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BigCommerce to Shopify Migration
Top-rated BigCommerce to Shopify migration service that simplifies your tech stack, reduces app dependency, and eliminates maintenance headaches.
craftberry handles complete data migration including products, customers, orders, and metafields. We rebuild integrations, redirect URLs for SEO, and transform your store with a conversion-focused redesign.
Certified Shopify Plus partner with 300+ successful migrations and 9+ years helping brands move from BigCommerce to Shopify.
- Certified Shopify Plus Partner for high-impact Migrations
- 300+ Successful Migration Projects Completed with 100% Accuracy
- In-house Team of 35+ Senior Shopify Developers, Designers, and Solution Architects
- 9+ Years of Proven Experience
Shopify partner trusted by great clients
Our work
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Our work in numbers
Our BigCommerce to Shopify migration at a glance
Who we work with
BigCommerce and BigCommerce Enterprise stores moving to Shopify and Shopify Plus, including stores with B2B programs, large catalogs and faceted navigation.
What we migrate
Products and options, customers, full order history, reviews, blog and page content, discounts, and every app mapped to a Shopify equivalent.
How we migrate
Staged export and import passes using Matrixify or custom API imports, a Stencil-to-Online Store 2.0 theme rebuild, reconciliation counts after every pass, and a side-by-side build.
How we protect SEO
A full pre-migration crawl, a one-hop 301 map for every indexed URL, metadata parity checks, and daily Search Console monitoring after launch.
What results we target
Zero-downtime cutover and preserved rankings. Recent work: 500K+ customer records moved for Shelly and The Fashion Project launched on Plus with a live ERP connection.
Technology we use
Matrixify and custom API tooling, Search & Discovery for filtering, Shopify Plus B2B, Online Store 2.0 themes, and GA4 with Google Search Console.
The Next Step in Growth
BigCommerce supports strong early growth, but as operations expand, many teams start looking for a platform that offers greater flexibility and efficiency at scale. Shopify provides that next step.
Tired of Managing BigCommerce Maintenance? Shopify Handles It for You.
Keeping a BigCommerce store secure and stable can feel like a constant balancing act. Manual backups, version updates, and app dependencies all require close attention - and one missed step can affect performance or data integrity.
As your store grows, maintaining compliance and uptime becomes even more demanding, especially with multiple third-party integrations in play.
Shopify eliminates that burden. Every store runs on a fully hosted, automatically updated infrastructure backed by enterprise-grade security. PCI and SSL compliance are built in, ensuring safe transactions and continuous protection of customer data.
The outcome: world-class reliability and security - without the maintenance workload or added costs.
Leave Security Headaches Behind. Migrate to ShopifyUnlock Full Creative Control with Shopify’s Customizable Themes
Design flexibility on BigCommerce can feel restrictive - especially on lower-tier plans, where the page builder and theme editor offer limited creative freedom. Even small layout changes often require custom code or developer input.
Shopify gives your team complete control over the storefront experience. Its drag-and-drop theme editor, modular sections, and extensive customization options make it easy to adapt design to your brand - without heavy coding or third-party tools.
And for brands that want to go further, Shopify’s Liquid framework allows full front-end customization, enabling unique layouts, immersive experiences, and seamless functionality across devices.
The outcome: a store that looks, feels, and performs exactly the way your brand envisions - no compromises.
Start Converting More with ShopifyReady to Build on a Platform That Scales With You?
Growth rewards brands that choose simplicity over limitation. By streamlining operations and reducing manual work, Shopify helps brands save time, allowing teams to focus on growth.
Why Leading Brands Move from BigCommerce to Shopify
BigCommerce helps you get online - but it wasn’t built to grow with you forever. As sales expand, merchants hit plan limits, paywalls, and technical ceilings that slow down progress.
What once felt manageable starts demanding more time, money, and development hours just to keep things running.
Shopify takes a different approach. It’s designed to scale without thresholds, expensive add-ons, or backend complexity.
Every feature - from global selling and payments to automation and analytics - is native, integrated, and built to perform under pressure.
Shopify also allows users to bulk edit product information, streamlining inventory management and reducing manual effort.
For growing brands, that means less time troubleshooting and more time executing.
Migrating to Shopify isn’t just a platform change - it’s a move toward speed, flexibility, and effortless scale.
Migrate from BigCommerce to Shopify with a Certified Shopify Plus Partner
Replatforming from BigCommerce to Shopify isn’t a plug-and-play task - it’s a strategic data migration that involves every core element of your business: product listings, customer data, order history, pricing rules, SEO URLs, and category structures.
A single misstep during the process to migrate data can lead to broken links, lost customer records, or gaps in functionality that affect sales.
That’s why ambitious brands choose craftberry’s Shopify migration service - as a certified Shopify Plus Partner, our team handles the entire process end-to-end: exporting and cleaning your BigCommerce data, rebuilding store architecture, and optimizing for conversion and stability.
We ensure a seamless transition - every product, customer, and redirect transferred accurately, every integration tested for reliability, and your new Shopify store launched with zero downtime.
300+ Stores Successfully Migrated to Shopify
Over the past decade, we’ve helped more than 300 brands, from fast-growing DTC businesses to established enterprise retailers, safely migrate to Shopify.
