More than 5,000 products
A large catalogue brings more attributes, variants, prices, feeds and bulk operations. At this point, admin performance, on-site search and PIM or ERP synchronisation all deserve closer scrutiny.
Migrate from a Bespoke Platform to Magento 2 without Losing Critical Business Processes
Your catalogue, customers, orders, content and essential business processes move into a structured Magento 2 architecture. An audit of the current codebase, database, APIs, exports and integrations defines the data mappings, feature scope and SEO plan.
A bespoke platform can serve a business well for years. Replatforming becomes relevant when poor documentation, dependence on one technical partner, upgrade costs or difficult integrations begin to put trading and future change at risk.
Your bespoke platform contains business knowledge as well as data. You work with me to bring those rules into a documented Magento 2 architecture, with one accountable technical partner for key development work and cutover.
Artur Komoter, Adobe Commerce certified developer and founder of APK Studio
Trusted by B2C and B2B clients
Why replatform
When does a bespoke platform stop being an advantage?
Your decision follows the total cost and risk of continuing to run the platform, rather than its age alone. The assessment covers ownership of business rules, security release times, understanding of the data model and the cost of significant changes.
A bespoke-platform migration covers data, features, integrations and admin workflows. Each receives a defined place in Magento core, a module, an integration or a new bespoke component.
Has your store reached the point where replatforming makes sense?
The figures below are not hard technical limits. They are practical indicators that platform constraints, manual work or fees may justify assessing a move to Magento 2.
More than 3,000 orders per month
At this volume, checkout stability, operational automation and integration reliability have a direct impact on operating costs and customer experience.
Around £600,000 in annual net revenue
At this scale, downtime, platform constraints and usage-based fees can justify investing in a platform aligned with your operating model and growth plans.
Common barriers when scaling a bespoke platform
Each proprietary system has a different story. The issues below are audit signals, not assumptions made without checking the code, data and how the team works.
Undocumented data model and rules
The meaning of fields, statuses, pricing exceptions and automations may exist only in the codebase or in the knowledge of a few people. Every change then requires costly reverse-engineering of the system’s original intent.
Dependence on a single vendor or developer
If only one person can release changes safely, annual leave, staff turnover or limited availability become operational risks. It is also harder to assess delivery quality and cost independently.
Cost of updates and technical debt
An outdated framework, libraries and infrastructure can block security patches, third-party compatibility and the features customers expect.
Integrations without a common operating model
Connections to ERP, PIM, WMS, CRM, OMS and marketplaces are often built at different times. Without queues, monitoring, retry handling and clear data ownership, manual intervention increases.
What Magento 2 replaces in a proprietary commerce core
Magento 2 does not remove the need for development and support. It replaces a wholly proprietary commerce core with a maintained platform that can be extended around the workflows that genuinely differentiate the business.
A maintained commerce core
The catalogue, pricing, promotions, basket, orders, indexers, caches and admin belong to one platform. Growth no longer depends on maintaining every standard commerce capability from scratch.
A rich catalogue and commerce model
Attributes, variants, sets, customer groups, pricing rules, multiple stores and markets, and B2C and B2B processes can be developed on a consistent basis.
API, imports and asynchronous processing
Integrations can use standard APIs, bulk operations and queues. This makes it easier to batch data, handle failures and monitor each exchange with business systems.
Control over your code without a closed ecosystem
Open-source code lets the business retain bespoke capabilities, change delivery partner and draw on a wider Magento talent pool instead of depending on knowledge unique to one proprietary system.
What moves from your bespoke platform to Magento 2
Migration covers data, functionality, integrations and operational workflows. Each area has an agreed mapping and clear reconciliation criteria.
Data model, catalogue and content
Your data map records identifiers and relationships across products, variants, categories, attributes, media, prices, stock levels, languages, content pages and bespoke fields.
Customers, orders and history
Your migration scope covers accounts, addresses, consents, orders, items, statuses, payments, deliveries and customer-service data. Source analysis confirms which records to transfer and how to map them.
Administrative functions and processes
Each non-standard capability has an agreed outcome: a rebuild, a Magento core replacement, retirement or a process change. The inventory includes your automations and back-office tools.
Integrations, frontend and SEO
Your store connects with ERP, PIM, WMS, CRM and OMS platforms, payment providers and logistics services. The Hyvä Commerce storefront is supported by an SEO migration plan covering URL mapping, 301 redirects, canonical URLs, the XML sitemap and indexation checks.
A bespoke ETL pipeline instead of a generic migration tool
Your bespoke schema, exceptions and business rules guide a repeatable ETL pipeline. It extracts data from the database, APIs or exports, transforms it into the target model and loads it into Magento 2 while preserving record relationships.
Each run produces an error report and reconciliation results for record counts, totals, statuses, relationships and data samples. Corrections feed into repeated trial imports, and measured run times inform the cutover schedule. The final import captures new orders, customers and catalogue changes.
How does migration from a bespoke platform to Magento 2 work?
Your new Magento 2 store is built alongside the live platform. Repeated migration rehearsals establish data quality and timing, with cutover following UAT and reconciliation.
- Technical audit of the source platformYou receive an inventory of legacy data sources and workflows. The review covers the database schema, codebase, exports, APIs, scheduled jobs, integrations, permissions and infrastructure access.
- Data and business rules mapYour data map documents fields, relationships, identifiers, statuses and exceptions. It defines records that can move unchanged, need cleansing or require transformation for Magento 2.
- Architecture of the target solutionEvery capability is assigned to Magento core, a proven extension, bespoke development, an external integration or deliberate retirement. This prevents legacy technical debt from being carried into the new store.
