{"id":8172,"date":"2017-09-20T06:54:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T06:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.finoit.com\/?p=8172"},"modified":"2024-01-15T10:51:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T10:51:08","slug":"everything-need-know-magento-1-magento-2-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finoit.com\/blog\/everything-need-know-magento-1-magento-2-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything you Need to Know About Magento 1 to Magento 2 Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Magento version 2.0 hanging around since a while now, the Magento e-commerce galaxy has seen tremendous innovations of late, with a shift of momentum towards v2.0 in place of Magento 1. To stay competitive in this world of formidable business competition, there\u2019s a sense of urgency for stores to strategize their move to 2.0 rather sooner than later.<\/p>\n<p>By now, everyone has their concepts clear as to why stores must migrate to Magento 2.0. However, most of these stores are still clueless about how they should phase out their move? If you\u2019ve decided to call Magento v1.0 a quit, it can typically be overwhelming to understand where to begin and what to expect all through the migration process.<\/p>\n<h3>Fundamentals of Magento 2 Migration<\/h3>\n<p>A Magento 2 migration includes different components:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"bullet-list list\">\n<li>Data (product and customer)<\/li>\n<li>Theme<\/li>\n<li>Extensions<\/li>\n<li>Custom Code<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When you decide to upgrade your store to Magento 2, it\u2019s essential that they hit the drawing board and come up with a detailed migration plan describing when and how certain specific actions will be implemented during the process. It always tends to be easy when you have the project divided into certain smaller milestones.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what a Magento 2 migration plan typically looks like, as illustrated by Magento in a handy flowchart:<\/p>\n<p>For migration, Magento suggests planning the following basic steps:<\/p>\n<div class=\"blh\">Step 1: Review the extensions of your existing site<\/div>\n<p>View the current extensions in Magento 1 version and decide which are required in your new store. Find out if the current extensions are available from developers in Magento 2 version.<\/p>\n<p>It is, also, high time for you to remove any unnecessary and redundant data from your Magento 1 store<\/p>\n<div class=\"blh\">Step 2: Plan capacity<\/div>\n<p>Decide whether you require advanced high-end functionality in your Magento site or might require in the time ahead. Now is the perfect time to plan things effectively.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blh\">Step 3: Build and test Magento 2<\/div>\n<p>This step includes a couple of different components; that is, installing Magento version 2 and setting up the store with a design and topology like that of Magento 1 site.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blh\">Step 4: Start your migration<\/div>\n<p>Next, run your engines! You will need to stop all activities of your admin panel in Magento 1, save for order management functions. You\u2019ll also need to stop cron jobs in Magento 1. It is recommended that you migrate data through a replicated Magento 1 database instance.<\/p>\n<p>Once reindexing is complete, you will be required to methodically test the Magento 2 store to ensure there are no issues ahead of going live.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blh\">Step 5: Update incremental data<\/div>\n<p>Next, you will be required to capture data updates like new orders, changes and reviews in user profiles, and move them to the Magento 2 site.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blh\">Step 6: Go live<\/div>\n<p>Bang on! You are all in readiness to go live. Please note that you\u2019ll have to bear a store downtime for a little while (Magento claims it is only for a few minutes) for reindexing and modification of DNS settings ahead of going live. Hooray!<\/p>\n<p>The process might, beyond doubt, not exactly as planned. Expect to run across a few issues that you\u2019ll need to resolve. However, following the steps as detailed by Magento and considering the 4 pointers listed below can make your Magento 2 migration process simple and smooth.<\/p>\n<h3>5 points to consider when migrating to Magento version 2<\/h3>\n<div class=\"blh\">#1. Magento 2 Migration Difficulty<\/div>\n<p>Let\u2019s face the truth: migrating to Magento 2 is, by no means, the easiest of processes. Magento 2 has a completely different database design and architecture.<\/p>\n<p>Magento estimates that the migration is just 20% larger as compared to a Magento 1 upgrade. The amount of efforts and time required to migrate to Magento 2 varies depending upon the number of extensions running on the site, the number of customizations involved, and general complexity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blh\">#2. Importing Customer and Product Data<\/div>\n<p>Magento has come up with a handy tool to help webmasters import customer and product data to the Magento 2 store. Click here to download Magento 2 data migration tool.<\/p>\n<p>This tool makes use of map files for transferring data to your Magento 2 site. It verifies consistency between the database structures (tables and fields) of Magento 1 and 2, tracks the data migration status, creates log files, and executes data verification tests.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blh\">It functions in 3 ways:<\/div>\n<ul class=\"bullet-list list\">\n<li>Migrates configuration settings<\/li>\n<li>Migrates main data in the database<\/li>\n<li>Transfers incremental data updates to the admin panel and storefront<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Magento developed the tool to assist customers in data migration process, so make the most of it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blh\">#3. Importing Media Files<\/div>\n<p>Migrating media files like images should ideally be done separately from product data. Media files need to be moved manually.<\/p>\n<p>This Magento guide explains how you can migrate media files stored in the file system and the database.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blh\">#4. Migrating Theme and Extensions<\/div>\n<p>Magento 1 extensions are most probably not compatible with v2.0. This Code Migration Toolkit can help you migrate some custom code and extensions, but not all.<\/p>\n<p>Both Magento 1 themes and extensions need to be re-created to work effectively with the 2.0 Magento structure. You may contact the product developer to access a new version of Magento extensions and themes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blh\">#5. Performance Considerations<\/div>\n<p>There are odds that the migration process may not work perfectly, despite proper planning and implementation. Expect running into some weird error messages. Though, you need not panic. The migration process doesn\u2019t always run smooth and getting a few errors is expected; just reach out to a specialized Magento developer to fix things up.<\/p>\n<h3>The bottom line:<\/h3>\n<p>Making a move to Magento 2 is important if you intend to stay abreast of latest innovations in the ecommerce fraternity. While it can be quite a monotonous process, proper planning and precise execution, as a thumb rule, can ease it out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"info-panel\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finoit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Finoit Technologies<\/a> is a renowned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finoit.com\/mobile-app-development-company\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mobile app development company<\/a> providing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finoit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">custom software development services<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finoit.com\/iot-application-development-company\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IOT application development services<\/a>. We have developed over 450 mobile apps, and have assisted many solopreneurs in their journey of startups by functioning as a tech partner and rolling out their product ideas. For questions\/queries, you may write to us at <a class=\"blue-link\" href=\"mailto:info@finoit.com\">info@finoit.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Magento version 2.0 hanging around since a while now, the Magento e-commerce galaxy has seen tremendous innovations of late, with a shift of momentum towards v2.0 in place of Magento 1. To stay competitive in this world of formidable business competition, there\u2019s a sense of urgency for stores to strategize their move to 2.0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finoit.com\/blog\/everything-need-know-magento-1-magento-2-migration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Everything you Need to Know About Magento 1 to Magento 2 Migration<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.11 (Yoast SEO v20.11) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Everything Need to Know About Magento 1 to Magento 2 Migration<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Everything you Need to Know About Magento 1 to Magento 2 Migration - Migrate from Magento 1 to Magento 2. 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