Salesforce Commerce Cloud to Shopify migration
Leave SFCC's licence fees and release queues behind. We replatform enterprise catalogues to Shopify Plus with your products, customers, order history and search rankings intact, and a redirect map that protects every ranking URL.
Why enterprise brands leave Salesforce Commerce Cloud
SFCC (Demandware) is capable enterprise software, but the economics and pace stop suiting most DTC brands. The risk isn't leaving, it's leaving badly. Your catalogue, promotions, integrations and years of SEO equity all live in SFCC, and a careless cutover puts every one of them on the line.
Licence costs scale with revenue
SFCC's GMV-based pricing means your platform bill grows every time you have a strong quarter. Shopify Plus is a predictable flat fee, so the upside stays yours.
Release cycles are slow
Cartridge changes and SFRA rebuilds turn simple merchandising updates into multi-week vendor tickets. Most merchants want to ship the same day.
SFRA talent is scarce and dear
Developers fluent in ISML, cartridges and OCAPI are hard and expensive to hire in Australia. Shopify's Liquid and app ecosystem run far deeper.
Total cost of ownership is opaque
Between licences, implementation partners and hosting, real SFCC TCO is hard to forecast. Founders want fewer line items and clearer economics.
Replatform risk feels enormous
Everything critical, data, promotions, integrations, rankings, sits inside SFCC. De-risking exactly that is what this migration is built to do.
What moves across from SFCC
How each Salesforce Commerce Cloud concept lands in Shopify, and the handling that keeps it clean.
| Where it lands in Shopify | Migration note | |
|---|---|---|
| Master and variation products | Products with variants and options | Variation attributes mapped to Shopify options and metafields |
| Price books | Prices, Markets and B2B pricing | Currency and customer-group pricing mapped across Markets and B2B catalogues |
| Customer profiles and groups | Customers with tags and segments | Passwords cannot transfer; customers reset securely on first login |
| Order history | Historical orders | Imported for service, returns and reporting, never re-charged |
| Content Slots and Page Designer | Native theme sections and metafields | Rebuilt as editable sections; no proprietary slot engine required |
| SFRA cartridges and integrations | Shopify apps or custom API work | Each integration inventoried, then re-mapped or rebuilt against Shopify APIs |
| Promotions and campaigns | Discounts and Shopify Functions | Business Manager promo logic re-expressed natively in Shopify |
| SEO URLs and metadata | Shopify URLs plus 301 redirects | Every ranking URL redirect-mapped 1:1 and tested before cutover |
What a Salesforce Commerce Cloud migration covers
A full replatform, not a copy-paste. We map SFCC's data model to Shopify's, protect your SEO, and rebuild the SFCC-specific pieces that have no direct equivalent.
What we migrate
- Master and variation products, with options and attributes
- Price books, currencies and customer-group pricing
- Customer profiles, addresses and segments
- Order history for service, returns and reporting
- Content assets and Page Designer layouts
- Product and category SEO metadata
SEO and redirects
- 1:1 redirect map from every SFCC URL
- Category and product path preservation
- Canonicals, titles and meta descriptions ported
- Structured data rebuilt on Shopify
- XML sitemap regenerated and resubmitted
- Rankings, crawl errors and traffic monitored post-launch
SFCC-specific challenges
- SFRA and ISML templates rebuilt in Liquid or Hydrogen
- Cartridge integrations re-mapped to Shopify apps and APIs
- Business Manager promotions rebuilt as Shopify Functions and discounts
- Price books re-expressed through Shopify Markets and B2B
- OCAPI and SCAPI feeds re-pointed to Shopify APIs
- Multi-site realm moved to Shopify Markets or expansion stores
How we run an SFCC replatform
A staged, low-risk path from Demandware to Shopify Plus. We don't quote a fixed timeline before inspecting the store.
Audit and architecture
We inventory your catalogues, price books, cartridges, integrations and top URLs, then design the Shopify Plus data model and theme architecture. No fixed timeline before we've seen the store.
Build
We build the Shopify Plus storefront in Liquid or Hydrogen, rebuild SFRA templates and content, and stand up a staging store for review.
Data mapping and integrations
Products, variants, customers, orders and content are mapped field by field. OCAPI and SCAPI feeds, ERP, OMS, PIM and marketing tools are re-pointed to Shopify.
Testing
We validate data integrity, pricing, tax, promotions, checkout and the full redirect map against a QA checklist on staging.
Delta cutover
A final delta sync captures orders and customers created since the main import, then we switch DNS with redirects already live, no trading days lost.
Monitoring
Post-launch we watch rankings, crawl errors, Core Web Vitals and conversion, and tune through the first weeks of trading.
What an SFCC migration costs
Salesforce Commerce Cloud replatforms vary widely with catalogue size and integration count. Typical AUD bands, scoped properly after discovery.
Core replatform
Catalogue, customers, orders, theme and full redirect map.
Plus build with integrations
Heavier Plus or Hydrogen build plus ERP, OMS and PIM re-integration.
Enterprise / headless
Multi-site, B2B, headless storefront and phased cutover.
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Send us your SFCC store and top URLs. We'll come back with a data-mapping and redirect plan, a Shopify Plus architecture, and a scoped timeline, no obligation.
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