WooCommerce to Shopify migration services

A small store with a few hundred products, a light plugin stack and no integrations usually takes four to six weeks. A mid sized store with a few thousand products and a handful of integrations runs eight to twelve. Large or plugin heavy stores, subscriptions, or a lot of WordPress content to rebuild take longer.

The audit gives you a date before you commit, and the number that moves it most is the plugin count, not the product count.

No. Your WooCommerce store keeps taking orders for the whole build. We create the Shopify store alongside it and load your data there, so nothing about the live site changes while we work.

Just before launch we run a delta import to pick up orders and customers created during the build, then switch DNS at a time you choose. The changeover itself is a matter of minutes.

Not if the redirects and the content are handled properly, and that is most of what the SEO workstream is. WooCommerce and Shopify use different URL structures, so every address changes and every one needs a permanent redirect.

We map products, categories, tags, the shop page and every blog post, carry the metadata out of Yoast or Rank Math, keep page content intact, and crawl the full redirect set before launch to confirm nothing returns a 404.

Rankings usually settle within 30 to 90 days when the redirect map is complete and page content carries across. The first fortnight looks unsettled while Google recrawls and reindexes, which is normal.

We watch rankings, crawl errors and organic sessions daily for thirty days after cut over. Traffic loss that persists past that is almost always a missing redirect or a page that lost content, and both are fixable.

They do not transfer. A WooCommerce plugin is WordPress code and Shopify cannot run it, so what moves is the function rather than the plugin.

We inventory every active plugin in the audit and put each one in one of four places: Shopify does it natively, an app does it and we name the app and its cost, it needs building and we price that, or nobody has used it in two years and it goes. Most WooCommerce plugin stacks shrink dramatically, because a lot of them exist to add things Shopify already includes.

It comes across. WooCommerce is a WordPress plugin, so your posts, pages, categories and media sit in the same database as your products, and a migration that only moves the catalogue leaves the content behind.

That matters more than most people expect, because on a WordPress site the blog is usually where the backlinks are. Posts move into Shopify blogs with their dates and authors, pages are rebuilt as Shopify sections, and every old URL redirects to its new one.

The subscriber list, the plans and the billing schedules move. What usually cannot move automatically is the stored payment method, because those tokens belong to your current gateway and are not portable between platforms unless that gateway supports it.

In practice that means either a gateway that allows token migration, or a re authorisation campaign where subscribers confirm their card on the new store. We scope which of those applies to you in the audit, because it changes the launch plan.

Yes. WooCommerce stores reviews as WordPress comments, and dedicated review plugins keep them in their own tables. Either way they can be exported and loaded into a Shopify reviews app with the rating, the text, the author and the date kept.

Worth doing even on a small catalogue. Star ratings are one of the few things on a product page that visibly affect conversion, and they take years to accumulate.

No, and no migration to any platform can. WordPress stores passwords as one way hashes that cannot be decrypted, and Shopify will not accept a foreign hash.

Everything else about the customer moves: the record, addresses, order history and marketing consent. At first login on the new store, customers set a new password. We usually pair launch with an email explaining it, which turns a small annoyance into a reason to get back in touch.

WooCommerce attributes become Shopify options and variations become variants, with variation level SKUs kept. The mapping is usually clean, and there are two ceilings worth knowing about before the import runs.

Shopify allows three options per product, so a WooCommerce product built on four or more attributes has to be restructured. Standard Shopify also caps variants at 100 per product, where Plus goes considerably higher, so a product with hundreds of variations can decide your plan.

Custom taxonomies are the other thing that catches people. Categories and tags map cleanly, but a taxonomy added by a plugin or your theme has no Shopify equivalent and becomes a collection, a tag or a metafield depending on what it is for. We find all of this in the audit and agree it before the import, rather than discovering it halfway through.

Yes. Your domain is independent of your platform. You either point it at Shopify by changing its DNS records, or transfer the registration to Shopify, and either way the address your customers know stays the same.

Keeping the domain is also what makes the SEO migration workable, because the redirects and the authority you have built all sit on that domain.

The checkout is better and the payments setup is different. Shopify Checkout is the most tested checkout in ecommerce and you are no longer responsible for patching or securing it.

Your gateway may change. Some WooCommerce gateways have a Shopify equivalent, others do not, and Shopify Payments is often the cheaper option once transaction fees are compared. We confirm what your gateway supports in the audit, before anything is decided.

We use tooling where it helps, including for bulk product and order imports, but a tool on its own is not a migration. It will move records and leave you with the parts that actually decide whether the project succeeds.

No tool decides what replaces your plugins, rebuilds your integrations, maps your redirects, moves your Yoast metadata or rebuilds a page builder page as Shopify sections. That work is where migrations are won or lost, and it is done by people.

You can, and for a small store with a handful of plugins, no integrations and no blog worth keeping, it is a reasonable thing to do with an import tool and a weekend.

It stops being reasonable once there is real traffic to protect. The parts that go wrong are redirects, metadata and plugin functionality, and those failures are expensive and slow to reverse because the ranking loss shows up weeks after the mistake.

It depends on your catalogue, your plugin stack, how much WordPress content there is, your integrations and how much the design changes. Anyone giving you a number before seeing your store is guessing.

What we can commit to is the process: we audit the store, give you a written scope and a fixed price, and that price does not move for that scope. What decides the cost.

Standard Shopify handles most stores moving off WooCommerce, and starting there is usually the right call. Plus is worth it when you need B2B with company accounts and price lists, deeper checkout customisation, higher API limits, or multiple storefronts.

You can move up later without migrating again, so this is not a decision you have to get right before you start. We give you a recommendation with the reasoning in the audit.