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Migrating from WooCommerce

Migrate from WooCommerce to Magento 2

WooCommerce holds up to a few thousand products. After that, every filter becomes a problem.

products handled comfortably on Magento
10k+products handled comfortably on Magento
URL structure preserved
1:1URL structure preserved
weeks for a complete migration
6-10weeks for a complete migration

Why people leave

The real reasons stores migrate off WooCommerce

If none of these apply to you, you probably don't need to migrate. We'll say so directly, on the call.

  • The catalogue outgrew what WordPress can carry

    WooCommerce stores products in WordPress post tables. Past a few thousand products with many attributes, filtering and search slow down noticeably, and the admin becomes painful to use.

  • You need native features, not ten plugins

    Customer-group pricing, multi-store, multi-currency, catalogue rules — native on Magento. On WooCommerce each one is another plugin to maintain and another point of failure at update time.

  • Every update is a lottery

    A mature WooCommerce store runs 30 to 40 plugins. A WordPress update can break any of them, and you find out from the orders that stop arriving.

  • Performance degrades with volume

    Magento has indexing and caching built for large catalogues. WooCommerce doesn't — it's papered over with cache plugins that hide the problem rather than solve it.

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 WooCommerce 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.

The attribute structure is completely different

WooCommerce uses WordPress taxonomies; Magento has its own attribute and attribute-set system. Mapping is the most laborious part of the migration, and it determines how filters will behave afterwards.

Blog content needs a separate decision

If the blog brings you traffic, it needs either a Magento solution or a separate WordPress install with the blog on a subdirectory. The choice affects SEO — we make it together, at audit stage.

Custom plugins get rewritten

Any functionality written specifically for WooCommerce gets reimplemented as a Magento module. We inventory them first so the estimate is real.

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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Build

    The Hyvä theme is built alongside the live store. We don't stop your sales and we don't work in production.

  4. QA

    Catalogue, filters, cart, checkout, payment methods, courier and ERP integrations. Tested on real devices, not just in an emulator.

  5. 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 WooCommerce

What merchants ask us before deciding

Including “is it actually worth it?”. Sometimes the answer is no.

  • Usually not. Under a few thousand products and with no B2B requirements, WooCommerce is cheaper to maintain. We'll tell you honestly if that's your situation — and what else would do more for you than a migration.

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
    Request the audit
  • 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
    Request an estimate
  • 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
    Discuss a takeover

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 WooCommerce 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.

Offices
Headquarters — Bucharest
Strada Samuil Vulcan 12D, Bucharest, Romania
Sales office — Dubai
46 Al Marsa St, Dubai, UAE

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