The processHow does a Magento migration work?
01Analysis & InventoryStore structure, product data, customer and order history - complete inventory of the existing Magento store.
02Goals & RequirementsFeature scope, design requirements, and scaling goals are defined together.
03Data MigrationExport from Magento, preparation, and clean import of all products, variants, customers, and orders into Shopify.
04Design & Store StructureTransfer or redesign of the design. Optimization of navigation, collections, and checkout.
05Testing & QAComplete test orders, verification of all payment methods, load times, and mobile display before go-live.
06Go-Live & Post-OptimizationControlled launch, monitoring in the first hours, performance and conversion optimization.
FAQCommon questions about the Magento migration
Is data lost when migrating from Magento to Shopify?
Not if the export is prepared beforehand. Products, variants, customers and orders are exported from Magento, prepared and imported into the Shopify data structure. Attributes, attribute sets and customer groups are given a target in products, variants, metafields and catalogues up front. At Sirocco, over 40,000 customer records came across along with the complete order history.
Will I lose my rankings?
A change of address almost always brings a phase of fluctuating positions, because search engines first have to assign the new addresses. Lasting losses do not come from the move itself, though, but from missing redirects, thinner target pages and catch-all redirects to the home page. Building the redirect list out of the Magento catalogue usually gets you through cleanly.
What happens to custom-built Magento features?
They are assessed one by one. Some can be replaced by native Shopify features, apps, Functions or metafields, some have to be rebuilt. The honest test is your backlog: if the special requests are mostly pricing rules, shipping logic and data enrichment, Shopify is enough. If they touch the order object or the catalogue model, that belongs before the build.
Why move away from Magento at all?
Usually from two directions. Technically, your own server administration, hosting and version upgrades as planned projects fall away. Commercially, running development and maintenance costs drop along with your dependency on specialised developers. The most common concrete trigger is Magento 1: it has had no official support for years, the store lives on agency patches, and you carry the risk yourself.
Is Magento called Adobe Commerce today?
Partly. The commercial edition is sold as Adobe Commerce and includes, among other things, the deep B2B feature set and the managed cloud variant. Alongside it, Magento Open Source still exists as a freely available version with public development. When someone says Magento, it is worth asking which of the two they mean.
Can Shopify handle our B2B business at all?
In many cases yes. Company profiles, customer-specific price catalogues, payment terms and order approvals cover classic wholesale. The limit is negotiated business: quotes, multi-step approvals and budget controls are native on Adobe Commerce and an integration topic on Shopify. So check first how your customers actually order, not which features appear on a datasheet.
How is it tested before go-live?
With complete test orders. All payment methods, load times and mobile rendering are checked. In parallel, the full redirect list runs against the staging environment: target status, target content and load behaviour of every redirect. The launch itself is controlled, with monitoring through the first hours and an eye on indexing reports and any 404s that surface.
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