BigCommerce Elite Partner · Magento developers since 2012

Magento to BigCommerce Migration: Leave the Patching Behind, Keep Everything Else

Hosting bills, security patches, version upgrades, extension renewals, a developer retainer, and for Adobe Commerce a license priced on your revenue: that is the cost of ownership merchants leave when they move to BigCommerce. We move the catalog with its attribute sets, the customers with their groups, the full order history, the content, and every URL, rebuild the storefront on Stencil or Catalyst, rebuild B2B in B2B Edition, and cut over with nothing lost.

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MAK Digital at a glance

  • 15

    Years in eCommerce

    Fifteen years of building, migrating, and growing online stores for B2B and B2C brands.

  • 30+

    In-house specialists

    SEO, AI search, paid media, design, and development experts under one roof.

  • USA

    US-led, globally staffed

    A US-based core team you talk to directly, backed by vetted specialists worldwide.

  • 4.9

    Client rating

    Average score across 650+ verified client reviews.

Magento to BigCommerce

What We Do to Move Your Store to BigCommerce

Magento's EAV catalog, product types, customer groups, price rules, and store views all have BigCommerce equivalents, but none map one to one; the migration is a translation, and it has to be designed before anything moves. Here is what ours covers, run by the BigCommerce development team with Magento engineers on it.

  • Magento Store Audit & Fit Assessment

    Magento 1 or 2, Open Source or Adobe Commerce: attribute sets, product types (simple, configurable, bundle, grouped, virtual, downloadable), store views, customer groups, price rules, extensions, custom modules, integrations, and the cost you carry today, mapped to BigCommerce and priced. If BigCommerce cannot hold something you depend on, we say so first.

  • BigCommerce Plan & Store Setup

    Growth, Scale, or Performance (the plan names since June 2026) sized to your volume and API needs, an embedded payment provider or your own gateway with the 2026 Open Payment Provider Fee understood, tax and shipping, and Multi-Storefront for the store views that need to stay separate.

  • Catalog & Attribute Translation

    Attribute sets become custom fields and metafields; configurable products become products with options (250 values each, 600 SKUs); bundles and grouped products become pick lists and product groupings; categories and brands moved with images and inventory. Counts reconciled product by product.

  • Customers, Orders & History

    Customers with addresses and groups, store credit, and the complete order history with statuses, invoices, and shipments imported so reporting and support continue. Magento password hashes do not transfer; a reset campaign is planned.

  • Storefront on Stencil or Catalyst

    A Luma or Hyvä theme cannot be ported, so we design and build on Stencil, or on Catalyst (Next.js) for headless speed, with page builder regions your team edits without a developer. See BigCommerce web design.

  • B2B Edition Rebuild

    Customer groups, shared catalogs, tier pricing, and Adobe Commerce B2B companies, approvals, quotes, and requisition lists rebuilt in BigCommerce B2B Edition: company hierarchies, buyer roles, price lists, quotes, purchase orders, net terms, and quick order.

  • Price Rules & Promotions

    Catalog and cart price rules translated into BigCommerce promotions, price lists, and customer-group pricing; coupon codes carried across with their usage limits.

  • Extensions, Apps & Integrations

    Each extension and custom module matched to a BigCommerce app, a native feature, or a custom integration through the open REST and GraphQL APIs: ERP, PIM, OMS, 3PL, search, subscriptions, reviews, loyalty, and marketplaces, tested with real orders.

  • SEO Migration, Redirects & Cutover

    A crawl and rankings baseline, every Magento URL and URL rewrite mapped one to one (BigCommerce keeps your structure), metadata, canonicals, and schema carried across, 301s loaded before launch, a rehearsed cutover with a delta sync, DNS at a quiet hour, and two weeks of daily monitoring, then support if you want it.

