic migration, source platform ignored
- One playbook applied to every platform. Shopify quirks, BigCommerce metafields, and SAP intermediate document flows treated the same.
- Uniform resource locators guessed at, not mapped. 90 days of organic traffic vanishes.
- Cutover rehearsed once on a stripped-down dataset. Real volume only seen at launch.
- Rollback is a message and a prayer. No tested path back to source.
- Cost emerges in change orders, not the scope of work. Final invoice is 1.7 times the quote.
Source-platform specifics, cutover dry-run, rollback tested
- Per-source playbook. We have shipped from Magento 1, Shopify Plus, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, and SAP separately.
- Every ranked uniform resource locator mapped to a destination. 1:1 redirect plan signed off before code.
- Two full cutover dry-runs on production-scale data. Real catalog, real customer set.
- Rollback is a single command, tested in dry-run 2. Source store stays warm for 14 days post-launch.
- Line-by-line scope before commitment. Change orders rare and visible.
Every quarter you wait is a quarter someone else compounds.
Three forces stack: rising platform fees, slower feature velocity, and a cohort of competitors who already moved. The longer you stay, the further the gap widens, and the more your migration scope grows.
Average time legacy platform users delay a needed migration, increasing scope by 22 percent.
Year-over-year increase in third-party software as a service application fees stacking on top of platform fees for non-Adobe stores.
Feature-velocity advantage Adobe Commerce stores hold over Magento 1 and locked-down software as a service rivals when run on Cloud.
Security patches still shipping for Magento 1. End of life since June 2020. Payment Card Industry compliance risk rises every month.
Quantify the cost of waiting with a scoped proposal in three business days. No commitment.
Pick where you are. We will show you what migrating to Adobe Commerce actually looks like.
Every source platform has its own data shape, its own quirks, and its own list of things that break when ignored. Switch yours below to see what moves, how long it takes, what the typical range is, and which migration risk we plan against first.
Full catalog with attributes, configurable and bundled products, customer accounts and hashed passwords, order history for the last 12 months live plus archive, all content management system pages, blog posts, uniform resource locator rewrites. Extension audit completed on day 1.
Custom extension conflicts. Magento 1 extensions frequently do not have Adobe Commerce equivalents. We inventory every active extension on day 1 and assign a native-fit, marketplace-alternative, or custom-rebuild path before the scope of work is written.
Products, variants, collections, customers, orders, discount codes, blog posts. Metafields are extracted and re-mapped to Adobe Commerce custom attributes. App functionality loss is the main planning area.
Application functionality loss. Klaviyo, ReCharge, Loop, Stamped, Yotpo, Postscript all need a destination plan. We map every active application to a destination on day 5, not day 50.
Products with options and modifiers, customer groups and price lists, business-to-business accounts, orders, brand and category trees, custom fields, scripts. BigCommerce price lists map cleanly to Adobe Commerce customer-segment pricing.
Business-to-business account hierarchies. Multi-buyer, multi-location accounts often live in custom JavaScript Object Notation fields. We extract these on day 3 and design the Adobe Commerce business-to-business company structure before development begins.
Products, variations, attributes, customers, orders, coupons, blog posts and pages. The pain is rarely the data, it is the plugin sprawl. We audit every active plugin and decide native, extension, or custom in week 1.
Performance reset expectations. Most WooCommerce stores plateau at 50,000 stock-keeping units and noticeable slowdown. Adobe Commerce on Cloud handles 5 times that. We benchmark current performance on day 1 so the lift is measurable on launch day.
Catalog, customers, orders, Page Designer pages (translated to Adobe Commerce Page Builder), promotions, gift certificates, Einstein recommendation history. Intermediate script markup language cartridges become Adobe Commerce modules through a per-cartridge port.
Cartridge complexity. Heavy customisation in cartridge form is the cost driver. We inventory and assess every active cartridge for native fit, marketplace alternative, or custom rebuild before the scope of work lands.
Product catalog (classifications and variants), customer accounts and business-to-business units, orders and order processes, content management system components, pricing tables, intermediate document-based enterprise resource planning flows. Most business-to-business logic in Hybris maps to Adobe Commerce business-to-business with cleaner extension points.
SAP enterprise resource planning integration continuity. The store must keep talking to SAP S/4HANA or ECC during cutover. We dual-write to both stores for the final 7 days, so no order, invoice, or stock event drops.
Every entity you depend on, accounted for before the first commit.
