Move from WooCommerce or Magento to Shopify
You keep your rankings, your order history and your customers. Your current store stays live and selling until the new one is verified.
Get a migration plan and an estimate
Tell us what you're on now and we'll come back within one working day — with what moves, what doesn't, and a number.
- Every old URL mapped to its new home before anything switches
- Products, customers and order history migrated, not retyped
- Your old store stays live and selling until cutover is verified
What actually moves, and what doesn't
Most agencies answer this with "we handle everything". Some things genuinely do not transfer cleanly, and you should hear that before you commit, not during week three.
- Products, variants, images and inventory levels
- Customer records — names, emails, addresses, tags
- Order history, as searchable records
- Blog posts and content pages
- SEO metadata — title tags, meta descriptions, image alt text
- Your domain
Customer passwords
No platform can export password hashes into Shopify — not WooCommerce, not Magento, not anyone. Every customer resets on first login. That is survivable, but only if you plan the email that warns them before they hit a login screen that suddenly rejects them.
Your URL structure
Shopify fixes its own paths — /products/, /collections/, /pages/. Your old URLs will change. That is not a detail to discover after launch: it is the single reason a migration loses rankings, and the reason the 301 map is built before anything switches rather than after.
Themes, plugins and custom code
WooCommerce PHP and Magento modules do not run on Shopify. The storefront is rebuilt. The design can be matched closely, but anyone who tells you the front end simply transfers is selling you a surprise.
Order financials
Imported orders arrive as records, not as transactions. You can search them; you cannot refund them through Shopify. Refunds and payouts against pre-migration orders stay with your old gateway, so keep that account open past cutover.
Subscriptions
Recurring plans and stored payment tokens generally cannot move between gateways — that is a card-network rule, not a Shopify limitation. Subscribers re-authorise. If subscriptions are most of your revenue, this is the thing to price before anything else.
Reviews and app data
These move only where both apps support export and import. Some do, some do not. We check yours specifically before quoting rather than finding out mid-migration.
How the migration is staged
The point of staging it this way is that nothing is irreversible until the last step, and the last step is a DNS change.
- 1
Audit and URL inventory
We crawl your current store and export the full list of live URLs alongside the catalogue, customers and orders. You find out what is actually there — including the pages you forgot — before anyone quotes a number.
- 2
Build on a locked Shopify store
The new storefront is built on a password-protected Shopify store. Your existing site is untouched throughout and keeps taking orders.
- 3
Migrate the data, then map every redirect
Products, customers and order history move across. Every old URL is mapped to its new home — one by one, not by pattern-guessing — and the SEO metadata comes with it.
- 4
Verify before you switch
Redirects, checkout, tax and shipping rules, and analytics are all tested on the new store while the old one is still selling. Nothing depends on being right first time.
- 5
Cut over, then watch
DNS switches and the redirects are live from the first minute. We watch Search Console for crawl errors through the weeks where ranking damage would show up, because that is when it shows up.
Your store keeps trading through steps one to four. The only moment anything changes for a customer is the cutover — and by then the redirects have already been checked.
Why trust us with a store that already makes money
The most useful thing we can tell you is what we will say if migrating is wrong for you — because we have said it before, to a paying client.
We run a commerce platform that talks to Shopify every day
Retail Commerce OS is our own commerce operating system, live in production at retailcommerceos.com, and it syncs every SKU, variant and image two-way with Shopify. Moving catalogue data through Shopify's API is something we operate, not something we have read about.
Our views on cutovers come from systems we operate
It is what we already say publicly, on our own About page: when we have a view on integration failure handling or migration cutovers, it comes from systems we run ourselves rather than from slideware.
Fronk Royale is a luxury footwear storefront we built on Shopify. It carries fourteen collections, and the Raksha Bandhan sale — banners, pricing, offers — is changed by their own team with no developer involved.
Ecohub Bags, a Delhi bag manufacturer, did not go onto a storefront platform. Nobody adds a jute conference bag to a cart — a buyer sourcing 500 branded bags needs a specification and an enquiry. We built them a catalogue site instead, because that was the honest answer.
When you should not migrate
A migration is disruption you are choosing to take on. These are the cases where it is not worth it, and we would rather you read them now than pay us to find out.
Your store works and what you dislike is the design
A redesign on your current platform is cheaper, faster and carries none of the ranking risk. Replatforming does not fix a design problem — it adds risk to one you could have solved on its own.
Your pricing or catalogue logic is B2B-shaped
If pricing depends on quantity and buyer, or your products have relationships a storefront catalogue cannot express, Shopify models that badly. You will spend more fighting the platform than you would building the right thing.
You are inside a month of your peak season
Do not cut over in the four weeks before Diwali or your biggest sale of the year. There is no version of this where that is the right call. Wait for January.
The real problem is operations, not the storefront
If the pain is inventory across channels, returns, or getting numbers into your accounts, a new storefront will not touch it. You would be paying for a migration and still have the problem afterwards.
If you recognised your own business in one of those, migrating is not what you need right now — and we would rather you kept the money than spent it finding that out with us.
Tell us what you're migrating from
What moves, what doesn't, and a number — within one working day. If migrating is wrong for you, we'll say that instead.