Migrating from Magento 1
Magento 1 has had no security patches since June 2020. Every extra month is risk you're choosing to carry.
Why people leave
If none of these apply to you, you probably don't need to migrate. We'll say so directly, on the call.
Magento 1 stores still online are known targets. Without official patches, any new vulnerability stays open permanently. Card skimmers on Magento 1 are a category of attack in their own right.
Running an unsupported platform can complicate your PCI DSS audit and your relationship with your payment processor.
Extensions are no longer updated, and the developers still working on Magento 1 are fewer and more expensive every year.
What's preserved
The most common fear about a migration is losing organic traffic. It's justified — and that's exactly why we treat it as the most important part of the project.
What's genuinely hard
We put this on the page because it turns up in the project anyway. Better you learn it now than in week six.
The code doesn't transfer. Themes, extensions and customisations get rebuilt. Data migration has official tooling, but the code is a new project — that's the reality, and it's better to know it on day one.
For each one we check whether a Magento 2 equivalent exists, whether the functionality became native, or whether it has to be written. The complete list comes from the audit.
After years of development, Magento 1 stores carry layers of customisation nobody remembers. We find them beforehand, not at launch.
How it runs
We build on staging, alongside your current store. The switch happens in a short, planned window.
We inventory the extensions that touch the frontend, measure Core Web Vitals on real field data, and identify what gets ported, what gets rewritten and what gets removed.
You get the extension list with Hyvä compatibility status, a staged estimate and the risks we can see. This is where it's decided whether the migration is worth it — and we'll tell you honestly if it isn't.
The Hyvä theme is built alongside the live store. We don't stop your sales and we don't work in production.
Catalogue, filters, cart, checkout, payment methods, courier and ERP integrations. Tested on real devices, not just in an emulator.
The URL structure stays untouched, metadata and structured data transfer one-to-one, and Search Console is watched daily through the first weeks.
Questions about migrating from Magento 1
Including “is it actually worth it?”. Sometimes the answer is no.
You can, but the risk sits at the application layer, where a firewall doesn't protect you. Community patches exist, but they don't cover everything and they don't solve the ecosystem problem. Our recommendation is to migrate; if the budget doesn't allow it now, we'll tell you what to secure in the meantime.
Ways to work together
We don't sell rigid packages. These are the usual entry points — the final scope gets set once we've seen the store.
Find out exactly what you have and what it costs you, before changing anything.
From stock theme to a store that loads in under 1.5 seconds.
We take the store over from your current agency and keep it in shape.
We don't show fixed prices because a store with 200 products and one with 40,000 don't cost the same. You get a staged estimate after the first conversation, with nothing attached.
Send us your store's address. We'll tell you what transfers simply, what takes work, and how long it would take — no obligation.
