Magento and WordPress developers since 2012

WooCommerce to Magento Migration for Stores That Outgrew Their Plugins

There is a point where a WooCommerce store is held together by forty plugins doing jobs a commerce platform should do itself: tiered pricing, several storefronts, warehouse inventory, faceted search across a big catalog. Magento does those natively, and it is still open source you own. We model the catalog properly, move customers and order history, build a fast Hyvä storefront, keep WordPress for content if you want it, and redirect every URL.

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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.

WooCommerce to Magento

What We Do to Move Your WooCommerce Store to Magento

This is a step up in capability and in responsibility, so the first deliverable is an honest answer to whether you need it. When you do, the work is turning products stored as WordPress posts and plugin tables into a proper Magento catalog. Our Magento development team does it with the WordPress developers who know where your data lives.

  • Fit, Edition & Cost Assessment

    What the store does today through plugins, what breaks or slows as it grows, and whether Magento Open Source, Mage-OS, or Adobe Commerce answers it. You get the running costs of each beside what you pay now, and a plain recommendation, including "stay and tune WooCommerce" when that is the right call.

  • Hosting & Architecture

    A managed Magento environment sized to your catalog and traffic: PHP, the database, OpenSearch for catalog search, Redis and Varnish for caching, a CDN, staging, backups, and a deployment pipeline, or Adobe Commerce cloud when the license makes sense. Set up once and documented for whoever maintains it.

  • Catalog & Attribute Modeling

    Variable products become configurable products with their simple children; global attributes become Magento attributes grouped into attribute sets; grouped, bundled, virtual, and downloadable products map to the matching Magento types; custom fields added by plugins become real attributes that filters, search, and feeds can use.

  • Customers, Orders & Accounts

    Customers with addresses and roles, and the order history with items, totals, and statuses, imported so service and reporting carry on. WordPress password hashes do not load into Magento as they are, so we either add a small module that verifies the old hash at first sign-in or plan a reset campaign, and recommend one after seeing your data.

  • Hyvä Storefront Design & Build

    A storefront built on Hyvä, the lightweight Magento front end that has been free and open source since November 2025, designed for your catalog and tuned to pass Core Web Vitals on mobile. Your WordPress theme does not carry over, but the brand and the page structure customers know do.

  • Pricing, Customer Groups & B2B

    Role-based prices and wholesale plugins become customer groups, tier prices, and catalog and cart price rules that Magento includes. For company accounts, shared catalogs, quotes, and requisition lists, Adobe Commerce B2B or a vetted extension is configured and tested with real buyer accounts.

  • Plugins to Native Features & Extensions

    Each plugin is checked against what Magento already does: multi-store, multi-source inventory, layered navigation, promotions, and multiple currencies need no extension. What remains is matched to a maintained extension or built as a module, and ERP, PIM, shipping, tax, and email integrations are reconnected and tested with real orders.

  • WordPress Content & Blog

    Your articles and landing pages do not have to leave WordPress. Many stores keep it for content beside Magento, on the same domain, so editors keep the tool they know and no post changes its URL. Where one system is preferred, pages are rebuilt in Magento's Page Builder and posts are redirected.

  • SEO Migration, Redirects & Cutover

    Magento URL keys are set to stay as close as possible to your /product/ and /product-category/ paths, and every URL that still changes gets a one-to-one 301. Titles, descriptions, canonicals, and structured data move with the pages, launch day is rehearsed, and Magento support covers patches and upgrades afterward.

Why merchants move

What Stores Gain by Moving From WooCommerce to Magento

Few stores should make this move, and we say that as a team that builds on both. WooCommerce is the lighter, cheaper platform, and for most catalogs it is enough. Magento earns its higher running cost when the business has become complicated: many thousands of SKUs with rich attributes, price lists per customer, stock in several warehouses, or more than one storefront. If that describes you, the plugins you keep adding are a sign you have outgrown the model.

  • Built In Instead of Plugged In

    Customer group pricing, tier prices, promotion rules, layered navigation, multiple currencies, and multi-source inventory are core features, tested together in every release.

  • A Catalog Engine for Scale

    Attribute sets, configurable products, and indexed search keep a catalog of hundreds of thousands of SKUs fast and filterable, where a posts-based catalog starts to strain.

  • Many Stores, One Installation

    Brands, regions, languages, and a wholesale site can each have a storefront while sharing one catalog, one customer base, and one admin.

  • B2B That Is Part of the Platform

    Adobe Commerce adds company accounts with buyer roles, shared catalogs, negotiated quotes, requisition lists, and purchase order approvals, without a stack of wholesale plugins.

  • Still Open Source, Still Yours

    Magento Open Source carries no license fee, the Hyvä theme is free, and the code and data stay on infrastructure you control, so you keep the ownership you had on WordPress.

  • When WooCommerce Is Still the Better Home

    A few thousand products, simple pricing, one storefront, and a content-led business are WooCommerce's ground. If hosted simplicity is what you are after, BigCommerce or Shopify is the better route.

On every WooCommerce to Magento migration

Our Migration Standards

Magento rewards preparation, so each WooCommerce store we move to it gets the following:

  • A written answer to "do we need Magento?" with running costs for both platforms
  • Attribute sets and product types designed and signed off before any import
  • Products, variations, customers, and orders reconciled by count against WooCommerce
  • Hosting load tested with your catalog and your peak traffic before launch
  • A Hyvä storefront passing Core Web Vitals on mobile at launch
  • Every indexed URL redirected one to one through a tested rewrite import
  • WordPress content kept in place or moved with every post URL accounted for
  • A patch and upgrade plan agreed before go-live, with named owners
  • Zero downtime at cutover, and a fixed price after the assessment

Related Migration Services

Not sure Magento is the right step up, or arriving at Magento from another platform? These are the routes beside this one, and the free audit lists the tasks for your pair of platforms.

