Shopify migration services for stores that cannot afford to lose a single order

I start with an audit of the old store: product count, variable products, customer records, order history and every URL Google has indexed. That becomes a data map showing where each field lands in Shopify. WooCommerce attributes and variations become Shopify options and variants. Product categories become collections. Custom fields with no Shopify equivalent go into metafields. Wix, Squarespace and BigCommerce follow the same steps with different export files.

The product and customer import runs by CSV or a tool such as Matrixify. The choice depends on catalog size and how much order history you keep. Shopify's own importer handles products and customers, while orders need an app or the API. I import into a fresh store and spot-check variants, prices, images and inventory against the source. Then I set up the theme, configure payments, shipping and taxes, and place test orders before the domain moves.

Shopify uses fixed URL patterns. Products live under /products/, collections under /collections/ and pages under /pages/. Your old WooCommerce or Wix addresses cannot be kept, so each one needs a 301 redirect to its new home. I crawl the old site, pull the top pages from Search Console, and build a one-to-one redirect map in a spreadsheet you can review.

The map goes into Shopify's URL redirects before launch. I also carry over page titles, meta descriptions, image alt text and on-page copy, since a redirect to a thinner page still loses ground. After the domain switches, I recrawl the old URL list to confirm every address returns a 301 to the right page. Then I submit the new sitemap in Search Console and watch for 404 errors. Nobody can promise rankings hold through a platform change, but this removes the usual causes of a drop.

The usual story is an automated migration app run once, with nobody checking the result. Variants arrive as separate products. Product descriptions carry leftover shortcodes from the old page builder. Images still point at the old server and break when that hosting is canceled. Redirects were skipped, so every old Google result lands on a 404 page.

When I am called in after a launch like that, I fix things in order of lost revenue. Redirects come first, because every day without them costs traffic. Then broken images, then variant structure, then description cleanup. Doing this before launch is cheaper, which is why I keep the old store live until the new one is verified. Migrations start at $599. The quote depends on product count, order history and how much theme work is needed.