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As the importance of Magento 1 continues to fade away and Magento 2 takes it place, it’s just about the right time for businesses, especially retailers to reach out to Magento development company for migration to Magento 2. Though Magento will keep extending support for Magento 1 till 2020, it’s Magento 2 that holds the place that Magento 1 did.
With a suite of features, innovative technologies, and a thriving developer ecosystem, Magento 2 opens up new avenues for eCommerce stores. Dwindling technical support for Magento 1 (formerly Enterprise Edition) makes migration to Magento 2 need of the hour.
Here are the features of Magento 2
Magento Commerce 2 provides exclusive technological capabilities that exceed the ever-increasing demands of today’s savvy customers.
- Superior Shopping Experiences
Drag-and-drop Page Builder feature and the groundbreaking Progressive Web Applications Studio to build a persuasive environment. - Fast-track Sales Growth
Enhance conversions and expand consumer loyalty with checkout and engagement capabilities while native B2B eCommerce capabilities to grow your market reach. - Augment Operational Intelligence
Redesigned, touch-enabled administrative interface to minimize IT dependencies using advanced content staging and preview technology. - Robust Performance Capabilities
The modern digital framework goes way beyond Magento Commerce 1, equipped with optimized cloud infrastructure, a native content delivery network, reliable tech support, and more.
Why Migrate to Magento 2
It’s official Magento will end support for Magento 1 in June 2020 as long as licenses have been extended to align with that date. Magento has stopped launching new features in the Magento 1.x versions now, except for the security updates. Magento Ecommerce Development Services is now featuring for an upgrade. All the customizations on Magento 1.x version will have to be repeated in the Magento 2.x version, whenever you go for Magento 2 upgrade.
Even though support has not ended yet, it is clear that the days of Magento 1 are numbered.
- Security patches will not be produced for these versions once support ends
- There will be a lack of competitive edge as no new innovative features will be added on Magento 1 because a complete range of new and innovative features are needed to stay competitive are being added to Magento 2
- Magento 1 will become vulnerable to hacks as the code grows older
- Magento 2 users will be able to leverage new features to gain a competitive advantage based on features and functionality
Migration to Magento 2: Plan & Roadmap
This migration may come across as a daunting task to many retailers. We want to make this transition easier for you. Here is how you can manage a migration from Magento 1 to 2 in very simple steps.
- Review extensions and data on your current site. Determine which extensions are a part of the core Magento 2 code.
- Remove features that are outdated as well as redundant data from your Magento 1.x database.
- Build and prepare a Magento 2 store for migration. It is best to replicate your Magento 1.x database in case of an unforeseen error.
- Use replicated Magento 1.x database as the source data for your migration.
- Start migration on the production environment.
- Implement industry best practices of going through all the migration steps on your testing environment.
- Ensure best practices to reduce all administrative activity on both Magento 1 and Magento 2 during your migration test runs, as well as during the actual data migration.
- Start your migration with the Data Migration Tool which will migrate customers, catalogs, orders, shipment, and your core configuration.
- Know what to migrate and what not to migrate. Your custom data, admin rights, media files, and certain other custom technical aspects will not carry over seamlessly on the tool.
- Migrate Magento 1 theme to Magento 2 and make User Interface level changes as well as changes to the migrated data as needed.
- After migrating data gradually collect the data updates added in the Magento 1 store and go into Delta mode to transfer these updates to the Magento 2 store.
- Once your Magento 2 site is up-to-date and is functioning, you can cut over to the new site!
Finally
As the support for Magento 1 continues to reduce, there is a risk of running such unsupported software, particularly when the software that isn’t supported is such a fundamental part of your operation. It is important to migrate to Magento 2 in 2019 if you have not already done so. The roadmap for migration can change based on your eCommerce site. Again remember, this timeline is totally dependent on the level of customization.
