We've run 100+ migrations from WooCommerce, Magento 1, Magento 2, BigCommerce, and custom platforms to Shopify. Not one of them lost a product, an order, or a customer record. Your data arrives intact. Your rankings don't fall off a cliff. And your store keeps taking orders the whole time we're building.
Each platform carries its own quirks, and agencies that don't account for them cause problems. Magento 2 has configurable products, attribute sets, and layered navigation that don't map directly to Shopify. WooCommerce URL structures need careful redirect planning. BigCommerce exports cleanly but has its own edge cases. We've been through all of it since 2011, and we plan for what we know is coming.
Migrations go wrong in predictable ways: data gets skipped, URLs change without redirects in place, and stores go live with an unchecked checkout. We've seen it. Our process is built around three things that can't be left to chance: your data, your rankings, and your ability to keep trading the whole way through.
We handle every layer: raw data transfer, redirects, theme, apps, payments, QA, and launch. There's nothing to pick up on your end afterward. When we hand over the keys, the store is fully operational and ready to trade.
Migration or redesign? Lots of clients use the move as a chance to improve the look at the same time. We can replicate what you've got on Shopify, or build something better alongside it. Check out our store design work to get a feel for both approaches. You can also browse our portfolio and see finished builds.
Every migration follows a six-phase process we've refined across 100+ projects. It's built around the three things that can't go wrong: protecting your data, keeping your SEO intact, and keeping your store open for business the whole way through.
Cost depends on a few things: how big your catalogue is, how many orders and customers need to move across, which platform you’re on, whether you want a redesign or a like-for-like replication, and how many apps and integrations need replacing.
A straightforward migration from a smaller WooCommerce or BigCommerce store typically starts from $1,500–$3,000. A Magento migration with a large catalogue, custom functionality, and a full redesign can run from $5,000 to $20,000+.
We give you a detailed, itemised quote after a discovery call. That’s when we get a proper picture of what’s involved.
It depends on data volume, platform complexity, and whether a new design is part of it. Here’s a rough guide:
Small WooCommerce or BigCommerce store (under 500 products): 2 to 4 weeks.
Medium store with design replication (500–5,000 products): 4 to 8 weeks.
Magento migration or large store with a full redesign: 6 to 12 weeks.
We start every project with a milestone-based plan. You know the exact timeline before we begin.
No. When it’s handled correctly, nothing gets lost. We migrate all products, variants, images, inventory, customer records, and order history, and we run reconciliation checks at each stage to verify completeness.
After each migration run, we compare record counts between your old platform and Shopify for every data type. If there’s a discrepancy, we find it and fix it before launch. We’ve completed over 100 migrations and haven’t had a single data loss incident.
Rankings are only at risk if URLs change and redirects aren’t in place. That’s the exact thing we plan for from the start.
We crawl your entire current site, map every URL to its Shopify equivalent, and get 301 redirects in place before the DNS switches. We also make sure your meta titles, descriptions, heading structure, canonical tags, and image alt text are correctly set up, and we submit a fresh XML sitemap to Google Search Console before launch.
A small, short-lived dip can happen during any platform change while Google re-crawls the new site. It’s normal, and it typically resolves within a few weeks when the migration’s been done correctly. Our ongoing Shopify SEO service can help you recover and grow from there.
No. Your existing store stays fully live and trading throughout the entire development and testing phase. The new Shopify store is built in a separate environment your customers don’t see.
When you’re happy with the new store and ready to go, we do the DNS cutover. That points your domain to Shopify. Full DNS propagation takes a few hours globally. We time it for your lowest-traffic window, typically late evening or overnight, and your old store stays live as a fallback until propagation’s done.
Yes. Magento to Shopify is one of our most common project types. Magento stores tend to have larger catalogues, more involved product structures (configurable products, custom attributes, layered navigation), and more custom functionality that needs careful handling.
We’ve completed multiple Magento 2 to Shopify and Magento 1 to Shopify projects. They take longer than WooCommerce migrations, but the result is a store that’s faster, much easier to manage, and significantly cheaper to run than Magento.
All customer records move across: names, email addresses, billing and shipping addresses, and order history. When customers log in to your new store, their history is there.
Passwords can’t transfer between platforms because of encryption differences. After launch, customers get a Shopify account activation email asking them to set a new password. Their full order history and account details are already in place when they do.
Yes. We can build a Shopify theme that closely replicates your current design: same layout, same visual identity, same experience your customers already know. You get all of Shopify’s benefits without asking customers to adjust.
That said, lots of clients use the migration as the right moment to update the design at the same time. It’s often cheaper to do both together than to migrate now and redesign later. We’ll talk through both options and help you figure out what makes sense for where you’re at.
As part of every migration, we audit your current platform’s plugins, apps, and integrations and identify the best Shopify equivalents. For most common functionality, email marketing, product reviews, loyalty programmes, subscriptions, live chat, analytics, shipping tools, there are strong App Store alternatives.
If something you need isn’t available as an existing Shopify app, our in-house developers can build a custom private Shopify app to connect your store to any third-party system via API. We don’t outsource that work.
Most migrations, even large ones, can be handled on standard Shopify plans. You’d only need Shopify Plus if your requirements include Plus-specific features: custom checkout extensibility, Shopify Scripts, native B2B, advanced automation via Shopify Flow, or order volumes where Plus’s lower transaction fees make a meaningful difference.
We’ll point you to the right plan during discovery. If your requirements do call for Plus, we handle those migrations too.
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Tell us which platform you're on, how big your catalogue is, and what you're hoping to get out of the move. We'll assess the complexity and give you a clear, itemised plan with no obligation to proceed.
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