Move on from Magento. Seamlessly.

Magento 2.4.5 and older versions rely on unsupported PHP, leaving stores exposed to critical security vulnerabilities with no official fixes.

We help brands transition smoothly to WooCommerce on a modern, secure foundation, protecting your customers, orders and search ranking every step of the way.

Share your store URL and our team will review your Magento version, identify risks, and outline a roadmap to a more flexible future.

Delivered within two working days. No obligation and zero pressure.

Engineered by WPWP specialists with 200+ builds · 5.0 Clutch rating
Fixed-price guarantee · Zero downtime during switch-over · 90 days of dedicated aftercare

The Magento upgrade cycle is a moving target

Adobe typically retires standard support for each Magento release after roughly three years. Once a version reaches its end of life, no security fixes are released, however serious the flaw. This leaves stores on older Magento versions increasingly vulnerable and complex to maintain.

     
            Release 
            Support status
            PHP compatibility
        
            Magento 1
            Support ended in 2020
            5.4 to 5.6, 7.0, 7.1 - Support ended, no official security fixes
        
            Magento 2.3 & 2.4.0 to 2.4.3
            Support ended in 2022
            7.2, 7.3, 7.4 - Support ended, no official security fixes
        
            Magento 2.4.4 & 2.4.5
            Support ended in 2024
            8.1 - Support ended, no official security fixes
        
            Magento 2.4.6
            Standard support ended August 2026
            8.1 - Support ended, no official security fixes
 
8.2 - Security support ends 31 December 2026

            Magento 2.4.7
            Standard support ends May 2027
            8.2 - Security support ends 31 December 2026 
 
8.3 - Security support runs to 31 December 2027

Adobe Commerce licence holders on Magento 2.4.6 and 2.4.7 get a further year of extended support. Magento Open Source holders do not.

Sources: Magento releases, End of life dates and PHP compatibility, Critical cyber-security PHP update.

Why end of support matters for your brand

Customer trust and compliance

eCommerce platforms remain prime targets for digital skimming and data interception. Running on an unsupported version leaves documented vulnerabilities permanently open. This puts customer data at risk and jeopardises both PCI-DSS compliance and UK GDPR obligations.

Operational friction

Modern commerce relies on an integrated ecosystem. As third-party payment gateways, APIs, and hosting environments upgrade their software, legacy Magento builds struggle to maintain compatibility. This often leads to brittle checkout experiences and unexpected downtime.

A perpetual upgrade cycle

Upgrading within Magento rarely solves the root issue. It simply restarts the clock. Staying on the platform commits your team to substantial, disruptive re-engineering projects every two to three years just to maintain baseline security.

Transition on your own terms

Because your current version has passed its support date, the question is not if you should transition, but how smoothly you can make the move. A typical migration done by our team is fast and takes six to ten weeks. We build, test, and refine your new platform quietly in the background while your live store continues trading. When everything is proven, we switch over during an agreed off-peak window.

Security without compromise

Operate on modern, actively maintained software with automated security updates. You leave behind legacy technical debt and the constant exposure of unpatched code.

Freedom for your internal team

Your digital team should not need an engineering ticket to update content. A modern setup gives your marketers and merchandisers direct, intuitive control over product catalogues, seasonal campaigns, and editorial pages.

Significantly reduced total cost of ownership

Magento requires expensive hosting architecture and continuous specialist upkeep. WooCommerce delivers faster performance on leaner infrastructure, substantially cutting your monthly overheads and ongoing development spend.

An independent recommendation

We look closely at your operations before recommending a path: WooCommerce, Shopify or an upgrade. For most brands, WooCommerce offers the ideal balance: full ownership of your data and code, zero platform revenue share, and unmatched flexibility.

End-to-end migration, completely managed

We orchestrate every dimension of your store move: the build, the data, the redirects, the tracking and the switch-over. Your current store remains entirely operational throughout, ensuring uninterrupted sales from initial architecture to final switch-over.

Everything your store relies on, preserved

Catalogue & brand content: All products, categories, and customer reviews.
Customer records & orders: Complete customer accounts, transaction histories, saved data, and coupons.
Search rankings: Granular, one-to-one URL mapping and redirects to protect existing search visibility.
Measurement: Analytics and ad tracking, conversion attribution, verified with real orders.

Our commitments to your business

Fixed-investment guarantee: Once scoped, your quotation is fixed. No unexpected development hours or surprise scope additions.
Reconciliation before sign-off: Final project sign-off and balance payment occur only after your data is reconciled.
Zero-downtime continuity: Same-day rollback readiness during launch to ensure your revenue stream is not disrupted.
Guaranteed search protection: For 90 days after launch, we monitor traffic and URL parity weekly, and fix any indexation issues at our own expense.

