Magento to Shopify migration
Move off self-hosted Magento Open Source without losing rankings, order history or a day of trading. We map your EAV catalogue, customers and orders to Shopify, then cut over cleanly on a plan scoped to your store.
Why brands leave Magento Open Source
Magento Open Source is capable, but you carry the full weight of running it. Most merchants move to cut total cost of ownership and get off the upgrade treadmill, the risk is doing that without dropping rankings, orders or customer accounts.
Hosting and TCO
You pay for servers, Varnish, Redis and Elasticsearch just to keep the store fast. Shopify absorbs that as managed infrastructure.
Security and patching
Quarterly security patches, PCI scope and extension CVEs are your problem to own. On Shopify, hosting and compliance are handled for you.
Extension conflicts
Every upgrade risks breaking third-party modules. Custom and conflicting extensions make each release a QA project.
EAV weight
The entity-attribute-value model spreads one product across dozens of tables. Admin is slow and the data is fiddly to move cleanly.
Developer cost
Senior Magento developers are scarce and expensive. Small changes need specialist time you would rather spend on growth.
What moves across
A quick view of how core Magento data lands in Shopify, and where we scope decisions carefully.
| Magento Open Source | Where it lands in Shopify | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Simple products | Products | 1:1 with SKUs preserved |
| Configurable products | Products with variants | Options remapped; 100-variant limit checked |
| Bundle / grouped products | Bundles app or custom build | No native equivalent; scoped case by case |
| Custom EAV attributes | Metafields / metaobjects | Mapped to a defined schema |
| Categories | Collections | Manual and automated rules |
| Customers | Customer records | Passwords reset on first login |
| Orders | Order history | Imported for record and reporting |
| CMS blocks / pages | Pages / metaobjects | Rebuilt in theme where needed |
| URL rewrites (.html) | 301 redirects | Full path map, suffixes included |
What a Magento migration covers
We export directly from your Magento database, so nothing depends on a fragile plugin. Everything is mapped to a defined Shopify schema and checked for parity before launch.
What we migrate
- Simple and configurable products, with SKUs preserved
- Categories mapped to manual and automated collections
- Customer records, groups and addresses
- Order and invoice history for reporting
- CMS blocks and static pages
- Product imagery and media
SEO and redirects
- Full 301 map, including .html URL suffixes
- Layered-navigation and category-path URLs handled
- Titles, meta and canonical tags carried across
- Product and breadcrumb structured data rebuilt
- Post-launch crawl and 404 monitoring
- XML sitemap and robots reset for Shopify
Magento-specific challenges
- Custom EAV attributes mapped to metafields and metaobjects
- Bundle and grouped products remapped case by case
- Customer passwords reset on first login (they cannot move)
- Customer groups and tier pricing mapped to Shopify B2B or Markets
- Extensions replaced with Shopify apps or native features
- Magento 1 (end of life) stores exported straight from the database
How a Magento migration runs
We do not quote a fixed timeline before inspecting the store. Extension count, data volume and custom attributes decide the scope, we confirm it after the audit.
Audit and architecture
We inspect the store, extensions, EAV data model, traffic and full URL inventory, then design the Shopify data and redirect plan.
Build
We build the Shopify theme and storefront to match your brand, with performance and WCAG 2.1 AA baked in.
Data mapping and integrations
Products, customers and orders are mapped to Shopify, with ERP, 3PL, payment and tax integrations reconnected.
Testing
We check data parity against Magento, QA every redirect, and test checkout, tax and accessibility.
Delta cutover
A final sync captures recent orders and customers, then we switch DNS and go live with redirects active, no trading days lost.
Monitoring
Post-launch we run a full crawl, watch 404s and rankings, and track Core Web Vitals to catch anything early.
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Send us your store URL and extension list. We will scope the data, redirects and integrations, then map a cutover with no trading days lost.
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