Why merchants move

What Stores Gain by Moving From Magento to BigCommerce

We build on both and we are honest about it: Magento remains the right platform for stores whose pricing logic, integrations, or data residency need a platform they own, and we run that route too. For most mid-market merchants, the cost of ownership no longer earns its keep: an Adobe Commerce license from roughly $22,000 a year upward, hosting, patching, upgrades, and a retainer add up to three-year totals in the hundreds of thousands. BigCommerce gives up some control and gets rid of nearly all of that.

  • No Hosting, Patching, or Upgrades

    A hosted platform with security, scaling, PCI, and releases handled; the developer time you spent keeping Magento alive goes to growth instead.

  • A Known Monthly Cost

    A plan price instead of a license on revenue plus hosting plus a retainer, with embedded payments carrying no platform fee.

  • Native B2B Without Modules

    B2B Edition replaces the extensions and custom modules that handled companies, price lists, quotes, and purchase orders, and it updates itself.

  • Open APIs, Headless Ready

    REST and GraphQL with high limits on the Performance plan and Catalyst for a Next.js storefront, so the integration depth you had on Magento is not lost, just hosted.

  • Multi-Storefront for Store Views

    Up to eight storefronts on Stencil and fifteen on Catalyst from one catalog and admin, for the regions, languages, and brands that lived in Magento store views.

  • Catalog Depth That Holds

    250 values per option, 600 SKUs per product, 200 custom fields, 250 metafields, and categories to 16,000 deep; most Magento catalogs translate without compromise, and the audit flags any that would not.

On every Magento to BigCommerce migration

Our Migration Standards

Whatever the Magento version or edition, these hold on every migration we run:

  • A written fit assessment, including anything BigCommerce cannot hold, before any commitment
  • Every product, variant, customer, and order reconciled by count and spot-checked by record
  • Every indexed URL and URL rewrite redirected one to one, loaded and tested before the DNS switch
  • Titles, descriptions, canonicals, alt text, and structured data carried across
  • Core Web Vitals passing on the new storefront on launch day
  • B2B companies, price lists, and terms verified with real buyer accounts before go-live
  • A password-reset campaign planned, because password hashes never transfer
  • Zero downtime: the Magento store keeps selling until the final delta sync
  • Fixed price after the audit; no surprises

Related Migration Services

Another direction, or BigCommerce from a different platform? We run these routes too, and the free audit builds your task list in two minutes.

How a Magento to BigCommerce Migration Runs

Six steps that keep rankings, customers, B2B, and integrations through the move: an audit and fit assessment first, the data model translated before anything moves, the storefront built in parallel, SEO as its own workstream, a rehearsed cutover, and two weeks of watching afterward. Typically ten to sixteen weeks.

  • Audit & Fit Assessment

    Inventory of the Magento store, its extensions, modules, and integrations; the translation to BigCommerce; the plan recommendation; a fixed price. Start with the free audit.

  • Data Model & Test Migration

    Attribute sets, product types, customer groups, price rules, and store views translated; a full test migration into staging; counts reconciled and corrected.

  • Storefront Build

    Stencil or Catalyst storefront designed and built in parallel, with the custom features your modules provided.

  • B2B, Integrations & SEO

    B2B Edition configured and verified with real accounts, integrations connected and tested with real orders, the redirect map built and loaded, schema and meta in place.

  • Rehearsal & Cutover

    A rehearsed cutover with a delta sync, DNS switched at a quiet hour, sitemap submitted, the Magento store kept until the last order is confirmed.

  • Monitor & Hand Off

    Daily checks of rankings, crawl errors, orders, and speed for two weeks, training for your team, and the old servers decommissioned once everything is verified.

What Migrated Clients Say

Stores that left self-hosted platforms for BigCommerce with us and kept everything that mattered.

  • Webeyecare

    Webeyecare

    “If you're a BigCommerce user, hitting up MAKDigital is a smart move. It's a hive of skilled web designers and coders. Rest assured, they'll deliver what you're looking for.”

