Shopify store migration services

The redirect map is everything

Most migrations lose traffic for one reason: old URLs quietly start returning 404s, and the rankings and links pointing at them evaporate. Before anything moves, we map every indexed URL on your current store to its new Shopify equivalent with clean 301 redirects — products, collections, blog posts, and the stray high-traffic pages a crawl turns up. That map is built and checked against your analytics and Search Console first, so nothing with traffic falls through the gap.

What carries over, and what has to be rebuilt

Products, variants, collections, customers, order history and blog content all migrate across. What does not travel is platform-specific custom code — WooCommerce plugins, Magento extensions, bespoke checkout logic — which has to be rebuilt as a proper Shopify build or swapped for a Shopify-native equivalent. We tell you up front which of your features are which, so there are no surprises halfway through the project.

Planned for zero downtime, with a rollback

The part that makes migration feel risky is the cutover, so we take the risk out of it. The new store is built and tested on a staging domain, the DNS switch is scheduled for a low-traffic window, and your old store stays intact and reachable until the new one is verified live. If anything looks wrong, we roll back. You are never left with a broken storefront and no way back to the one that worked.

SEO preserved, not just hoped for

Beyond redirects, we carry over the things rankings depend on: page titles and meta descriptions, canonical tags, image alt text and structured data. We keep URL structures where it is sensible to, submit the new sitemap, and watch Search Console through the weeks after cutover so any indexation issue is caught while it is still small. A well-planned migration holds its rankings — and often speeds them up, because the new store is faster.

Your customers and order history come with you

A migration is not just the storefront. Customer accounts, order history and any loyalty or subscription data have to arrive intact, or your support, returns and repeat-purchase reporting break on day one. We migrate the data as carefully as the design, reconcile it against the old system, and confirm the numbers match before we call the job done.

The move is a chance to fix what kept breaking

If your store keeps breaking on WooCommerce or Magento, the maintenance and hosting burden is usually why. Shopify’s managed, fast baseline removes most of that overhead. We rebuild lean instead of porting the old theme’s problems across, so you land on a store that is quicker and calmer to run. If you are still weighing the platforms, our Shopify vs WooCommerce comparison lays out the trade honestly.