WordPress and Magento developers since 2012

Magento to WooCommerce Migration: Keep the Ownership, Lose the Weight

Magento Open Source is free to license and expensive to run: a server stack with its own search service and cache layers, security patches on a schedule, upgrades that need a specialist, and a shrinking pool of developers to do the work. WooCommerce keeps what you liked about Magento, open code you own and no platform fees, on a stack a fraction of the size. We move the catalog, the customers, the order history, the CMS content, and every URL, and build the store on WordPress so your own team can run it.

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8 to 12: Weeks for most catalogs
$0: License and platform fees
1:1: Redirects for every URL

15
Years in eCommerce
Fifteen years of building, migrating, and growing online stores for B2B and B2C brands.
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In-house specialists
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Magento to WooCommerce

What We Do to Move Your Magento Store to WooCommerce

Both platforms are open source and written in PHP, which makes this the most direct of the Magento routes, but the data models differ: Magento keeps attributes in EAV tables and URLs in a rewrite table, while WooCommerce stores products as posts with attributes, variations, and custom fields. Our WordPress development team scripts the translation and reconciles every count.

Magento Audit & Right-Sizing Plan
Catalog size and shape, order volume, extensions, custom modules, store views, customer groups, and what the stack costs you each month, measured against what WooCommerce handles well. The plan says what moves as it is, what gets simpler, what needs an extension, and, if your catalog or logic is too heavy for WooCommerce, that too.
Hosting & Stack Design
Managed WordPress hosting sized to your traffic and order volume, with object caching, a CDN, a web application firewall, staging, and daily backups, and High-Performance Order Storage switched on before the first import. Most stores leave behind several servers and services and land on one managed environment.
Catalog & Product Type Migration
Simple, virtual, downloadable, and grouped products map to the same types in WooCommerce; configurable products become variable products with variations; bundles use the Product Bundles extension. Attribute sets become global attributes and custom fields, and categories, images, inventory, and tier prices come with them, counted product by product.
Customers, Orders & Passwords
Customers with addresses and groups, and the full order history with statuses, invoices, shipments, and credit memos, imported so reporting and support continue. Because WordPress is open, we can carry the Magento password hashes across and verify them at first sign-in, so most customers log in with the password they already have; a reset email covers the rest.
Storefront on a Block Theme
A custom block theme designed for your catalog, with product, category, cart, and checkout templates your team can adjust in the site editor, built to pass Core Web Vitals on mobile. Luma and Hyvä layouts are redesigned, never copied pixel for pixel. See WooCommerce web design.
CMS Pages, Blocks & Blog
Magento CMS pages and static blocks rebuilt as WordPress pages and reusable blocks, any external blog brought onto the same domain, and landing pages your marketing team can now build without a ticket. This is where WordPress pays back fastest, and our content team can pick it up from launch.
Extensions to Plugins, Kept Lean
Each Magento extension matched to core WooCommerce, a well-maintained plugin, or a small piece of custom code. We keep the list short on purpose: 91 percent of the WordPress vulnerabilities reported for 2025 were in plugins, so every plugin has to justify its place and has an owner for updates.
Price Rules, Customer Roles & Wholesale
Catalog and cart price rules rebuilt as coupons, sale schedules, and dynamic pricing rules; customer groups become user roles with role-based prices, tax settings, and catalog visibility; wholesale ordering, quotes, and net terms come from a B2B extension configured and tested with real accounts.
SEO Migration, Redirects & Launch
WordPress lets us shape product and category permalinks close to the paths Magento used, which keeps the redirect map short. Everything else, including the .html URLs and every row in the rewrite table, gets a one-to-one 301, with metadata, canonicals, and schema carried over, a rehearsed cutover, and ongoing support for updates and security afterward.

Why merchants move

What Stores Gain by Moving From Magento to WooCommerce

This move is about fit. Magento was designed for large catalogs, several storefronts, and complex pricing, and it charges for that capacity in infrastructure and specialist time whether you use it or not. A store with a few thousand products and a small team is paying for an engine it never opens up. WooCommerce runs the same business on far less, and you still own every line.

A Lighter Stack to Run
One managed WordPress environment replaces the application servers, search service, cache layers, and deployment pipeline. Hosting bills and the hours spent keeping it all healthy both fall.
Still Open Source, Still Yours
No license, no platform fee on sales, no revenue thresholds, and no vendor deciding your roadmap. The code, the database, and the customer data stay on infrastructure you control.
An Editor Marketing Already Knows
Pages, posts, landing pages, and product content in the WordPress block editor, with the SEO tools your team has probably used before. Content stops waiting on developers.
A Larger Bench of Developers
WordPress developers are far easier to find and to replace than Magento specialists, so you are never dependent on one person who knows how the store was built.
Orders That Scale Further Than You Expect
High-Performance Order Storage keeps orders in their own tables and processes them up to five times faster than the old post-based storage, which is why WooCommerce now holds order volumes that once needed Magento.
Where Magento Still Wins
Hundreds of thousands of SKUs, many storefronts on one instance, multi-warehouse inventory, or deep B2B workflows are Magento's ground. If that is you, stay and upgrade, or move to a hosted platform with Magento to BigCommerce.

On every Magento to WooCommerce migration

Our Migration Standards

These are the commitments behind every Magento store we rebuild on WooCommerce:

A right-sizing plan in writing, including the cases where WooCommerce is too small for the store
Hosting sized and load tested before launch, with staging, backups, and a firewall in place
Every product, variation, customer, and order reconciled by count against Magento
Existing passwords honored at first sign-in wherever the hashes allow, with a reset path for the rest
Every indexed URL and rewrite redirected one to one and crawled before the DNS change
A short, documented plugin list, each entry with a reason and an update owner
High-Performance Order Storage enabled and verified with the imported order history
Core Web Vitals passing on mobile the day the store opens
Updates, backups, and security monitoring scheduled from the first week, by us or by your team

Related Migration Services

Still deciding where your Magento store should go, or heading to WooCommerce from another platform? Compare the neighboring routes, or let the free audit list the tasks for your pair of platforms.

