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BumpyLabs

WooCommerce to Shopify

Leave WooCommerce behind without leaving anything behind.

A WooCommerce migration is rarely just a product export. The catalog is entangled with WordPress, and the store's behaviour lives in a stack of plugins. We map all three — data, content, and functionality — before anything moves.

Scope

What we help with

The work that typically sits inside this service. Every engagement is scoped to what your store actually needs.

  • WooCommerce and WordPress audit, including the active plugin stack
  • Simple, variable, grouped, and external product mapping
  • Product attributes and variations mapped to Shopify options and variants
  • Custom field migration, including ACF data, into Shopify metafields
  • WordPress pages, blog posts, categories, and media
  • Customer accounts, order history, and coupon equivalents
  • Plugin functionality replaced with Shopify apps or custom development
  • URL mapping from WordPress permalink structures, with redirects

Our approach

The plugins are the migration.

Most WooCommerce stores have accumulated twenty to sixty plugins, and some of them quietly define how the business runs — pricing rules, shipping logic, subscription billing, B2B tiers. Exporting products is the easy half. We inventory what each plugin actually does, decide whether Shopify covers it natively, needs an app, or needs building, and price that honestly before the move starts.

  • Plugin-by-plugin functional inventory

    Every active plugin is listed with what it does, who relies on it, and its Shopify equivalent — native, app, custom build, or dropped by agreement.

  • Variations mapped to Shopify's variant model

    WooCommerce attributes are more permissive than Shopify options. We identify products that exceed Shopify's variant limits or use attribute patterns that need restructuring, and resolve them deliberately rather than at import time.

  • The WordPress side comes too

    Blog posts, landing pages, and media are usually a real share of organic traffic. They are migrated and redirected alongside the catalog, not treated as an afterthought.

Deliverables

What’s included

What you receive from an engagement of this type. Exact deliverables are confirmed in the scope we agree together.

Typical scope7 deliverables
  1. WooCommerce audit and plugin inventory

    Every active plugin, what it does for the business, and how that behaviour will exist on Shopify.

  2. Product and variation mapping document

    Simple, variable, and grouped products mapped to Shopify products, options, and variants, with the exceptions named.

  3. Custom field and metafield plan

    ACF and other post-meta data mapped to Shopify metafields, so the storefront can still render it.

  4. WordPress content migration

    Pages, posts, categories, and media moved across with their internal links repointed.

  5. Permalink redirect map

    WooCommerce permalink structures inventoried and mapped to Shopify paths, including product, category, and blog patterns.

  6. Customer activation approach

    A planned account activation flow, since WordPress password hashes cannot transfer to Shopify.

  7. Staged import and validation

    Repeatable imports into a staged store, with counts and samples checked against the live WooCommerce database.

We do not promise zero data loss, zero downtime, or preserved search rankings. What we commit to is auditing the source directly, planning for the known risks, testing in a staged environment, and validating results before and after cutover.

Ideal fit

Built for

WooCommerce migrations tend to make sense when hosting, plugin conflicts, or update risk have started costing more attention than the storefront itself.

  • 01

    Stores spending more time on hosting, updates, and plugin conflicts than on selling

  • 02

    Merchants whose checkout or performance suffers under plugin load

  • 03

    Teams without a WordPress developer on hand when something breaks

  • 04

    Businesses that want PCI and platform maintenance handled by the platform

How it runs

Delivering woocommerce to Shopify migration, step by step

Adapted from our wider process to the shape of this specific work.

See the full process
  1. 01

    Discover

    Database and catalog inspection, plugin inventory, content audit, and permalink structure review.

  2. 02

    Plan

    Field and variation mapping, plugin replacement decisions, redirect strategy, and cutover sequence.

  3. 03

    Build

    Shopify configuration, theme implementation, metafield structure, staged imports, and app or custom work.

  4. 04

    Launch

    Redirect deployment, DNS cutover, customer activation, and post-launch monitoring.

Free tool

Score your migration before you commit to a date.

13 questions on your catalog, data, checkout, and connected systems. You get a readiness score, the risk areas specific to your answers, and what to do about each — on screen, before any email address.

Score your migration

About three minutes.

FAQ

WooCommerce to Shopify FAQs

Direct answers to what teams ask before starting this kind of work.

Customer records, addresses, and order history can usually be migrated. Passwords cannot — WordPress hashes are not portable to Shopify. The standard approach is a customer account activation email at launch, which we plan and write in advance so it does not surprise anyone.

Next step

Let’s talk about your woocommerce to Shopify migration work.

Share the context and the constraint. We will come back with the next move we would actually recommend — not a pitch.