Shopify to Magento Migration

When the workarounds cost more than the move. The usual signs are a catalog split into near-duplicate products to stay under the variant ceiling, quotes and per-customer pricing handled outside the store, a buyer organisation the account model cannot describe, and an ERP kept in step by three apps and a weekly reconciliation. One of those is a nuisance; three together mean the platform is the constraint.

No, and no migration from Shopify can promise otherwise: passwords cannot be exported. Every account, address, tag and order history moves, and each customer sets a new password on first login through an invitation flow we write, test and time with you, usually sent in waves so your support team is not answering every buyer on the same morning. Company users on Adobe Commerce get their roles assigned before the invitation goes out.

Yes. Orders are imported as history against the right customer and company, with their line items, totals, statuses and dates, so reorders, returns, reporting and a buyer's own account page carry on from the first day. What does not come across is the ability to refund those orders through the old payment transaction, which stays in Shopify; refunds on historical orders go through the gateway directly.

Not if the move is done the way Google describes it. Every old URL is mapped to its new address, redirected with a server-side 301 and kept for at least a year; the new sitemap is submitted the day of cutover; and Search Console is watched against the pre-move baseline. Google says to expect temporary fluctuation while a small or medium site moves over a few weeks. The stores that lose rankings for good are the ones that skipped the map.

Each one is listed in the data map with its replacement: a Magento feature that does the same job, an extension we have used before, an integration written against the API, or retirement because nobody used it. Apps whose vendors also publish a Magento extension are the easy cases. Subscription, loyalty and review apps are the ones to look at early, because their data is yours and the export has to be arranged before the Shopify plan ends.

It depends on how much of the B2B module you would use. Adobe Commerce ships company accounts, shared catalogs, negotiable quotes, purchase orders with approval rules, requisition lists and quick order as one supported module. Magento Open Source has no B2B module of its own: company accounts and quotes come from extensions, which is fine for a short list of trade accounts and a strain for a distributor with hundreds. The data map and the parity list settle it before anything is licensed.

The data map takes the first two to three weeks and sets the rest. A store with a clean catalog, a handful of integrations and no custom checkout logic typically lands within a few months; a distributor with company hierarchies, an ERP integration and a PIM takes longer, mostly in the build and the parallel run. The cutover itself is a window of hours, rehearsed on staging first. The map gives you a dated plan rather than a range.

After the data map, not before. The map tells us how many products and variants have to be transformed, which integrations have to be rebuilt, which apps have replacements and which checkout logic has to be written again, and that is what sets the scope. You receive a fixed scope in writing for the migration itself and a separate estimate for anything new you decide to add on the way. There is no price list because no two catalogs are alike.

Yes, and they should. The Magento store runs on staging and then on its own domain while Shopify keeps selling, buyers from a pilot company test their accounts, quotes and reorders on it, and the final data delta is migrated in the cutover window. Shopify stays on a reduced plan afterwards so order and payment records remain reachable. Nothing is switched off until the new store has taken a full week of live orders.

Shopify Payments stays with Shopify; on Magento you connect a gateway of your choice, and card details are not migrated between processors. Stored payment methods have to be re-entered by the customer, which the invitation flow asks for at the right moment. Subscriptions depend on the app that runs them: some vendors offer a migration path to their Magento extension, others do not, and that is checked during the data map rather than discovered at cutover.

The migration is built so that you can. Shopify keeps selling until the cutover window, so stopping before it costs the work done and nothing else; the data map and the parity list are yours to keep whatever you decide. After cutover, Shopify stays reachable on a reduced plan for a period, so a rollback inside the first days is a configuration change rather than a second migration.

They are rebuilt, not moved. Scripts are deprecated as of 30 June 2026 and were never portable anyway; the logic in them, tiered pricing, payment-method rules, shipping rules, is written into the data map as plain rules and rebuilt as Magento cart price rules, shipping methods and checkout configuration. Where the logic was a true customisation, it becomes a small module in your repository with tests, so it survives the next upgrade.