Products, customers and order history moved, mapped first
Every /product/ URL redirected, rankings watched after
Built on both platforms, with an honest word on fit
The honest fit check
Who Should Leave WooCommerce, and Who Should Stay
2,048 variants per product on Shopify
Shopify suits a store whose WooCommerce stack has become the job: a dozen plugins on their own update schedules, a host that needs watching, and a checkout assembled from three of them. WooCommerce puts PCI DSS compliance on the store owner; Shopify carries it for the platform, hosting and SSL included.
Shopify is the wrong move for a store that lives on what WordPress does better: deep editorial content around the catalog, custom PHP that runs the business, or product structures Shopify's model does not hold. A Shopify product takes 2,048 variants; a catalog that needs more is split, and if that loses sales it is a reason to stay.
We build on both, on ecommerce since 2006, so the recommendation is not a pitch for either. Where WordPress is the right home we say so and point you to our WooCommerce development page. Where Shopify is, the migration below keeps what you have earned.
Does this sound familiar?
Six Reasons WooCommerce Stores Move to Shopify
Each one is a real reason. Whether it outweighs what WordPress does for you is what the first call decides.
A Plugin Update Broke the Store
WordPress, WooCommerce, the theme and a dozen plugins each update on their own clock. One of them lands on a Friday and checkout stops, and nobody knows which.
Hosting, Patching and PCI Are Yours
WooCommerce says plainly that PCI DSS compliance is the store owner's responsibility, with the hosting, the firewall and the questionnaire that come with it. Shopify carries that for the platform.
Checkout Built From Three Plugins
A payment plugin, a shipping plugin and a one-page checkout plugin, each with its own settings and its own bugs. Shopify runs one tested checkout on every store, with Shop Pay for returning buyers.
The Site Slows as the Catalog Grows
Every plugin adds a query and a script, the database carries years of post revisions, and the host that was fine at 500 products is not fine at 5,000.
Marketing Waits on a Developer
A landing page, a discount rule or a theme change means a ticket and a staging site. The marketing team wants to move at the speed of the app store.
WordPress Was the Right Home After All
Sometimes the platform is fine and the build is not. A WooCommerce store rebuilt properly can outlast a migration, and we say so when we see it.
What moves, what is rebuilt, what cannot
What a WooCommerce to Shopify Migration Moves
Products, Variations and Media
The catalog exported from WooCommerce's own CSV tool with attributes mapped to options and metafields, categories becoming collections, images re-hosted, and the 2,048 variant limit checked against yours first.
Customers, Without Their Passwords
Accounts, addresses, tags and marketing consent move. Shopify cannot import passwords, so every customer is invited to set a new one, timed and worded so the invitation reads as an upgrade, not a breach.
Order History Through the API
Shopify's CSV import takes products and customers, not orders. Order history goes in through the Admin API as imported orders, with no confirmation emails sent and no stock moved.
The Blog and the Pages
WordPress posts and pages move into Shopify's blog and pages with their images and internal links rewritten, or the blog stays on WordPress at a subdomain. Either way every old post URL gets a redirect.
Plugins, Re-Decided
Each plugin is kept as an app, rebuilt as a Shopify Function, replaced by a theme setting, or dropped because nobody used it. The list is agreed before the build starts.
URLs and Rankings, Kept on Purpose
WooCommerce's /product/ and /product-category/ paths become Shopify's fixed /products/ and /collections/ paths, so every address changes. A URL map, 301 redirects imported in bulk and a rank watch after cutover.
How a migration runs
How Our WooCommerce to Shopify Migration Works
Data Map, Field by Field
Plugins: Keep, Rebuild or Drop
URL Map and Redirect Plan
Fit Verdict in Writing
Theme Built From Your Brand
Catalog and Customers Imported
Orders and Blog Loaded
Checkout and Apps Connected
Redirects Imported and Tested
Test Orders on Every Gateway
DNS Window With Rollback
Rankings Watched After
What you are left with
What a WooCommerce to Shopify Migration Produces
100,000 redirects on a standard plan
A Shopify store that sells on the day it goes live, with catalog, customers, order history and blog in place and every old URL answering with a redirect. Before that, a data map and a fit verdict you can take to anyone.
The redirects are the part most migrations skip, and on this move every address changes: WooCommerce's /product/ and /product-category/ paths have no equivalent on Shopify, which uses fixed /products/ and /collections/ paths. Shopify imports redirects from a CSV and allows 100,000 on a standard plan. A map that misses category pages, tag pages or old blog posts is how a store loses a third of its traffic in a month. We have rebuilt those; the recovery page is the long version.
Customers get an invitation to set a new password, sent when the store is ready and written in your voice. Order history arrives as imported orders, so nobody gets a confirmation email for a 2023 purchase.
And a store you can run without us: an editable theme, documented apps, and custom code in a repository you own.
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What Our Clients Say
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This team consistently goes above and beyond in terms of helping to ascertain the most viable and feasible outputs and outcomes for our evergrowing business needs.