Our proven data migration framework combines data accuracy, performance optimization, and conversion strategy.
Every stage is handled with precision to preserve store data, maintain customer records, and ensure a frictionless shopping experience post-launch.
Brands like Shelly, The Fashion Project, and Pepper have trusted craftberry to move from legacy platforms like BigCommerce to Shopify - achieving faster load times, streamlined operations, and measurable growth.
BigCommerce vs Shopify
Compared on the dimensions that decide replatforming projects. Where a figure is a vendor's published claim, we say whose. Two of these rows deserve a longer look, because they are where BigCommerce merchants have the most to gain and the most to check.
Let's Talk ShopifyBigCommerce
Customizable one-page checkout; no shared accelerated wallet
Shopify
Shop Pay wallet across the Shopify buyer network; Shopify's study cites up to 50% higher checkout conversion vs guest checkout
BigCommerce
Smaller marketplace; strong native feature set reduces app need for basics
Shopify
Several times more apps; category leaders build Shopify-first
BigCommerce
Customer groups and price lists native; B2B Edition on Enterprise
Shopify
Shopify Plus B2B: company profiles, price lists, payment terms, B2B catalogs
BigCommerce
Multi-storefront on one backend, storefront count limited by plan
Shopify
Shopify Markets for international variants of one store; expansion stores on Plus for distinct brands or catalogs
BigCommerce
Open REST/GraphQL APIs, Catalyst framework
Shopify
Storefront API, Hydrogen framework, Oxygen hosting
BigCommerce
Hourly request quotas that scale by plan tier
Shopify
Leaky-bucket throttling on REST, cost-based limits on GraphQL, higher throughput on Plus
BigCommerce
Plan price tied to trailing 12-month revenue thresholds; Open Payment Provider fee 0.6% to 2% outside preferred providers (BigCommerce pricing page)
Shopify
Flat published plan pricing; third-party gateway fee waived with Shopify Payments
BigCommerce
Partner directory; launch services vary by agency
Shopify
Large partner ecosystem; our own model is a defined post-launch support period after every migration
If you run multiple storefronts on one BigCommerce backend, the Shopify answer depends on why. Storefronts that exist to serve regions (currency, language, local domain) usually consolidate into one Shopify store using Shopify Markets, which handles localized domains, pricing, and languages from a single admin. Storefronts that are genuinely different businesses (separate brands, separate catalogs, separate teams) map to expansion stores, which Shopify Plus includes. We map every storefront in discovery and put the recommendation in writing before any data moves.
If you run heavy integrations (an ERP pushing inventory, a PIM pushing catalog updates, a middleware layer syncing orders), the two platforms throttle differently. BigCommerce allocates request quotas per hour by plan; Shopify meters continuously, with REST requests drawn from a refilling bucket and GraphQL priced per query cost, and Plus stores get higher throughput. Neither model is strictly better. What matters is that your integration middleware is rebuilt to respect Shopify's throttling behavior, with backoff and bulk operations where appropriate. We test integration throughput during the side-by-side build, not after launch.
Our Shopify and Shopify Plus migration agency services
Experience a smooth transition to the leading e-commerce platform with our Shopify and Shopify Plus migration services.
What we migrate, and how
Search and filtering after the move
BigCommerce ships faceted search natively on higher plans. On Shopify, filtering runs on its own stack, and this is how it carries over.
What replaces your BigCommerce apps
Every installed app gets a disposition during discovery: a Shopify equivalent, a platform feature, or a rebuild.
How we preserve SEO and rankings
A BigCommerce migration changes every URL: BigCommerce lets you shape paths freely, Shopify enforces fixed /products/, /collections/ and /pages/ prefixes. The redirect map is an engineering deliverable on every project, the same discipline we run across all our Shopify migration services.
Structured data is rebuilt and validated
Product, breadcrumb and organization markup is implemented in the new theme, because theme rebuilds are where schema silently disappears.
How much does a BigCommerce to Shopify migration cost?
Bands below are proposed for 2026 and pending final sign-off. They reflect what projects like these actually cost. What moves a BigCommerce project between bands, specifically: variant and modifier complexity against Shopify's option limits (restructuring a catalog is real work), the number of storefronts and whether they consolidate into Markets or split into expansion stores, B2B depth, how much custom Stencil functionality has to be reimplemented, and integration count. The assessment gives you a fixed quote, and the quote states exactly what is included.
Typical range
$15K to $30K
USD
≈ €12K to €24K EUR£11K to £22K GBP
Straightforward catalog with clean data, no B2B, standard integrations
Typical range
$30K to $70K
USD
≈ €24K to €56K EUR£22K to £51K GBP
Mid-market: larger catalogs, several integrations, review and subscription stacks, custom theme
Typical range
$70K to $150K+
USD
≈ €56K to €120K+ EUR£51K to £110K+ GBP
Complex or Shopify Plus: ERP, B2B price lists, multi-storefront consolidation
Get your BigCommerce migration plan
Send us your store URL. Within days you get a free migration assessment: a data audit of your BigCommerce catalog, a risk map, a platform recommendation, a timeline, and a fixed quote. No obligation attached to any of it.
