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Magento 1 to OpenMage Migration

Still on Magento 1? Move to OpenMage LTS: the community-maintained fork that keeps your store patched, PCI-defensible, and running on modern PHP, without the cost of a full Magento 2 rebuild. Fixed price, staging-first, zero data loss.

Fixed-price from $2,499 · 2 to 3 week migration

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Magento 1 reached end of life in June 2020. No more security patches from Adobe, no PHP upgrades, and a growing list of known exploits aimed at abandoned stores. If your store still runs on it, you have three options: rebuild on a new platform, keep running unpatched and hope, or move to OpenMage LTS, the community fork that kept Magento 1 alive.

This service is the third option done properly: a fixed-price, staging-first migration from Magento 1 to the current OpenMage LTS release, including a PHP upgrade to a supported version, extension and theme compatibility fixes, and 30 days of post-launch support.

Why OpenMage instead of a full replatform

  • Same database, same theme, same extensions. OpenMage is a fork of Magento 1.9, not a new platform. Products, orders, customers, URLs, and your admin workflows all carry over untouched.
  • Weeks, not months. A typical migration takes 2 to 3 weeks. A Magento 2 rebuild for the same store is usually a 3 to 6 month project at 5 to 10 times the cost.
  • Actively maintained. The OpenMage project ships security patches, bug fixes, and PHP 8 compatibility. Your store stops being an unpatched target.
  • Modern PHP. Stock Magento 1 tops out around PHP 7.2. OpenMage runs on PHP 8.x, which means real hosting options and a measurable speed lift.
  • A defensible PCI story. Running a maintained, patched codebase changes the conversation with your payment provider and QSA.

What the fixed price covers

Everything from audit to 30 days after launch: the compatibility report, staging environment, OpenMage core swap, PHP upgrade, extension and theme fixes, payment gateway testing, SEO verification, the launch itself, and post-launch bug-fixing. If the audit turns up something outside normal scope (for example a custom ERP bridge that needs a rewrite), you get a separate line item before work starts, never a surprise invoice after.

When OpenMage is the wrong answer

Honesty matters more than winning the project. If your Magento 1 store needs features that only exist in the Magento 2 ecosystem (GraphQL storefronts, current B2B modules, Hyva checkout), or your extension stack is dead beyond repair, I will tell you in the audit and quote the Magento 1 to Magento 2 migration instead. OpenMage is the right call when the store works well today and the problem is security, PHP, and maintenance, not missing functionality.

Why this service pays for itself

  • A fraction of the cost of replatforming: an OpenMage migration is measured in weeks, a Magento 2 rebuild in months
  • Your theme, extensions, and admin workflows survive: OpenMage is a drop-in fork of Magento 1.9, not a new platform
  • Security patches again: Adobe ended Magento 1 support in June 2020; OpenMage ships fixes the community maintains today
  • Modern PHP support means faster pages and hosting you can actually buy in 2026
  • PCI conversations get easier: running a patched, maintained codebase beats explaining an abandoned one
  • Buys you time: keep trading safely now, plan a Magento 2, Hyva, or Shopify move on your own schedule
  • Done by an Adobe-certified Magento developer who still maintains live Magento 1 era codebases
How we work

A predictable rhythm, end to end

Short cycles, written checkpoints, no surprises, from brief to launch.

  1. Audit and quote (week 0)

    I inventory your Magento 1 install: core version, patch level, PHP version, every extension and theme override, payment and shipping integrations, cron jobs, and server stack. You get a written compatibility report and a fixed quote before any work starts.

  2. Staging build (week 1)

    A full copy of your store moves to a staging server. The OpenMage core swap happens there: composer-based install, your local code and theme layered on top, database untouched. Nothing on the live store changes yet.

  3. Compatibility and PHP upgrade (week 1 to 2)

    Extensions and theme are fixed for OpenMage and modern PHP. Payment gateways run test transactions, emails send, crons fire, indexes rebuild. Every fix is committed to git with a note on what changed and why.

