This post is likely gonna get less relevant when Magento 2 comes out, but I decided to put it out there any way. In my limited time working with Magento I’ve come across a couple scenario’s I wanted to touch on. Hope it’s helpful for anyone.

Let say a merchant wants a new Magento online store. Now, there are a couple scenario’s that are likely or less likely:

1. The previous store was built with Magento. Customers can easily be imported using the various tools available (Magmi, import/export, dataflow, etc.)
2. The previous store was built on a platform that stores passwords in plaintext - fortunately this is not very likely ;)
3. The previous store was built on a different platform, using different hashing algorithms.
4. The previous store was built on a different platform which happens to use the same hashing algorithm as Magento,
5. A combination of #3 and #4 (yes - I’ve seen it). …

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