BigCommerce to Shopify
Migration
Escape sales thresholds, unlock a richer app ecosystem, and ship faster on a platform built for modern D2C.
The four reasons we hear every week.
Sales-threshold tier jumps
BigCommerce forces plan upgrades the moment you cross GMV thresholds. A breakout sale can push you from Standard to Pro overnight — with a price jump that caught your CFO off guard.
Smaller app and theme ecosystem
Shopify has ~8,000 apps and a mature theme marketplace. BigCommerce has a fraction of that. For every common D2C tool — subscriptions, reviews, loyalty, bundles — the best-in-class solution is built Shopify-first.
API rate limits that bite in production
BigCommerce's API rate limits surface quickly when you scale — especially for headless builds, bulk inventory updates, or ERP integrations. Shopify's limits are materially higher and scale with your plan.
Checkout flexibility ceiling
BigCommerce's checkout customization is limited without expensive custom dev. Shopify Plus unlocks full checkout extensibility with server-side scripts, branding, and custom fields.
Nothing gets left behind.
A real migration is more than products and orders. We preserve the long tail — redirects, meta tags, customer data, historical orders — so your team wakes up on launch day to a faster store, not a broken one.
Every BigCommerce object is mapped to its Shopify equivalent during the audit phase. You sign off on the mapping before we touch production.
- Products, variants, SKUs and inventory levels
- Product images, alt tags, descriptions and metafields
- Collections, categories and navigation structure
- Customers, order history and saved addresses
- Historical orders with line items and fulfilment status
- Discounts, gift cards and loyalty balances
- SEO: URL redirects (301s), meta tags and structured data
- Blog posts, pages and static content
The practical differences.
How a BigCommerce to Shopify migration actually runs.
Data audit
We inventory every entity in your current store — products, customers, orders, URLs — and map them 1:1 to Shopify objects. You get a complete migration blueprint before any work starts.
Staged import
We import everything into a Shopify development store. No production impact. You validate the data, we fix gaps, we sign off together.
Headless build
While the data migration runs, we build your new Next.js storefront connected via the Shopify Storefront API. Design, components, performance — all production-grade.
SEO cutover
301 redirects from every old URL to the new one. XML sitemap, schema markup, canonicals. Search rankings stay intact.
Zero-downtime launch
DNS change at a low-traffic window. Your old store stays online until the new one is live and verified. If anything goes wrong, rollback is a DNS flip.
30-day support
We stay on-call for the first month. Bugs, tweaks, analytics questions — covered.
BigCommerce migration questions, answered.
Can we keep our BigCommerce customer accounts and passwords?
What about our BigCommerce Multi-Storefront setup?
Will our URL and category structure stay the same?
Do we need to rebuild our custom fields and product options?
We migrate from every major platform.
Ready to leave BigCommerce?
Send us your store URL. We'll run a free migration audit and come back with a fixed quote — usually within 1–2 hours on business days.
Get your migration quote