How a Magento to WooCommerce Migration Runs

Six steps from a heavy stack to a lean one: size the destination, script the data translation, build the theme and content, replace extensions with as few plugins as possible, launch behind a tested redirect map, and keep the store updated afterward. Eight to twelve weeks for most catalogs under 50,000 SKUs.

Audit & Right-Sizing
What you have, what it costs, what WooCommerce will hold, and a fixed price. Begin with the free migration audit.
Hosting & Data Scripts
The managed environment provisioned, the EAV-to-WooCommerce mapping written, and import scripts run against a copy of your Magento database until the counts match.
Theme & Content
The block theme designed and built while CMS pages, blocks, and blog posts are rebuilt in the editor.
Plugins, Pricing & Integrations
The plugin list finalized, price rules and customer roles configured, and payment, tax, shipping, ERP, and email integrations tested with real orders.
Redirects & Launch
Permalinks set, the redirect map loaded and crawled, a final sync of customers and orders, and DNS changed at a quiet hour.
Maintain & Improve
Daily monitoring for two weeks, then scheduled updates, backups, and security checks, with speed work and SEO available when you want them.

What Migrated Clients Say

Merchants who moved to a platform that fits the size of their business and kept the customers and rankings they had earned.

Ryan
TYTY Nursery, tytyga.com
★★★★★
“From the initial consultation to the final launch, this team was a game-changer for our e-commerce venture. They provided invaluable insights and strategic guidance that elevated our store to new heights. Their attention to detail and innovative approach transformed our online presence, attracting a wider audience and driving conversions. Our business has never been stronger.”
Sanzo Specialties
Sanzo Specialties
★★★★★
“Mary and the MAK team had a clear vision for our website on the initial consultation, also transparent pricing. After committing to the project, there was great collaboration on both design and function. Very pleased with the end product!”
Unisan Direct
Unisandirect
★★★★★
“Working with Marina is a treat, and the team's moving forward at a good clip. It's a total sigh of relief to partner up with your squad, especially after that hiccup we had with the last developer.”

Is Magento more platform than you need?

Tell us your catalog size, order volume, and what the stack costs each month. We will reply with a right-sizing plan, what WooCommerce handles and what it does not, and a fixed price.

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Magento to WooCommerce Migration Questions

Fit, catalog size, versions, product types, passwords, extensions, store views, SEO, maintenance, and cost.

Why move from Magento to WooCommerce instead of a hosted platform?

Because you want to keep what open source gives you: full control of the code and checkout, your data on your own infrastructure, and no platform fee tied to revenue. WooCommerce keeps all of that on a much lighter stack. If you would rather hand hosting and security to a vendor entirely, BigCommerce or Shopify is the better route, and we run both.

Can WooCommerce handle a catalog as large as ours?

With High-Performance Order Storage, object caching, and properly sized hosting, WooCommerce runs catalogs in the tens of thousands of SKUs and busy order volumes comfortably. Very large catalogs, heavy layered navigation across hundreds of thousands of products, or multi-warehouse logic are where it strains. The right-sizing plan tests your numbers before you commit.

Which Magento versions do you migrate?

All of them: Magento 1, which has been unsupported since 2020, Magento 2 Open Source, Mage-OS, and Adobe Commerce. Stores on 2.4.6 or earlier are now outside standard support, which is often what starts the conversation.

How do Magento product types map to WooCommerce?

More directly than on any other route. Simple, virtual, downloadable, and grouped products exist natively in WooCommerce. Configurable products become variable products with a variation per combination. Bundle products use the Product Bundles extension. Attributes become global attributes for filtering and custom fields for specifications.

Do customer passwords survive the move?

Usually, yes. Magento stores salted hashes, and WordPress allows a custom check at sign-in, so we import the hashes and verify each customer's existing password the first time they log in, then store it in WordPress's own format. Where a store's hashes cannot be carried, we plan a reset email with your email tool.

What happens to our extensions and custom modules?

Each is matched to something WooCommerce does in core, a maintained plugin, or custom code. We keep the plugin count low, because plugins are where WordPress security problems come from, and we document why each one is there. Custom modules that hold real business rules are rewritten as a small site plugin your developers can read.

How do store views, languages, and currencies work?

Languages are handled by a multilingual plugin on one site, currencies by a multi-currency extension, and truly separate storefronts by WordPress multisite or separate installs. It is less elegant than Magento's single instance with many store views, so if you run more than a few storefronts, we will say whether WooCommerce is the right destination.

Will our URLs and rankings survive?

WordPress permalinks are flexible, so many product and category paths can stay close to what they are today. Anything that changes, including .html suffixes and the entries in Magento's rewrite table, gets a one-to-one 301 before launch, and titles, descriptions, canonicals, and structured data move with the pages. We baseline rankings first and compare daily for two weeks.

Who handles security and updates afterward?

Someone must, and it should be planned before launch. Managed hosting covers the server, firewall, and backups; core, plugin, and PHP updates are run on staging first and then released on a schedule. We offer that as a support plan, or we hand your team a runbook.

How long does a Magento to WooCommerce migration take, and what does it cost?

Eight to twelve weeks for catalogs under about 50,000 SKUs; four to six months when custom B2B logic or several storefronts are involved. The project cost depends on catalog complexity, design scope, and integrations, and is fixed after the audit. Running costs afterward are typically a fraction of what the Magento stack required, and we put both figures side by side in the plan.