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monkeyman.agency
Migration · Magento 1 → Shopify

Magento 1 to Shopify migration before the risk catches up.

Magento 1 reached end of life in June 2020, and every month since has been borrowed time: unsupported, unpatched, and a PCI liability. We migrate Magento 1 stores to Shopify, preserving products, customers, orders, and SEO.

Scope my Magento 1 migration See migration work
Source platform
Magento 1
Category
Open-source enterprise commerce (end-of-life)
Timeline
6-10 weeks
Starts at
Save up to 70%
Why brands leave Magento 1

Magento 1 is no longer supported and no longer patched.

That means no security fixes, no PCI compliance path, and a codebase frozen in 2020. Every month you stay on Magento 1, the risk of a breach or a compliance failure grows, and the export only gets harder as the surrounding tooling disappears.

  • Magento 1 reached end of life in June 2020, no security patches since.

  • Running an unpatched platform is a PCI compliance failure and a breach waiting to happen.

  • The M1 data model is old enough that exports need careful scripting, not a plug-and-play tool.

  • Hosting and maintenance costs keep climbing while the extension ecosystem has largely gone.

Magento 1-specific gotchas

What actually breaks in a Magento 1 to Shopify migration.

Most migration vendors quote a price and stay vague on what's hard. These are the Magento 1-specific traps and how we handle each one.

  • The Magento 1 EAV data model predates Shopify's flatter product model.

    How we handle it →
    We audit the attribute set and map each to metafields, variants, or tags with a custom script that preserves filterability.

  • Legacy extensions and customisations have no direct Shopify equivalent.

    How we handle it →
    We rebuild each as theme code, an app, or a Shopify Function, preserving function rather than implementation.

  • Old order history and customer records in a frozen schema.

    How we handle it →
    We migrate customers, order history, and tax breakdowns with a script that handles split shipments and partial refunds cleanly.

Data we preserve

What we transfer from Magento 1 to Shopify, nothing left behind.

  • Products with EAV attributes mapped to Shopify metafields

  • Customer accounts and order history

  • Categories and layered navigation mapped to Shopify collections

  • 301 redirects for every URL plus SEO metadata

  • CMS pages, static blocks, and reviews

How the migration runs

A staged Magento 1 to Shopify migration. Not a weekend sprint.

6-10 weeks of structured work, discovery, scripts, theme rebuild, redirect map, UAT, launch. Every phase has a deliverable you keep.

  1. 01, Architecture review

    We audit your Magento 1 store, attribute set, customisations, and integrations, and write the migration architecture document.

  2. 02, Data modelling on Shopify

    We model the Shopify-side schema and map EAV attributes to metafields before any data moves.

  3. 03, Migration scripts + dev store build

    We script the Magento 1 export, build a Shopify dev store, and validate a sample of data.

  4. 04, Full data cutover + UAT

    Final import of products, customers, and orders, then a UAT window with your team.

  5. 05, Launch + 60-day stabilisation

    DNS cutover, redirect verification, and 60 days of search and conversion monitoring.

Magento 1 has been end-of-life since June 2020, and every month on it since then has been borrowed time. No security patches, no support, and no PCI compliance path. The question isn’t whether to leave Magento 1, it’s how fast you can do it without dropping your SEO.

Why Magento 1 is a compliance liability

An unpatched platform is a breach waiting to happen, and for any store taking card payments, it’s a PCI DSS failure. Magento 1’s codebase is frozen, the extension ecosystem has largely migrated to Magento 2 or Shopify, and the hosting you’re paying for is keeping an unsupported platform alive. Moving to Shopify removes the patching burden entirely, Shopify handles security and PCI at the platform level.

What a Magento 1 export actually involves

Magento 1’s EAV data model predates Shopify’s flatter product model, so the export is not a clean CSV import. Attribute sets need auditing and mapping to metafields, variants, or tags; legacy customisations need rebuilding as theme code, apps, or Shopify Functions; and order history with split shipments and partial refunds needs careful scripting. We handle all of it, and we preserve every indexed URL with a 301 map so your rankings carry across.

Magento 1 to Shopify migration cost

We quote fixed-price after a free architecture review. A Magento 1 store is usually cheaper to migrate than Magento 2 or Adobe Commerce because there’s less B2B and multi-store complexity to re-architect, but the data model is older and the export needs more scripting. You get the number in writing before any work starts.

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Magento 1 migration FAQ

Magento 1 to Shopify migration FAQs.

Is Magento 1 really end of life?

Yes. Magento 1 reached end of life in June 2020, which means no official security patches or support since. Running it is a PCI compliance failure and an active security risk.

Can we migrate Magento 1 to Shopify without losing SEO?

Yes. We build a 301 map for every indexed URL, preserve canonical tags and structured data, and monitor Search Console through the 60-day stabilisation window.

How long does a Magento 1 to Shopify migration take?

6-10 weeks for most stores. The data model is old enough that the export needs careful scripting, but the process is well-trodden.

Read next

Pair your magento 1 migration with the right reading.

The service page covers scope and pricing; the field notes cover what's actually broken before we touch it.

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