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Migrate from WooCommerce to Shopify

WooCommerce to Shopify migration service that eliminates plugin overload, security headaches, and performance bottlenecks - delivering a seamless transition with zero data loss and zero downtime.

craftberry handles complex WooCommerce to Shopify Plus migrations with full data extraction, API imports, custom functionality rebuilds, and ERP integrations. From products and customer data to metafields and order history, they ensure 100% accuracy at every step.

  • Official Shopify Plus Partner, Trusted by Global Brands
  • 300+ Complex Migrations Delivered with 100% Accuracy
  • 35+ Senior Shopify Specialists in One Dedicated in-house Team
  • Proven Track Record of 9+ Years Scaling high-growth E-commerce Businesses
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Our WooCommerce to Shopify migration at a glance

  • Who we work with

    Who we work with

    WooCommerce and WordPress stores moving to Shopify and Shopify Plus, including stores running Woo Subscriptions, wholesale pricing and large plugin stacks.

  • What we migrate

    What we migrate

    Products and variable products, customers, full order history, subscription contracts and gateway tokens, reviews, the WordPress blog, coupons, and Yoast or RankMath SEO metadata.

  • How we migrate

    How we migrate

    Staged export and import passes using Matrixify or custom API imports, a plugin-by-plugin replacement map, reconciliation counts after every pass, and a side-by-side build next to your live store.

  • How we protect SEO

    How we protect SEO

    A full pre-migration crawl, a one-hop 301 map for every indexed URL including your permalinks, metadata parity checks, and daily Search Console monitoring after launch.

  • What results we target

    What results we target

    Zero-downtime cutover, zero involuntary subscriber churn, and preserved rankings. Recent work: 500K+ customer records moved for Shelly and a 21.01% conversion-rate increase for Enhance.

  • Technology we use

    Technology we use

    Matrixify and custom API tooling, Recharge, Skio and Loop for subscriptions, Online Store 2.0 themes, and GA4 with Google Search Console for measurement.

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Why Brands Outgrowing WooCommerce Choose Shopify?

Every frustration you face on WooCommerce - plugins, patches, performance issues - is already solved natively on Shopify, giving you a platform designed for scale instead of survival.

End Plugin Overload with a Seamless WooCommerce to Shopify Migration

WooCommerce often relies on a patchwork of plugins to cover even the basics. Each new update increases the risk of conflicts, bugs, and slowdowns.

The result? A fragile system that demands constant developer attention and grows more resource-intensive over time.

Shopify eliminates this dependency with robust, built-in functionality covering discounts, inventory, product variations, and more.

This means fewer moving parts, seamless performance, and a storefront designed to support growth, not hold it back.

Talk to a Shopify Expert and Simplify Your Stack

How Far Can Your Store Really Go?

Growth belongs to the brands that move beyond limitations. Shopify is the platform built to take them there - unlocking the speed, reliability, and scalability that ambitious e-commerce demands.

Why migrate from WooCommerce to Shopify?

Why brands migrate from WooCommerce to Shopify

WooCommerce gives you flexibility at the start, but that freedom often comes at a cost.

Stores quickly become dependent on dozens of WooCommerce plugins, each creating new compatibility issues, security risks, and performance slowdowns.

Scaling on WooCommerce means higher development costs, constant troubleshooting, and a fragile setup that breaks under high traffic or global operations.

Shopify replaces complexity with clarity. A secure, fully hosted platform that runs at enterprise speed, supports seamless multi-market expansion, and comes with native conversion-focused features.

Migrating to Shopify means trading technical headaches for a reliable foundation, so your team can focus on growth, not fixing what’s broken.

Migrate to Shopify with an Official Shopify Plus Partner

Certified Shopify Partner handling a WooCommerce to Shopify migration

Migrating from WooCommerce to Shopify is not just moving files - it’s transferring complex WooCommerce data entities like products, orders, collections, and customers orders discounts while protecting SEO and category links.

If the wrong approach is used - whether a manual migration or an automated tool - you risk corrupted imported products, broken product and category links, and loss of store data.

This is why many brands choose to work with a certified Shopify Plus Partner. As an official partner, craftberry is trained, tested, and recognized for executing migrations at the highest standard of precision and reliability.

Our in-house team of 35+ Shopify experts manages every stage of the process: auditing your current stack, mapping integrations, securing data, and redesigning the store with CRO best practices.

By eliminating pitfalls before they appear, we ensure your migration is not just smooth, but a springboard for scalable growth.

