Magento 2 will slowly be phased out because Magento has announced the successor Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service (ACCS) at Adobe Summit 2025. This presents an opportunity to modernize your Online Shop with VELOX, a robust, headless B2B e-commerce foundation. Purpose-built for scalability and flexibility, VELOX enables tailored microservice implementations without vendor lock-in. This makes it an ideal choice for organizations seeking future-proof infrastructure and seamless customer experiences.

Your Magento shop can fully be moved to VELOX. The process can be done step by step (“soft-migration”). After migrating your shop to VELOX, license & operations will cost less than with Magento.

‍

1. What are the best alternative e-commerce platforms?

Popular alternatives include Shopify Plus, BigCommerce, Spryker, and VELOX. Unlike closed systems, VELOX is open-source and fully modular, offering unmatched flexibility for mid-sized and large B2B organizations needing custom logic, ERP integrations, and API-driven infrastructure.

‍

2. How can I keep our current SEO rankings?

VELOX supports SEO-preserving migration, including URL mapping, 301 redirects, metadata retention, and canonical structure replication. Our team ensures minimal disruption to search engine visibility by maintaining crawlable and optimized architecture throughout the migration.

‍

3. Will my Magento Shop be supported in the future?

Yes and No: While Adobe's official statement is that they will continue supporting Magento, it can be expected that they will at least stop delivering new features on Magento while trying to push towards the new solution. 

Adobe has announced that support for Magento 2.3 and soon 2.4 will end. This means there will be no more security patches, updates, or compliance improvements. Operating an unsupported Magento store exposes your business to growing risks – including vulnerabilities, performance degradation, and failed integrations.

Security patches and quality fixes are promised for three years after each version’s "General Availability" release. Support for Magento versions will continue according to Adobe’s published lifecycle policy. For example, Magento 2.4.6 will be supported through March 2026 and 2.4.7 through April 2027. However, customers relying on older features should prepare for deprecation as Adobe streamlines the ecosystem toward Adobe Commerce’s SaaS services.

‍

4. What does an alternative e-commerce solution need to offer?

What an Ecommerce alternative needs to offer depends mostly on your specific needs and requirements. Here are some features that we consider crucial for any professional Ecommerce solution:

• Modular architecture for extensibility
  
  
• Strong API integrations with ERP/CRM systems
  
  
• Cloud-native deployment and scalability
  
  
• Security and compliance readiness
  
  
• Developer and data ownership
  
  
• Flexible frontend frameworks
  
  

VELOX delivers on all these points and more—with a lightweight, developer-friendly stack and Storyblok CMS integration.

5. What custom functionalities can be migrated?

VELOX is designed for migration of custom business logic. All functionalities you want to keep continue using can be migrated to VELOX. Our composable Ecommerce solution is API-first and microservice-based: this means we will be able to migrate or reproduce any functionality and custom integration you currently have.

Whether you rely on custom order workflows, pricing tiers, user roles, or integrations with legacy systems, VELOX’s microservice approach allows for seamless replication and enhancement of your current Magento features.

‍

6. How can VELOX replace my Magento Shop?

Thanks to VELOX' MACH-Architecture (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, and Headless), you can migrate everything from Magento – including all third-party integrations with payment providers, PIM- and ERP-integration. With prebuilt connectors, customizable components, and an intuitive content system (Storyblok), VELOX can fully replace Magento—while reducing future technical debt. 

VELOX offers a headless architecture that matches—and enhances—everything your Magento shop can do. From product catalogs to checkout flows, all existing capabilities are fully supported. You gain faster performance, seamless API integration, and streamlined development.

‍

7. Can we keep our current design and user experience?

Yes. As a microservice based headless solutions, VELOX Ecommerce can be applied to any existing design. We can use the existing front end (user interface), including the existing CMS integration and CMS components, and adapt them to the customer's CI/CD (corporate identity/corporate design).

‍

‍

8. Can we migrate in phases?

Yes. VELOX supports phased migration, starting with your highest-priority touchpoints—such as checkout, product catalog, or user portal. Our modular structure enables you to move one part after another to VELOX step by step. We can even offer a functional solution early on in the project to show progress, a principle also known as CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment).

VELOX' microservice architecture allows you to cherry-pick the components or building blocks you need from VELOX. This means that only those components that are actually in use need to be maintained. 

Instead of importing all data and programming the logic in the shop system, as is the case with many other solutions, VELOX seamlessly integrates peripheral systems such as ERP, PIM, and CRM. For example, price calculations can be performed directly in the ERP system at runtime.

Some of the standard components are replaced during the project course through integration with the existing systems (ERP, PIM, CRM, IDM). Another advantage is that we can offer a functional solution early on in the project to show progress, a principle also known as CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment).

‍

9. How long does the migration take?

VELOX follows an agile, milestone-driven approach. We begin with a technical discovery phase to assess dependencies, followed by incremental implementation. 

The migration duration will depend on the project’s complexity. Specifically, it depends on: how much customization has been done and how many integrations (ERP, CRM, Payment, etc.…) are needed. Usually, this kind of migration takes around 6-12 months.

‍

10. How much will the migration cost?

In the long-term, migrating to VELOX will save you money (no license fees, reduced overhead etc.). Migration costs depend on your current complexity and desired architecture – but with VELOX, you benefit from:

• Scalability: Only pay for what you grow into
  
  
• Cost savings: No licensing fees or vendor lock-in
  
  
• Flexibility: Choose the tech stack and cloud of your choice
  
  
• Security & fault tolerance: Cloud-native, compliant, resilient
  
  
• Long-term independence: Your data, your infrastructure, no black boxes

‍

‍

If you’re considering moving off Magento, VELOX isn’t just a replacement—it’s a transformation. Contact us to request a free migration consultation.