Usually a cost and complexity decision rather than a technical one. Magento is capable and expensive to run; the question is whether you are using enough of it to justify that.
Magento handles large catalogues, complex pricing and multi-store setups genuinely well. The businesses that need those things are right to be on it. The businesses that do not are carrying hosting costs, specialist developer rates and upgrade projects for capability they never touch.
The honest test is specific: how many products, how many storefronts, how unusual is your pricing, and how much custom development already exists. A shop with a few hundred products and standard pricing is usually better served elsewhere. A multi-store operation with customer-group pricing and heavy customisation often is not.
The migration itself is more involved than a content site, because a shop has customers, order history and payment arrangements as well as products — and all of them matter to people who will notice immediately if they are wrong.
What we do
Working UK-wide — directly with businesses, and white label behind design and marketing agencies.
Discuss a projectIncluding variants, images and category structure. Magento's attribute model is richer, so some mapping decisions are needed.
Accounts and addresses. Passwords are hashed differently, so customers generally need to reset — which has to be communicated rather than sprung on them.
Past orders brought across so customers and your team can still see them. Often skipped, and regretted.
Product and category addresses mapped and redirected, which protects the rankings a shop depends on.
Re-provided rather than migrated. Subscriptions and stored payment mandates need particular care.
ERP, stock and accounting connections rebuilt against the new platform.
Tens of thousands of products with complex attributes is Magento territory. WooCommerce can be made to cope, but you would be fighting it.
Several storefronts sharing a catalogue is something Magento does natively and WooCommerce needs work to approximate.
If years of bespoke development sit in your Magento build, rewriting that is the real cost and it is easy to underestimate.
A lot of our work is delivered white label or under agreement, so these describe the problem and the approach rather than naming the client.
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Portal · Ecommerce · MigrationAn industrial-scale ordering portal migrated off a legacy platform, with client authentication, advanced search and form-to-CRM integration.
How many products, how many storefronts, and what has been custom-built. Those three answers tell us whether moving makes sense — and we will say when it does not.