Shopify Migration Services Move to Shopify without
losing what you have built
A change of platform is where stores lose the customers, the order history and the search rankings that took years to earn. We move UK ecommerce stores onto Shopify with all of it intact, while your shop keeps trading, for one fixed price quoted after we have looked at your actual store.
Replatforming Is a Data and Redirect Job, Not a Design Job
The new theme is the visible part and the easy part. What decides whether a migration goes well is everything nobody sees.
Most migrations that go wrong do not go wrong on the build. They go wrong because the customer accounts did not come across, or the order history was left behind on a platform nobody is paying for any more, or the URLs that used to rank now answer with a 404. None of that is visible on launch day. It shows up three weeks later, in the traffic.
So the order of work runs backwards from the way it is usually sold. We record the baseline first — what ranks, what earns, what the shop is actually integrated with — and the redirect map is treated as the deliverable rather than an afterthought. The theme comes together while your existing shop carries on taking orders.
There is one exception worth naming before you pay anyone. If your catalogue is small, your shop is new, and nothing is ranking yet, then there is very little for a migration to protect and you may well be better off doing it yourself. We would rather tell you that at the quote stage than take the work.
Which Platform Are You Moving From?
Each move has its own traps. These are the moves we are asked for most, with what actually makes each one awkward.
Wix to Shopify
The most common move we are asked for. Wix exports products as a CSV and nothing else usefully, so the customers, the order history and the URLs are the work.
Read moreEKM to Shopify
We have moved an EKM store with 24,000 customers onto Shopify. The catalogue almost always needs restructuring on the way across, and that is a gain rather than a loss.
Read moreWooCommerce to Shopify
Leaving WordPress means leaving the plugin stack behind too. Worth knowing which of those plugins were load-bearing before the move, not after.
Read moreMagento to Shopify
Magento is its own job and priced as one, from £3,495 — multi-store, multi-currency and custom integrations are the usual reasons.
Read moreWordPress to Shopify
The full guide to moving a WordPress shop onto Shopify, written from the migrations we have run rather than from the documentation.
Read moreOn something else, such as BigCommerce, Squarespace, PrestaShop, OpenCart, or a bespoke system somebody built for you years ago? The sequence does not change and neither does the price band. Tell us what you are on and we will set out what is involved.
Already on Shopify and Moving Stores?
Shopify to Shopify comes up more often than most people expect, and it is not a copy and paste. It comes up when two shops are being consolidated into one, when a business changes hands and needs the store under its own account, or when a shop that was built on a development store has to become the live one.
The data moves the same way it moves from anywhere else — products, customers, order history, extracted and verified against the source. What changes is the redirect work, and that depends entirely on whether the domain travels with the store or the URLs are changing underneath it. If the domain moves and the URL structure holds, there may be almost nothing to redirect. If either changes, the map matters as much as it does on any other migration.
The Sequence
The same six steps whatever platform you are leaving. The first one is the one most migrations skip.
Baseline and Audit
Before anything moves we record where you stand: rankings, traffic, the URLs that earn, and every integration the shop depends on. That baseline is what we measure the migration against afterwards.
Build Alongside the Live Shop
Your new Shopify store is built while the old one keeps trading. Theme, payments, shipping rules and apps are configured and tested on a store nobody can see yet.
Move the Data
Products, variants, images, collections, customers and order history are extracted, converted and loaded, then checked against the source rather than eyeballed.
Map Every Redirect
Each old URL gets a 301 to its equivalent on Shopify. This is the step that decides whether your search visibility survives, so it is done as a mapped list, not a rule with exceptions.
Cut Over
DNS switches once the store has been signed off. It takes minutes, and the old shop stays reachable until the new one is answering.
Watch the Recrawl
Expect a few weeks of turbulence while Google recrawls. We watch the redirect map, the index and the rankings against the baseline, and fix what moves.
Build time: two weeks once we have full access. Elapsed time depends on how quickly access and sign-offs arrive.
Before we speak, Tony reads your site against what you want to be found for, so the first call starts with what we found. We answer every enquiry within 24 hours on working days.
Book a callFixed-Price Migration
Quoted after we have looked at your store, so the number does not move later
Recommended
£2,490/mo
Shopify Migration - Entry
Wix, EKM, WordPress, WooCommerce and most bespoke systems
- Full data migration - products, variants, images, customers, order history
- Shopify store build and theme setup
- Mapped 301 redirects for every URL that earns
- Payment, shipping and tax configuration
- Two weeks of build once we have full access
- Training and 30 days of post-launch support
£3,495/mo
Magento Migration - Standard
Magento stores up to 2,000 products
- Everything in the entry migration
- Magento data extraction and conversion
- Payment gateway reconfiguration
- Catalogue restructuring where it earns its keep
£5,995/mo
Magento Migration - Enterprise
Complex and higher-volume Magento stores
- Unlimited products
- Multi-store and multi-currency setup
- Custom integrations carried across
- Extended post-launch support
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What clients say about the work, in their own words.
"Absolutely amazing work from the moment we joined. As a family business we needed someone who understood our needs and delivered results."
Hannah
Tel Tyres
4 Jun 2021
"Very patient, professional and a brilliant guide through any problems. Traffic through the store has increased significantly."
Kieran Richardson
18 Aug 2021
"Tony has had the patience of a saint with all the changes and tweaks and endless calls about our website and business."
Dee Little
28 Jul 2021
"We’ve been working with Tony for over a year now, and his support has been great. Beyond building a great website for us, he has provided continuous marketing guidance and hands-on help whenever we needed it. He is not only a great professional, but also an empathetic person who genuinely understands the daily reality of running a business."
Carlos Escudero
Escudero Auto
14 Oct 2026
"I have been working with Tony for over 10 years. He's encouraged us to embrace and keep abreast of the latest techniques for promoting our business. Tony & his team have become an essential component of our marketing efforts."
David See
Jana Helps
16 Jun 2026
"Very good work from the moment we joined. We'll continue working with Tony for copywriting!"
Míriam Vélez Mañas
7 Oct 2021
Before You Commit to Anyone
Tony Cooper's writing on migration, from the jobs rather than from the documentation.
Shopify Migration Questions
The questions buyers put to us before the first call.
Related Services
What comes before and after a migration
Shopify Website Design
New Shopify builds and custom themes from £2,490 if you are starting fresh rather than moving.
Learn more →Shopify SEO
Growing the store after the move, with Shopify-specific SEO from £330/month.
Learn more →Shopify Plus
Higher-volume stores with multi-store, multi-currency or custom checkout requirements.
Learn more →SEO Services
Ongoing search work once the migration has settled and the recrawl is done.
Learn more →Tell us what the website has to do for the business
Call us, or set out what you need below. Every enquiry is read by Tony Cooper, our principal.
Before we speak, Tony reads your site against what you want to be found for, so the first call starts with what we found. We answer every enquiry within 24 hours on working days.
07963 242210