What if, one fine morning you come to know that Magento is ending support for Magento 1 finally in a week or two? Will that not be shocking for you? Will it not interrupt your business? Will, you not regret migrating your store to Magento 2 yet?
By June 2020, Magento 2 was supposed to have the entire migration process completed, but they had to delay it due to some resistance from within the industry. Now, Magento has announced that they would give an 18-month notice prior to revoking the Magento 1 support.
That means you have time in your hands to migrate your Magento store to Magento 2.
Why migrate to Magento 2?
If this question arises in you, it’s quite natural. Apparently, you have no issue as such with Magento 1 to migrate to Magento 2. Why then will you do so?
For “improvements,” to be precise!
Magento 2 unpacks brand-new architecture, coding structure, database design, layout, modules, and a set of fresh features. With the implementation and upgrade of your store to the new Magento platform, Magento 2 intends to future-proof the market needs.
Let’s take a quick look into the improvements in Magento 2 for you to know why you should take up Magento 2 migration as the top priority:
In comparison to Magento 1, Magento 2 offers faster performance, improved security, faster checkout speed, and the ability to handle a greater number of orders, among many others. Due to the speedier checkout process, the number of cart abandonment will be lower.
Cut to the cost for Magento 2 upgrade service and the required timeline.
We must consider these points because these are the two basic things you may be more curious about.
How to plan for migration to Magento 2?
Magento 2 migration if done without proper planning and roadmap will cost your online business journey severely. That’s why you need proper actions and planning to beat off some critical challenges before you initiate Magento 2 migration.
- Data migration
- 301 redirects and 404 errors
- Duplicate content issue
- Theme selection
- Selection of Magento migration service provider
Data Migration:
Data migration covers the migration of vital website elements, such as orders, product data like attributes, description, specifications, meta titles, tags, sales data, customer information like wishlist, profile details, etc. Do you want all these data elements migrated to your new Magento 2 website? Make a list of them well before you initiate the Magento 2 migration project.
Ask yourself some relevant questions before you begin:
- Do I need to migrate the entire data or carry forward some of them only?
- Am I okay with my current website appearance and don’t need changes for my new Magento 2 website?
- Are all extensions and modules on my current website necessary for my business?
As an answer to your first question, we must say that it’s a good opportunity for you to identify necessary and unnecessary website elements and add and remove them accordingly. Go to your admin panel for this and look for the essential extensions and modules for migration to Magento 2.
You may also opt for a consultation with Magento certified developers who can guide you and provide you with the Magento extension development services.
301 Redirects & 404 Errors:
Any loss of your hard-earned landing page authorities will be painful. Perhaps, you will not like to lose them, will you?
If no, then you have to move the same old URLs for products, categories, and CMS pages to your new Magento 2 site. In case of any worst scenario, when you have got the changed URLs, you will require a guided 301-redirection service to maintain SEO ranking intact and avoid losing the organic traffic.
In the course of this migration, 404 errors might also happen. To let this not happen to your project, keep watching your webmaster tool to find them out and implement 301-redirection.
Duplicate Content Issue:
When canonical URLs are not properly set up, the duplicate content issue may happen. It will be difficult for you to control multiple products, categories or dynamic URLs, which is why you have to properly implement canonical URLs. You may opt for expert guidance to set up all basic SEO perspectives for Magento 2 migration.
Theme selection:
Do you want the same appearance to reflect on your new Magento 2 website? If yes, select the same theme from the Magento marketplace and get them customized to suit the new Magento 2 environment. Copying the theme folders from Magento 1 and migrating that to Magento 2 environment won’t work. You will require the professional Magento theme customization service.
Magento Migration Service Provider Selection:
The number of Magento development providers that can provide Magento 2 migration service is less in number than the number of Magento 1 websites waiting for Magento 2 migration. Delaying any further for this migration service will take up your migration project which will subsequently impact negatively on your online business.
What does the Magento 2 migration service cost?
This is a crucial question. It depends on the size and customization needs for a project. The website that requires the development of a few new extensions will obviously cost higher than that requires none. That cost will include the service charges of developers as well as those of designers.
Based on the technical requirements of a store, the Magento 2 migration cost for a project is decided. If you need further help in calculating your budget and timeline, you may consult our Magento 2 certified developers for FREE here!
Wrap-Up:
Citytech has a team of Magento certified developers, which can help you guide, plan, analyze, and get started with cost-effective Magento migration services. Take a look into the list of Magento website development achievements by Citytech. So, why delay anymore to initiate your project? Delaying any further will make you run at the last minute, so don’t take that chance!
Get a FREE consultation to know your Magento 1 to Magento 2 migration cost and timeline.
