WooCommerce to Shopify
Migration
Stop fighting WordPress security patches, plugin conflicts, and hosting surprises. Move to a platform that just runs.
The four reasons we hear every week.
WordPress maintenance burden
WooCommerce means you own WordPress — security patches, PHP upgrades, plugin compatibility, database optimization, and backups. One stale plugin can take your store offline at 2am. Shopify removes every one of these responsibilities.
Plugin dependency hell
A real WooCommerce store runs 20–40 plugins. Each update can break another. Each is an attack surface. Shopify replaces most of them with native functionality and runs the rest through a vetted app store with strict update standards.
Hosting unpredictability
Sale day traffic spikes crash WooCommerce stores on shared hosting. Moving to managed WordPress hosting solves some of it — at 5–10× the cost. Shopify handles traffic auto-scaling at no extra charge.
Checkout conversion loss
WooCommerce default checkout converts well below industry average. Getting it to Shopify-level performance means plugins, custom code, and constant tuning. Shopify Checkout is already the highest-converting in commerce.
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 WooCommerce 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 WooCommerce 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.
WooCommerce migration questions, answered.
Can we keep our WooCommerce customer data and reviews?
What about our WordPress blog and SEO content?
Will we lose our WooCommerce subscriptions or memberships?
How do we handle WooCommerce custom product types (variable, grouped, bundled)?
We migrate from every major platform.
Ready to leave WooCommerce?
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