Shopify Migration Services Built to Protect Your Revenue

How does a Shopify migration work, step by step?

A Shopify migration is a phased project that moves your catalog, customers, orders, content and search equity from one platform to Shopify while the old store keeps selling. The old store stays live until the new one passes a full rehearsal.

1. Audit We inventory products, customers, orders, URLs, integrations, apps and custom code on the current platform.
2. Plan and map We map data fields, decide what is rebuilt, replaced or retired, and draft the redirect map.
3. Build We build the Shopify theme, configure checkout and shipping, and rebuild or replace each required feature.
4. Migrate and rehearse We run the data migration on a staging store, reconcile the counts and test every key shopper journey.
5. Cut over We freeze changes, run the final sync, switch DNS and load the redirects on the agreed date.
6. Monitor and optimize We watch redirects, errors and indexing daily at first, then tune conversion.

How long does a Shopify migration take?

A focused storefront redesign takes 4 to 8 weeks, a full migration takes 8 to 12 weeks, and projects with ERP or custom app work take 12 to 16 weeks or more.

Late content and design decisions, unclear data ownership and undocumented integrations stretch a schedule more than anything else.

We avoid cutting over in your peak weeks, so seasonal retailers work back from a quiet period.

How much do Shopify migration services cost?

Shopify migration services cost from a few hundred dollars for a do-it-yourself app transfer to tens of thousands for a specialist agency migration. The price follows scope, not product count alone.

What moves the price

• Source platform and how customized it is.
• Catalog size, variant complexity and custom attributes.
• Number of integrations: ERP, WMS, tax, shipping, loyalty, subscriptions.
• Custom theme design versus an adapted existing theme.
• Redirect volume and how much content must move.
• Shopify plan, since Shopify Plus adds checkout and B2B options.

We scope each project from the audit. Billing is hybrid and quoted case by case: a fixed phase, a defined budget or an hourly block, with no minimum commitment. We do not publish a single price, because the audit is what tells us what the work is.

How do you migrate from Magento, WooCommerce, BigCommerce or WordPress to Shopify?

You migrate by auditing the source platform, mapping its data model to Shopify's, replacing each feature with an app or custom code, and rehearsing the move. The risks differ by platform.

Magento to Shopify migration

Magento stores have the most custom logic, so the gap analysis matters most. We list every extension and module, then decide whether Shopify handles it natively, an app replaces it, or we rebuild it. Many Magento merchants also have an ERP; our NetSuite and Shopify integration work keeps that backend running.

WooCommerce and WordPress to Shopify

The main decision is what happens to the WordPress site. Some brands move everything to Shopify. Others keep WordPress for editorial content and move only the store. If you keep it, our WordPress development team handles that side.

BigCommerce to Shopify migration

BigCommerce data usually maps cleanly. The surprises are URLs, since Shopify fixes its path prefixes, and apps that have no direct equivalent. We catch both in the audit.

What data moves in a Shopify migration: products, customers and orders?

Products, customers and orders all move, but not all of them move the same way. Some data transfers cleanly, some transfers with limits, and some needs a separate plan.

• Products: titles, descriptions, SKUs, prices, variants, images, collections and metafields. Variant and option structures often need rework.
• Customers: names, emails, addresses, tags and marketing consent. Passwords do not transfer, so customers receive an account invitation or reset link.
• Orders: historical orders import as records for reporting and customer service. They do not reprocess payments.
• Other data: discounts, gift cards, reviews, blog posts and loyalty balances each need a specific method.

How we protect data quality

We reconcile counts and totals between the source and the staging store: product counts, customer counts, order counts and lifetime order value. Mismatches get fixed before launch, not discovered by a customer.

After launch, your email and SMS platform should reconnect cleanly. We coordinate that with our Shopify agency team so flows and tracking resume on day one.

How do you keep your SEO rankings when you migrate to Shopify?

You keep rankings by mapping every old URL that has traffic, links or rankings to the best new URL with a 301 redirect, and by carrying over titles, metadata, headings and internal links. Rankings usually dip at risk points, and redirects are the biggest one.

Shopify uses fixed path prefixes such as /products/ and /collections/, so most migrating stores see their URLs change. That makes redirect mapping unavoidable.

1. Crawl the old site and export every indexable URL.
2. Add URLs with organic traffic, backlinks and conversions from Search Console and analytics.
3. Map each old URL to its closest equivalent on Shopify, one to one.
4. Send retired products to the best parent collection, never to the home page.
5. Load the redirects at cutover and test them in bulk.
6. Monitor 404s and redirect chains daily for the first weeks.

What else carries over

• Page titles, meta descriptions and heading structure.
• Canonical tags, structured data and XML sitemaps.
• Image file names and alt text.
• Internal links updated to final URLs, so they skip the redirect.

After launch, ongoing optimization continues through our Shopify SEO work. For a broader view, see our SEO services.

What are rehearsal, cutover and rollback in a Shopify migration?

Rehearsal is a full practice migration on a staging store, cutover is the live switch, and rollback is the pre-agreed way to return to the old store if something fails.

Rehearsal

We run the complete data migration at least once before launch and often twice. The team tests search, filtering, account login, checkout, payment, tax, shipping, emails and integrations against real data.

Cutover

Cutover happens in a short, planned window. We lower DNS time-to-live in advance, freeze product and order changes, run a final sync of anything created since the last rehearsal, then switch DNS and load redirects.

• A written runbook with owners and times.
• A delta sync for orders and customers created during the switch.
• A smoke test of checkout and payment immediately after the switch.
• A watch period with someone on call.

Rollback

Rollback means the old store stays intact and ready, and the team knows exactly what failure would trigger a return. Examples are a broken checkout or a failing payment integration. Having the plan is what lets everyone launch with confidence.

How do you choose Shopify migration experts and avoid common mistakes?

Choose a migration agency that audits before quoting, plans redirects from the first week, and can show a comparable migration with real results. Then watch for the common mistakes below.

What to ask a prospective agency

• Do you audit the source platform before pricing?
• How do you handle redirects, and when does that work start?
• How do you rehearse and reconcile data?
• What is the rollback plan?
• Which migrations like mine can I see, with results?

We are a Shopify Plus Partner. If your store is on Plus, see our Shopify Plus agency page.

Common migration mistakes

• Treating redirects as a launch-week task.
• Redirecting every retired page to the home page.
• Launching during a peak sales period.
• Importing data once, at launch, with no rehearsal.
• Forgetting that customer passwords will not move.
• Skipping analytics and Search Console checks before launch.