How a WooCommerce to Magento Migration Runs

Six steps, with more design up front than any other route: confirm the fit and the edition, stand up the environment, model and rehearse the data, build the storefront and reconnect the systems, launch behind tested redirects, and keep the platform patched. Twelve to twenty weeks for most stores.

  • Fit & Edition

    The assessment, the edition and hosting choice, the cost comparison, and a fixed price. The free migration audit is a quick first read.

  • Environment & Data Model

    Hosting provisioned, attribute sets and product types designed, and the mapping from WordPress tables to Magento entities written down and approved.

  • Scripted Test Migration

    Catalog, customers, and orders imported by script into staging, counts compared with WooCommerce, and the run repeated until it is clean.

  • Storefront, Pricing & Integrations

    The Hyvä storefront built, price rules and customer groups configured, extensions installed, and integrations tested with real orders.

  • Redirects & Go-Live

    URL rewrites imported and crawled, a load test, a final sync of customers and orders, and DNS changed in a quiet hour.

  • Patch, Monitor & Grow

    Two weeks of daily checks on rankings, errors, orders, and speed, then scheduled security patches and upgrades so the store stays on a supported release.

What Migrated Clients Say

Merchants who moved to a platform sized for where their business was going, and kept what they had built on the way.

  • Trent Taucher

    CEO, Budgetheating.com

    “If I could give 6 stars I would! I have worked with Mary and MAK Digital for many years now. They have performed the Affirm Financing integration on our company website as well as many other custom coding work through the years. Pricing is fair for the level of expertise they provide and they always come through with the project quoted and timelines promised.”

  • Jason

    Phastek, phastekperformance.com

    “Trust is essential when choosing a team to work with, and this team exceeded our expectations. Their transparency, professionalism, and unwavering commitment to our goals fostered a partnership built on trust. Together, we achieved incredible results, including a significant increase in revenue and a loyal customer base. Their expertise and support continue to propel our business forward.”

  • Rob

    Right To Bear, righttobear.com

    “I had a great experience working with the team at MAKdigitaldesign. Will definitely come back for future projects. Our BigCommerce store looks great, and everything was done in a timely and orderly fashion.”

Adding one more plugin to do what the platform should?

Send us your store URL and plugin list. We will reply with a straight answer on whether Magento is worth it for you, the edition we would choose, and a fixed price.

WooCommerce to Magento Migration Questions

Fit, editions, cost, hosting, product mapping, plugins, content, passwords, SEO, and timelines.

How do we know we have outgrown WooCommerce?

The usual signs: catalog pages and search slow down as SKUs pass the tens of thousands, pricing depends on several plugins that disagree, you need more than one storefront or warehouse, or every update needs a week of testing. If only one of those is true, tuning WooCommerce is usually cheaper, and we will tell you so in the assessment.

Magento Open Source, Mage-OS, or Adobe Commerce?

Magento Open Source is free and covers catalog, pricing, multi-store, and inventory. Mage-OS is a community-run distribution of the same code. Adobe Commerce adds B2B, content staging, customer segmentation, and Adobe support for a license that starts around $22,000 a year. Most stores coming from WooCommerce start on Open Source and add what they need.

What will Magento cost us to run?

More than WooCommerce. Budget for managed hosting with search and caching services, security patches several times a year, a version upgrade roughly every year, and a developer or agency on call. One published analysis puts typical mid-market upkeep at $50,000 to $150,000 a year. The assessment shows your numbers next to your current costs.

How do variable products and attributes map to Magento?

A variable product becomes a configurable product with a simple product for each variation. Global attributes become Magento attributes in an attribute set, which is what makes filtering, search, and comparison work across a large catalog. Custom fields from plugins become attributes too, so nothing is trapped in a serialized field.

What happens to our plugins?

Many are no longer needed, because Magento includes customer group pricing, tier prices, promotion rules, layered navigation, several storefronts, and multi-source inventory. The others are replaced by maintained extensions or a custom module. You see the full list, with each replacement, before you commit.

Can we keep WordPress for the blog and content?

Yes, and many stores do. WordPress can run beside Magento on the same domain, so articles keep their URLs and editors keep their workflow, while Magento handles catalog and checkout. If you would rather run one system, we rebuild the pages in Magento and redirect the posts.

Do customer passwords carry over?

Not automatically; the two platforms store them differently. Because Magento is open, a small module can check the old WordPress hash the first time a customer signs in and then save it in Magento's format. Where that is not practical for your data, we run a reset campaign through your email tool.

Will our rankings survive the move?

Yes, when the URL work is done first. Magento lets us set URL keys close to your current paths, and anything that changes gets a one-to-one 301 loaded before launch. Metadata, canonicals, and structured data are carried over, and we compare rankings against a baseline every day for two weeks.

Is Hyvä really free, and is it fast?

The Hyvä theme became free and open source in November 2025. It replaces Magento's older front end with a much lighter one, and well-built Hyvä stores pass Core Web Vitals comfortably. Hyvä Checkout and the Adobe Commerce compatibility packages are separate paid products, which we price only when you need them.

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

Twelve to twenty weeks for most stores, longer with enterprise B2B, several storefronts, or an ERP in the critical path. Projects start in the mid five figures and rise with catalog complexity, integrations, and custom modules. The price is fixed after the assessment, and it comes with the yearly running cost stated beside it.

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