The migration framework

1. Discovery audit & fixed-scope proposal

A short questionnaire and audit of your existing catalogue structure and integration setup. Within two working days, we provide an objective platform recommendation alongside a transparent, fixed-price proposal.

2. Parallel architecture

We engineer your new WooCommerce store on dedicated staging infrastructure while your live site continues trading normally. We run an initial test migration to map every data relationship with absolute precision.

3. Integrations & refinement

Our team connects your essential payment gateways, integrations and configures redirects. We optimise page speed and configure complete analytics and tracking tag parity.

4. Reconciliation & staging sign-off

Together, we review the staging store, reconciling order values and account records against Magento.

5. Seamless go-live & extended support

We execute the switch during an agreed off-peak trading window with no sales disruption. Our engineering team monitors your store closely for the first 72 hours after launch, followed by 90 days of proactive weekly monitoring across performance, orders and organic search traffic.

Migration packages

Following our discovery audit, most stores fall into one of three migration packages, each with a transparent scope.

Essential Migration

Magento 2
up to 5,000 SKUs
up to 2 languages
1 integration

Typical timeline
6 to 8 weeks

from £7,500

Enterprise Transition

Magento 1 extensive catalogues multi-storefront setups 3+ languages 2 to 3 integrations

Typical timeline
8 to 10 weeks

from £13,500

Complete Transformation

Enterprise Transition scope plus a bespoke design, an upgraded customer experience and email flows

Tailored to scope

£19,000 to £27,000

Ongoing partnership: Dedicated monthly support and performance optimisation plans are available from £750 per month.
Direct costs such as hosting, third-party plugin licences, new features, new content and translation are scoped separately.

Strategic design meets dedicated engineering

We partner with WPWP, our dedicated eCommerce engineering team since 2021. Specialising exclusively in high-performance WordPress and WooCommerce environments since 2018, they bring a track record of more than 200 custom platform builds.
Together, we combine high-level brand and UX strategy with rigorous, zero-downtime development.

Proven migrations in practice

Direct-to-consumer beauty brand

The challenge: High traffic friction due to a slow checkout over Black Friday was costing a store 15% of orders.

The transformation: After the migration to WooCommerce, WPWP cleaned up thousands of broken links left over from the old Magento URLs, strengthened automated testing and optimised the checkout journey, protecting revenue during peak trading.

High-volume gaming services platform

The challenge: Slow loading times (up to 40 seconds) were costing the store sales.

The transformation: WPWP merged 22 distinct regional sites into a unified, high-speed WooCommerce store, retaining complete transaction history, user accounts, and promotional rules.

Renewable energy provider

The challenge: A rigid legacy site that prevented catalogue scaling and limited international expansion.

The transformation: A modernised three-languages WooCommerce store featuring 1,200 specialised products, custom power and payback calculators, a project portfolio, dynamic CRM syncing, and automated Google Merchant Center feeds, built and launched in under four months.

FAQ

You can. Magento 2.4.8 and 2.4.9 are both currently supported, and for some stores an upgrade could be the right call. It is rarely a quick patch, though. Transitioning from Magento 1 to Magento 2 means a full re-platform, and bringing an older Magento 2 build up to 2.4.8 or 2.4.9 involves major updates to PHP, the search engine and custom modules. Even then you stay on the same cycle: each release is supported for roughly three years, so the same work comes round again. For most businesses, a flexible, modern platform provides far greater commercial return. Our store review clarifies which route makes financial sense for you.
We will recommend the platform that best aligns with your operating model. For established Magento merchants, WooCommerce is usually the natural evolution: you retain total ownership of your proprietary code and customer data, pay zero platform revenue share, and gain limitless flexibility for custom configurations. If your operational needs lean towards a managed, turnkey environment like Shopify, we will advise you accordingly.
Yes, provided the transition is planned and executed meticulously. We map every existing product, category, and editorial URL to its exact replacement using permanent 301 redirects, helping preserve your search visibility. Following launch, we monitor performance weekly for 90 days to verify that your search ranking remains protected.
During our initial discovery audit, we inventory every active plugin, custom module, and third-party API connection your store uses. We then match each functionality with modern, native alternatives or bespoke integrations. Our Essential Migration tier includes one primary integration, while our Enterprise Transition includes 2 to 3 and Complete Transformation accommodates complex multi-system setups.
Our technical monitoring identified that your store is currently running a legacy Magento version that no longer receives official security updates. Because unpatched dependencies pose significant commercial and compliance risks, we reach out to offer proactive support. If you do not wish to receive further notes from our team, simply reply “No” to let us know and we will update our records immediately.

Plan your store’s move with complete clarity