Magento Migration: What Actually Needs Planning
A successful Magento migration is much more than moving products and customers. URLs, redirects, integrations, order history, media, custom functionality and SEO all need a proper migration plan.
A migration is not just a data import
The obvious parts are products, customers, categories and orders. The difficult parts are usually the things surrounding them.
Preserving URLs matters
Existing category paths, product URLs and redirects need careful handling if you want to avoid unnecessary SEO damage.
Custom functionality needs mapping
Legacy extensions and bespoke functionality should be reviewed before migration. Some should be rebuilt, some replaced and some removed entirely.
Test the business process, not just the catalogue
A migration is only successful when ordering, payments, fulfilment, integrations, email, customer accounts and administration all work properly together.