Magento was chosen for a big shop. Now the upkeep is big too.
A powerful system that needs a strong server, someone who knows it, and nerve at every upgrade. I move your catalogue, customers, orders and Google rankings to a custom web shop built around what your shop actually uses.
Where it starts to cost. Not on day one, but as the business grows.
- Cost
Upkeep for a system, not for a shop
Magento needs a strong server, caching layers and a separate search engine next to the database, plus someone who knows how to keep it all running. That cost is there even in a quiet month.
- Upgrades
Every upgrade is a project
Security patches come out regularly, and applying them alongside dozens of extensions and customisations means testing everything again. Magento 1 officially reached end of life in 2020, and shops still on it run without patches.
- Extensions
Extensions that don't get along
Extensions and customisations from different authors change the same parts of the system. The conflict stays hidden until some unrelated change sets it off.
- Editing
An admin that needs training
Attributes, attribute sets, store scopes, indexes. Adding a product is a job for someone who knows the system, not for the person who knows the product.
What moves from the catalogue to the last order.
- Products
The catalogue with attributes and configurable products
I take products, configurable products with their variants, attributes, categories, prices and images through the Magento REST API or straight from the database. Attributes nobody uses stay behind.
- Customers and orders
Purchase history comes with you
Customers, addresses, customer groups and order history move to the new shop. If the protected password records can't be carried over, customers set a new password at first sign-in, with an email that explains why.
- URLs
Magento's URLs become 301 redirects
Magento already keeps a table of URL rewrites for products and categories. I build the 301 redirects to the new URLs from it, with meta titles and descriptions, so your Google rankings stay.
- Switchover
Orders don't stop for a day
I build the new shop alongside. Before the switch I run a final transfer of orders and stock, then change the DNS. You shut down the old server once everything is checked.
Send me your website. You'll get advice and two time slots.
Enter your address and a few details. An email with advice for your platform and two open slots for a call arrives straight away, and I'll look at your site personally and get back to you.
- Advice for your platform you can act on right now, without me
- A personal look at your website and an idea for your business
- Two open slots for a 30-minute call, one click to book
Frequently asked questions
It's not too late to move, it's too late to stay. Data comes out of Magento 1 straight from the database, and that's a common, well-trodden route.
Rarely. First we list what the shop really uses: stock across warehouses, B2B price lists, multiple stores. That is what gets built, not everything Magento can do.
They stay, they just connect directly to the new shop. I first list everything Magento sends and receives today, so no connection disappears in the move.
Not if the migration is done properly. Every old URL gets a 301 redirect, meta titles and descriptions move with it, and after the switch I watch Search Console until the index settles. A drop in traffic after a migration is a sign nobody did that work, not a consequence of the migration.
It depends on the scope and on whether a redesign comes with it. Roughly the same as a build: a website 3–6 weeks, a web shop 6–12 weeks. The exact timeline is in the proposal, before work starts.
No. You cancel the old platform only once the new site is live and we've checked that content, redirects and, for a shop, orders are all in place. Until then the old site runs as it always has.
Because migrating a five-page website and a shop with thousands of products are not the same job. After a call and a look at your site you get a fixed proposal, and that figure holds until the end of the project.
The site comes with maintenance: updates, security monitoring, daily backups and uptime monitoring. Alongside it comes SEO + AEO, so after the move the site doesn't stand still but gets found by search engines and AI models.