WooCommerce to Shopify Migration
Move your WooCommerce store to Shopify with products, orders and search rankings intact.
This is for WooCommerce store owners who are tired of being their own platform: keeping the stack patched, hosting secure, and extensions paid for, when what they want is to sell. Moving to Shopify trades that maintenance for a managed platform with predictable costs. The motivation is operational relief — a store that runs itself enough that the team sells instead of administers.
The honest mechanics: WooCommerce exports its catalog, customers and orders to CSV, and Shopify imports products with variants, images and basic fields. That sounds like a button, but the gap is where stores go wrong — WooCommerce product and shipping data does not map cleanly, so the export is normalized before it is imported. Themes, apps and checkout configure fresh on Shopify; the data carries, the code does not.
The failures are catalog-shaped and URL-shaped. Product variants, custom fields, bundled and subscription products paste badly into Shopify defaults; WooCommerce product URLs do not match Shopify’s; and image alt text and rankings are easy casualties. A careful move normalizes the catalog, maps every URL, and decides per integration what gets rebuilt on Shopify.
Engagement runs inventory → fixed quote → staging → redirect map → launch — products, variants, orders and integrations counted before any price. Small stores move in days; large catalogs with thousands of SKUs take weeks, always quoted after the inventory. Describe the store and the reply says what it takes.
The honest part
What does not transfer.
No migration moves everything. These items are rebuilt, remapped or consciously dropped — decided with you before the work starts, not discovered after launch.
- WooCommerce theme and layout — rebuilt with a Shopify theme rather than inherited
- WooCommerce plugins and their behavior — recreated as Shopify apps or native features
- Custom product types and complex shipping rules — rebuilt on Shopify discounts, apps or custom work
- Custom PHP, payment logic and integrations — replaced with Shopify apps or APIs
- Per-extension maintenance — gone, but only because functionality is re-planned
Rankings protection
SEO carried across.
A migration that loses your search traffic saved nothing. The redirect map is a deliverable, not an afterthought.
- Every indexed WooCommerce product and category URL captured before export
- A redirect map to the new Shopify paths agreed before launch — product URLs are the highest-value pages
- Titles and meta descriptions carried into Shopify SEO fields so snippets hold
- Domain re-verified in Search Console and a fresh sitemap submitted after launch
- Image alt text and file names preserved so image and shopping search traffic holds
- Structured product data re-emitted the Shopify way
Quarterly, and only when the numbers move
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Questions
Asked about WooCommerce → Shopify.
WooCommerce exports the catalog, customers and orders to CSV, but product variants, custom fields and bundles do not map cleanly into Shopify defaults. That is why the export is normalized before import — products land complete rather than broken, and the store runs from day one.
They do not transfer because Shopify is a different platform with no PHP plugins. Each is cataloged for what it actually does, then recreated as a Shopify app or native feature, or dropped if unused. Nothing that matters disappears without a decision.
With a redirect map, yes. WooCommerce product URLs rarely match Shopify’s, and those product pages carry your traffic. Every indexed URL is captured and mapped before launch so rankings hold instead of 404ing.
Because a 50-product store and a 5,000-SKU catalog are different projects with different prices, knowable only when the catalog is counted. The inventory produces the fixed quote so you pay for the real scope. Simple stores move in days; large catalogs in weeks — priced after reality.
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