- Store build and migration toolingYour Magento 2 configuration, storefront, extensions and integrations take shape alongside version-controlled mappings and repeatable import scripts. Trial runs use successive copies of source data.
- Trial imports, reconciliation and UATRepeated migration runs reconcile results against the source and resolve discrepancies. Your team then validates complete trading, customer-service, finance, logistics and reporting journeys.
- Final synchronisation and controlled cutoverThe agreed cutover window restricts legacy-platform changes while the final data delta, traffic and integrations move across. Post-launch monitoring covers orders, payments, synchronisations, application errors and indexation.
Budget and timeline
What determines the cost of migration from a bespoke platform?
The main cost drivers are data quality, the number of variants and languages, order history, the new storefront scope, integrations, B2B workflows and any capabilities that cannot be covered by supported extensions.
After the audit, you receive the Magento 2 scope, delivery timeline and a fixed-price proposal. The document lists required decisions and further data separately, giving your team a clear basis for approval.
Technology partner
Why choose APK Studio?
Your migration retains the processes that support sales and creates room for simpler buying and store management. Automated workflows connect the new platform with your team's day-to-day operations.
Seven years of e-commerce experience inform the decisions behind your new architecture. Ongoing support and development keep the platform aligned with your commercial priorities after launch.
Delivery assurance
A dependable delivery partner
Adobe-certified developer
The Adobe Commerce Front-End Developer Expert certification validates the skills needed to deliver Magento 2 storefronts correctly and reduces the risk of choosing the wrong development partner.
Integration expertise
The experience covers Magento 2 integrations with ERP systems including WF-Mag, Enova, Comarch XL and Symfonia, the Akeneo PIM and the BaseLinker OMS. This reduces risk in one of the most complex parts of an e-commerce project.
Fixed-price budget certainty
Discovery defines the scope, architecture and acceptance criteria in enough detail to prepare a reliable fixed-price quote. The assumptions behind the budget are clear before development begins.
Working software every two weeks
Working features are shared regularly in staging from the start of the project. Your project lead can review them as they become available, keeping you in control of the delivery direction.
Customer reviews
Clear communication and measurable outcomes
Seven years of e-commerce experience and more than 25 completed Magento 2 implementations provide the technical evidence. The reviews below show how clients assess communication, accountability and the quality of the working relationship.
What stood out most was Artur’s prompt, professional communication, reliability and inventive approach to technical challenges. He achieved excellent results without unnecessary complexity. I would readily recommend APK Studio to any online retailer; the investment pays for itself remarkably quickly.
I would recommend working with Artur. He approaches every project professionally and pragmatically, proposing clear solutions that match the real requirement. The changes made the site more stable, resolved the issues we had reported and helped us win new customers. Delivery is smooth and free from unnecessary formality, with high-quality work at a fair, competitive price.
Artur has deep Magento 2 expertise and communicates in a direct, clear and goal-focused way. Before working with him, I tried several agencies in India and a number of freelancers but was not satisfied with the quality or communication. Artur delivers professionally and to a high standard. I would definitely recommend him.
Selected projects
Design, technology and business outcome
Each project brings together commercial decisions, user experience and technical quality. See the scope, delivery approach and outcome achieved for the client.
Magento 1 · B2B platform
Developing a B2B electronics wholesaler on Magento 1
Ongoing support for a live store, including company registration, volume pricing, stock availability, order workflows and back-office integrations.
Read the case studyMagento 2 · redesign
From a budget image to a refined premium brand
A new visual direction, leaner storefront and improved buying journey increased order volume by 47% within two months.
See the Abakus projectYour project
The goal comes before the technology
The commercial goal, operational processes, integrations and content requirements determine the right direction for the project. They form the basis for a recommendation covering the technology, scope and most important next step.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about migrating from a bespoke platform to Magento 2
Can a bespoke platform further scale the store?
Often, yes. The issue may not be application performance at all, but support cost, concentrated knowledge, security exposure, release lead time or integration risk. Replatforming is justified by the combined effect of those factors on trading and growth, not by one technical limit.
What data can be migrated?
Your migration can include products, variants, categories, attributes, media, prices, stock, customers, addresses, consents, orders, statuses, content and bespoke fields available from the database, APIs or exports. A trial extraction confirms that records can be read and interpreted reliably, with quality and completeness established before the proposal is finalised.
Will customers keep their accounts and passwords?
It depends on the hashing algorithm and how credentials are stored. A safely supported format can use transitional authentication that upgrades the hash after the first successful login. Otherwise, accounts and order history are migrated and customers set a new password. Plain-text passwords are never copied. Administrator accounts are recreated separately with least-privilege access and current security controls.
Does the store need to be taken offline during migration?
Development and testing take place alongside the live store. A short maintenance window may be required for final synchronisation and integration cutover; its duration is established through the trial imports.
How do you protect SEO during replatforming?
Your migration includes an old-to-new URL map, 301 redirects and transfer of important content and metadata. Validation covers canonical URLs, the sitemap, analytics and post-launch indexation, supporting continuity of organic search traffic.
Will Magento 2 cost more to run?
Magento 2 requires professional hosting, security updates and technical support, so it may not be the right choice for a small or straightforward store. At greater scale, it offers control over the codebase, workflows and costs instead of tying spend directly to app count, API usage or order volume.
How long does a migration take and how much does it cost?
The initial budget for migrating from a bespoke platform to Magento 2 ranges from £12,000 to £14,000 excluding VAT. The delivery timeline depends on data quality, the number of integrations, required functionality and the new storefront. After the audit, you receive a fixed-price proposal and timeline tied to clearly defined acceptance criteria.
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Is your store still running on a bespoke platform?
Tell me about your product and order volumes, critical integrations, current constraints and growth plans. I’ll confirm what is needed for the audit and migration scope.