WooCommerce to Shopify migration Done for you, with automated verification at the end.
We pull products with their variations, customers, orders and blog posts through the WooCommerce REST API, replace plugins with Shopify apps, and redirect every old URL to its new address. Your WooCommerce store stays live until cutover.
What does a WooCommerce to Shopify migration involve?
It means pulling data through the WooCommerce REST API (authenticated with a consumer key and secret) and writing it into Shopify, with automated verification at the end. Variable products expose their variations on a separate endpoint, linked to the parent by ID; they get mapped onto Shopify's option system, capped at 3 option types. Blog posts move with their URLs, because they're often the single biggest source of organic traffic for a WooCommerce store. Plugins (invoicing, couriers, reviews, subscriptions) get replaced with equivalent Shopify apps. It's quoted after a store review; small stores move in days, larger ones take up to six weeks.
What we move from WooCommerce, and how
WordPress and WooCommerce run two complementary REST APIs — one for the store, one for content.
| What we move | How, technically |
|---|---|
| Products | Via /wc/v3/products (consumer key/secret auth), with price, stock, description and gallery. |
| Variations | Variable products list variations on a separate endpoint (/products/<id>/variations), linked to the parent; mapped onto Shopify options, capped at 3 types. |
| Images | Gallery URLs are downloaded and re-uploaded straight to Shopify, which re-hosts them on its own CDN. |
| Specs | Product attributes (global or custom) become metafields or options, depending on how the old store used them. |
| Categories | The /products/categories resource becomes Shopify collections. |
| Brands | If brand is a separate taxonomy (often via a plugin), it becomes a metafield or a collection filter. |
| Customers | Via /customers, with addresses. Passwords can't be moved — see below. |
| Order history | Via /orders, recreated as history, without touching current stock. |
| Pages | The WordPress API's /wp/v2/pages, with images re-hosted and links updated to the new addresses. |
| Blog | The WordPress API's /wp/v2/posts. Articles become Shopify blog posts, with old URLs redirected — often the biggest source of organic traffic. |
| Reviews | Via /products/<id>/reviews, imported into a dedicated Shopify reviews app. |
| Coupons | The /coupons resource gets recreated as Shopify discounts; very complex rules get simplified. |
| Redirects | Default WooCommerce URLs (/product-category/<slug>, /product/<slug>) can be changed via Permalinks — we read the permalink field directly from the API, not a guessed pattern. |
| Google/Meta feeds | Reconnected with a Shopify feed app, with a custom identifier if you want to keep ad history. |
What can't move anywhere, and how we work around it
Three things have no direct technical path.
Customer passwords
WordPress long used phpass ($P$); recent versions (6.8+) moved to bcrypt with a SHA-384 pre-hash. Either way, Shopify can't import the hash directly. Customers sign in password-free, with a one-time code emailed at first login.
Old order dates
Shopify's API doesn't allow backdating an imported order's date. Old orders show up chronologically as "new" in the customer's account. We tag them invisibly so your new theme can treat them separately.
Installed plugins
Each WooCommerce plugin (subscriptions, loyalty programmes, advanced filters) is built for WordPress's architecture and doesn't "move." We identify the real function and rebuild it with an equivalent Shopify app.
Automated verification at the end
Once data is written to Shopify, we count and compare — we don't assume it "probably worked".
- Counts: how many products, customers, orders and posts landed in Shopify, compared against WooCommerce.
- Product sample: we manually check price, stock, images and variations on a sample.
- Redirect coverage: we verify what percentage of old URLs (products and posts) has a new mapped destination.
- A written report, with what moved, what's left to verify manually, and what we need you to confirm.
Launch day, step by step
Order matters. Most problems happen when the domain switches before everything else is verified.
Final sync
We re-run extraction for any order, stock change or new customer since the last pull.
Domain switch
Technically redirecting the store's address, ideally during a low-traffic window.
The checks
An old product or post URL lands in the right place, cart and checkout work, an existing customer can log in.
Google feed
We turn on the new product feed and verify ad history isn't lost.
Conversions
Tracking scripts (Google Ads, Meta, Analytics) installed correctly on the new store.
What it costs, and what moves the price
The price is quoted after we see your store — there's no fixed rate that works fairly for everyone.
- How many products and variations you have.
- How many custom plugins need replacing with Shopify apps or theme code.
- How many blog posts and pages you have to move, with their URLs.
- How clean your current permalink structure is.
- How many integrations (couriers, invoicing, payments, subscriptions) need testing before launch.
As a reference, a new Shopify store build starts from €950 + VAT.
When it's not worth paying for migration
If you have under 200 products, a simple structure and little organic traffic to protect, you don't need the service on this page — doing it yourself carries low risk. It's worth paying when you have thousands of products, ERP or invoicing integrations, active subscriptions, or when a week of a broken store would cost more than the migration itself. We won't sell you migration "just because" — if you're in the first group, we'll say so.
Questions about WooCommerce migration.
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Can I migrate from WooCommerce myself?
The product side, yes, with Shopify's import app or a CSV file. The part that breaks stores is the rest: redirecting old URLs, variations that don't map cleanly, stock levels and orders in progress. If your store earns meaningful revenue, it's worth having someone who's done it before; if it's a small store, doing it yourself is a reasonable option.
How much does a WooCommerce to Shopify migration cost?
It's quoted after we review your store: number of products and variations, how many custom plugins need replacing, and how much organic traffic needs protecting through redirects. As a reference, a new Shopify store build starts from €950 + VAT.
What happens to product variations (size, colour)?
They're pulled with the parent product and its attributes, then mapped onto Shopify's option system, capped at 3 option types per product. If you have variations across more variants than that allows, we simplify them with you before import.
Do blog posts move with their URLs?
Yes. Blog posts are often the pages that bring the most organic traffic to a WooCommerce store, so we treat them with the same care as product pages: content, re-hosted images and the old URL redirected to the new one.
What transfers and what doesn't?
Products with variations and images transfer, along with categories, customers, order history, pages and posts. The account password doesn't transfer (encrypted beyond recovery, on any platform), and neither do plugins: each feature gets rebuilt as a Shopify app or theme code.
How long does it take, if you do it for us?
A small store, under 200 products with no special integrations, moves in a few days. One with thousands of products, subscriptions or ERP links takes four to six weeks. Your old store stays live until cutover.
Can my plugins be replaced on Shopify?
Most have an app equivalent: invoicing, couriers, reviews, subscriptions, filters. A few very specific features need theme code. We map out the replacements before the move, so you know what stays the same and what changes for your team.
First step
Send us your store's address.
We look at how many products you have, which plugins you use and what your current URLs look like, then tell you what can move, what needs rebuilding and what it costs — or if you're better off doing it yourself.