  • Anthony DiCicco

    ProDryers

    “MAK is literally my go-to developer for Volusion and BigCommerce. I have used Mary many times and will continue to do so. I have not found a more reliable and knowledgeable person to handle all of our technical issues with both platforms. I made the mistake of going with a company that I thought was bigger and better. I ended up having to hire MAK to fix all of their mistakes that would have cost me hundreds of thousands in lost sales. It's important to have a full understanding of the database structures and business rules of each platform. MAK really understands the fine details behind these platforms. MAK has truly earned my trust for life.”

  • Kirsten Logan

    Clava.com

    “Mary is the person you need to know and work with if you have a Volusion site. She is incredibly knowledgeable about all things Volusion and we couldn't have set up our store the way we wanted to without her, and it looks great! Thank you Mary and Mak Digital.”

Tired of patching Magento?

Send us your store URL. We will reply with a fit assessment, what BigCommerce can and cannot hold from your Magento setup, the task list, and a fixed price.

Magento to BigCommerce Migration Questions

Versions and editions, cost, catalog translation, B2B, extensions, SEO, downtime, and timelines.

Why move from Magento to BigCommerce in 2026?

Cost of ownership and maintenance. Hosting, security patches, version upgrades, extension renewals, a developer retainer, and for Adobe Commerce a license priced on revenue add up to three-year totals in the hundreds of thousands for a mid-market store. BigCommerce removes the servers and most of the retainer, keeps native B2B and open APIs, and charges a known plan price. Stores that need Magento's custom logic or data residency should stay, and we will say so.

Do you migrate Magento 1 as well as Magento 2 and Adobe Commerce?

Yes. Magento 1 has been end of life since 2020 and is the most common source we see; Magento 2 Open Source, Mage-OS, and Adobe Commerce (including B2B) migrate the same way with their own mappings.

How does the EAV catalog translate?

Attribute sets become custom fields and metafields; configurable products become products with options (250 values each, 600 SKUs per product); bundles and grouped products become pick lists and groupings; downloadable products become digital products. The audit flags any product that would exceed a limit so it is planned, not discovered.

What happens to customer groups, tier pricing, and B2B?

Customer groups and tier pricing become customer groups and price lists; Adobe Commerce B2B companies, approvals, quotes, requisition lists, and purchase orders are rebuilt in BigCommerce B2B Edition with company hierarchies, buyer roles, net terms, and quick order, and verified with real buyer accounts before launch.

What happens to my extensions and custom modules?

Each is matched to a BigCommerce app, a native feature (reviews, cart recovery, shipping quotes, promotions, and faceted search are built in), or a custom integration through the APIs; the audit lists every one and its replacement before you commit.

What about transaction fees?

BigCommerce charges nothing on its embedded payments and, from June 2026, an Open Payment Provider Fee of roughly 2, 1, or 0.6 percent by plan on third-party gateway, offline, and purchase order orders. We model it against your current gateway and Magento costs in the fit assessment.

Do customer passwords transfer?

No; Magento password hashes cannot be imported. Customers, addresses, groups, and history move; we plan a reset campaign with your email tool so returning customers log in once and continue.

Will I lose rankings?

Not with the SEO workstream we run: a crawl and rankings baseline, one-to-one redirects for every indexed URL and URL rewrite into a structure BigCommerce lets you keep, metadata and schema carried across, and daily monitoring for two weeks. Badly redirected migrations lose 20 to 50 percent of organic traffic; ours are built to lose none.

Is there downtime?

No. The Magento store sells until the final delta sync; DNS switches at a quiet hour with redirects already live, and the old store stays available until the last order is confirmed on BigCommerce, after which the servers are decommissioned.

How long does it take and what does it cost?

Ten to sixteen weeks for most stores, longer with enterprise B2B, many store views, or ERP in the critical path. Cost depends on catalog complexity, B2B scope, the storefront, and integrations; the quote is fixed after the audit, and some BigCommerce migrations qualify for our free migration offer.

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