Wix to Shopify Migration Without losing
what you've built
Wix is a website builder that bolted on ecommerce, and a growing store feels it at the checkout, in the apps and in every sales channel it cannot reach. Shopify was built to sell from day one. We migrate the entire store, from products and customers to content and SEO rankings, with no downtime and nothing left behind.
Why businesses switch from Wix to Shopify
Wix works for simple websites. When selling is the point, its limits start costing you money. This is what we see when businesses come to us.
A checkout that leaks sales
Wix's checkout is functional but basic. Shopify's is used by millions of stores and constantly optimised for conversion. Shop Pay alone increases checkout speed by 4x. That difference is revenue lost at the checkout every day.
- 100+ payment gateways worldwide
- Shop Pay accelerated checkout
Wix's walled garden
Need email marketing, subscription boxes, wholesale pricing, or multi-channel selling? Wix locks you into its own tools. Shopify's app store has over 8,000 options, and that is the difference between a platform that grows with you and one that holds you back.
- 8,000+ Shopify apps vs Wix's handful
- Multi-location inventory tracking
Sell everywhere, not just on your site
Shopify connects directly to Amazon, eBay, Instagram Shopping, TikTok Shop, and Google Shopping from one dashboard. Manage inventory across every channel. Wix can't do this.
- Amazon, eBay, Instagram, TikTok, Google
- One dashboard for all channels
Why we handle migrations differently
Most Wix to Shopify migration services treat the move as a data dump. The real work is preserving everything you have built in search, and that takes a firm that has done it before.
One named lead, and a trail you can check
The proposal names the lead on your migration, and that lead stays on it from the audit to the launch. You watch the new store take shape on a development URL, every change sits in a version-controlled trail, and the store, the domain and the data are yours. There is no project manager relaying messages in between.
We know where the traps are
We have migrated stores from EKM, WooCommerce, Wix and bespoke platforms to Shopify, and seen what goes wrong when a migration is rushed: broken redirects, lost product data, rankings that vanish overnight. That is how we know where the traps are before they cost you money.
SEO is the migration, not an add-on
A botched migration can destroy years of search rankings overnight. We map every URL, transfer every meta title and description, set up every 301 redirect and test the lot before the DNS switch. Your Google rankings are the whole point of doing this properly. Read more about our approach to SEO services.
Advice before a sale
If Wix is serving you well and the migration isn't worth it, we will say so. Tony Cooper sets out exactly when that is the right call in Wix vs Shopify. If a simpler ecommerce setup would suit you better than Shopify, we will recommend that instead. The right advice is worth more to both of us than a migration you don't need.
Real migration experience
The Wix migration challenge
Wix wasn't designed for easy data export. Products, images and content need methodical extraction rather than a simple CSV download. We have a reliable process for getting everything out of Wix cleanly, including the proprietary URL structures that make redirect mapping a manual, careful job.
Read the full Wix to Shopify migration guideHow we migrate your store from Wix to Shopify
Your Wix store stays live and taking orders throughout. The Shopify store is built alongside it, tested, then switched over.
Audit your Wix store
We go through every product, page, digital download, integration and custom form. Nothing gets missed, because it is all documented before a line of code is touched.
Build on Shopify
Your new store is built on a development URL, with the theme, payments, shipping and tax all configured and tested while your Wix site keeps trading.
Migrate and redirect
Products, customers, and content move across. Every Wix URL gets a 301 redirect to its Shopify equivalent. Meta data transfers. Rankings stay.
Launch and train
Full testing, then the DNS switch, which takes minutes. We monitor the first 48 hours, provide Shopify admin training, and make sure you are confident running the store.
Everything migrates
Nothing gets left behind. Here's what transfers from your Wix store to Shopify.
Products
Titles, descriptions, pricing, images, variants, SKUs, inventory levels, digital downloads. All verified after transfer.
Customers
Names, emails, addresses, purchase history. Accounts ready for login on your new Shopify store.
SEO
Page titles, meta descriptions, image alt text, 301 redirects for every URL, sitemaps submitted to Google.
Plus: Collections and categories, blog posts, content pages, forms and integrations. We identify every Wix feature you use and configure the closest Shopify equivalent, tested before launch.
Three ways to move from Wix to Shopify
Two of them don't involve us, and it is better that you pick the right one than pay us for the wrong one. Here is what each route actually costs.
Do it yourself, by hand
There is a free way to migrate from Wix to Shopify, and it's worth knowing before you pay anyone. Wix will export your products as a CSV. You reformat that for Shopify's importer, then rebuild everything else by hand: the theme, the pages, the collections and the navigation.
Right when: the catalogue is small, the store is new, and there are no search rankings to protect. If nobody is finding you on Google yet, there's nothing to lose in the move, and moving from Wix to Shopify yourself is a perfectly sensible weekend.
The catch: Wix doesn't hand you your customers, your orders or your URLs in any useful shape, and nothing about this route creates the 301 redirects that carry your search visibility across. If the store earns from Google, this is the expensive option wearing a free label.
A migration app
Tools like Matrixify and LitExtension will move products, customers and order history from Wix into Shopify for a fee that scales with how many records you have. They are good at the part they do.
Right when: you have a real catalogue, your Wix data is tidy, and you're comfortable building the storefront yourself once the data has landed.
The catch: an app moves data, not a store. The theme is still yours to build, and the redirect map is still yours to write, because the apps don't know which old Wix address should point at which new Shopify one. Free tiers exist and they cap the record count, which is usually discovered halfway through.
Have it done properly
We switch your store from Wix to Shopify end to end for a fixed £2,490, with two weeks of build once we have full access: products, customers, content, theme, and the redirect map that keeps your rankings. Your Wix store stays live and trading the whole time.
Right when: the store makes money, search brings some of it, and a month of lost visibility would cost more than the migration does.
The catch: it isn't free. What you're buying is the part the other two routes leave out: the search side, done by a firm that has moved stores before and takes a baseline first, so there is proof either way.
If you are weighing up switching from Wix to Shopify and not sure which of those three you are, call us and we will tell you. We have talked people out of paying us before, and would rather do that than take a fee for a job you could have done yourself.
Wix to Shopify migration pricing
Prices on the page. The migration is included in the Shopify build, not charged on top.
Shopify build and migration
Complete store build with full Wix migration
one-off, fixed price
- Custom Shopify theme design
- Full Wix data extraction and transfer
- SEO redirect mapping for every URL
- Payment and shipping integration
- Mobile responsive design
- Training and 30 days support
Spread the cost
The same build and migration, paid monthly
no big upfront cost
- Same custom Shopify build
- Same full Wix migration
- Same SEO redirect mapping
- Ongoing support included
- No lock-in contract
- SEO foundations included
Not sure if migration is right for you?
Not every Wix store needs to move. If your current site is working and you are not hitting Wix's ecommerce limits, we will say so. Call us on 07963 242210 or get in touch for a free assessment of whether Shopify is the right move.
Wix to Shopify migration: frequently asked questions
The questions buyers put to us before the first call.
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