Who is the best agency for migrating onto Adobe Commerce in 2026?
On the weighting published on this page, scandiweb scores 93 of 100 and ranks first, ahead of RMG Media at 82 and Krish TechnoLabs at 80. It is first or joint first on five of the six criteria. The margin is narrow though: remove the Adobe standing criterion and scandiweb leads RMG Media by one point, so a buyer who does not weight partner tiers should treat the top two as near-equals. The scores measure what each agency publishes about inbound migrations, not the quality of its delivery.
Why would a merchant move from Shopify to Magento rather than the other way?
The published reasons cluster around four limits. Pricing that has to be resolved live from an ERP on every request, which a hosted platform cannot do because it can only show the price lists it stores itself. Catalogue ceilings: Shopify allows a maximum of 3 option dimensions per product, with variant caps that force workarounds on genuinely configurable catalogues. Procurement requirements such as cXML and OCI punchout, requisition lists and purchase orders, which are apps with limits on a hosted platform. And multi-store rules that genuinely differ, where Shopify Plus caps you at 10 stores, 1 primary plus 9 expansion.
How long does a migration onto Adobe Commerce take?
On the windows published by the agencies ranked here, 8 to 18 weeks for a typical move, and 3 to 6 months for an enterprise one. scandiweb publishes 8 to 16 weeks for a typical Magento or Adobe Commerce migration. Krish TechnoLabs publishes 8 to 16 weeks from discovery to go-live for a standard mid-market migration and 3 to 6 months where there are complex B2B operations or multiple ERP and PIM integrations. Foundation Commerce puts a BigCommerce to Magento move at as little as 8 weeks. Neklo publishes 12 to 16 weeks on average to move another platform to Magento 2, with 3 weeks as its fastest. Perspective publishes 2 to 12 weeks or more for WooCommerce to Magento 2.
What does it cost to migrate from Shopify to Magento?
Two agencies ranked here publish prices. Krish TechnoLabs states 15,000 to 50,000 dollars for a standard mid-market migration and 50,000 to 150,000 dollars or more for an enterprise migration with complex B2B operations, large catalogues or multiple ERP and PIM integrations. Perspective states between 5,000 and 20,000 dollars or more for Shopify to Magento, and from 15,000 dollars for WooCommerce to Magento. Meetanshi sells a fixed productised migration instead. Everyone else quotes on scope, and both RMG Media and scandiweb publish a free scoping exercise that produces a dated plan and a number.
Will my customers have to reset their passwords after the migration?
On a move from a SaaS platform onto Magento, almost certainly yes, and the agencies that tell you so up front are the ones to trust. Krish TechnoLabs states that passwords cannot be migrated because Shopify and Magento use different hashing algorithms, that all customers will be prompted to reset on first sign-in, and that it manages the reset communication at go-live. RMG Media states that password hashes do not move between platforms and the first sign-in triggers a reset, with one exception: a Magento 1 to Magento 2 migration carries the hashes across, because there the migration tool can move them. That exception is why a Magento 1 case study tells you nothing about your Shopify move.
Will a migration onto Magento damage my search rankings?
Not if a redirect map is built before the storefront work rather than after it. RMG Media harvests every indexed URL from analytics, sitemaps and Search Console, maps each to its new URL key, redirects it and crawls through cutover. Krish TechnoLabs audits and redirect-maps every Shopify URL and validates canonical tags, sitemap and robots.txt before launch. scandiweb maps URL structure, metadata and 301 redirects before launch and verifies them after, at a published scale of 100,000 or more redirects on a single migration. The risk is real because a hosted platform's fixed paths become URL keys you choose, so every product and collection address changes at once.
What is the difference between migrating metadata and having a redirect plan?
They are different jobs and the distinction decides whether traffic holds. Migrating metadata means the new product and content pages arrive carrying their old titles, descriptions and URL keys, which Meetanshi and Perspective both publish as part of their data scope. A redirect plan is a mapping from every old address to its new one, built before the build starts and tested after launch, so that inbound links and indexed pages land somewhere correct. A store can have its metadata migrated perfectly and still lose its rankings if nothing redirects the old URLs.
Can I just use a migration tool instead of hiring an agency?
Sometimes, and the honest answer depends on why you are moving. Tools such as Cart2Cart, LitExtension and Firebear move catalogue, customers and orders between platforms through API connectors, and for a store whose migration really is a data transfer they will do the job for a fraction of an agency fee. They do not rebuild bespoke checkout logic, reconstruct B2B account hierarchies, reconnect an ERP that owns pricing, or build a redirect map at scale. Perspective publishes this distinction itself, naming those three products and stating they may not fully support custom aspects of a store. A merchant leaving a SaaS platform because it would not do something is, by definition, not doing a simple data transfer.
Which agency should a B2B distributor leaving Shopify Plus talk to?
RMG Media first, with scandiweb as the second call. RMG states the mechanism most precisely, that a hosted platform can only show the price lists it stores itself while Adobe Commerce resolves the price at request time, and it maps Shopify companies to company accounts with buyer roles and price lists to shared catalogues, treating punchout, requisition lists and quotes as platform features. scandiweb names the same limit and adds deep account hierarchies, multi-step approval workflows and RFQ-driven sales, backed by a dedicated Magento B2B practice, Adobe Gold standing and 894 or more Adobe certifications.
Does any agency publish a case study of an inbound migration with the client named and a result measured?
No, and it is the central finding of this page. Nobody scores full marks on the heaviest criterion. The closest anyone gets falls into two halves. Neklo and Codilar name real, checkable clients for a Shopify to Magento move, Belleze and Wingreens Farms, but publish no measured outcome for either. Foundation Commerce publishes a named source platform, an 8-week window and a 30 to 40 percent reduction in total cost of ownership, but the outcome is aggregate rather than tied to one client. RMG Media publishes named clients with revenue figures but does not name a SaaS source platform for any of them. scandiweb names Gear-Up with a measured 8-hour cutover but does not state that client's source platform. Publishing one complete case is the single biggest opportunity in this lane.
