Store migration
00 / departureMove to Shopify without losing what you built.
We migrate stores from WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Wix, Lightspeed, and custom platforms. Your SEO, your data, and your customer relationships arrive intact.
Leaving
01 / in transitFrom any platform
Every platform exports its data differently, and every store has something it cannot afford to lose. The work is the same in spirit: take what the business earned on the old system and set it down safely on Shopify.
From WooCommerce
WooCommerce stores arrive with years of content, rankings, and a plugin stack that has grown heavier than anyone planned. We move the catalogue and the content, rebuild what the plugins did with native Shopify features where they exist, and map every URL so the search equity earned on WordPress lands intact.
From BigCommerce or Wix
BigCommerce migrations are often about a business running B2B and D2C side by side and wanting one platform that serves both. Wix migrations are usually about growth: the store outgrew the builder, and the move is the right moment to fix site structure and SEO together.
From Lightspeed
Lightspeed migrations rarely stop at the website, because the same system runs the till. We move ecommerce and POS together, so the shop floor and the online store share one catalogue, one customer list, and one set of reports.
Retail POS implementationAnd the systems around them.
Custom builds come across too. There is no tidy exporter for a hand-built platform, so we work from the database and the business rules underneath it. Where an ERP, accounting, or inventory system runs the operation, we connect it to Shopify, so the migration covers the whole business rather than just the storefront.
02 / cutover
Zero downtime.
The new store is built, tested, and verified beside the old one while it keeps selling. Go-live is a staged switch at a quiet hour, and the old store stays up until the moment the new one takes over.
The method
03 / arrivalHow migrations protect rankings
Replatforming is the moment stores lose their organic traffic, and it is avoidable. The losses come from broken URLs and missing redirects, not from Shopify itself. Our method treats search equity as inventory: counted before the move, tracked through it, and checked after.
01
URL inventory and redirect map
Every URL on the old store is inventoried before anything moves. Redirects are then mapped page by page, not in bulk, so each product, collection, and article points to its true successor.
02
Data migration
Products, customers, and orders are mapped, cleaned, and validated on the way across. The catalogue that lands is in better shape than the one that left.
03
Design rebuilt or refreshed
Some brands carry their design across, and others use the move as the moment to refresh it. Either way, the new storefront is built natively on Shopify rather than bent to imitate the old platform.
04
Staged launch
The Shopify store is finished and tested alongside the live one. The redirect map goes live with the switch, and the old store keeps selling until the new one takes over.
05
Post-launch watch
After go-live we watch crawl errors, 404s, and search performance through the first weeks, and fix what surfaces while it is still small.
Proof
04 / liveMigrations we have shipped
Two migrations are live and public, with two more in build. Named clients, real scope, and stores you can visit today.
01
Muffet & Louisa
Full migration from Lightspeed to Shopify, across both the ecommerce store and retail POS.
muffetandlouisa.com · Live02
LumaCove
An SEO-focused migration from Wix to Shopify, built to protect rankings through the replatform.
lumacove.us · Live“Seamless Wix to Shopify transition, with no traffic loss.”
Currently in build
A B2B and D2C retailer moving from BigCommerce, and a bath brand moving from a custom website and cash register to Shopify ecommerce and POS.
Questions
05 / questionsMigration questions, answered
Will we lose our search rankings?
Protecting rankings is the point of our method. We inventory every URL on the old store, map redirects page by page rather than in bulk, and watch search performance closely after launch. Rankings can move while search engines reindex the new store, and a complete redirect map is what settles them.
How long does a migration take?
It depends on catalogue size, integrations, and how much of the design carries over. A small catalogue with a simple theme moves quickly, while a large store with ERP connections takes longer. We scope the timeline in discovery, so you get an honest answer before work begins.
Can you migrate our customer accounts and order history?
Yes. Products, customers, and orders all move across, mapped and validated rather than dumped. Passwords cannot be exported from any platform for security reasons, so customers activate their account on the new store the first time they sign in.
Do you handle ERP and business-system integrations?
Yes. Migrations rarely stop at the storefront, so we connect Shopify to the ERP, accounting, and inventory systems the business already runs on.
What happens to our URLs?
Shopify uses fixed URL structures for products and collections, so most addresses change in a migration. We map every old URL to its new home with a permanent redirect, page by page, which is how the authority your pages have earned carries across.
Can you migrate our POS too?
Yes. Many of our migrations cover the website and the till together, so inventory, customers, and reporting live in one system. The majority of our active projects include retail POS.
Ready to start?
Move without losing momentum.
Tell us what you are running today and what cannot be lost on the way. We will come back with an honest read on scope, sequence, and timing.