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They designed for where the product was going, not just what we asked for. Early on we described a single-company setup; they built the data model and permission layer so multi-tenancy wouldn’t require a rewrite later.
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Three Ways Into a Shopify Move
The Full Migration
Map, build, cut over: the catalog, customers, order history, blog, checkout rules and redirects handled by one team from the fit verdict to the weeks after launch, with the WordPress site kept warm for rollback.
Data map first
A redirect for every URL
Checkout rebuilt
Rollback kept warm
Not Sure Which Direction?
Stores move both ways and we build both. The migration hub sets out what moves, what cannot and what it costs to stay, and our WooCommerce development page makes the case for staying on WordPress when the content and the custom code are the business.
Both directions built
Fit verdict in writing
WooCommerce rebuilt too
What it costs to stay
Shopify Development After the Move
The move is the start. Theme work, custom apps, checkout extensions and the integrations a growing store collects, from the team that built Shopify checkout extensions for a global BNPL provider across five platforms.
Theme and storefront
Custom apps
Checkout extensions
Integrations
Not our word for it
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Solution Development Fundamentals
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How long does a WooCommerce to Shopify migration take?
Four to ten weeks for most stores: one or two for the data map and the fit verdict, three to six for the build and the imports, and a cutover window at the end. A catalog with tens of thousands of SKUs, a large blog or a heavy ERP integration runs longer, and the data map says how long before you commit.
Will we lose our Google rankings when we move from WooCommerce to Shopify?
Not if the redirects are done properly, and on this move they matter more than most, because every URL changes: WooCommerce's /product/ and /product-category/ paths become Shopify's fixed /products/ and /collections/ paths. Every old address, tag and blog post included, is mapped and imported as a 301 redirect; Shopify allows 100,000 on a standard plan. Rankings are watched for weeks after the cutover. Our failed migration recovery page describes what happens when this step is skipped.
Can customer passwords be migrated to Shopify?
No. Shopify cannot import passwords, because they are hashed outside its system, so each customer is invited to set a new one. We time the invitations for launch, write them in your voice and keep the WordPress site reachable for support during the switch.
Can our WooCommerce order history move to Shopify?
Yes, through the Admin API rather than the CSV import, which takes products and customers but not orders. Orders are created as imported orders, so no confirmation emails go out and no stock moves. Customers see their past orders in their new account.
What happens to our WooCommerce plugins?
Each one is decided before the build: kept as an app from the App Store, rebuilt as a Shopify Function or a custom app, replaced by a theme setting, or dropped because nobody used it. Plugins that run business logic in PHP are the ones to look at hardest, and the data map names them.
What happens to our WordPress blog and pages?
Two honest options. Posts and pages move into Shopify's blog and pages, with images re-hosted and internal links rewritten, and every old post URL redirected. Or the blog stays on WordPress at a subdomain, with the store on Shopify, which suits a site whose content is the business. The fit verdict says which.
Can we keep our WooCommerce theme?
No. A WordPress theme is PHP and a Shopify theme is Liquid, so the theme is rebuilt from your brand rather than copied. That is usually a gain: the rebuild drops years of plugin styling and loads faster than the site it replaces.
Do we need Shopify Plus?
Rarely, for a store coming from WooCommerce. Public apps with Functions run on any plan, and B2B features are available on Basic, Grow, Advanced and Plus. Plus is needed for custom apps with Function APIs, for the largest redirect counts and for some checkout customisation. The fit verdict names the plan the store actually needs. We do not quote Shopify's prices here because they change.
Our checkout has custom discount and shipping rules. Can they move?
Yes, rebuilt rather than copied. Shopify Scripts were deprecated on 30 June 2026 and checkout.liquid is unsupported for the checkout steps, so the rules are written as Shopify Functions and checkout extensions. We have built checkout extensions for a global BNPL provider, so the model is familiar ground.
Will our catalog fit Shopify's product model?
A Shopify product holds up to 2,048 variants, and WooCommerce attributes map to Shopify options and metafields. Most catalogs fit. A variable product with more combinations than that is split or remodelled in the data map, and if the catalog cannot be made to fit without losing sales, that is a reason to stay.
How is a WooCommerce to Shopify migration priced?
Individually, after the data map, which is the first deliverable and the one that tells us the size of the catalog, the number of plugins to rebuild and the integrations in play. Nothing on this site carries a price list because no two stores arrive in the same state.
Will the store be down during the migration?
No. The WooCommerce store keeps trading until the Shopify store has passed every test, and the switch is a DNS change in a quiet window with WordPress kept warm for rollback. Orders placed in the gap are reconciled by hand.
Who should not move from WooCommerce to Shopify?
Stores whose business is the content around the catalog, stores that run custom PHP nothing on Shopify replaces, and stores whose pricing or product structure Shopify's model does not hold. For those we rebuild on WooCommerce instead, and our WooCommerce development page is where that starts.
Can you take over a WooCommerce to Shopify migration another agency started?
Yes. We read what has been built and imported, decide what to keep, and finish it. If the store has already launched and lost traffic, the failed migration recovery page is the faster route.
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