What does a Magento 2 migration actually cost?

No two shops are the same, which makes a flat figure impossible without knowing yours. Migrating from osCommerce or Magento 1 to Magento 2 with a few hundred products and one payment link is a fundamentally different project from a catalogue of tens of thousands of SKUs wired into an ERP.

What we do instead is scope the work upfront and break the cost into clear line items. That way you can see where the money goes and consciously decide what does and does not come across. We give an indication only after a short intake, never as a standalone promise.

The single biggest cost driver is usually the amount and quality of your data. Products, categories, customers, order history and reviews all have to be converted into the Magento 2 data model, which differs from older platforms.

Messy or inconsistent source data costs extra time: duplicate records, missing fields or non-standard attributes need cleaning or mapping. The cleaner the source, the more predictable the migration.

Every external connection is a separate piece of work with its own risks. Think of payment providers, shipping carriers, an accounting or ERP system, a PIM or a marketing-automation tool.

Existing connections rarely map one-to-one onto Magento 2; they have to be rebuilt, tested and often reworked against the new APIs. The more systems hang off your shop, the larger this part of the budget becomes.

Standard functionality migrates relatively predictably. Custom work does not: bespoke modules, altered checkout steps or unusual pricing rules must be rebuilt on the Magento 2 architecture, often with a modern Hyvä theme in place of the heavy Luma frontend.

This is where deliberate choices pay off. Not every old customisation deserves to come along; sometimes rebuilding on a clean foundation is cheaper and faster than porting an ageing construct.

A migration must not cost you your organic traffic. That is why 301 redirects from every old URL to its new counterpart, preserved metadata and a controlled reindex are part of the work as standard. This step is often underestimated, yet it is precisely where revenue is at stake.

Testing takes time but saves money. We work staging-first: every migration runs first on a test environment that mirrors the production recipe, so you can check the new shop before it goes live. Only after sign-off and a planned go-live does it reach your customers.