Migrate & replatform
WooCommerce to Shopify Migration
Off WordPress, onto Shopify.
(opens in a new tab) A Shopify Plus Partner with 100+ builds behind it. We take brands off WooCommerce plugin by plugin: every product, customer, order and blog post carried across, every WordPress permalink redirected to its new home, and the old store still trading while it happens.
Certified, not badge-only The work is not exporting products. It is deciding what your plugins were really doing.
Should you move at all?A WooCommerce store usually carries a dozen extensions doing jobs Shopify does natively. We audit what each one actually does, replace it with a native feature where one exists, and only bring in an app where the functionality genuinely has no equivalent.
All migrationsFour stages, one team
How we migrate a WooCommerce store to Shopify
The WooCommerce store keeps trading throughout, with no maintenance-mode window.
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Audit and Crawl
We map the current WooCommerce install in full: every plugin, every piece of custom PHP, and every indexed URL including WordPress permalinks. This is the stage most WooCommerce migrations skip, and it is the stage that protects your rankings and stops functionality quietly disappearing.
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Migration Plan and Redirect Map
A written plan covering the data mapping, the plugin-to-Shopify feature mapping, and the full redirect map, signed off before anything moves. Disagreements are cheap at this stage and expensive after launch.
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Build and Migrate on Staging
Data migrated, the Shopify store built, replacement functionality connected and redirects implemented, all on staging first. You click through the real store with your real catalogue before anyone commits to a date.
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Launch and Monitor
Pre-launch QA across real devices, managed go-live, then monitoring of rankings, redirect hits and errors through the weeks that follow, with a named person to call.
Decide
Most of this decision is arithmetic you can do before you talk to anybody. What the current stack costs to keep running, and what stops being your problem.
Self-hosted or hosted
Why brands leave WooCommerce for Shopify
WooCommerce ties a store to WordPress: plugins to patch, hosting to manage, and a page speed problem that compounds with every extension installed to work around a gap. Moving to Shopify hands that maintenance burden to the platform. The work is mapping what your plugin stack actually does and replacing it with something native, not just exporting products.
We migrate UK and US brands off WooCommerce onto Shopify, mapping every old WordPress permalink to its new home before launch and verifying the redirects on the live domain rather than trusting an export tool. Products, customers, order history and your WordPress blog content all move across.
This suits a WooCommerce store spending real time and money on hosting, plugin conflicts and security patches, or one that has simply outgrown what a self-hosted platform can support. If your current setup is stable, well maintained and converting, moving for its own sake rarely pays back.
- Every WooCommerce plugin mapped to a native Shopify feature or a specific app, so nothing is quietly dropped
- Zero data loss: products, variants, customers, order history and your WordPress blog all transferred
- Every old URL, including WordPress permalinks, redirected to its Shopify equivalent before launch
- No more patching plugins or paying separately for hosting. Shopify owns the infrastructure
The table is the short version of the paragraphs above: what stops being yours to manage the day the domain moves.
| What it takes | WooCommerce on WordPress | Shopify |
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| Hosting and uptime | Yours to buy, size and monitor | Included, with the platform on the hook |
| Security patching | PHP and plugin updates on your schedule | Patched by Shopify, with PCI in scope |
| Checkout | A plugin you configure and maintain | Native, and the highest-converting part of the stack |
| Adding a feature | Another plugin, and another dependency | A native setting, or one audited app |
| Page speed | Degrades with every extension added | A CDN and a theme budget from day one |
| Who fixes a broken update | You, or the developer you retain | Shopify, before you notice |
None of that is an argument for moving on its own. A WooCommerce store that is stable, well maintained and converting is not a problem worth paying to solve, and we say so when that is what we find. The full argument on both sides is written up separately.
Read: Shopify vs WooCommerceMove
The WooCommerce store keeps trading while the new one is built and tested beside it. Nothing switches until the redirect map passes.
Bordeaux12
WooCommerce move, every old URL mapped
Migrate WooCommerce to Shopify
Every old URL mapped before the move
Bordeaux12 sells authenticated vintage Chanel, Dior and Givenchy. Every piece is checked before it is listed, and every piece is the only one: once it sells, it is gone. The store ran on WordPress and WooCommerce, with a Revolut gateway, and Google had already indexed it.
We crawled the old site first and logged every URL, products, categories, pages and posts, and gave every one either a destination or a written decision to let it go. The catalogue was rebuilt for how Shopify works rather than copied: every piece its own product, filed by automated collections that drop it the moment it sells. Every redirect was live when the domain moved, and our migration record has the rankings held through it.
What you get
What a WooCommerce to Shopify migration includes
Every product, customer, order and blog post carried across, every indexed URL redirected, and the plugin stack replaced rather than recreated. What that takes, piece by piece:
Your WordPress estate
Plugin audit and replacement
Memberships, subscriptions, multi-currency, reviews and shipping rules mapped to a native answer first, an app only where there is genuinely no equivalent.
Blog content and media
Posts, categories, authors and media move, not just the shop. A product export leaves years of content behind and takes its links with it.
