Your catalogue, customers, orders and rankings carried across to a supported, faster store.
Magento 1 has had no security fixes from Adobe since 30th June 2020, yet hundreds of UK stores still trade on it. We move Magento 1 and OpenMage stores to Magento 2 with a Hyvä storefront, carrying the data and the search rankings across, and we keep the old store patched and trading until the day of the switch.
What merchants on Magento 1 tell us when they first get in touch.
It still takes orders every day, so we have never been able to justify the move.
A working store is a fair reason to wait. The risk is that Magento 1 has had no security fixes from Adobe since June 2020, and attackers know which stores still use it.
Our payment provider has written to us about PCI compliance.
Card schemes expect supported, patched software. A dated migration plan, with the old store protected in the meantime, is usually what the provider needs to see.
We were quoted a fortune for a rebuild, so we did nothing.
The cost depends on what the store really needs. Much of an old Magento 1 store is no longer used, and Hyvä makes the new storefront quicker to build than it was a few years ago.
Six parts, planned together so that nothing is discovered late.
Every extension, custom feature, integration and scheduled job listed, with what replaces it on Magento 2.
Built on the current supported release, with a Hyvä storefront designed around your brand.
Products, customers, orders and content moved in rehearsals and checked against the old store.
Every indexed URL redirected, with titles, descriptions and structured data carried across.
Payments, shipping, stock, accounts and email marketing connected and tested end to end.
A final data transfer and the change of address at a quiet time, with the old store kept ready as a fallback.
A British dance-shoe maker selling worldwide, moved from a desktop-era store to a mobile-first Magento 2 store on Hyvä.
Core Web Vitals, real-user data (Chrome UX Report), mobile, 28 days to 31st October 2026. Marks show Google's thresholds.
Rowan built our new web site a short while ago, and has helped with the any upgrades and issues since, he's always quick to respond and gives a clear message without technical jargon. Highly Recommended Magento Web site developer.
The Magento 1 store keeps trading throughout. Customers notice a faster store, and nothing else.
Send us the store address. A senior engineer reads its release, support status, PHP, headers, hosting and any sign of a hijack.
Within two working daysThe extensions, custom code, integrations, data volumes and URLs, read from the code and the database.
Within a few working days of accessMagento 2 with a Hyvä storefront, the replacement modules and your custom features, built where you can see it.
Most of the projectTrial transfers of products, customers and orders, each one compared with the old store until the figures agree.
Alongside the buildYou place orders, check the admin and try your daily tasks on staging before anything goes live.
Before the switchA final transfer of the latest orders and customers, the redirects enabled, then orders, payments and rankings monitored closely.
A quiet hour agreed with youA migration is the one chance to stop carrying a decade of clutter. Your data comes with you; the parts that held the store back do not.
We price the work, not the clock.
No two Magento 1 stores are alike after years of trading, so we examine yours first and then give you a written plan and estimate. Where the scope is large, we agree it in phases so the estimate firms up as the detail does. Payment is usually spread across the length of the project.
Decades of collective experience across Magento 1, Magento 2, Adobe Commerce, Hyvä and Shopify. Very little about your store will be new to us.
You deal directly with the founder. No juniors learning on your store and no account managers between you and the people doing the work.
Small stores and large ones, described in their owners' words. The reviews are quoted on this site word for word.
Not by Adobe. Official support for Magento 1 ended on 30th June 2020, so Adobe has shipped no security fixes for it since. The community project OpenMage LTS continues to maintain a version of Magento 1, which is how many Magento 1 stores are still kept patched today.
Not in place. Magento 2 is a different application, so the move is a migration: a new Magento 2 store is built, and your products, categories, customers, orders, content and settings are transferred into it. Themes and extensions do not carry across and are replaced with their Magento 2 equivalents.
Yes. Customer accounts, addresses, order history, products, categories, reviews and CMS content are migrated, and customers sign in with the passwords they already have. The data is moved in rehearsals first and compared with the old store before the switch.
Not if the move is planned for it. Every indexed Magento 1 URL is mapped to its new address with a 301 redirect before the switch, page titles, descriptions and structured data are carried across, and Search Console is monitored afterwards. A faster Hyvä storefront usually helps rather than harms.
It depends on the size of the catalogue, the number of extensions to replace and how much of the old store was custom. A small store can be moved in a few weeks; a large one with integrations takes longer. The written plan gives you dates before you commit, and the Magento 1 store keeps trading until the day of the switch.
It is priced as a project once we have examined the store, and you get a written estimate before anything starts. Payment is usually spread across the length of the project. The first look and the estimate are free.
Yes, with care. We can move the store to OpenMage LTS or keep it patched, put a firewall in front of it and monitor it, so it stays as safe as an out-of-support platform can be while you plan. It is a bridge, and we will say plainly how long we think it should last.
Sometimes. If you sell a simple catalogue to consumers and would rather not maintain a platform, Shopify can be the better answer; if you rely on complex pricing, several stores or deep integrations, Magento 2 usually is. We do both, so we will tell you which suits your store. See Magento to Shopify migration.
Give us the address and we will read what the store already shows the world: release, support status, PHP, headers, hosting and any sign of a hijack. One page, by email, within two working days. Nothing is accessed or tested.
What we would do first. Apply the outstanding security fixes, then plan the upgrade to a supported release.