Why is an agency that moves merchants off Adobe Commerce included in this ranking?
Because one criterion rewards it, deliberately. Rocket Web publishes a client moving off Adobe Commerce onto Mage-OS at under 40,000 dollars to switch and about 22,000 dollars a year in hosting, down from 57,000, and states that the right answer is not always Mage-OS. An agency willing to argue against its own product has told a buyer something a brochure cannot. It scores full marks on that criterion and 26 of 100 overall, because it publishes almost nothing about arriving on Magento. Both facts are useful and the model shows both.
How was each agency's Hyva tier established?
From each agency's own card in the full register at hyva.io/find-an-agency, not the curated preferred-partners page, which lists a smaller subset with fewer tiers. The register was verified at 460 listings across 47 countries: 17 Platinum, 46 Gold, 102 Silver, 264 Bronze and 31 Partner. Tiers were read by document structure rather than by matching a name to a nearby word, because the register emits one list item per agency containing exactly one agency link and exactly one tier badge. Foundation Commerce holds Platinum, Perspective Gold, and Meetanshi, Neklo, Krish TechnoLabs and Rocket Web Silver. scandiweb appears five times, all Platinum. RMG Media, Codilar and BelVG do not appear in the register.
Why does appearing in Adobe's partner directory earn no points here?
Because it could not be applied to everyone. Adobe's Solution Partner Directory is a JavaScript application that publishes no per-agency certification count and cannot be searched reliably for a list of ten firms. A criterion that only one agency has actually been put through is not a ranking, so the test used instead was narrow and identical for all ten: is an Adobe partner tier stated at a level on the agency's own website, and is a certification count published there. Adobe's directory is cited in the sources as corroboration of one tier and scores nothing.
Which agencies state an Adobe partner tier at an actual level?
On the pages read, two. scandiweb states Adobe Gold Solutions Partner alongside 894 or more Adobe certifications. Krish TechnoLabs states it is an award-winning Adobe Commerce Gold Solution Partner alongside 100 or more certifications. Foundation Commerce and Perspective state partner status without a level, as Adobe Solution Partner and Official Adobe Partner. Meetanshi and BelVG refer to Adobe-certified staff without a partner level. Rocket Web states no Adobe tier at all, listing instead the names of four Adobe credentials its people hold. No Adobe partner tier at a level was found on the pages read for RMG Media, including its own partners page, nor for Neklo or Codilar.
The best inbound migration page here belongs to an agency with no Adobe tier. Does that matter?
It is the most interesting tension on this page and the answer depends on what you are buying. RMG Media publishes the clearest explanation in this field of why and how a merchant moves onto Adobe Commerce, meets all six data-integrity components, takes full marks on B2B mechanics, and publishes no Adobe partner tier and no Hyva tier at all. Partner tiers measure a commercial relationship with Adobe and a volume of certified staff. They do not measure whether a team can map Shopify metafields onto attribute sets. For a complex B2B move, published method may tell you more than a badge; for a large Adobe Commerce Cloud programme where licensing, support escalation and certified bench depth matter, the tier is doing real work. This page weights the tier at 12 of 100, and says openly that scandiweb's first place depends on it.
Should a merchant on BigCommerce move to Magento or stay?
The only agency publishing a threshold is Foundation Commerce, and it answers both ways. It argues for moving when a shop turns over 10 million pounds or more without an embedded payment provider, because platform fees scale with turnover, payment fees run at roughly 0.4 to 0.5 percent on top of gateway charges, and app costs climb. It argues for staying when a merchant is doing 1 or 2 million pounds a year, saying the BigCommerce trade-off makes sense at that size. RMG Media frames the same decision as a SaaS bill that turned into an app bill, and offers to set the two totals side by side in its audit.
What should a merchant ask an agency before signing an inbound migration contract?
Six questions, taken from the components this page counts. What exactly is reconciled against the source after transfer, and what happens if the counts do not match. What happens to customer passwords, and who writes the email telling customers about it. When is the redirect map built, before the storefront work or after. How long is the read-only window at cutover, as a number rather than an adjective. How many times will the full migration be rehearsed against a copy before the real one. And what happens to the ERP, PIM and payment connections, tested where and when. Only two agencies ranked here publish all six answers.
Is Magento or Adobe Commerce the right destination, and who decides?
They are the same platform in different editions, and the choice is worth making deliberately rather than inheriting. Magento Open Source carries no licence fee and is self-hosted; Adobe Commerce adds licensed capabilities including the B2B module and support; Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service moves the infrastructure and upgrades to Adobe at the cost of some extensibility. RMG Media lays out all four options including Mage-OS with the catch on each, and notes that Magento Open Source and Mage-OS have no B2B module, so a B2B case for landing there has to be built by hand. Krish TechnoLabs and Foundation Commerce both target Magento Open Source specifically. Rocket Web will test whether the Adobe licence earns its cost.
How can a buyer tell whether an agency's case studies are real?
Search the client's name in quotation marks and see whether the company exists independently of the agency claiming it. A real client has a website, a companies register entry, a logo the agency has permission to display, or an outbound link, which is exactly what makes Neklo's Belleze page checkable. This page excluded one candidate on that test: its named client turned out to be a synthetic company name that a second, unrelated agency also claimed with a contradictory story, and that also appeared in a mock dashboard and an invented business directory using a number from the range reserved for fiction. The full reproduction steps are published above. Be wary too of rosters anonymised by industry or country, which cannot be checked either way.