Migrate from Magento to Adobe Commerce: Nothing Left Behind
Your products, customers, and order history move intact. Your revenue never pauses. Your team handles four hours a week. We handle everything else.
Part of our Magento replatforming services suite, covering migrations across retail, business-to-business, and wholesale verticals.
Why Staying on Magento 1 Costs More Every Month
End-of-life platforms don't freeze; they drain. Every month on an unsupported Magento version adds unpatched security debt, slowing extensions, and a developer pool that's steadily abandoning the stack.
Every unpatched day is exposure. Payment Card Industry auditors flag Magento 1 stores as non-compliant, and payment processors are beginning to refuse integrations.
Extension providers ended Magento 1 support. The gap is now maintained by expensive custom code that breaks on every PHP upgrade.
Qualified Magento 1 developers are rare and expensive. Routine maintenance now costs what a full sprint used to.
Core Web Vitals, mobile checkout, and full-page-cache performance are structurally limited in Magento 1. Competitors on modern stacks are pulling ahead on load time and conversion.
Every custom payment workaround and admin override adds audit surface. Assessors increasingly treat end-of-life storefront software as a critical finding.
Without vendor quality assurance on core, each deploy is a gamble. Rollbacks are manual, staging rarely mirrors production, and hotfixes stack on top of hotfixes.
Adobe Commerce ships quarterly security releases with a formal common vulnerability exposure response program. Your compliance posture is maintained by Adobe, not your development team scrambling for workarounds.
Marketplace extensions install cleanly, upgrade predictably, and conflict-check automatically. Maintenance drops from weeks of custom patching to a single Composer update.
Company accounts, shared catalogs, negotiated pricing, and purchase order workflows are production-ready out of the box. No extension stack required.
Adobe Commerce Cloud ships with built-in CDN, Elasticsearch, Redis, and Varnish preconfigured. Core Web Vitals improvements are measurable on day one after migration.
Quarterly security bundles ship on a published rhythm. Your team plans maintenance windows instead of scrambling after a common vulnerability exposure drops with no official Magento 1 fix.
Cloud tooling, staged environments, and health checks make deploys repeatable. Roll forward and back without rebuilding the store from a backup tape.
From Signed Brief to Live Adobe Commerce Store in 8 Weeks
Every migration follows the same five-phase process. Your sprint review is scheduled on day one. The cutover plan is written before we touch a single stock-keeping unit.
Week 1
Discovery and Audit
Platform scan, extension inventory, data-entity mapping, risk brief.
Week 2
Data Mapping and Migration Plan
Entity-to-entity mapping, staging environment setup, rollback plan drafted.
Weeks 3 to 5
Core Build and Extension Migration
Theme rebuild or replatform, extension replacements, custom module ports, enterprise resource planning integrations.
Weeks 6 to 7
Quality Assurance and Client User Acceptance Testing
Full regression, load testing, client walkthrough on staging, sign-off checklist.
Week 8
Cutover and Go-Live
DNS cutover during low-traffic window, 48-hour post-launch monitoring, handoff documentation.
Everything That Lives in Magento Moves to Adobe Commerce
A full migration means every data entity, every custom behavior, every integration. Nothing stays behind because it was inconvenient.
Full Product Catalog
Every product, attribute, configurable option, custom option, category tree, and catalog price rule migrates with full data integrity. Up to 500,000+ stock-keeping units handled.
Customer Accounts
All customer profiles, address books, saved cards (tokenized), and loyalty points migrate. Customers log in on day one with zero resets.
Order History
Complete order archive migrates including statuses, items, totals, and invoice data. Customer service can see every past order from day one.
Custom Extensions
We audit every custom module, port critical logic to Adobe Commerce's service contracts, and replace deprecated extensions with current Marketplace equivalents.
Search Engine Optimization URLs and Redirects
Every category and product URL carries a 301 redirect. Canonical tags, sitemaps, and meta fields migrate intact. No ranking equity lost in cutover.
Enterprise Resource Planning and Back-Office Integrations
Existing enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and product information management integrations are reconnected on Adobe Commerce's REST and GraphQL API surface. Learn about our Adobe Commerce enterprise resource planning integration services for post-migration connectivity.
Store Config, Promotions, and Content Management System
Shopping cart rules, catalog price rules, customer groups and segments, content management system pages and blocks, widgets, transactional emails, taxes, carriers, payments, cron schedules: we carry over what your store relies on so checkout, admin behavior, and content match business rules on day one.
What Shapes Your Magento Migration Budget
Migration cost scales with complexity, not headcount. Three factors drive the majority of any quote. Every project receives a fixed-price proposal before work begins.
Store Complexity
Stock-keeping unit count, attribute depth, configurable product structures, and multi-store configurations all affect migration time. A 2,000-stock-keeping-unit simple catalog takes days. A 200,000-stock-keeping-unit configurable catalog takes weeks.
