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WooCommerce Migration & Replatforming
Replatforming to WooCommerce
We move live stores onto WooCommerce from Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce and custom builds. One team handles the data, the integrations, the commerce logic and the launch, with a fixed scope and a fixed price before any work starts.
What You’re Buying
A replatforming project run end to end, not a data export with a theme on top.
A migration is three jobs in the right order: move the data without losing anything, rebuild everything that was plugged into the old store, and switch the domain over without breaking Google or your customers. Migration tools handle the first job. The other two are why projects run late, so we run all three as one engagement, with one project lead from the first audit to the 90-day review.
A good fit if
- You’re selling now. And the move has to happen around live sales, not in a maintenance window.
- Integrations matter. ERP, 3PL, subscriptions, B2B pricing or custom checkout logic have to come out the other side working.
- Search traffic pays the bills. Organic rankings bring in real revenue, so every old URL needs a mapped redirect, not a catch-all.
- You want one accountable team, not a data vendor, a theme shop and a freelancer pointing at each other.
Probably not a fit if
- There’s nothing to move yet. No orders or customer history means a new build, which is cheaper and faster.
- You sell account-based B2B. If shared catalogs, company accounts and negotiated pricing are how you sell, or you run several storefronts from one backend, Magento does that natively. We’ll tell you to stay.
- Your store is small and simple. A modest catalog with no subscriptions, integrations or custom logic is what migration tools are built for. They’ll move it for far less, and our guides show you how.
How the Project Runs
Six stages, each ending in something you can check and sign off on. The depth changes with the store; the steps don’t.
1. Free Scope Review
Send your platform, catalog size, app list and integrations. You get a written verdict on whether and how to move, with a budget band. Free, and the findings are yours.
2. Fixed Plan & Quote
Price, milestones, an integration diagram, a field-by-field data map and a full 301 redirect map, all yours to check before we build on them.
3. Build on Staging
Your data lands in staging, reconciled against source counts and totals. Every app, integration and custom workflow is rebuilt on it. Your live store keeps trading.
4. You Test With Real Data
Your real catalog, accounts and orders, plus a test script for the cases that matter to you. Nothing launches until you sign off.
5. Zero-Downtime Launch
Cutover in a low-traffic window: redirects live, integrations re-pointed, checkout and error logs watched in real time. Rollback is tested and takes minutes.
6. Support After Launch
30 days of daily monitoring, then a 90-day review against your pre-launch baseline. After that, a support package or the keys. It’s yours either way.
Where You’re Moving From
Merchants move for money, control or speed. Usually all three.
From Shopify
Why merchants leave: a platform fee on every order, an app stack that only grows, and a checkout you can only change with permission.
- Every app gets a mapped replacement or a purpose-built equivalent, listed with running costs in the scope review.
- Checkout, pricing and discount logic become yours to change.
From Magento
Why merchants leave: multi-server hosting, quarterly patches and upgrade projects, paying for B2B features a retail store never uses.
- Custom modules are inventoried, and the ones still earning their place are rebuilt on WooCommerce’s APIs.
- URLs are mapped category by category, not left to a wildcard redirect.
BigCommerce & Custom Builds
Also covered: BigCommerce, PrestaShop, OpenCart, Wix and hand-rolled PHP or .NET stores.
- A bespoke build usually comes out by direct database export: more work up front, more control over what we keep.
- The same reconciliation, rebuild and URL mapping as every other move.
What a Migration Costs
Two things set the number: what has to move, and what you want the new store to do that the old one didn’t.
What moves the number
Catalog size and how clean the data is, how many apps and custom features need rebuilding, and whether the design is carried across, refreshed or rebuilt.
How the price holds
The quote from the scope review is what you pay. Any scope change goes through a written change order before anyone starts work on it.
Proof: A Live-Store Migration, Benchmarked
Mighty Kids stayed on WooCommerce, but moved its order storage and its hosting while trading: the same cutover discipline a replatforming needs.
Thousands of active subscriptions and a store that crashed most days. We benchmarked order operations before and after, on the same host and PHP version; the full numbers are in the Mighty Kids case study.
4.5×
faster order queries, from 1.8s to 0.4s
3×
faster order processing, from 6s to 2.1s per order
6 min
per refund, down from 25 minutes of admin time
0
minutes of downtime: no maintenance window, no checkout pause
“They made some very complex migrations to higher performance systems, developed several new features to improve our UX and support our internal operations, and swiftly dealt with any signs of trouble as they arose.”
James, Mighty Kids
More work you can check
Automattic
We maintain 19 official WooCommerce extensions for Automattic, the company behind WooCommerce.
Faire
We built the integration behind Faire’s 400+ brands, with 10,000+ products and orders kept in sync.
PostNL
We moved PostNL’s existing merchants to a rebuilt plugin without any major technical issues.
A listed WooCommerce Agency Partner, with 50+ platform migrations behind us. The rules behind every project, and who owns each one, are on our engineering standards page.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does it take to migrate to WooCommerce?
2 to 6 weeks from Shopify and 3 to 8 weeks from Magento for a store of average complexity. Large catalogs, active subscriptions or ERP integrations push that to 2 to 4 months. The data transfer itself takes hours to days; the rest is rebuilding and testing everything that was attached to the old store.
How much does a WooCommerce migration cost?
$5,000 to $50,000 from Shopify and $8,000 to $60,000+ from Magento with a specialist agency, depending on catalog size, integrations and design scope. The scope review ends with a fixed quote that holds unless you change the scope.
Will I lose my SEO rankings?
Not if the redirects are done properly. We map every old URL to its new equivalent before launch and hand you the file. Expect a 10 to 20% traffic dip for 2 to 4 weeks and recovery within 6 to 12 weeks; clean migrations on stable URL structures often show no dip at all. Anyone promising zero movement before seeing your URL inventory is guessing.
Will my customers notice the move?
Only where you want them to. The one unavoidable change is passwords: no platform exports them in a usable form, so returning customers reset once. We write that email and send it before launch, rather than letting people find out at checkout.
Can subscriptions, gift cards and loyalty programs survive the move?
Yes, as separate workstreams rather than part of the data import. Subscriptions are migrated with payment tokens where the gateway allows it, then run in parallel for at least one full billing cycle before the old platform is switched off. Gift card balances are reissued against new codes. Loyalty rules are rebuilt and balances imported.
Do you handle custom plugin or integration migrations?
Yes, and it’s usually the biggest line in the quote. Custom code doesn’t transfer; it gets rebuilt against WooCommerce’s APIs, and we tell you in the scope review what’s worth keeping. New integrations (ERP, PIM, subscription engines) can be built in the same project; see our custom plugin development service.
What do you need from me?
Admin access to your current platform and hosting, decisions on design and anything you want changed, contact details for any integration vendor, and a few hours to test staging before launch. One person who can sign off does more for a schedule than anything else on this list.
How do I know if an agency is the right fit for my migration?
Ask them the seven questions in our buyer’s guide to choosing a WooCommerce agency. The disqualifiers: a price before a discovery call, no names for the people who’ll do the work, and no written change-order process. We say that as a firm competing for the same projects.
Get Your Free Scope Review
Send your current platform, catalog size and app or plugin list. You'll get a written verdict on whether and how to move, with a budget band. No charge, no sales pitch, and the people who scope it are the people who build it.
Who you'll work with
Already on WooCommerce and the order admin has just got slow? You may not need a replatforming project at all. See our HPOS Migration & Database Modernization service instead.