Migrate from WooCommerce to Shopify

Yes, and it is the part of the project we plan first. We recreate every active subscription's schedule (next charge date, price, cadence, trial state) as a contract in Recharge, Skio, Loop, or Shopify's native Subscriptions API, and port payment tokens at the gateway level. Subscribers on a same-gateway migration notice nothing: billing continues on schedule without re-entering card details. The assessment names your target app and the exact token path for your gateway before you commit.

Card numbers themselves never move; PCI rules prevent anyone from exporting raw card data. What moves is the token your gateway holds. If you stay on the same gateway (Stripe to Stripe is the common case), existing tokens are reused and billing continues uninterrupted. Cross-gateway moves go through the gateway's and subscription app's supported import processes. PayPal billing agreements are the usual exception and may require customers to re-authorize, which we handle with a managed win-back flow.

Yes. Native WooCommerce reviews and the common review plugins (Judge.me for Woo, YITH, CusRev) export to CSV, and we import them into your Shopify review app matched by product handle, preserving star ratings, text, author names, and original dates. Aggregate rating markup is rebuilt through the review app so star snippets in search results persist. Review counts are verified against the source before launch, so nothing silently drops.

Scope decides it: catalog size, subscription volume, theme ambition, and integrations. As a reference, our FitSpo project delivered in 8 weeks, and a typical WooCommerce store with an active subscription program lands in a comparable range once discovery is complete. Stores without subscriptions run faster; Plus projects with ERP integration run longer. Your assessment includes a dated plan with the cutover window, and your current store trades normally for the entire build.

Our proposed bands: straightforward stores with clean data, $15K to $30K; mid-market stores with subscriptions, integrations, and a custom theme, $30K to $70K; complex or Shopify Plus projects with B2B, ERP, or high-volume subscriptions, $70K to $150K+. The biggest single cost driver for WooCommerce specifically is the subscription program. The free assessment produces a fixed quote, so the band question resolves before you spend anything.

Yes, when the migration is engineered for it. We build a one-to-one redirect map for every indexed URL, carry your Yoast or RankMath titles and descriptions into Shopify's fields, rebuild structured data at parity, and diff full crawls before and after launch. Expect a few weeks of index churn while Google processes redirects; that is normal and recovers. Permanent losses come from unmapped URLs and dropped metadata, which is exactly what the process exists to prevent. SEO preservation is our specialty across platforms.

You can, on a subdomain, and for a large editorial operation with heavy WordPress-specific tooling it occasionally makes sense. For most stores we recommend against it: the split keeps the hosting, security, and plugin maintenance you are paying to leave, and divides your site across two systems permanently. Our default is migrating posts, pages, authors, and media into Shopify's blog with internal links rewritten and redirects covering every old permalink, so content rankings carry over.

No. The new store is built and populated on a password-protected Shopify environment while your WooCommerce site trades normally. At cutover, DNS switches, redirects activate, and a delta import catches orders and customers created during the build. Subscribers keep their billing schedules through the switch. Zero-downtime launches are how we deliver every migration, including the Shelly re-platform, where a store serving 100+ markets moved without a minute offline.

Every plugin gets one of four dispositions in our discovery inventory: absorbed by a Shopify feature (SEO fields, redirects, caching, security, backups), replaced by an app (Recharge or Skio for Woo Subscriptions, Klaviyo for Mailchimp for WooCommerce, shipping-rate apps for table rates), rebuilt in the theme (page-builder layouts become Online Store 2.0 sections), or retired because nothing needed it. You receive the full mapping with monthly app costs before the build starts, so Shopify's running cost is known up front.

WooCommerce allows unlimited variations; Shopify's core model allows 3 options and 100 variants per product. Oversized products get one of three resolutions in the data-mapping phase: restructuring into linked products by the dominant attribute, moving descriptive attributes to metafields, or a product-options app for genuine configurators. It is a design decision made before import, never a surprise during it.

Wholesale Suite, B2BKing and role-based pricing map to Shopify Plus B2B natively: company profiles, per-company price lists and payment terms with no plugin layer. On standard plans, wholesale apps cover simpler programs. We model both options against your wholesale revenue during the assessment so the plan decision is made on numbers.

If you have a small catalog, no subscriptions, no wholesale program, and the time to rebuild your theme and redirect map yourself, then honestly, yes: a LitExtension-class tool moves products, customers, and orders for a fraction of an agency fee, and we will tell you that in the assessment rather than sell you a project you do not need. Hire an agency when there is subscription revenue to protect, a variant model to redesign, plugin logic to rebuild, or rankings you cannot afford to gamble.