Custom Code
Custom modules with business logic that doesn't map to out-of-box Adobe Commerce behavior need rewriting to service contracts. We quote this exactly after the audit, not as a time-and-materials risk.
Theme Strategy
Porting a Magento 1 theme to Luma adds limited value. Most migrations benefit from a clean Hyva or Luma-based rebuild. Theme scope is defined and priced before any build starts.
Typical investment range
$15,000 to $60,000+
Scoped before work starts · line-by-line pricing · no commitment to receive a proposal
Submit brief → call within 48 hours → scoped proposal in 3 days → Sprint 1 within 1 week of sign-off
Migration Done. Revenue Scaled.
A large-scale ecommerce retailer of curtains, drapes, and window coverings was running on a fragmented platform stack with disconnected systems across inventory, orders, and customer data.
- Multi-channel operations without unified visibility
- Platform constraints blocking conversion improvements
- No real-time inventory or analytics across channels
annual revenue following platform migration and systems integration
- Platform migrated and enterprise resource planning integrated with Dynamics 365
- Custom multi-channel .NET commerce solution built and connected
- Real-time inventory, analytics, and marketing automation unified
Why Merchants Choose Redefine for Their Magento Migration
Generic migration agencies write the same scope for every store. We write yours from the audit data up.
Migrating from a different platform? See our Shopify to Adobe Commerce migration or BigCommerce to Adobe Commerce migration services.
Magento Migration Questions, Answered
Every extension in your Magento 1 store gets audited during Discovery Week. We categorize each one into three buckets: direct Marketplace replacement, custom port required, or functionality now native in Adobe Commerce. Extensions in the first bucket are swapped at near-zero cost. Custom ports are scoped and priced in the proposal. Native replacements (like business-to-business account management) are often included in the platform license, eliminating an ongoing extension cost entirely.
Not if the redirect map is built correctly. Every category and product URL gets a corresponding 301 redirect before cutover. Canonical tags, XML sitemaps, robots.txt, meta fields, and page titles migrate intact. We run a pre-cutover crawl comparison against the live Magento 1 site to catch any gaps before DNS switches. Short-term fluctuation of a few days is normal as Google recrawls; material ranking loss is a sign of a missed redirect, which our pre-launch quality-assurance prevents.
Eight weeks is our average for stores with under 50,000 stock-keeping units and a moderate extension set. Larger catalogs, heavily customized business logic, or a full theme rebuild alongside migration extend this to 12 to 16 weeks. We scope the timeline to your specific complexity during Discovery Week, so you have a hard date before Sprint 1 begins.
Most migrations fall between $15,000 and $60,000 for a production-ready Adobe Commerce store. The biggest cost driver is custom code: stores with zero custom modules come in at the lower end; stores with proprietary business logic, custom checkout flows, or heavily modified admin panels sit at the top. See our full Magento migration cost breakdown for factor-by-factor detail.
Magento 1 themes cannot be ported directly to Adobe Commerce 2. The frontend architectures are fundamentally different. Your options are a Luma-based theme rebuild (functional, faster to build), a Blank-based custom theme (more flexibility), or a Hyva frontend (best performance, best Core Web Vitals). We price each option and most merchants choose the rebuild as a migration milestone, since maintaining a legacy design on modern architecture produces diminishing returns.
Every migration ships with a documented, rehearsed rollback plan. If a critical issue is found within the first 48 hours, we can restore DNS to Magento 1 while we fix the issue. Go-lives happen during low-traffic windows (late Tuesday or Wednesday night). Post-launch, our team monitors error logs and order flow for 48 hours. We don't close the project the moment the site goes live. For ongoing protection, ask about our Adobe Commerce managed services.
Is This Magento Migration Right for Your Store?
Good fit
- You're running Magento 1 and worried about end-of-life security exposure
- You have 500 to 500,000 stock-keeping units and a functioning catalog structure worth preserving
- You need business-to-business capabilities, complex pricing rules, or multi-store architecture
- You want to be on a roadmapped, actively supported platform for the next 5+ years
Probably not the right fit
- You have fewer than 100 products and no foreseeable need for custom business-to-business or multi-store features
- You need a full visual rebrand alongside the migration and have no existing brand system
- Your primary platform concern is paid marketing reach rather than platform stability or compliance
Not sure where you sit? Tell us your situation and we'll be straight with you.
Start Your Magento to Adobe Commerce Migration
Submit your brief and we'll review your store, extension list, and data entities. Your scoped proposal arrives in three business days. No commitment required to receive it.
Related: Adobe Commerce migration services hub
Also relevant: Adobe Commerce development cost guide
What you get back
Inside your scoped proposal
- Fixed-price sprint breakdown with milestones, owners, and a target cutover window
- Extension and custom-code audit summary: replace, rebuild, or retire each item
- Data entity map covering catalog, customers, orders, and any edge cases we've flagged
Your Store Deserves a Platform That Actually Scales
You've kept your Magento store running longer than most. Now it's time to move it to a platform that will be supported, maintained, and improved for the decade ahead.
