Upgrade to Magento 2
Seamless migration from Magento 1
There are many reasons to upgrade your ecommerce store from Magento 1 to Magento 2 — better security, faster speeds, more robust features. Perhaps most importantly, Magento will stop supporting Magento 1 in June 2020, which is only a few months away.
Time to move? We agree. But we also know that website migrations can be complex. That’s why you need a partner you can trust. We have the technical expertise, strategic thinking, and years of experience to migrate your Magento 1 store to Magento 2 with nearly no downtime and absolutely no data loss.
The key signs of a successful migration? Minimal downtime with no data loss. As a Magento Solution Partner, we have the Magento knowledge, extensive experience with Magento migrations, and tried-and-true process to accomplish just that.
Here are the steps:
We start with a Magento 2 Migration Audit (M2MA). This means diving into your code, combing through your data, and asking a lot of questions to learn about your business and your ecommerce store. This way, we can develop a migration plan that’s custom-tailored to your situation. This is also a great time to think about your web design and SEO strategy.
We’ll evaluate the functionality of your current store and any extensions you’re using to determine if they truly meet your needs. After this evaluation, we’ll know which Magento extensions you need for your store, and we can make a plan to find or build versions that are compatible with Magento 2.
At this point, we’ll also create a plan for avoiding data loss. Maintaining your product, customer, and overall store data is likely the most critical piece of a migration. Losing data can quickly turn a happy customer into a frustrated one. And that’s not to mention the work you put into perfecting your catalog.
Good documentation is critical for you to efficiently run your ecommerce store after the migration and effectively maintain it into the future. That’s why we’re obsessive about providing you with useful, clear, detailed documentation about your store functionality, configurations, strategy, how-tos, and more.
During the build phase, Vonnda’s core team of talented, experienced developers will build out your new Magento 2 store. Our goals during this phase? To build you an ecommerce store that gives you all the functionality you need and more, customize the experience for your business and your customers, and deliver a website that exceeds the speed and performance of your old site.
Communication is a critical part of the build phase. We’ll provide key dates and milestones so you can review progress, and be in constant communication throughout the build.
Moving day is here! We’ll plan the launch of your new ecommerce store for a time that will have the least impact on your sales and customer experience. After launch, we provide dedicated support for your team for two weeks. This will ensure that your website is operating at peak performance and you’re comfortable navigating your new store.
While the primary goal was migrating the website — along with all the customer data, product information, and order histories — from Open Source Magento 1 to Commerce Edition (Enterprise) Magento 2, Samuel Hubbard Shoes and Vonnda both recognized that there were opportunities to make the site more robust, easier to use, and more tailored to their customers.
