Sometimes, figuring out how to best host your online store can be a real hassle.
We may have to deal with looking through multiple providers and finding out if it just is a perfect fit for your company needs. Magento migration can be made easy when you have certain tips in mind.
Magento has come up with some great and customizable online store options that let us finally find a shop host off of our lists.

We at Agilis World Inc. have spent a long time developing our skills to bring our customers the best Magento eCommerce services. That’s why we put together our top tips to help you seamlessly transfer your online store over with Magento migration.

So let’s start talking about how you can make your Magento migration a simple process to cut downtime and give your customers better shopping experience.

Here’s what Magento offers you

Magento is highly flexible and scalable as it lets you take the features and settings you want and apply them to your store. Because of its features, you can be sure that your store can be transferred from one domain to another with Magento migration.

Magento offers over a 100 extensions that can be an icing on the cake when it comes to finding the perfect details and settings to make your store work for you.

Magento migration requires you to follow a few steps and that’s where having Agilis World Inc.’s professional team skilled with Magento comes in handy– as you don’t have to worry about figuring out the smaller details and keep track of everything.
In the end, we’ll ensure that you have your excellent web store up and running smoothly.

Magento migration: getting your steps right

We’ve put down these steps for you to take to get your Magento store up and running on your new domain.

• Prepare for the transition

Although Magento does an incredible job of offering their customers functionality and flexibility, transferring stores and settings is a significant process.
So the first step you need to take towards this migration is to prepare.

Since you are moving so much information from one place to another, your team needs to be ready to tackle problems such as dealing with some bugs and glitches in your new store, or a loss in sales during the migration process because of some functionality or downtime issues.

However, in the end, you can be confident that everything will start to rebound once your store is up and running smoothly again.

• Backup your information

There could be a lot of little details to keep track of during your Magento migration. So backing up your information to avoid any loss always seems to be a good way out to handle this.

Also when you were first putting your store together, you had to go through the pain taking process of creating categories to organize your shop better, getting photos for each item, and writing descriptions for everything.

While backing up, make sure you are keeping all of this information together and that everything is backed up. That ensures you can skip the process of creating this information again or finding out what’s missing.

• Orders and transaction data

You cannot afford a time during the migration wherein your Magneto migration falls during a period where you don’t have any open orders or transactions going on. You don’t want that to happen anyway!
But make sure your migration retains your order and transaction information so that your customers can still keep track of and get their orders.

• Blog posts

As you transition, make sure that the blogs, photos, or video content you created to improve your SEO rankings won’t vanish.

• Update the data within the information you saved

If you are using Magneto migration to move from one domain to another, you will need to accurately update all of your data to match the new fields to prevent your customers from being redirected to a dead page.
Open your data within a text editor and search for any line where your old domain is used. You will then replace that domain with your new one and save this information when you’re done.

• Begin the transition

After you’ve completed these steps and made sure your data has been backed up properly with the correct, updated information, you’re ready to migrate.

Open your new Magento php MyAdmin and create a new database for you to upload your information in.
From there, you can select the import function to transfer all of the information (with your new domain) into your new account.

• Test the functionality

Now that you’ve transferred everything, make sure your team is ready to create a maintenance page to show your users and consider sending out a notification for those on your mailing list. This will help keep everyone informed so that they don’t come to your site with a broken shop and begin working with another company.

From there, begin testing your store from all aspects. Did your data transfer properly and do you still have all of your product and product information linked? Do you have all your customer data uploaded properly?

Use test accounts to try and access the store and make purchases. The more you test, the more you will be able to be sure that everything is working as planned and your customers won’t be dealing with a glitch site for months.

Agilis World Inc. is a Professional Magento Development company with an expertise in Magento 1 and Magento 2. If you want to make sure your Magento migration goes seamlessly, feel free to contact us to get your work done. We are always glad to work with our great customers to make their eCommerce business more successful.