  4. Launch and monitoring (week 2 to 3)

    30 day

    A final data sync, DNS or docroot switch during a low-traffic window, and the OpenMage store goes live. I watch logs, orders, and Core Web Vitals for 30 days and fix anything the migration surfaced, included in the fixed price.

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What clients say after delivery

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How much sales history do I need before Prophet is usable?

The honest minimum is 12 weeks of daily sales data per SKU, that’s enough for Prophet to lock onto a weekly pattern and produce a usable 4-6 week forecast. With 26 weeks you start getting yearly seasonality. With 52+ weeks (one full annual cycle including your peak season) Prophet really shines and you can forecast 90 days out with sub-15% MAPE on most retail SKUs. Below 12 weeks, do NOT use Prophet, fall back to a 28-day moving average plus a manual safety-stock multiplier. The model will overfit garbage if you feed it too little.

Will this pipeline work on Magento Open Source or only Adobe Commerce?

Both. Everything in the build runs on stock Magento 2.4.7+ Open Source, there’s no Adobe Commerce-specific API used. The observer hooks into catalog_product_save_after, which is identical on both editions. The MessageQueue layer uses Magento’s built-in MessageQueue module (also Open Source). The only Adobe Commerce-only consideration is the Image Editor extension Adobe ships, which you’d disable to avoid duplicate processing. Bottom line: Open Source merchants get the full benefit without paying for Adobe Commerce just for image handling.

Will Magento survive the AI era?

Yes, in the segments where it’s strongest. Magento (Open Source + Adobe Commerce) will dominate enterprise B2B, multi-store, regulated industries, and EU-compliance-heavy commerce through 2030 and beyond. Where it bleeds is the SMB / DTC segment under $5M GMV, which Shopify already won and now cements with Sidekick + Hydrogen. Magento survives, but its addressable market shrinks: from “everyone” to “serious B2B + custom-heavy enterprise.” That’s still a multi-billion-dollar segment globally. The platform isn’t going anywhere; the merchants who choose it just look more specific.

What is MCP (Model Context Protocol) and why does it matter for Magento?

MCP is an open protocol Anthropic shipped in November 2024 that lets large language models talk to external tools and data sources through a standard interface. Think of it as USB-C for AI, one socket, many devices. For Magento, MCP means Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor can query your catalogue, check stock, summarise yesterday’s orders, or draft a discount code without you writing five different REST integrations. The protocol crossed tribal lines fast: OpenAI and Google both adopted it in early 2025, and Adobe made it the default agent protocol for Commerce at Summit 2026. That puts MCP in the same “assume it’s there” bucket as JSON-RPC or OAuth, you build for it once and every major AI client gets your Magento data for free.

Is Hyvä Commerce the same as Hyvä Theme?

No, they are different products from the same company. Hyvä Theme is a free, open-source (OSL3) Tailwind + Alpine storefront frontend for Magento, released to free in November 2025. Hyvä Commerce is a paid commercial suite of admin, media, and CMS modules that sits on top of Magento Open Source. You can run Theme without Commerce, but most stores that buy Commerce also use Theme.

What does the Hyvä licence itself cost?

Hyvä Themes is a commercial licence sold per Magento installation (not per storefront, not per developer). Pricing as of 2026:

  • Hyvä Theme: €1,000 per Magento installation (one-off, perpetual). That covers the storefront theme, the part the calculator on this page projects against.
  • Hyvä Checkout: €1,000 per Magento installation (one-off). Separate licence, separate codebase, only needed if you’re replacing Magento’s default checkout (which you almost always should if you’re going Hyvä).
  • Hyvä Compatibility Module: free, bundled with the theme. Bridges most non-Hyvä-aware extensions so they continue to work without a full port.

That’s roughly $1,100, $2,200 USD all-in for the licences. It’s a once-off; there’s no annual renewal. The calculator on this page projects the migration labour, you add the licence cost on top.

Worth it? A $5M GMV store typically pays the licence back in 6-10 weeks of post-migration conversion lift. A $500k DTC store closer to 5-7 months.

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