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Migrating Your Magento Store to Hyvä Theme: What Merchants Should Expect

MendGo — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:23:13 +0000

Magento has been one of the most trusted eCommerce platforms for years, largely because of its flexibility, scalability, and full code ownership. It works for stores of every size, from small shops to large enterprise retailers, and has kept adding features as merchant needs have grown more complex.

Despite these strengths, Magento has traditionally struggled with frontend performance. Its default frontend relies on a heavy JavaScript stack, including RequireJS, Knockout.js, jQuery, and LESS. Even merchants who invest heavily in performance optimization often struggle to hit strong Core Web Vitals and PageSpeed scores, simply because of how the default frontend is built.

Hyvä built the Hyvä Theme to replace Magento’s default frontend. Instead of the traditional stack, it uses Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, and vanilla JavaScript. That lighter architecture cuts frontend complexity, speeds up page loading, and can get merchants to PageSpeed scores of 90+ when it’s implemented correctly.

Today, many Magento merchants are planning to migrate to Hyvä Theme, though they often have questions like:

Is Hyvä only a frontend change?
What benefits will my business actually see?
What does a Hyvä migration involve?
How much time should I plan?
Is migrating to Hyvä really worth the investment?
In this guide, we’ll answer these questions and explain what you can realistically expect as a merchant when migrating your Magento store to Hyvä Theme.

What Changes During a Hyvä Migration?
Hyvä is a completely different frontend theme. During migration, your storefront is rebuilt using Hyvä as the parent theme, while your Magento backend stays untouched.

Since the frontend is rebuilt from scratch, you can keep your existing design or use the migration to redesign your storefront with a better user experience.

Pro Tip: Since your development agency is rebuilding the frontend anyway, this is a good time to refresh your store’s design instead of just recreating the old one. A better design can also lift conversion rates.erience and conversion rates.

What Stays the Same?
One of the biggest concerns merchants have is whether their daily business operations will change.

The good news is that your Magento admin panel remains almost exactly the same. Although Hyvä installs additional modules and configuration options, your core backend areas continue to work as before, including:

Orders
Products
Customers
Marketing
Promotions
Sales reports
Store configuration
Your team can keep using Magento without extra training, so the switch is easier on the operations side.

What Needs to Be Rebuilt?
Because Hyvä uses a completely different frontend architecture, every customer-facing page needs to be rebuilt. This includes pages such as:

Homepage
Category pages
Product pages
CMS pages
Shopping cart
Customer account pages
Hyvä already includes standard eCommerce functionality, so common features such as product listings, product details, add-to-cart, and the shopping cart are available out of the box. However, any custom frontend functionality you built for your store also needs to be rebuilt.

For example, if your product page displays an estimated delivery date based on the customer’s postcode or PIN code, that functionality needs to be redeveloped to work with Hyvä.

If you want to reduce design and development time, consider starting with a premium ready-made Hyvä theme template instead of building every page from scratch.
Haven – Ready-to-use Hyvä Theme Template

Pro Tip: Hyvä has a fallback mechanism that lets selected pages keep using your existing theme. That means you can migrate specific pages first and leave the rest on your current frontend until you’re ready.

Will My Existing Extensions Continue to Work?
This is one of the most common questions merchants ask before starting a Hyvä migration.

Extensions that only perform backend operations will continue to work without any changes. Examples include:

ERP integrations
CRM integrations
Inventory synchronization
Order synchronization
Product import and export
Payment processing
Shipping integrations
Extensions that add or modify frontend functionality, however, must be compatible with Hyvä.

Fortunately, most Magento extension vendors now offer Hyvä-compatible versions of their extensions, and upgrading to that version is often enough to restore the same functionality on your new storefront.

For example, if you use a blog extension, the backend content management remains unchanged, but the storefront templates that display blog posts must be replaced with Hyvä-compatible templates.

Before starting your migration, it’s worth auditing all frontend extensions and replacing them with Hyvä-compatible alternatives where required. You can also browse our collection of Hyvä-Compatible Magento Extensions.

Does My Checkout Change?
Not necessarily.

