1. Magento 1 support will end in 2020. What next?

2. Magento development officials have announced that they will extend the support for Magento 1 sites till June 2020. If your store runs on Magento 1, migrating to Magento 2 is recommended for these key benefits.

3. Magento has released the 2.3.0 version that has several new features and enhancements including Multi-Source Inventory (MSI), Progressive Web Apps (PWA), Elasticsearch updates, etc.,

4. Magento 2 is compatible with add-ons, extensions, and third-party integration tools which makes it easy for customization. Whether you need the platform for B2B or B2C, Magento 2 is scalable.

5. With Magento 2, more than 50,000 orders can be processed per hour.

6. Magento 2 help achieve faster page loading times i.e, less than 3 seconds. Considering the short attention span of customers, quick page loads can significantly improve conversion.

7. Magento 2 is mobile-friendly and web stores built on Magento 2 can work seamlessly across various devices with different screen sizes. In short, Magento 2 is flexible and suitable for all platforms.

8. Magento 2 allows you to up-sell, cross- sell and personalized discounts.

9. Magento 2 has a simpler admin panel and includes new features like filter options, Ajax loading, attributes that can be configured, product video addition etc.,

10. Here are the basic requirements to migrate from Magento 1 to 2.

11. ●MySQL 5.6 or MariaDB 10.0 or Percona 5.7 ●PHP 7.0.13 or higher ●HP extensions requirements - ctype, bc-math, curl, json, gd, intl, mcrypt, mbstring, hash, iconv, soap, spl, PDO/MySQL libxml, xsl and zip.

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