Magento announced Magento 1 End of Life in June 2020. The announcement provoked urgency for the store owners who are still using older Magento 1.x versions. Earlier they announced to end support in 2018 but as there are thousands of websites are still running on M1 platforms, it was tough for them to migrate to Magento 2 this sooner. Understanding the scenario, they finally extended to end the support for Magento 1 in 2020. If your store is in Magento 1 versions, it's the best time to invest in Magento 1 to Magento 2 migration prior to 2020.
Magezend offers Magento 2 Migration Service to professionally upgrade your older Magento 1.x stores to the latest Magento 2.x versions in order to improve your website performance. We have performed over 50+ successful Magento 1 to Magento 2.
Why Migrate your Magento 1 store to Magento 2 ASAP?
We recommend our clients Magento migration from 1 to 2 due to the following reasons:
The end of support :
The main reason to switch to Magento 2 is that the platform representatives have officially announced that they will stop supporting Magento 1 by June 2020. The platform will no longer release updates for plug-ins and modules. Since the migration is a complex and long project, you should start planning the migration as soon as possible to have the migration project fully scoped and quoted in advance.
The security of an online store has a direct influence on your online store success. When Magento stops supporting Magento 1, the platform will stop releasing the updates for security patches and your customers’ data will be threatened.
- Falling out of compliance with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS). These global standards are set by card entities and apply to all merchants that process payments.
Consequences of not migrating:
Increased risk of data breaches, with possible damage to your brand and reputation.
Exposure of becoming a security target without any upgrade or security patches.
What are the Magento 2 advantages?
Around 50% of e-commerce stores, powered by Magento 1, consider Magento 2 migration because Magento 2 has the number of significant advantages described below.
Better customer experience
Improved mobile shopping
Design
Performance
Advanced reporting
Marketing automation
Better User Interface
Responsiveness & SEO friendly
Better Admin Panel
Better User Interface
Mobile Friendly Design & Theme Layout
Easy to upgrade new version
You Can use our My Migrate Tool Solution to Migrate Data faster and safe
Our Magento 2 Migration Process steps:
Data backup :
Since the migration to Magento 2 is very complex, it could lead to severe data loss. To keep your product and customer information, together with meta titles, tags and description, we advise you to make a backup of your current Magento website. For that, we use external hard drives, cloud storage or Zip Drive.
Extension Migration :
It is impossible to convert the Magento 1 module to Magento 2. To add Magento 1 extension to Magento 2 with the same features, you will need help from developers. For our clients, we find and integrate extensions with the same features developed for Magento 2. Alternatively, we can develop custom extensions for Magento 2 store from scratch.
Theme migration
As you might know, there is no way to convert the Magento 1 theme to Magento 2. Therefore, we offer our clients several options. We can set up a Magento 2 theme and customize it to replicate the design of a previous Magento store or develop a custom Magento 2 theme that will meet your business goals perfectly.
Data Migration:
The final step is to transfer your entire website’s data and adjust it to a new structure of Magento 2. Usually, we migrate customers from Magento 1 to Magento 2, as well as product description and prices, and other information. If your Magento 1 store is running on Magento 1.6+ edition, your e-commerce team can use My Magento 2 Data Migration Tool for automated migration. In other cases, to migrate data from Magento 1 to Magento 2, they will need to develop a custom plug-in.
After the data migration, we usually conduct thorough testing of the new online store to ensure that the important data was migrated correctly and the new online store is bug-free.
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