As you may know, there are about ten different platforms that you might be offered as alternatives to Magento 1. The big ones are Shopify, WooCommerce, Bigcommerce, and Salesforce, but trust us, there are many others.
At present, Shopify is a universal solution for small to medium-sized businesses. Even e-commerce giants like Nescafe, Red Bull, and Tesla Motors are successfully operating on Shopify, and have done for many years.
1. If you are tech-savvy enough, you can take all the responsibility and migrate the store on your own. In terms of money, this will cost you almost nothing, except for the money charged by the migration tool.
2. You can involve a migration tool support team and ask them to migrate the data for you. This is a viable option in case you are sure that you can cover the other stages of migration and setting up the new store.
3. Shift all aspects of migration to experienced developers. This is the most preferable option since you can spend your time more on the business development instead of the website development.
If you need assistance in every migration aspect, it is better to hire a team that consists of experienced Magento and Shopify developers, and a designer and project manager. With such a team, you can expect a flawless website migration from Magento to Shopify.
The time needed for each stage of migration is defined by the following criterias:
Size of your store (number and types of products, number of orders and customers to be migrated, etc.) The number of needed third-party apps Whether you want a template or a custom made design The number and complexity of required customizations