Database migration, template conversion, zero-downtime deploys. Eighteen years of Umbraco version upgrades, distilled into a proven process.
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On Umbraco 13? There's a direct, productised route: our fixed-price Umbraco 13 to 17 upgrade - £8,999 + VAT, around 21 days, no downtime. This page is for everything else: older versions, heavier customisation, and full platform migrations.
Direct jumps, staged upgrades, or re-platforms. We map the safest route for your codebase, content, and timeline.
Years of drift - unused doc types, orphaned nodes, stale properties. We clean as we go so the new site is not the old site's landfill.
Webforms to Razor, legacy partials to block lists. The frontend ends up modern, maintainable, and fast - not just "running on v17".
Abandoned or broken packages swapped for supported equivalents. Where no drop-in exists, we write it - cleanly and openly.
Parallel running, content sync, DNS cutover. The new site goes live without a public "we are upgrading" banner.
Upgrades always seem to slow sites down. Ours do the opposite. Core Web Vitals get tuned as part of the migration, not after.
We get access to your codebase, database, and hosting. A week of digging gives us a plain-English report on what will actually break.
Direct or staged? Which packages replace which? Fixed-price proposal, realistic timeline. You sign off before anything moves.
Staging site, full test pass, quiet cutover. We stay on-call for the first month post-go-live, and hosting is available as a follow-on.
We have upgraded sites from v4, v7, v8, v10, v13, and everything in between. Most of the pain comes from rushed scopes and surprises late in the project. Our process front-loads the surprises and sets fixed prices for the rest.
By the time you go live, you are not just running a newer version - you are running a faster, leaner, better-supported site.
Whether it's a stuck v7 that needs moving to v13, a v8 site at end of support, or a platform re-platform from the ground up - tell us where you are and we'll tell you what it takes.
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The ones we get asked most. If yours isn't here, send us an email.
An Umbraco 13 to 17 upgrade takes around 21 days on our fixed-price route. Older versions and heavier customisation vary more: we spend a week auditing your codebase, database and hosting, then give you a fixed-price proposal with a realistic timeline before anything moves.
The Umbraco 13 to 17 upgrade is productised at £8,999 + VAT. For older versions and platform migrations there is no single number - the audit comes first, and you get a fixed-price proposal you sign off before any work starts. Our process front-loads the surprises and sets fixed prices for the rest.
Yes. We have moved sites across every Umbraco version from v4 to v17, including upgrades other agencies have stalled on. Depending on your codebase, content and timeline, that means a direct jump, a staged upgrade, or a full re-platform - we map the safest route, clean up years of database drift as we go, and replace abandoned packages with supported equivalents.
No. The cutover uses parallel running, content sync and a DNS switch, so the new site goes live without a public "we are upgrading" banner. A quiet cutover is a planned cutover - staging site, full test pass, then the switch at a controlled moment.
The opposite. Upgrades always seem to slow sites down; ours are tuned for Core Web Vitals as part of the migration, not after it. Template conversion - Webforms to Razor, legacy partials to block lists - leaves the frontend modern, maintainable and fast, not just "running on v17".
We stay on-call for the first month after go-live, and managed hosting is available as a follow-on so the upgraded site keeps getting monitoring, backups and security patches. By the time you go live you are not just running a newer version - you are running a faster, leaner, better-supported site.