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WooCommerce to Shopify
Migration

Stop fighting WordPress security patches, plugin conflicts, and hosting surprises. Move to a platform that just runs.

Why brands leave WooCommerce

The four reasons we hear every week.

01

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.

02

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.

03

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.

04

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.

What transfers

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
WooCommerce vs Shopify

The practical differences.

Feature
WooCommerce
Shopify
Security patches
Manual — you own it
Automatic
Hosting
$30–500/mo, plus scaling
Included
Uptime on sale days
Depends on hosting
99.99% auto-scaling
Plugin updates
Break frequently
Vetted app store
PCI compliance
Your scope + audits
Shopify handles it
Checkout conversion
Industry-average
Highest in commerce
The process

How a WooCommerce to Shopify migration actually runs.

01

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.

02

Staged import

We import everything into a Shopify development store. No production impact. You validate the data, we fix gaps, we sign off together.

03

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.

04

SEO cutover

301 redirects from every old URL to the new one. XML sitemap, schema markup, canonicals. Search rankings stay intact.

05

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.

06

30-day support

We stay on-call for the first month. Bugs, tweaks, analytics questions — covered.

FAQ

WooCommerce migration questions, answered.

Can we keep our WooCommerce customer data and reviews?
Yes. Customers, orders, and product reviews all migrate. Reviews can be imported into apps like Judge.me, Yotpo, or Stamped. For customer passwords, we trigger a reset flow at launch since WordPress password hashes can't be reused.
What about our WordPress blog and SEO content?
We migrate all blog posts, authors, categories, tags, and images into Shopify's blog system or a connected CMS (Sanity/Contentful for larger content libraries). Every URL gets a 301 redirect. Nothing is lost.
Will we lose our WooCommerce subscriptions or memberships?
Subscriptions migrate via apps like Recharge or Shopify Subscriptions. Active subscribers are imported with their billing schedule, next-charge date, and discount tier intact. We run a test billing cycle before going live to confirm.
How do we handle WooCommerce custom product types (variable, grouped, bundled)?
Variable products map directly to Shopify variants. Grouped and bundled products require either native Shopify Bundles or a dedicated app — we recommend the right approach during the audit based on your catalog size and upsell strategy.

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.

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