The answer is absolute YES. But keep in my mind, that Magento 1 version is no longer supported. As time goes by, your online store will expand significantly. But however, your current website is too expensive in maintenance. Thus you may require efficient, advanced and stable functionality, however your current eCommerce platform doesn’t give you those essential options. The reason for the migration must be whatsoever, but if you are considering Magento 2 migration, our developers are here to help you.

Though below are some important things that you should consider while migrating your website to Magento 2:

• Set milestones and timelines and plan the migration process with the developer team thoroughly.
• The developer team should prepare a full backup of all the website's data such as product categories, product details, customer information, and their passwords, orders, etc.
• The team will check the compatibility of your themes and extensions or creates/buys new extensions if required.
• The developer team will then transfer the products into the new platform. Along with this, the process will include the transfer of attributes, product specification (name and the details of products you sell), plus all the elements of your product page.
• At that point the team will migrate all the client information, for example, username and password, contact numbers, and shipping addresses.
• Then our team of Magento developers will move the items and category URLs and save the old URLs to the new Magento online store.
• The team will then copy all the API keys, secret key, and API signature of your payment gateway to keep your Magento online store up and running.
• You can also ask the developer team to copy the functionalities of your old online store to the new Magento 2 store (which will be depending on your business needs) or also ask the developer team for custom feature development.

The timeline typically depends on the Magento 2 customizations, the appropriate updates, the size of the storage and the data migration requirements. For the most part, migration to a traditional store with simple third-party integration takes up to 3-6 months.

To make things all the more clear, we will tell you the best way to evaluate:

1. Migration of theme: It is estimated the migration of theme might take time ranging from 1 week to 3 months which also depends on the methods of migrating themes.
2. Migration of extensions to Magento 2: Estimated to 1 week to find plugins new modules and plus time required to install those extensions (3 hours/ module X number of the module) plus the time required for conflict solving. The Estimated timeline ranges from 1 to 2 weeks.
3. Migration of Data: The Estimated time is 1 week.
4. Migration of code: Estimated time ranges from 1-2 weeks.
5. Configure and test new Magento 2 online store: Estimated time ranges from 2-3 weeks.

Taking everything into account, it’s anticipated that it may take one to five months to migrate to Magento 2. This requires a comprehensive Magento migration plan to determine what requires to be accomplished and the approximate time for each process to be carried out.

No, Magento 2 will allow you to easily migrate your data without any data loss from your previous version. But the process must be cleared thoroughly before the migration to Magento 2.

Having Search Engine Optimization is the best practice for any Magento 2 online store. Since its best practices and methods are changing all the time so it is hard to conduct regular check-ups concerning your site's technical stability.

Investing in Magento SEO Services is a great way to get estimable and important information about the state of your Magento 2 online store because you might be missing a significant amount of customers, traffic, and sales due to unhealthy technical SEO setup.

Here's what we can do for you in SEO:

• Duplicate and thin/scrapped/affiliate content issues check-up.
• Checks in traffic drops.
• Index and crawl analysis like robots.txt, sitemap, broken links, redirects, etc.
• On-site mark-up analysis
• Performance and speed analysis.

These things will make a solid foundation on the path to improving your search engine rankings and maximize your online marketing efforts. We will treat each case and individually and differently because every business requirement is different.

"SAFETY FIRST!" is always the key component of the running online stores. Our Magento team has always put the security at the heart of the Magento development by continuously keeping an eye for Magento security and patch solutions to fix and thereby enhance the specific security issue.

Here's the recipe of our security policy:

• Our team takes lead from the very start that is, choosing a reliable hosting environment, launching new sites over HTTPS and upgrading the sites to securely encrypted HTTPS channel.
• Secondly, the Magento 2 installation is done safeguard by using the latest version of Magento 2, using strong passwords for Magento admin, setting up admin security, captcha and blocking the access from unknown systems.
• Our team is dedicated to protecting the Magento 2's system environment by applying security protocol like SSL/HTTPS. Limiting access to admin by using IP address whitelist. Buying the extensions and themes from certified providers.
• Our team will also monitor the threaten attacks and take actions in event if security compromise.
• Our team will use PCI Compliance, because failing to PCI compliance not just means a monetary penalty imposed but also customer dissatisfaction and the loss of your brand's reputation.
• Our team is dedicated to make your site GDPR Compliant.
• Our team also follows the policy to make the website a cookie law compliant.
• Our team will make sure of keeping the Privacy Policy of your Magento online store updated.

The complex nature of Magento projects makes it hard to estimate exact costs. It will also be a consideration if you select Open Source or Commerce version. Most Magento Development Companies like Sparsh Technologies, should carry out a site assessment to evaluate the functional specifications, third-party integrations, number and types of extensions, requirement for custom programming and catalog specification before making an estimate.

Magento is the ultimate eCommerce platform that offers high security and extraordinary business ecosystems.

The features of Magento eCommerce platform are:

• Admin dashboard
• Customer segmentation
• Inventory management
• Advanced Shipping and management.
• Allows bundling of products
• CMS options
• Newsletters
• Great scalability

Magento Services we offer:

• Custom Magento Development
• Magento Responsive Design
• Magento Maintenance Services
• Migration from Magento 1 to Magento 2
• Magento Payment Integration
• Magento Patches and Updates
• B2B/B2C Implementation
• Magento Third party API Integration
• Bulk Product Import/Export
• Magento 2 Performance Tuning
• Magento Shipping Integration

Magento 2 with its updates, brings fundamental and valuable changes.

Beyond the overall functionality enhancement, there are other significant enhancements for technological level, both in terms of modularity (frontend and backend) and performance.

Magento 2 was released back in 2015 and offers more improved features that resolve issues encountered in Magento 1 such as:

• Better Admin Interface
• Better Security
• Improved Performance and Scalability
• Mobile-Friendly
• Support for PHP 7.3
• Streamlined Checkout Process
• Advanced Reporting
• Email Marketing Automation
• PWA Studio
• Multi Source Inventory (MSI)
• GraphQL
• Improved Performance and Scalability
• Elastic Search
• Powerful Page Builder
• WYSIWYG Upgrade
• Message Queue
• Asynchronous & Bulk Web APIs
• Declarative Schema
• Improved Indexing Performance
• Cache-Management ACL
• Improved Technical Architecture and New Features
• Google reCAPTCHA and Two Factor Authentication