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.
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
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.
Build in parallel
The Magento 2 store is built and configured alongside your live store, so trading is never disrupted while we work.
Migrate & re-wire
Data is migrated with integrity checks; every extension, bespoke module, and integration is rebuilt and reconnected on Magento 2.
Test & validate
Full QA across checkout, integrations, and the complete 301 redirect map, on a staging environment that mirrors production.
Zero-downtime cutover
We cut over with Orbit, our zero-downtime deployment tool, then run hypercare while the new store beds in.
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.