Magento migration services

Audit

Prior to migrating online stores from Magento 1 to Magento 2 and rendering related Magento services it is vital to get an in-depth understanding of the requirements surrounding Magento design, functionality, Magento integration, and, ultimately, time and budget constraints, as these will impact the scope of the project.

Besides, we delve deep into the way your business operates both internally and externally to see whether there are any grounds for cost-effective and rational automation or enhancement of your existing business processes by virtue of custom functionality or ready-made extensions.

This analysis allows us to draft a sound Magento migration guide tailored to your objectives and needs, along with a timeline and the costs involved, to be able to commence the project strictly in line with your expectations and successfully migrate you to the latest Magento version.

Environment setup

Changing providers

Oftentimes IaaS or PaaS vendors just can’t provide that top-notch experience you’re after.

Be it poor performance, distant physical location of the data center, absence of transparency from tech support, missing functionality, inability to scale along with your business or high price, we’ll be happy to lend you a hand — whatever the reason behind your will to change your server environment, we have dedicated engineers to help you out with making a seamless switch to a new platform of choice.

Server configuration

Our DevOps engineers thoroughly study current system loads, while accounting for your business growth expectations and predictions — all that to select an optimal server configuration that would be scalable and efficient to support your needs in the long run.

This approach allows us to ensure that your Magento 2-based store will provide the required functionality and operate just as it’s supposed to, and also will help you calculate the total cost of ownership and plan the budget accordingly.

• DigitalOcean

  Because of one click configuration, vast geographic coverage, and affordable pricing, DigitalOcean is the platform of our choice for small yet high performance instances with common ecommerce features.

• Amazon Web Services

  The largest network of Amazon’s globally distributed data centers and manifold SDKs enable us to implement large scale and load‑resistant Magento stores with sophisticated functional features.

• Magento-specific hostings

  We’re also accustomed to working with a range of Magento-specific hostings, including Nexcess and MageMojo. Fear not, we’ll be able to roll your ecommerce store on any other IaaS or PaaS given we have access and sufficient permissions.

Magento 2 migration service for your database

Primary migration

It all starts with the primary database migration: our developers make a copy of the existing Magento 1 database and attempt to migrate to Magento 2, while documenting all the issues and trying to resolve them as they arise, preventing any data loss whatsoever.

Once done, we provide you with access to our staging environment where you can double-check everything to make sure that the Magento migration attempt went well. If so, we set up triggers in your existing store’s database and migrate your store settings, customer, product data, web content, and files to a clean unaltered Magento 2 installation.

Delta migration

To safeguard uninterrupted flow of your business processes, Staylime keeps the source site alive while we provide the Magento migration services and the end users keep making changes in the source system. In this context, continuous data matching between the source and target is vital.

Once the functionality and the design are there and you’re ready to make a switch from your old store to the new one, Staylime runs the delta migration process through a script automating comparison of the source and destination databases, transferring the incremental changes that were made to your store from the moment the primary migration was complete.

Design migration

Given the architectural differences of Magento 1 and 2, their themes are not interchangeable or transferable.

SEO settings migration

It is of vital importance for any ecommerce business to retain and yet better to multiply your Magento SEO potential when migrating, which is especially difficult in scenarios where custom SEO functionality was introduced to Magento’s core.

Our SEO experts analyze your current configuration, and study existing extensions and customizations to fully understand the SEO-related complexities behind Magento migration services rendered

Advanced Product
Options migration

As part of the Magento mirgation service Staylime transfers complex product configuration structures of the Mageworx’s Advanced Product Options extension, retaining all product/template assignments.

We port all data, including custom pricing, inventory, color, image options, as well as dependencies of a multitude of product variations. As a result, you get an exact replica of your product catalog on the new Magento 2 store.