WooCommerce to Shopify Migration

Most take between 6 and 16 weeks. The size of the catalogue matters less than two other things: how many plugins are doing something the store genuinely depends on, and how much of your theme's behaviour was built in PHP rather than configured.

A store running a stock theme and a dozen well-known plugins moves quickly. A store with a heavily customised child theme, bespoke plugin code and a subscriptions or bookings layer takes longer to do properly. You get a real timeline after the audit, not a number designed to get the job signed off.

Not if the redirects are done properly. WooCommerce URLs are typically /product/{slug}/ and /product-category/{slug}/; Shopify uses /products/{handle} and /collections/{handle}. Every URL changes. That sounds alarming and it is entirely routine.

We map every existing URL to its Shopify equivalent and implement the 301s before go-live, and migrate meta titles, descriptions and image alt text. Expect a short wobble for a few weeks while Google re-crawls. You should not expect a lasting drop, and anyone telling you a migration carries no ranking risk at all is overselling it.

Products including variable products and their attributes, product images, categories and tags, customer accounts, full order history, product reviews, coupons, and your WordPress pages and blog posts.

Anything without a direct Shopify equivalent is either mapped to the nearest sensible structure or stored in metafields rather than quietly dropped. We tell you which of your data falls into that category before the migration, not afterwards.

Most of them go, and that is usually the point of moving. A large share of a typical Woo plugin stack exists to patch things Shopify does natively: checkout behaviour, payment gateways, caching, security, image optimisation, basic SEO.

During discovery we go through your plugin list one by one and sort it into three piles: replaced by native Shopify functionality, replaced by a Shopify app, or needs rebuilding as custom code. You get that list with the quote, so you know what survives the move before you commit to it.

Yes, and there are two sensible options. We can migrate your posts into Shopify's own blog, which keeps everything on one platform and one domain with no extra hosting to pay for.

Or, if you have a large content operation and editorial workflows you do not want to lose, we can keep WordPress running purely as the blog on a subdirectory or subdomain with Shopify handling the shop. We will give you a straight recommendation based on how much content you have and who publishes it.

Yes. Your WooCommerce store stays live and selling while we build the Shopify store in parallel. Go-live is a planned DNS switchover, not a shutdown.

We do a final data sync immediately before the cutover so recent orders and customers come across, and orders in flight are handled deliberately. A well-planned switchover usually means less than an hour of interruption, scheduled for your quietest trading window.

Not on the headline number, and we will not pretend otherwise. WooCommerce itself is free; Shopify has a monthly fee.

The honest comparison is total cost once you include managed hosting, SSL, backups, a security service, paid plugin licence renewals, and the developer time spent on WordPress core, PHP and plugin updates that keep the thing running. For most stores that adds up to more than a Shopify plan, and it arrives as unpredictable maintenance rather than a fixed monthly figure. For a small store on cheap shared hosting with few plugins, WooCommerce may genuinely be cheaper, and we will say so.