Product combinations map differently
PrestaShop combinations become configurable products on Magento. The mapping needs thought, otherwise you lose stock records or create thousands of pointless SKUs.
Migrating from PrestaShop
Migrate from PrestaShop to Magento 2
PrestaShop is a decent platform. The ecosystem around it doesn't keep up with a growing store.
- URL structure preserved
- 1:1URL structure preserved
- native features on Magento
- 500+native features on Magento
- weeks for a complete migration
- 6-10weeks for a complete migration
Why people leave
The real reasons stores migrate off PrestaShop
If none of these apply to you, you probably don't need to migrate. We'll say so directly, on the call.
Paid modules add up
On PrestaShop, many basic features come from commercial modules, each with its own licence and update cycle. On Magento, a good share of them are native.
Major upgrades are painful
Moving between major PrestaShop versions frequently breaks modules and the theme. Plenty of stores stay stuck on old versions, carrying the security risk.
Multi-store and B2B are limited
If you run several stores or business customers on different pricing, Magento handles natively what PrestaShop needs modules and compromises for.
What's preserved
You lose nothing you've built
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.
- The URL structure, with 301s wherever it can't be preserved
- Every product, category and attribute
- Order history and customer accounts
- Metadata, structured data and blog content
- Product reviews
- Payment and courier integrations
What's genuinely hard
Where a migration from PrestaShop gets complicated
We put this on the page because it turns up in the project anyway. Better you learn it now than in week six.
Multi-language URLs need care
If the store runs in several languages, each variant needs its own redirects and correct `hreflang` on Magento.
How it runs
Five stages, and the store stays live
We build on staging, alongside your current store. The switch happens in a short, planned window.
Audit
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.
Plan
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.
Build
The Hyvä theme is built alongside the live store. We don't stop your sales and we don't work in production.
QA
Catalogue, filters, cart, checkout, payment methods, courier and ERP integrations. Tested on real devices, not just in an emulator.
Launch
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 PrestaShop
What merchants ask us before deciding
Including “is it actually worth it?”. Sometimes the answer is no.
Yes, if they're stored in PrestaShop. If you use an external review service, it reconnects on Magento with no data loss.
Ways to work together
Three ways to start
We don't sell rigid packages. These are the usual entry points — the final scope gets set once we've seen the store.
Magento audit
Find out exactly what you have and what it costs you, before changing anything.
- Who it's for:
- For existing stores, whoever built them. Useful even if you stay with your current agency.
- Duration:
- 5–7 working days
- Core Web Vitals measured on real field data
- Extension inventory, with Hyvä compatibility status
- Technical SEO audit: crawlability, indexing, structured data
- Funnel analysis through to the order
- A report with priorities, estimates and risks
- An hour going through it with the technical team
- Cel mai cerut
Hyvä migration
From stock theme to a store that loads in under 1.5 seconds.
- Who it's for:
- For working Magento 2 stores where speed is holding conversion back.
- Duration:
- 6–10 weeks
- Everything in the audit
- A Hyvä theme built on your visual identity
- Porting the extensions that touch the frontend
- Core Web Vitals optimised into the green
- QA on catalogue, checkout, payments, couriers and ERP
- Launch with 1:1 SEO parity and 30 days of monitoring
Takeover & maintenance
We take the store over from your current agency and keep it in shape.
- Who it's for:
- For stores left without a technical team, or unhappy with their current agency.
- Duration:
- Monthly retainer
- Handover of code, access and documentation
- Magento version upgrades and security patches
- Uptime and performance monitoring
- Development hours included every month
- An incident response SLA
- A monthly activity and performance report
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.
We migrate from other platforms too
Want to know what migrating from PrestaShop would involve?
Send us your store's address. We'll tell you what transfers simply, what takes work, and how long it would take — no obligation.
- Phone
- 0723 296 296
- contact@vonteq.ro
- Offices
- Headquarters — Bucharest
Strada Samuil Vulcan 12D, Bucharest, RomaniaSales office — Dubai
46 Al Marsa St, Dubai, UAE