A migration is not a "move the database" project. It is a series of yes-or-no decisions about every entity in your store. Here is the live ledger we hand you on day 3, replacing the spreadsheet most agencies promise on week 4.
| Entity | Method | Verification | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Products and variants | Extract-transform-load with stock-keeping unit and global trade item number match | Row-count and price-parity check | Native |
| Customer accounts | Hash-preserving import, no reset | Login-with-old-password test | Native |
| Order history | Read-only archive plus last 12 months live | Total-count and amount reconciliation | Native |
| Uniform resource locator rewrites and search engine optimization | 1:1 301 map, signed off in week 2 | Google Search Console regression watch | Native |
| Content management system pages and blog | Page Builder rebuild, content preserved | Side-by-side render review | Native |
| Promotions and coupons | Rule translation, active codes preserved | Discount math regression suite | Native |
| Reviews and ratings | Vendor sync (Yotpo, Trustpilot) or import | Star-count and snippet parity | Conditional |
| Business-to-business accounts and price lists | Company-tree rebuild plus segment pricing | Buyer-by-buyer price audit | Scoped |
| Enterprise resource planning, order management system, warehouse management system integrations | Dual-write during cutover window | No-drop event monitor for 14 days | Scoped |
| Payment tokens and saved cards | Payment service provider-side vault migration where supported | Tokenised checkout dry-run | Payment service provider-dependent |
Status keys: Native means moved with built-in tooling. Scoped means priced into the scope of work with a documented method. Conditional depends on your vendor stack. Payment service provider-dependent is limited by your payment provider's portability rules.
The five fears, named. Each with a working answer.
Downtime during launch
Cutover is read-only on the source for 4 to 8 hours, overnight in your timezone. Dual-write keeps order events flowing. Most launches show zero customer-facing downtime.
Data loss
Two cutover dry-runs on full-volume data. Row-count, financial total, and stock-level reconciliation on every entity. Anomalies block launch.
Search engine optimization traffic collapse
1:1 uniform resource locator plan signed off in week 2. Schema, alternate language tags, sitemaps, robots, and canonical rules tested in staging. Search Console regression watch for 60 days.
No path back if it fails
Rollback is a single command, tested in dry-run 2. Source store stays warm and read-only for 14 days. You always have a working store.
Budget overrun by change order
Line-by-line scope before sign-off. Each entity, each integration, each application priced individually. Change orders are rare, visible, and signed before any clock starts.
From signed scope of work to a live Adobe Commerce store in 10 to 14 weeks.
Five phases. Each ends in something you can see, click, and challenge before the next phase opens. Real dates assigned in week 1. Stand-ups public to your team.
Audit and entity ledger
Every entity, every active application or extension, every custom field documented. Day-3 deliverable: the live ledger you saw in the section above, signed off by both sides.
Build and data shaping
Adobe Commerce environment provisioned. Theme rebuilt or ported. Extract-transform-load pipelines drafted and tested entity by entity. Integrations stubbed and rehearsed against test endpoints.
Dry-run 1 on full data
Production-scale data lifted into staging. Row-count, financial totals, stock-level reconciliation run. Failures logged. Pipelines patched. Re-run.
Dry-run 2 plus rollback test
Second full-volume cutover, this time with timing pressure matching launch night. Rollback rehearsed and timed. Your team observes both directions.
Cutover weekend plus 14-day stabilisation
Launch overnight in your timezone. Source store held warm for 14 days. Search Console regression watch, payment monitoring, integration health dashboards public to both teams.
Your team's time investment across a full build is 3 to 4 hours per week: one sprint review, async feedback on deliverables, and final quality assurance sign-off. We handle everything else.
Scoped before work starts. Line-by-line pricing. No commitment to receive a proposal.
Three ways to engage, sized to your migration. Every quote breaks down by entity, integration, and sprint, so you can see exactly where the money goes and what you can cut without breaking the launch.
Fixed price · 2 weeks
A scoped report with the live entity ledger, integration map, application and extension audit, risk inventory, and a recommended 3-phase plan. Useful even if you do not pick us.
- Entity ledger with status flags
- Integration map
- Risk register
- 3-phase recommended plan
Scoped · 9 to 18 weeks
The full source-to-Adobe-Commerce migration. Includes audit, build, two dry-runs, cutover, and 14-day stabilisation. Range depends on source platform, business-to-business complexity, and integration count.
- Everything in audit, plus build
- Two full cutover dry-runs
- Tested rollback and warm source
- 14-day post-launch stabilisation
Scoped · 16 to 28 weeks
For SAP Commerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, and large business-to-business Adobe Commerce Cloud moves. Includes dual-write enterprise resource planning continuity, cartridge or extension port, and dedicated Adobe Commerce Cloud architect.
- Cartridge or extension port
- Dual-write enterprise resource planning continuity
- Dedicated Cloud architect
- Compliance and service level agreement add-ons
Pricing also available on Adobe Commerce migration cost and Adobe Commerce development cost pages.
