BigCommerce to Magento Migration for Stores That Have Outgrown SaaS

Open Source fits most merchants who want control, a large catalog, and multi-store without a license fee. Adobe Commerce adds the native B2B module (company accounts, shared catalogs, negotiable quotes, requisition lists, purchase-order approvals), Page Builder, customer segmentation, Live Search, cloud hosting options, and Adobe support, for an annual license that runs into five or six figures. If B2B workflows are why you are leaving BigCommerce, Adobe Commerce is usually right; if you mainly need control, a large catalog, or multiple stores, Open Source with a few vetted extensions often is. We also evaluate Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service, Adobe's SaaS edition, when you want Adobe's roadmap without running infrastructure.

They will after translation, not by import alone. Magento models products as simple, configurable, bundle, grouped, and virtual types with attribute sets, which is more expressive than BigCommerce's options and modifiers but different. We design the mapping first: which option sets become configurable attributes, which modifiers become custom options or bundles, and how swatches, pricing, and inventory attach. That document is approved before migration, so the catalog behaves the way your team expects.

They become your responsibility, or ours. Magento needs a properly sized host with Varnish and Redis, regular security patches, extension updates, and PHP upgrades on a schedule (PHP 8.2 reaches end of security support on December 31, 2026, and Adobe treats end-of-life PHP as a PCI risk). We set up managed hosting or Adobe Commerce Cloud, deployment pipelines, monitoring, and backups, and most clients keep us on a maintenance plan so the platform stays patched without their team running servers.

Yes, natively. Magento's website, store, and store-view hierarchy lets one instance serve multiple brands, countries, currencies, and languages with shared or separate catalogs, pricing, and themes, on one license and one admin. This is one of the most common reasons merchants leave BigCommerce, where each storefront is another subscription.

Accounts, addresses, customer groups, and order history transfer. Passwords do not: BigCommerce and Magento use different hashing algorithms and hashes cannot be converted, so each customer resets their password on first login through a flow we design and announce. B2B companies, roles, and pricing are recreated in Magento's company structure from your BigCommerce customer groups and price lists.

Not when the SEO workstream is done. We capture a baseline, keep your BigCommerce URL keys wherever Magento's structure allows so many URLs do not change at all, map the rest to 301 URL rewrites loaded before launch, carry over metadata and structured data, submit the sitemap, and watch Search Console daily for two weeks. Magento on Hyvä is also considerably faster than most BigCommerce themes, which helps rankings after the switch.

No. Magento is built, integrated, and tested on staging while BigCommerce keeps trading. At cutover we run a delta migration of the orders and customers created since the main load, switch DNS at a quiet hour, and keep BigCommerce read-only as a fallback.

Longer than a SaaS-to-SaaS move, because the architecture, product model, integrations, and hosting are being built, not configured. A typical project runs twelve to sixteen weeks; complex B2B setups with several ERP and PIM integrations can run twenty or more. We give a dated plan after the requirements phase.

Migration projects with a Hyvä storefront, product-model translation, extension and integration work, and SEO typically start in the mid five figures and scale with B2B complexity and integration count. After launch you pay hosting (from a few hundred dollars a month for Open Source to more for Adobe Commerce Cloud), the Adobe Commerce license if you choose it, and a maintenance plan. We quote a fixed price after requirements, and we tell you if the numbers do not justify the move.

Because Luma is heavy and slow, and a migration is the wrong moment to inherit it. Hyvä replaces Luma's front end with Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js, loads a fraction of the JavaScript, hits Core Web Vitals on mobile, and is far cheaper to customize. It has become the standard for new Magento storefronts, with a large ecosystem of compatible extensions, and it is what we build on unless a headless architecture is called for.