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Magento migration & re-platforming

Migrate to Magento 2 without losing data, rankings, or sleep

Magento 1 → 2, platform re-platforming, and Adobe Commerce edition moves — data, SEO, and integrations preserved, cut over with zero downtime. From the team appointed by PlentyMarkets to build the official Magento ERP connector.

Magento migration, explained

What is a Magento migration?

A Magento migration moves an online store onto Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce — most commonly from end-of-life Magento 1, but also from other platforms (Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, bespoke systems) or between Magento editions. Unlike a fresh build, a migration has to carry forward years of catalog, customer, and order data, recreate or replace extensions and customisations, and preserve hard-won SEO so traffic and revenue survive the switch.

Magento 1 reached end-of-life in 2020 — no security patches, no official support, and a shrinking pool of compatible extensions. Migrating to Magento 2 isn't a like-for-like port: the architecture, module system, and frontend all changed. Done badly it leaks rankings and breaks integrations; done well it's a clean platform reset that sets the store up for the next decade.

The risk isn't the data — it's everything around it

Exporting products and customers is the easy part. The hard parts are the ones that cost money: third-party extensions with no Magento 2 equivalent, custom code written for the Magento 1 architecture, theme markup that has to be rebuilt rather than ported, and the URL structure Google has indexed for years. Miss the redirect map and you can lose a large share of your organic traffic overnight — the single most common way a migration goes wrong.

How we de-risk it

We start with a full audit that inventories every extension, customisation, integration, and URL, and turns it into a fixed-scope plan. We migrate in parallel: the new store is built and validated alongside the live one, so trading is never interrupted, and we only cut over once everything passes. SEO is preserved with a complete 301 redirect map from every old URL to its new home, validated before go-live. And because we built Orbit, our zero-downtime deployment tool, the final cutover happens without a maintenance window.

What a Byte8 migration includes

Everything needed to land on Magento 2 cleanly — nothing left behind on a dead platform.

Discovery & audit

Full inventory of your catalog, extensions, customisations, integrations, and URL structure — with a fixed-scope migration plan and quote.

Data migration

Products, categories, customers, order history, reviews, and CMS content moved to Magento 2 with integrity checks.

Extensions & custom code

Magento 2 replacements or rebuilds for every extension and bespoke module written for the old architecture.

Theme & frontend

Theme rebuilt on Luma, Hyvä, or headless — a modern, fast frontend, not a pixel-pushed port of the old one.

SEO preservation

Complete 301 redirect map from every legacy URL, metadata carried over, and validation that rankings hold.

Integrations re-wired

ERP, accounting, payment, and shipping integrations reconnected — including PlentyONE, Sage, Xero, and FreeAgent.

How a migration runs

How it works

1
Audit & plan

We inventory the source store — catalog, extensions, customisations, integrations, and URL structure — and produce a fixed-scope migration plan, redirect strategy, and quote.

2
Build in parallel

The Magento 2 store is built and configured alongside your live store, so trading is never disrupted while we work.

3
Migrate & re-wire

Data is migrated with integrity checks; every extension, bespoke module, and integration is rebuilt and reconnected on Magento 2.

4
Test & validate

Full QA across checkout, integrations, and the complete 301 redirect map, on a staging environment that mirrors production.

5
Zero-downtime cutover

We cut over with Orbit, our zero-downtime deployment tool, then run hypercare while the new store beds in.

Two names, one team

Shipping Magento since the Magento 1 era — first as SoftCommerce, now as Byte8

We're a London-based commerce engineering studio that has been building and maintaining Magento stores across the Magento 1 and Magento 2 eras. The same team now ships the Pulsar, Orbit, Horizon, and Cargoman products — tools born from the real stores we run.

The Tile Depot → CTD Group

Built and maintained the Magento storefront for The Tile Depot's London branches for years — through to the business being acquired by CTD Group.

Barclays ePDQ

Appointed by Barclays to build the ePDQ payment gateway extension for Magento — bank-grade payment integration to their specification.

PlentyMarkets → PlentyONE

Appointed by PlentyMarkets (now PlentyONE) to build the official Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce ERP integration — still shipped today as the Byte8 PlentyONE Connector.

UK & EU merchants

Haka Kunz (Germany), Dampfi (Switzerland), Wills Vegan Shoes (London), and many more stores built and run across the UK and Europe.

Frequently asked questions

How long does a Magento 1 to 2 migration take?

Will I lose my SEO rankings when I migrate?

What happens to my Magento 1 extensions and custom code?

Can you migrate from Shopify, WooCommerce, or a custom platform to Magento?

Will my store go down during the migration?

Do you migrate order history and customer accounts?

How much does a Magento migration cost?

Ready to leave Magento 1 behind?

Send us your store and we'll scope the migration — data, SEO, integrations, and a zero-downtime cutover.