Shopify Migration

WooCommerce to Shopify migration

Leave WordPress hosting, plugin sprawl and a fragile checkout behind. We move your products, customers, orders and SEO onto Shopify with 301 redirects mapped one-to-one and zero trading days lost.

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+28%

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90+

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Why brands leave WooCommerce

WooCommerce is a plugin, not a platform. It runs on WordPress you host, patch and secure yourself, and everything past the basics is another extension. As you scale, that stack starts to cost you.

Hosting is your problem

Traffic spikes, uptime, PHP versions and security patches all land on you or your host. A slow or downed store during a sale is revenue gone.

Plugin sprawl

Reviews, subscriptions, bookings, tax, shipping and checkout each rely on a separate plugin. One conflict or abandoned extension can break the store.

Speed and Core Web Vitals

Layered plugins and page builders bloat the front end. Getting WooCommerce fast enough for Core Web Vitals is a constant fight.

A checkout you can't fully trust

Checkout is themeable and plugin-dependent, so edge cases and payment quirks creep in. Shopify's checkout is hardened, PCI-compliant and converts.

Data locked in WordPress

Products, orders and customers live across wp_posts and wp_postmeta with plugin data bolted on. Getting a clean export out takes real care.

What moves across

How each part of your WooCommerce store maps onto Shopify, and where a decision is needed.

Data / feature	On WooCommerce	On Shopify	Notes
Products & variants	wp_posts + postmeta	Native products + variants	Cleaned and de-duplicated in mapping
Customers	WP users + Woo meta	Customer records	Passwords can't transfer; reset on first login
Orders	Order posts + line meta	Order history	Imported for records and reporting
Content & blog	WordPress posts/pages	Shopify pages + blog	Media re-hosted; URLs redirected
Custom fields (ACF)	Postmeta / ACF	Metafields	Mapped field by field
Subscriptions	Woo Subscriptions	Shopify subscription app	Rebuilt; billing continuity planned
URLs & SEO	Permalinks	Shopify URLs	Every path 301-redirected

What the migration covers

Everything that matters to revenue and rankings moves across, mapped and verified, not dumped through a generic importer.

What we migrate

Products, variants, images and collections
Customer accounts and address books
Full order history and statuses
Blog posts, pages and media from WordPress
Coupons, discounts and tax rules
Reviews from Yotpo, Judge.me or WooCommerce native

SEO & redirects

One-to-one 301 redirects for every URL
Preserved page titles, meta and heading structure
Image alt text and canonical tags carried over
Structured data rebuilt for products and articles
XML sitemap and Search Console handover

WooCommerce-specific challenges

Untangling wp_posts and wp_postmeta into clean records
Rebuilding plugin features as native Shopify or apps
Mapping WordPress URL structures to Shopify's
Migrating subscriptions to a Shopify equivalent
Recreating custom fields and ACF data as metafields

How the migration runs

We inspect the store before we commit to a timeline. No two WooCommerce installs carry the same plugins or data debt.

Audit & architecture

We map your plugins, data model, URLs and integrations, then design the Shopify structure and flag anything that needs a decision.

Build

We build the theme, collections, navigation and app stack on Shopify, matching or improving on what WooCommerce did.

Data mapping & integrations

Products, customers, orders and content are mapped field by field and test-imported. Payments, shipping and email are reconnected.

Testing

We check data integrity, redirects, checkout, tax and every integration against the live store before anyone switches.

Delta cutover

A final delta sync captures recent orders and customers, DNS flips and the store goes live with no trading gap.

Monitoring

We watch redirects, crawl stats, Search Console and conversion for weeks after launch and fix anything that surfaces.

What a migration typically costs

Pricing depends on catalogue size, plugin complexity and how much custom data needs mapping. These are typical AUD bands, scoped after a discovery audit.

Number of products, variants and collectionsPlugin and custom-field complexity (ACF, subscriptions)Order and customer history volumeDesign, like-for-like rebuild vs redesignThird-party integrations (ERP, 3PL, email, reviews)

Standard migration

$9,000–$18,000

Smaller catalogue, standard data, like-for-like theme

Complex migration

$18,000–$35,000

Large catalogue, heavy plugin logic, custom integrations

Migration + redesign

$35,000+

Full replatform with a new custom Shopify build

WooCommerce migration questions

No. Every WooCommerce URL gets a one-to-one 301 redirect, and titles, meta and structured data carry across. Rankings typically hold and often improve once the site is faster.

Yes. Historical orders, statuses and customer purchase history are imported so reporting, support and returns stay intact.

Passwords can't be exported from WordPress in a usable form, so they don't transfer. Customers set a new password on first login via a secure reset, which we plan the comms for.

None for trading. We build and test in parallel, then do a delta cutover so the switch happens with the store live throughout.

Most have a Shopify equivalent, email, reviews, subscriptions, ERP and 3PL. We map each one in the audit and rebuild or reconnect it before go-live.

Posts, pages and media move to Shopify's blog and pages, with URLs redirected so existing links and SEO value are preserved.

Yes. We move subscribers to a Shopify subscription app and plan billing continuity so recurring revenue isn't interrupted.

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Send us your store URL and plugin list. We'll audit what you're running and map out a migration with data, redirects and revenue protected.

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