WooCommerce → Magento: When and how to migrate

When it makes sense to switch, risks, migration plan, what to keep and what to rebuild.

Published 2026-07-29 • Category: Migration • Reading time: 11 min

When NOT to migrate

If you process < 500 orders a month with a 1-2 person team — WooCommerce is more than enough. Magento makes sense when:

• You run multiple stores off a single catalog
• > 50,000 SKUs
• Complex B2B with price lists, limits, approval workflows
• Multi-language (more than 3 languages)
• Multi-currency with dynamic rates

What is preserved

• Products with attributes and variations
• Categories
• Orders (history)
• Customers (no passwords — Woo hashes differently)
• Media (manually via S3 or by moving /uploads)

What’s better rebuilt

• Theme: WooCommerce themes do not port to Magento
• Payments: Woo plugins ≠ Magento plugins
• Shipping: same story
• Admin workflow: team training is mandatory

Tools

LitExtension, Cart2Cart — paid but fast (24-48 hours). For heavy-duty migrations — our pipeline: export via WP CLI → Magmi JSON datapump → import.

Downtime

If the migration is prepared in parallel and the DNS cutover takes 2-3 hours, downtime can be kept at 15-30 minutes. For a store with 100 orders/day that’s ~2-4 orders.