Your search traffic
Permalinks mapped by hand
WordPress and Shopify structure URLs differently, so every indexed URL is crawled, mapped and given a 301 before launch rather than after.
Before and after, compared
The crawl is re-run on the live domain once it has moved, so any loss is seen in the first week rather than reported a month late.
Your running costs
Custom PHP judged, not ported
A bespoke checkout step, a pricing rule or a third-party sync gets rebuilt natively where that is the better long-term answer, and retired where it is not.
Hosting and patching, handled
The hosting bill, the PHP version management and the security patching all stop. We size that saving against what you actually spend today.
Land
A migration is not finished on launch day. The weeks after it are where the problems actually surface, and where a store is either watched or abandoned.
After the cutover
What the first month looks like
Almost nothing that goes wrong in a migration goes wrong on launch day. It goes wrong in the fortnight after, when Google re-crawls the old URLs and a plugin nobody mentioned turns out to have been doing something. So the work is scoped to cover that period rather than stopping at go-live, and there is a named person to call during it.
Week one: redirects under real traffic
The redirect map is re-run against the live domain rather than the staging copy, and the server logs are read for the 404s a crawl cannot predict. A redirect that was right in a spreadsheet and wrong in production is the single most common failure.
Crawl and logsWeeks two to four: rankings watched, not assumed
Search Console is checked against the pre-move crawl, page by page, so a URL that lost its position is found while it is still cheap to fix. Movement in the first weeks is normal; a page that never comes back is not.
Search ConsoleThroughout: the stack that replaced the plugins
Whatever took over from the plugin stack gets watched against real orders, not test ones. Subscriptions, shipping rules and tax are the three that behave differently the first time a customer rather than a developer uses them.
Real ordersReviews on the Shopify Partner Directory
Merchants, in their own words.
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From start to finish, they were incredibly easy to work with. They understood the brief perfectly and delivered to a very high standard. Communication was excellent throughout, with quick and clear responses to any questions I had.
Tacky And Upsetting Store build or redesign · April 2026
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The things [the team] have put in place and recommended for us have paid immediate dividend. We wish we had come in contact with [them] sooner.
ARTMARTIAL Store build or redesign · April 2026
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I can’t recommend [the team] enough, [they] helped us with everything from product design, supplier communication to website building and SEO. We were able to build a brand off the back of all [their] information and help.
Reveliér Studios Business strategy guidance · April 2026
How we work with you
Migration project
A fixed scope with a launch date: the plugin audit, the redirect map, the build, the cutover and the monitoring after it. Quoted once we have crawled the site, because a ten-plugin store and a forty-plugin store are not the same job.
Fixed scopeConsultancy partner
Advice either side of the move rather than a hand-off at launch: general ecommerce, security, and the domain, email and Workspace changes a migration drags along with it. Some brands keep us on this way instead of buying a project.
AdvisoryIs this the right thing to buy from us?
Worth a conversation
- Hosting, plugins and developer time are a standing monthly cost
- A plugin update has broken the store more than once
- Page speed has been getting worse with every extension added
- You are worried about rankings and nobody has shown you a redirect plan
Probably not this, yet
- The store is stable, patched and converting
- The real problem is the design, not the platform
- The content, not the shop, is what the site is for
Keep reading
Everything around the move
Decide whether to move
Other platforms we move from
What happens after the move
Partners
Tools we have already run on our own stores
The apps around a Shopify store decide as much as the theme does, and choosing between thousands of them is most of the work. We are a Shopify Plus Partner and we integrate the tools that sit around the platform. Every one of them runs on our own two stores before it reaches a client, so the recommendation you get comes from having paid for the thing and lived with it. When a brand already runs a stack that works, we integrate with it rather than rebuilding it to suit us.
How we use them
Straight answers
Will we lose our Google rankings when we migrate from WooCommerce?
Not if the redirects are handled properly, including WordPress permalinks. We map every indexed URL to its Shopify equivalent before launch and verify them on the live domain afterwards.
What happens to our WordPress blog?
Posts, categories, authors and media migrate across, and every old permalink redirects to its new Shopify blog URL. Nothing gets left behind because it lived on WordPress rather than in WooCommerce itself.
Which WooCommerce plugins can you replace?
Most. Subscriptions, memberships, multi-currency, reviews and shipping rules usually have a native Shopify answer or a direct app equivalent. We audit your specific stack before quoting rather than assuming.
Do we still need WordPress hosting after we move?
No. Shopify hosts the store, so the hosting bill, the PHP version management and the security patching WooCommerce required all stop.
How much downtime does the migration cause?
None your customers will see. WooCommerce keeps trading while we build alongside it, and the last orders and customers move at cutover rather than taking the site down.
Do you migrate US WooCommerce stores from the UK?
Yes. We run migrations for US brands out of London, and the time difference helps: work done here overnight lands before your team starts the day.
Send us the store URL
Tell us the address and roughly how many plugins are on it. We will come back with where the risk sits, what the move would take, and whether it is worth making yet.
Stores we build and grow
Start a conversation
Talk to the people who would move it.
Book a call or send a note. If the honest answer is that your WooCommerce store is fine as it is, that is the reply you get, and it costs you nothing to hear it.
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