What our clients say
“They were a high-energy team driven by a focused intention to support the technology side of your business.”
“Craft Berry is a team I can rely on.”
“We've been working with Craftberry since 2025, and they have become a trusted partner for our e-commerce business. We successfully migrated our online store from WordPress to Shopify. The Craftberry team demonstrated excellent technical expertise, professionalism, and a strong understanding of e-commerce. The migration was smooth, well-organized, and handled with great attention to detail.”
“Craftberry helped us build the website we always wanted. We have been working with them for about six months, and we are extremely pleased with the entire team. He and the whole team helped us refine our previous site while incorporating unique, fully integrated features connected to our ERP.”
“What stood out most was their ability to create a strong technical and visual foundation for a Shopify brand.”
“We received fantastic feedback for our new online shop.”
BigCommerce to Shopify migration FAQ
We help brands grow through connected strategy, technology, creative, and marketing.
Request a free discoveryMost BigCommerce migrations we run land between 8 and 16 weeks. A store with a clean catalog and a straightforward theme rebuild sits at the short end; multi-storefront consolidation, B2B, or ERP integration pushes toward the long end. The assessment gives you a dated plan, and the largest schedule risk is usually decision latency on the client side, so we front-load every decision into discovery.
Our proposed bands for 2026: $15,000 to $30,000 for straightforward stores, $30,000 to $70,000 for mid-market projects with integrations and a custom theme, and $70,000 to $150,000+ for complex or Shopify Plus scope. The drivers that matter on BigCommerce specifically are variant and modifier complexity, storefront count, B2B, and custom Stencil functionality. You get a fixed quote after the free assessment, not an estimate that grows.
Every URL changes in this migration because Shopify enforces its /products/ and /collections/ paths, so the redirect map is the whole game. We build it from your sitemap, a full crawl, and Search Console data, load it before cutover, and verify it by re-crawling the old URLs after. Some position movement in the first weeks is normal on any replatform. Sustained loss is not, and our pre/post parity checks are designed to catch the causes early.
It depends on what you use today. If you rely on customer group pricing, B2B workflows, multiple storefronts, or checkout customization, Plus is usually the honest answer, because those map to Plus features (B2B company profiles, expansion stores, Checkout Extensibility at full depth). A single-storefront DTC store without B2B often does not need Plus, and we will say so. The platform recommendation is a written deliverable of our assessment, with the reasoning attached.
Yes, with Shopify Plus. BigCommerce customer groups with group-specific pricing map to Plus B2B company profiles and price lists; payment terms and B2B catalogs are configured per company. Standard Shopify can approximate simple cases with tags and a wholesale app, but real price-list B2B belongs on Plus. We migrate the group structure, rebuild the price lists, and test with your actual wholesale accounts before cutover.
Products with variants and options, the category tree (rebuilt as collections and navigation), customers with their group assignments, full order history with original order numbers preserved on the record, product reviews, gift certificate balances, discount codes, the BigCommerce blog, and standard pages. Customer passwords cannot move on any platform because they are stored irreversibly hashed; customers re-authenticate once on the new store, and we plan that messaging with you.
Almost always, and usually with more choice than you had. We inventory your installed apps in discovery and map each one to a Shopify equivalent, a native feature, or, rarely, a piece of custom work. The one category where we flag a genuine gap is faceted search: BigCommerce ships it natively on higher plans, and matching deep faceting on Shopify requires a paid search app. We price that into the recommendation instead of letting you discover it after launch.
Yes. All build and migration work happens in a private Shopify staging store while your BigCommerce store trades normally. Orders and customers that accrue during the build are re-synced in a final delta pass at cutover, and the switch itself is a DNS change measured in minutes. Zero downtime is the standard we have delivered on our largest migrations, and the parallel-run phase exists to make it boring.
A defined post-launch support period is part of every migration: daily monitoring of Search Console, analytics, checkout, and integration queues through the first weeks, plus fixes for anything the transition surfaces under real traffic. After that, most clients keep us on for ongoing development or CRO work, but the migration engagement stands on its own and ends with your team trained on the Online Store 2.0 editor.
The free assessment starts within days of your data access being granted, and it is the real answer to scheduling: it produces the risk map, timeline, and quote that let both sides commit to dates. Build slots depend on current bookings, which we will tell you plainly on the first call rather than promising a start date we cannot hold.
We rebuild its design, not its code. Stencil templates are Handlebars and Shopify themes are Liquid, so the theme is reimplemented as an Online Store 2.0 theme with sections, app blocks, and metafields. Your customers see the brand they know; your team gets a theme editor they can actually use. Custom Stencil features are inventoried one by one and rebuilt, replaced natively, or covered by an app, with each decision documented.
Not natively at the same depth, and we would rather tell you that here than after launch. Shopify's free Search & Discovery app covers filtering for many catalogs. Stores that depend on deep multi-attribute faceting add a search app (Boost, Searchanise, Algolia) at a monthly cost. During the assessment we check your analytics to see how customers actually use your current filters, then recommend the cheapest option that matches real behavior.
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