Half Price Drapes scaled past $70M after a platform overhaul.
Half Price Drapes
A large-scale ecommerce retailer specialising in curtains, drapes, and window coverings, selling across multiple channels with growing inventory and order complexity.
Data lived in too many systems. Inventory, orders, and customer records did not talk to each other. The ecommerce platform constrained conversions. Operational complexity across fulfillment, returns, and reporting grew faster than the team could keep up.
A platform migration paired with Dynamics 365 enterprise resource planning integration and Power BI dashboards. Inventory, order, and customer data centralised into real-time views. Storefront upgraded with extensive user experience research informing every conversion-critical surface, with no downtime through cutover.
Annual revenue scale reached after the digital overhaul, supported by unified data and an optimised storefront.
Downtime through migration
Faster operational reporting cycle
"The migration paid back inside a year. Real-time visibility is what changed how we run the business, not just how we sell."
Source: master case study record. Numbers and quotes reflect customer-reported outcomes after launch.
Source-specific. Cutover-tested. Cost-transparent.
The migration market mostly ships generic claims. Three things keep showing up as the reasons teams pick us after evaluating other implementation partners.
Source-platform specifics, not generic playbooks
Six dedicated source-platform deep dives, with the exact entities, risks, and timeline ranges. Most implementation partners ship one migration page and one generic playbook.
Two cutover dry-runs and a tested rollback
Two full-volume dry-runs before launch. Rollback rehearsed and timed. Source store warm for 14 days post-launch. Cutover is not the first time anyone has seen the real data.
Line-by-line scope before any clock starts
Every entity, integration, and application priced individually. Change orders are rare, visible, and signed before work resumes. Typical partner billing is opaque until the final invoice.
The questions teams actually ask before signing.
Five honest concerns we hear on every first call. Straight answers, not marketing copy.
Every ranked uniform resource locator is mapped to a destination uniform resource locator in week 2. The 1:1 redirect plan is signed off before any frontend code is written. Schema, alternate language tags, sitemaps, robots, and canonical rules are tested in staging. Search Console regression watch runs for 60 days post-launch. Average traffic retention across our migrations is 98.6 percent within 30 days.
Cutover is read-only on the source for 4 to 8 hours, overnight in your timezone. Customers can still browse during that window. Checkout pauses briefly. Dual-write keeps order events flowing for enterprise resource planning and order management system integrations. Most launches show zero customer-facing downtime above the noise floor.
Yes. Rollback is a single command, rehearsed during dry-run 2. The source store is kept warm and read-only for 14 days post-launch. If something blocks launch, you have a working store the entire time. We have used rollback twice in 74 migrations. Both times the launch went ahead 48 hours later.
Yes, in most cases. We use hash-preserving customer import. If your source store uses a hash algorithm Adobe Commerce does not support natively, customers are auto-upgraded transparently on first login. No password reset email blast required.
Quote and final invoice match in 91 percent of our migrations. The 9 percent that vary do so because of scope expansion the client signed off on, not surprises. Every entity, integration, and sprint is priced in the scope of work. Change orders are visible and signed before any new work resumes.
A migration is the wrong project for some teams. Here is who we turn down.
You will get value if
- Your store does $2M or more in annual gross merchandise volume and growth is being blocked by your platform
- You have business-to-business or complex catalog needs that software as a service rivals cannot serve cleanly
- Your team can dedicate 3 to 4 hours per week to sprint reviews and decisions
- You want a partner who shows the scope of work line by line, not in three bullet points
- You are ready to commit a real launch date in the next 6 months
We will say no if
- Your store does under $500k gross merchandise volume. A platform move is rarely your highest return-on-investment bet at that scale
- You need to launch in under 8 weeks. Migrations that fast skip dry-runs and rollback testing
- You cannot name a launch decision owner on your side
- You want the cheapest possible quote, regardless of method
- You are migrating because of internal politics, not because the platform actually blocks growth
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The best time to move was last year. The next best time is now.
Every quarter on your current platform is a quarter of features you cannot ship, fees you cannot avoid, and security risk you cannot patch. Two minutes to submit, three days to a scoped plan, and a working store in 10 to 14 weeks.
We read your brief, not skim it
Source platform, gross merchandise volume band, and integrations mapped before the call.
Calendar invite within 48 hours
Technical introduction with someone who has cut over your stack before.
Scoped proposal in 3 business days
Entities, sprints, and risks line-by-line. Walk away if it is not a fit.
Track record
Live data74
Migrations shipped
0%
Data loss on record
98.6%
Search engine optimization retained
Every extra quarter you wait
- Platform and application fees stack while competitors ship on Adobe Commerce.
- Unpatched common vulnerability and exposure exposure grows, especially on legacy or end-of-life carts.