WooCommerce to Shopify Migration
WooCommerce works until it doesn’t. Plugin conflicts, hosting bills that scale with traffic, manual security updates, plus the constant Friday-evening fear of a WordPress core update breaking your store. At some point most growing WooCommerce merchants look at Shopify and ask: why are we still doing this ourselves?
The migration is the hard part. It’s also the part where most agencies cut corners.
What We Migrate
- Products. Title, description, variants, images, metafields, custom taxonomies, plus your full product structure.
- Customers. All accounts migrated, with a password reset flow on first login.
- Orders. Full historical order data, accessible in the Shopify admin for support and analytics.
- Categories and collections. Mapped to Shopify collections, including smart collection rules where useful.
- Blog content. Posts, authors, categories, images, comments where exportable.
- Redirects. Every indexed WooCommerce URL gets a 301 to its Shopify equivalent. This is where most migrations leak SEO traffic. We do not skip this step.
- SEO metadata. Title tags, meta descriptions, canonical URLs, plus structured data carried over.
- Subscriptions and memberships. Mapped to the right Shopify app, with active subscribers migrated cleanly.
Why Brands Choose Us for WooCommerce Migrations
We’ve done this before. WooCommerce-to-Shopify migrations involve specific pitfalls: handling WooCommerce variations, mapping plugin functionality to Shopify apps or custom code, plus dealing with WordPress-style URL structures that don’t map cleanly to Shopify’s. Pattern recognition matters.
We build the theme during the migration, not after. Most “migration services” dump your data into a default Shopify theme then hand you the keys. We design and build a custom theme as part of the engagement so launch day is a real relaunch, not a downgrade.
We don’t disappear after cutover. The first 30 days post-launch are where edge cases show up. We monitor closely, fix what we find, and stay reachable.
Mapping WooCommerce Plugins to Shopify
The single biggest question in a WooCommerce migration is what happens to the plugins your store runs on. WordPress stores are held together by them, and they rarely map one-to-one. Here’s how the common ones translate:
- WooCommerce Subscriptions maps to Recharge, Bold, or native Shopify Subscriptions, depending on your billing model. Active subscribers migrate with minimal disruption.
- Yoast or Rank Math SEO is largely replaced by Shopify’s built-in SEO fields, topped up with an app only where you need more control.
- WPML or Polylang (multilingual) maps to Shopify Markets with Translate & Adapt.
- Advanced Custom Fields maps to Shopify metafields, which we wire into the theme during the build.
- Elementor or other page builders map to native Shopify sections, or a builder app like Shogun if you need drag-and-drop.
- WooCommerce Memberships maps to a Shopify membership app matched to how you gate content or pricing.
- WooCommerce Bookings maps to a Shopify booking app such as Sesami.
- Wholesale plugins map to native B2B on Shopify Plus, or a wholesale app on standard Shopify.
Anything without a clean equivalent becomes a small custom app or Shopify Function rather than a compromise. You get the full map before kickoff.
How Much Does a WooCommerce to Shopify Migration Cost?
Two costs get confused, so it helps to separate them. The first is the Shopify subscription you pay to Shopify each month, which replaces your WordPress hosting, security, plus the stack of paid plugins you were renewing every year. For many stores the running cost actually drops. The second is the migration project itself, paid to us once.
Project cost is driven by three things: catalog size, how much custom plugin functionality needs rebuilding, plus whether subscriptions or B2B are in play. A clean catalog with a custom theme sits at the lower end. A large store with subscriptions, custom plugins, plus a complex URL history sits higher. We give you a fixed scope after the audit, so the number you sign off on is the number you pay.
What We Don’t Promise
We don’t promise “no traffic drop.” Some short-term volatility is normal during any platform migration as Google reprocesses the redirect map. What we do promise is the architecture that makes a clean recovery: complete redirects, structured data, plus performance that’s typically better on Shopify than WooCommerce, which helps rankings stabilize.
We also don’t run “migration apps” alone. Off-the-shelf migration apps move data but skip the theme, the redirect map, plus the subscription model. They’re a starting point, not the whole job.
Related Reading
- Shopify migration agency. Our migration hub, with the same approach applied to Magento and BigCommerce.
- Full WooCommerce to Shopify migration guide. The detailed write-up of how we run these projects.
- Shopify web design agency. The theme build that happens during migration.
- Why Shopify. Context on why WooCommerce merchants are moving.
Get a Migration Quote
Every WooCommerce store is different. SKU count, plugin complexity, custom code, subscription model. Send us an export of your current setup, plus a list of features you can’t lose, and we’ll send back a detailed scope with timeline plus cost. Request a migration quote.
Features
Products, variants, images, metadata fully migrated
Customer accounts with password rehashing flow
Order history preserved for support and analytics
URL redirect map that holds your organic rankings
Custom Shopify theme built during the migration
Subscriptions, memberships, plus B2B reviewed for parity
Process
Inventory your WooCommerce setup: themes, plugins, custom code, data shapes. Identify what migrates cleanly versus what needs a rebuild.
Data mapping, redirect strategy, theme scope, plugin replacements, cutover schedule. Documented before any code runs.
Staging environment build, data import, theme development, QA against the live WooCommerce site.
DNS switch, redirect deployment, customer password rehash flow, monitoring through the first 30 days.
FAQs
Will we lose SEO rankings during the migration?
Not if the migration is done properly. We build a one-to-one redirect map from every indexed WooCommerce URL to its Shopify equivalent, preserve metadata, plus carry over structured data. Most migrations we run see rankings recover within 2 to 4 weeks.
Can you migrate WooCommerce Subscriptions?
Yes, but with care. WooCommerce Subscriptions doesn't map directly to any single Shopify app. We assess your subscription model, recommend the right Shopify subscription app (Recharge, Bold, native Shopify), then migrate active subscribers with minimal disruption.
How long does a WooCommerce to Shopify migration take?
Typical timeline is 6 to 12 weeks depending on catalog size, customization, plus subscription or B2B complexity. We share a detailed plan with milestone dates before kickoff.
What happens to our existing customer accounts and passwords?
Customer records migrate fully. Passwords cannot transfer directly due to one-way hashing, so we set up a password reset flow that triggers on first login post-migration. Customers experience one extra step, then everything works as before.
How much does a WooCommerce to Shopify migration cost?
Most migrations land somewhere in the five figures, with the range driven by catalog size, custom plugin functionality, and whether subscriptions or B2B are involved. A small, clean catalog with a custom theme costs far less than a 10,000-SKU store with WooCommerce Subscriptions and custom plugins to replace. We scope yours before quoting, and the Shopify plan fee you pay to Shopify is separate from our build fee.
What happens to our WooCommerce plugins?
Each plugin gets evaluated during the audit and sorted into one of three paths: a native Shopify feature already covers it, a Shopify app replaces it, or we build a small custom app or Function. You get a full plugin-to-Shopify map before kickoff, so nothing about your store's functionality becomes a launch-week surprise.