300+ Stores, Seamlessly Migrated

300+ stores migrated to Shopify, including WooCommerce replatforms

Over the past 9+ years, we’ve successfully migrated data for more than 300 brands, guiding them from fast-growing startups to enterprise-scale operations.

Our Shopify migration process is data-informed, CRO-driven, and executed with precision under even the tightest deadlines. Every detail is designed to safeguard performance, reliability, and customer experience.

We’ve helped leading brands like Shelly, TFP and Pepper move to Shopify with confidence and scale.

This proven expertise is why ambitious brands worldwide trust us to turn their WooCommerce stores into a foundation for long-term Shopify Plus growth.

WooCommerce vs Shopify

The real comparison is between owning infrastructure and renting a platform. Here is how the two stack up on the dimensions that decide the migration case.

Dimension

WooCommerce

Shopify

Hosting and uptime

Your responsibility: server, CDN, caching, scaling for peaks.

Included; Shopify operates the infrastructure and absorbs traffic spikes.

Security and PCI

You maintain SSL, patches, malware scanning; PCI scope sits with your setup.

Platform-level PCI DSS compliance; patching handled by Shopify.

Checkout

Plugin-assembled, gateway-dependent, customizable but brittle.

One maintained checkout with Shop Pay; up to 50% higher conversion than guest checkout per Shopify's study.

Functionality model

Plugins: free/one-time licenses, self-managed conflicts and updates.

Apps: mostly monthly subscriptions, vendor-maintained, reviewed by Shopify.

Subscriptions

Woo Subscriptions plugin; schedules in your database, tokens at the gateway.

Native Subscriptions API plus dedicated apps (Recharge, Skio, Loop).

Product model

Unlimited attributes and variations.

3 options and 100 variants per product; metafields and apps extend beyond that.

B2B and wholesale

Wholesale plugins layered on the retail store.

Shopify Plus B2B: company profiles, price lists, payment terms, net billing.

Cost structure

Low platform cost, high hidden cost: hosting, licenses, developer retainers, incident time.

Predictable monthly plan (Shopify's published pricing) plus app subscriptions; lower emergency spend.

Ongoing maintenance

Weekly plugin/core updates, compatibility testing, backups.

Platform updates ship automatically; theme and app updates are the remaining surface.

The trade-off is real: WooCommerce offers more raw flexibility at the database level, and if you have a full-time WordPress team and unusual requirements, that flexibility has value. For every other store, the total cost of keeping WooCommerce healthy exceeds Shopify's subscription, and the checkout gap pays for the migration over time.

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.

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What we migrate, and how

01

Products (incl. variable products)

API import; variant model remapped (see below); images re-hosted on Shopify CDN

02

Categories and tags

Category tree flattened to collections; automated rules rebuilt from tags/attributes

03

Customers

API import with addresses and marketing consent. Passwords are hashed and cannot move on any platform; customers set a new one via activation email or at first login

04

Order history

Full history imported via API with original order numbers referenced; imported orders do not re-trigger fulfillment or emails

05

Subscriptions

Schedules recreated, tokens ported at gateway level; details below

06

Product reviews

CSV export, matched to products by handle; star ratings and dates preserved

07

Blog posts and pages

Content, images and authors migrated; internal links rewritten to new URL structure

08

Coupons and discounts

Recreated natively; complex rule stacks may need an app or a simplification decision

09

SEO metadata

Exported per URL, mapped to matching products, collections, pages, and posts

10

Redirects

Full old-to-new map bulk-imported before launch

If you run WooCommerce Subscriptions

Subscriptions are the highest-stakes item in a WooCommerce migration: billing schedules live in your database, payment tokens sit at your gateway, and both must arrive intact for revenue to keep flowing.

Schedules recreated

Every active, paused and trial subscription becomes a contract in Recharge, Skio, Loop or Shopify's native Subscriptions API, with next charge dates and pricing preserved.

Tokens move at gateway level

Same-gateway migrations are invisible to your subscribers. PayPal billing agreements are the one stubborn case and get a managed re-authorization flow.

First renewals monitored

The first billing cycle on the new stack is watched charge by charge before the old one is retired.

The metric: zero involuntary churn

Subscribers who never open an email keep getting billed and keep getting boxes.

What replaces your WooCommerce plugins

We inventory every active plugin during discovery and give each one a disposition: replaced by a Shopify feature, replaced by an app, rebuilt in the theme, or retired. These are the most common mappings.