Hyvä’s fallback mechanism means selected pages, including checkout, can keep using your existing Magento theme. Many merchants start by keeping their current checkout while migrating the rest of the storefront to Hyvä. That keeps the migration simpler and the checkout fully functional throughout the transition.

Pro Tip: Since you’re already investing in the migration, it’s worth considering Hyvä Checkout too. It’s faster than the default checkout and matches the performance gains you’re getting on the rest of the storefront.

How Long Does a Hyvä Migration Take?
For most Magento stores, a Hyvä migration takes one to two months, depending on factors such as:

Existing storefront design
Number of CMS pages
Custom frontend functionality
Third-party extensions
Whether you plan to redesign the store
Checkout customization
Pro Tip: To reduce both development time and design costs, you can start with a professionally designed Hyvä template instead of building every page from scratch. We recently reviewed several options in our guide to the Top Premium Hyvä Theme Templates.

What to Expect After Your Hyvä Store Goes Live
This is the stage every merchant looks forward to. If your Hyvä store is built correctly, following Hyvä’s development best practices, you should see real improvements in performance and user experience.

Immediate Results After Launch
You can generally expect:

Google PageSpeed scores of 90+ for most pages.
Much faster page loading on desktop and mobile devices.
Improved Core Web Vitals.
Better frontend accessibility.
Cleaner HTML that’s easier for search engines and AI-powered tools to understand.

Results Over the Next Two to Three Months
As search engines re-crawl and re-index your website, you may begin to see additional business benefits, including:

Improved search engine rankings.
Better Core Web Vitals in Google Search Console.
Increased organic traffic.
Higher conversion rates due to a faster shopping experience.
Improved customer engagement with lower page abandonment.
The exact outcome depends on your content, overall SEO strategy, site design, and how well the migration itself was implemented.

Hyvä Pocket – Free Magento Order Management App for Store Owners

MendGo — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 04:55:11 +0000

As a Magento merchant running a store with frequent orders, it’s hard to keep track of everything. You end up carrying your laptop everywhere, or handing one to each store manager so they can check and start fulfilling orders as they come in. Magento doesn’t offer an order management app of its own, and while a few paid options exist, Hyvä has now launched a free one for Magento order management. In this guide, we’ll look at why merchants need a mobile app, how to get this free app for your store, and how to connect it to your Magento admin so you can track orders on the go.

Challenges of Managing Magento Orders from a Desktop
Running a Magento store requires constant attention. Merchants need to monitor new orders, respond to customers, check sales performance, and keep track of inventory throughout the day. When you rely only on the Magento admin panel from a desktop or laptop, staying connected to your store gets difficult, especially when you’re away from the office.

Some common problems this creates:

You need to be logged into the admin panel just to see new orders or check store activity.
That’s hard to do while traveling, in meetings, or away from your desk, so order processing slows down and urgent orders are easy to miss.
Customer support suffers too, since you can’t quickly pull up order details when you’re away from your computer.
As your business grows, these delays start to affect customer satisfaction. Having access to your store from your phone means you can check orders and sales wherever you are, and respond faster when something needs attention.

Introducing Hyvä Pocket
Hyvä Pocket is a mobile companion app for Magento 2 store owners. It’s fast, secure, and always available, so instead of logging into the Magento admin panel on a desktop, merchants can track sales, review orders, browse customers and products, and stay informed wherever they are. The app connects with read-only access, so your store data stays secure while still being fully visible.

Key features

Onboarding & Secure Connect

The welcome screen introduces the app’s core features, including the Sales Dashboard, Orders and Customers, Product Catalog, and Order Notifications. Merchants can connect to a live store or explore the app using sample data, and a message makes clear that all access is read only.

Sales Dashboard Overview

The “Month at a Glance” dashboard gives an overview of store performance, including total sales, projected sales, year-to-date revenue, net revenue, and metrics such as orders, items sold, average order value, and shipping. Growth indicators let merchants compare performance over time.

By Date Breakdown

The “Today in Detail” dashboard focuses on daily activity, showing total sales, net revenue, and an hourly chart of revenue and orders, so you can quickly spot peak sales periods during the day.

Latest Activity Feed

A live activity feed shows recently viewed records alongside the latest incoming orders, so merchants can catch up on recent store activity without digging through multiple screens.

