Magento to Shopify migration services

Four to ten weeks for most stores, from the first review to launch. Large catalogues, several store views or a heavy Adobe Commerce B2B setup can run to sixteen. We confirm the launch date in writing before starting, not part way through.

Three things happen at once on a Magento migration that rarely happen together elsewhere. Magento stores carry years of custom modules with no direct Shopify equivalent, so each one has to be decided rather than moved. Integrations are written against Magento's own API, so every connection is rebuilt rather than reconnected. And Magento URL patterns for products, categories and layered navigation differ from Shopify's, so redirects have to be mapped explicitly rather than generated. A migration from a simpler platform usually involves one of those. Magento involves all three, which is why the audit comes before the price.

No. Your Magento store keeps taking orders until the day you choose to switch. We build and load the new store in parallel on a private Shopify test store, and DNS changes only at cut over. Customers never see a closed shop.

Not if the redirects are done properly. Shopify uses a fixed URL structure, so every Magento address changes. We map a permanent 301 for every product, category, CMS page and blog post before launch, carry the meta data across unchanged, and watch Search Console for thirty days. Most stores see a small dip for two to three weeks and then recover.

Rankings usually settle within 30 to 90 days when the redirect map is complete and page content carries across intact. The first fortnight looks unsettled while Google recrawls and reindexes the site. That is normal and not a sign of a problem.

We watch rankings, crawl errors and organic sessions daily for thirty days after cut over, so indexation problems get fixed while they are still small. Traffic loss that persists beyond that is almost always a missing redirect or a page that lost its content on the way across, and both are fixable.

Yes, all three. Magento 1 stores are the most common migration we run, and since the platform is no longer patched, moving is a security decision as well as a commercial one. Adobe Commerce, cloud or on premise, including B2B, is supported too.

No, and the risk of staying is real. Magento 1 reached end of life in June 2020 and has had no security patches from Adobe since. Running an unsupported platform that handles card data is a PCI DSS problem as well as a security one, and most extension vendors stopped shipping updates years ago.

Magento 1 stores do take more work than Magento 2. The data is older, the catalogue has usually accumulated workarounds, and some of the store logic lives in places nobody documented. That is a scoping question rather than a blocker. The audit tells you exactly what your store needs before you commit to anything.

Configurable products become Shopify products with variants. Custom attributes that have no Shopify field become metafields rather than being dropped. Categories become collections. Each Magento store view becomes a Shopify Market with its own language, currency and pricing.

No platform can migrate passwords, because they are stored hashed and are not readable. Accounts, addresses, customer groups and full order history all move. Customers get an email inviting them to set a new password, or set one at their next checkout.

Less than most people expect, though almost none of it transfers as code. We audit every custom module during discovery and put each one in one of three places: Shopify already does it natively, an app does it well, or it needs building.

Most Magento customisation exists to fill a gap that Shopify closed years ago, so it disappears rather than being lost. Whatever genuinely needs building is priced on its own and agreed before development starts. There is no point in the project where you find out that a feature your business depends on was never in scope.

Most have a Shopify app that does the same job, and some are no longer needed because Shopify includes the feature. For anything genuinely specific to your business, such as B2B pricing rules, custom checkout logic or an ERP connector, we build a private Shopify app.

They are rebuilt, not moved. Your current integrations talk to Magento's API, and Shopify's Admin API is a different shape, so the connection has to be written again for stock sync, order routing, fulfilment status and customer records.

We audit every integration in the first week, before any theme work begins, so the cost and the timeline are known at the start. Integrations discovered halfway through a build are the single most common reason a Magento migration overruns.

Magento customer groups, tiered pricing and company accounts all have equivalents in Shopify B2B, but they are built differently, so this is a rebuild rather than a transfer. Company accounts, price lists, payment terms and catalogue visibility are set up as part of the migration and tested with real buyer logins before the domain switches.

B2B has to be planned from the start. Leaving it until after launch is how wholesale buyers end up seeing retail prices on day one. Shopify B2B runs on Shopify Plus, so the plan decision and the B2B rebuild get scoped together.

Automated tools are fast and they are fine for a simple catalogue. They struggle with configurable products, custom attribute sets, B2B price lists and redirect mapping, which is where most Magento stores actually live. We run the migration ourselves and validate every record against the Magento original.

It depends on catalogue size, the number of store views, design scope and integrations. Extensions and an ERP move the number far more than product count does. After a free review of your store you get a fixed price in writing, and that is the price you pay.

Standard Shopify covers most stores moving off Magento 1. Shopify Plus earns its cost when you need B2B with company accounts and price lists, checkout customisation, several markets with separate pricing, or higher API limits for an ERP. We will tell you which one your store actually needs.