Woo Subscriptions

Recharge, Skio, Loop, or native Subscriptions API

Selection driven by gateway, program complexity, and fees

Yoast SEO / RankMath

Built-in title and meta description fields; native URL redirects

Metadata migrates per URL; no plugin needed

Elementor / Divi / page builders

Online Store 2.0 sections, or PageFly/Shogun for marketing teams

Landing pages rebuilt, not copied; templates come out faster and lighter

WPML / Polylang

Shopify Markets + Translate & Adapt

Multi-currency and localized domains handled at platform level

Wholesale Suite / B2BKing

Shopify Plus B2B (company profiles, price lists, payment terms) or wholesale apps on standard plans

See B2B section below

Mailchimp for WooCommerce

Klaviyo or Shopify Email

Historical engagement data migrates with the customer import

Table Rate Shipping

Shopify shipping profiles; Advanced Shipping Rules for complex matrices

Rate logic rebuilt and tested against real cart scenarios

WooCommerce Bookings

Sesami, BookThatApp

Booking inventory recreated

Product Add-Ons

Product-options apps writing line item properties

Configurator logic preserved without variant explosion

Wordfence / Sucuri / WP Rocket / backup plugins

Nothing

Security, caching, CDN, and backups are platform responsibilities on Shopify

How we preserve SEO and rankings

A migration changes every URL on your site, and WooCommerce URL structures are freeform where Shopify's are fixed. Your products live at /product/{slug}/ or a custom base, categories at /product-category/{slug}/ , and blog posts wherever your permalink settings put them. Shopify uses fixed prefixes: /products/ , /collections/ , /pages/ , /blogs/ . Every indexed URL needs a mapped destination.

Full URL inventory

from a crawl plus Search Console, so redirects are prioritized by traffic and link value, and no ranking URL is missed because it was not in a menu.

One-to-one redirect map

, old URL to new URL, bulk-loaded into Shopify's redirect system before launch. Category pages map to matching collections, not the homepage.

Metadata carryover

Yoast or RankMath titles and descriptions are exported per URL and written into the corresponding Shopify resources, so you do not re-enter years of optimization by hand and Google does not re-evaluate retitled pages.

Structured data parity

Product, review, and organization markup on the new theme is validated against what the old site emitted, so rich results persist.

Pre/post crawl comparison and GSC monitoring

We diff the full crawl before and after launch (status codes, titles, canonicals, indexability) and watch Search Console through the re-crawl period, fixing anything Google surfaces while it still costs nothing.

How much does a WooCommerce to Shopify migration cost?

Proposed bands, based on our delivered projects: The drivers that move a WooCommerce project between bands, in order of impact: an active subscription program (token migration and cutover choreography add real engineering), catalog complexity against the variant model, the number of plugins that must become configured apps or custom theme work, B2B requirements, and data hygiene (a decade of orphaned records takes time to clean or consciously leave behind).

Typical range

$15K to $30K

USD

≈ €12K to €24K EUR£11K to £22K GBP

Straightforward

Typical range

$30K to $70K

USD

≈ €24K to €56K EUR£22K to £51K GBP

Mid-market

Typical range

$70K to $150K+

USD

≈ €56K to €120K+ EUR£51K to £110K+ GBP

Complex / Shopify Plus

Get your WooCommerce migration plan

The assessment is free and specific: we audit your data, map your subscriptions and plugins, flag the risks by name, and return a timeline and fixed quote. If a migration tool is the right answer for your store, the assessment says so.

What our clients say

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“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.”
Plamena ChakarovaFitSpo Nutrition
Google
“Craftberry designed and developed our Shopify website, and we couldn't be happier with the results. They built a site that feels playful with animations yet clean and user-friendly. They also paid close attention to mobile optimisation and key SEO functions. We're really pleased with the final product and have seen noticeable improvements in both results and conversions since launch.”
KylieBatch'd
Clutch
“The Craftberry team was very responsive and understood our brand well after the discovery phase.”
Daniel MedinaCEO, Sana Vidal
Clutch
“We loved working with them.”
Verena DemetzProject Manager, Natural Scientific
Clutch
“They were a high-energy team driven by a focused intention to support the technology side of your business.”
Angel DimitrovCEO, NL BEAUTY
Google
“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.”
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WooCommerce to Shopify migration FAQ

We help brands grow through connected strategy, technology, creative, and marketing.

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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.

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