Move to Shopify without losing your data or your rankings.
WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, and custom platform migrations — with full product and order history, SEO redirect mapping, and a controlled launch process. No surprises.
Where Shopify merchants get stuck
You're afraid of losing SEO equity
Years of organic rankings are tied to your current URL structure. A migration done without a proper redirect strategy can destroy that equity overnight.
Your product data is messy
Thousands of SKUs with inconsistent data, missing images, and variant structures that don't map cleanly to Shopify. This is the hard part of a migration — and it needs to be solved before go-live.
Order history will be lost
Without order history, your returning customers look like new customers. Customer lifetime value data disappears. Support can't look up historical orders.
You don't know what will break
Payment gateways, shipping rules, discount codes, loyalty programs, customer accounts, integrations — any of these can break on a migration. You need a pre-launch checklist, not a post-launch firefight.
Specific deliverables — not buzzwords
- Products, variants, images, metafields
- Customer accounts and order history
- Collections and navigation structure
- Discount codes and gift cards
- Blog posts and pages
- Full URL audit against Google Search Console
- 301 redirect mapping for all indexed URLs
- Canonical URL configuration
- Structured data (JSON-LD) implementation
- Sitemap submission and GSC monitoring
- Staging environment validation
- Pre-launch testing checklist (100+ items)
- Controlled DNS cutover
- 30-day post-launch monitoring
- Crawl error and ranking tracking
Tools used in production — not just listed on a CV
A process built around no surprises
Discovery
Written scope. Not a verbal promise. Requirements, constraints, integration map, risk flags.
Architecture
Data models, API surface, Shopify feature selection, deployment strategy — before a line of code.
Build
Structured sprints with staging access throughout. You see working software weekly.
Launch
Cross-device testing, load testing, controlled launch, monitoring from day one.
Common questions about Migrations
How long does a migration take?
A WooCommerce → Shopify migration for a store with 1,000–5,000 SKUs typically takes 6–8 weeks. Larger stores or more complex data structures take longer. The migration timeline depends on data quality, SEO complexity, and how much custom development is needed on the Shopify side.
Will I lose my search rankings?
If the migration is done correctly — with a complete 301 redirect map, proper canonical tags, and a controlled launch — you should maintain most of your rankings. Some fluctuation is normal in the first 30 days. I've executed migrations where organic traffic was maintained within 5% of the pre-migration baseline.
Can you migrate order history?
Yes. Shopify's API supports importing historical orders. I migrate order data including line items, customer information, totals, and fulfilment status. Orders will be visible in Shopify but marked as imported — they won't re-trigger fulfilment workflows.
What platforms can you migrate from?
WooCommerce (most common), Magento 1 and 2, BigCommerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, custom PHP/Node platforms, and other Shopify stores. The migration process is similar — the complexity varies by platform and data structure.
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