Order List with Filter & Sort

The Orders section is a searchable, scrollable list of all orders, showing each order’s status, customer name, total amount, and date. Built-in filtering and sorting make it easy to find specific orders or narrow the results.

Universal Search

A single search bar searches Orders, Mollie payments, Customers, and Products at once, showing matching results as you type.

Detailed Order View

Opening an order shows the full details: customer information, store details, order and entity IDs, purchased items with product images and SKUs, and a financial summary covering subtotal, tax, shipping, grand total, and paid and invoiced amounts.

Customer Directory

The Customers section is a searchable list of customers, showing their names, email addresses, and customer-since dates. Filtering and sorting options make it easy to manage a large customer list.

Customer Profile View

Selecting a customer opens their full profile: customer group, website, saved addresses, order count, order history, and recent orders with statuses and totals.

Settings & Store Management

From Settings, merchants can manage multiple connected Magento stores, configure App Lock security, customize notification preferences, and personalize the app’s appearance and interactions, including theme, language, and haptic feedback.

How to Connect Hyvä Pocket to Your Magento Store
Connecting Hyvä Pocket to your store takes just a few minutes. You can connect one or more Magento stores using whichever authentication method you prefer, and once connected, you can monitor orders, customers, products, and sales right from your phone.

Follow these steps to connect your Magento store:

Step 1: Download and Open Hyvä Pocket
Install the Hyvä Pocket app from the Apple App Store and open it on your iPhone or iPad. Tap Add Store to add your Magento store.

Step 2: Enter Your Store Information

Under the Magento Store section, enter the following details:

Store Name: Enter a name that helps you identify your store.
Store URL: Enter your Magento store URL, for example, https://yourstore.com.
Step 3: Choose an Authentication Method
Hyvä Pocket supports three authentication methods:

Admin Login (Recommended): Sign in using your Magento admin username and password. This is the quickest way to connect your store.
Integration Token: Connect using a Magento integration access token.
OAuth 1.0a: Authenticate your store using Magento’s OAuth credentials.
Choose the method that best matches your store’s security requirements.

Step 4: Use the Admin Login Authentication Method
For this tutorial, we’ll use Admin Login since it’s the simplest and fastest way to connect your store. Select Admin Login from the Auth Method dropdown, and the app will prompt you for your Magento admin credentials.

Step 5: Enter Your Admin Credentials

Enter your Magento admin login details:

Username: Enter your Magento admin username.
Password: Enter your Magento admin password.
If you want to stay connected, turn on Stay Signed In. This keeps your session active so Hyvä Pocket can reconnect automatically without asking you to log in again. If it’s off, your session expires after a few hours and you’ll need to sign in again manually.

Step 6: Save Your Store
After entering the required information, tap Save. Hyvä Pocket will verify your credentials and connect to your Magento store. Once connected, you can start managing your store from anywhere.

Step 7: Enable Order Notifications

After your store is connected, Hyvä Pocket will ask whether you want to enable push notifications for new orders. We recommend turning this on so you never miss a new order, even when you’re away from your desk.

With notifications enabled, Hyvä Pocket:

Checks for new orders every minute while the app is open.
Checks every five minutes while running in the background.
Lets you customize the notification interval or turn notifications off anytime from settings.
Tap Enable Notifications to start getting alerts when a new order comes in. If you’d rather wait, tap Not Now and turn notifications on later from the app settings.

Who Should Use Hyvä Pocket?
Hyvä Pocket is built for Magento merchants who want to stay connected to their store without being tied to a desktop. Whether you’re at the office, traveling, or running your business remotely, it gives you quick access to your store’s most important information from your iPhone or iPad.

It’s a good fit for:

Store owners who want to check orders, sales, and overall performance without sitting at a desktop.
eCommerce managers who need to track daily activity and respond quickly to new orders.
Operations and support teams who need real-time visibility into orders and customer details while helping shoppers.
Merchants running more than one Magento store who want to monitor all of them from a single app.
If you regularly log into the Magento admin panel just to check for new orders, Hyvä Pocket can save you that trip by putting the important information right in your pocket.