Magento 2 Migration: Benefits, Risks and What you Need to Know

Are you looking to upgrade your applications? Do you want to be technologically sound to provide the best service to the clients? If yes, you are in the right place.

Magento, which is known amongst the top leading eCommerce platforms, on-boarded Magento 2 in the year of 2015 and ended all the support provided to all the websites using Magento 1 versions. This had become the hot topic amongst all the entrepreneurs, organizations and retailers who were using the version 1.x. The consequences were if Magento leaves supporting 1.x version, all the businesses had the possibility of getting vulnerably exposed to potential risks. It also gave a lot of opportunities for numerous certified companies who were providing Magento development services to focus on their developmental areas and upgrade their software. With the introduction of Magento 2, it became easier for the companies to work and focus on their product enhancements or features.

Why to migrate?

Magento development professionals have expressed their views and necessity to migrate to Magento 2 so as to overcome some barriers that they are currently facing. Some of them are listed below:

  • Easy Payments – In the present world, lots of payment transactions are executed online on mobile devices. Upgrading to Magento 2 will assist you in delivering intuitive experiences to all the customers across the globe. The payment transactions have now become easier and user-friendly if compared to the previous methods. Responsive Frontend model has been introduced in Magento 2 which makes this job easier.
  • Ajax Cart – In the previous version of Magento 1, anytime a customer adds the product to the shopping cart, the application always reloads the complete page. Most of the customers have complained about their bad experience because of this issue. Sometimes, the page takes more time to load which discards all the products that they have added to the cart, leaving a negative impact on these customers. To make your online store profitable, you need to resolve this issue. You can also contact some certified company providing Magento development services who can assist you in resolving such issues by upgrading the software to Magento 2.
  • Cheap and quick Installation – with the introduction of Magento 2, it has become easier and faster for the technicians to install this software in your systems. Rather than using complex programming structure in Magento 2, professionals have used HTML5, CSS3 and Less that simplifies the front-end developments and other functionalities easier.

Risks –

Once Magento 1 stops receiving support from the front end, all the sites that are still using the previous versions will become easy targets for any web related attacks such as server attacks, spam attacks or capturing customer’s confidential payment details. All these are termed as “security risks” and every retailer, manufacturer or entrepreneur who are running their own trading websites must be aware off in order to make sure that at any cost, client confidentiality is not compromised. To avoid such attacks, it is recommended to upgrade your website to Magento 2 as soon as possible to mitigate any such risks. Not only this, if not upgraded, you will start facing several other issues which include a slow performance of your website, navigation issues within the website, decrease in sales and lots more.

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