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.
WooCommerce audit and plugin inventory
Every active plugin, what it does for the business, and how that behaviour will exist on Shopify.
Product and variation mapping document
Simple, variable, and grouped products mapped to Shopify products, options, and variants, with the exceptions named.
Custom field and metafield plan
ACF and other post-meta data mapped to Shopify metafields, so the storefront can still render it.
WordPress content migration
Pages, posts, categories, and media moved across with their internal links repointed.
Permalink redirect map
WooCommerce permalink structures inventoried and mapped to Shopify paths, including product, category, and blog patterns.
Customer activation approach
A planned account activation flow, since WordPress password hashes cannot transfer to Shopify.
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.
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Stores spending more time on hosting, updates, and plugin conflicts than on selling
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Merchants whose checkout or performance suffers under plugin load
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Teams without a WordPress developer on hand when something breaks
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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.
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Discover
Database and catalog inspection, plugin inventory, content audit, and permalink structure review.
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Plan
Field and variation mapping, plugin replacement decisions, redirect strategy, and cutover sequence.
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Build
Shopify configuration, theme implementation, metafield structure, staged imports, and app or custom work.
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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.
About three minutes.
Related services
Often paired with
Work rarely stays in one lane. These are the services that most often sit alongside this one.
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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.
Each one is assessed individually. Some behaviour is native on Shopify, some maps to an app, and some needs building. A few turn out to be unused. We produce that inventory during discovery so the scope reflects the real functional surface rather than a product count.
Posts, pages, and media are migrated and their old URLs redirected to the new equivalents. That preserves the link equity we can control. Rankings themselves are Google's decision, so we plan the technical continuity carefully and monitor Search Console after launch rather than guarantee positions.
It can be. WooCommerce attributes are more permissive than Shopify's option and variant model, so some catalogs need restructuring. We check this against your actual catalog during discovery, and where products exceed Shopify's limits we agree on an approach — restructuring, grouping, or a custom solution — before the import is built.
Subscription migrations depend on the billing provider, not just the store. Payment tokens frequently cannot be transferred between processors, which can mean customers re-authorize. We establish what your specific setup allows early, because it materially affects both the plan and the risk.
It depends on catalog complexity, the plugin stack, and whether a redesign is in scope — which is exactly why we scope it after discovery rather than quoting a duration up front. Discovery itself is short, and it is what makes the rest of the estimate meaningful.
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.