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WooCommerce → Shopify replatform
I move your WooCommerce store to Shopify. I build the staging store, move the products, customers and order history, and run the cutover. WooCommerce stays live until you accept the new store.
Three routes
The smallest change that keeps the store up is the right one. This page sells the middle route. I say which one fits after the inventory.
Your hosting and your plugins hurt, but WooCommerce is not the real problem. Cut the plugin list and move to a better host. You stay where you are.
Much less than a replatform. Scoped in writing after the inventory.
Your products, orders and customers move to Shopify. I build the store, run the data move, own the redirects and take you through the cutover.
Scoped in writing after the inventory.
You run active subscriptions, trade pricing or a link to your ERP, and standard Shopify does not fit. That is a project, not a move. I scope it the same way.
More than a Shopify theme build, and it takes longer. Scoped as a project, in writing, after the inventory.
Who does the work
Scope
The process
I run every step. Your team supplies the store knowledge, approves the scope and reviews the acceptance result.
You and I agree the store data in scope, the decisions, the acceptance tests, and who signs each one.
Output: A written scope and a decision list.
I list the products, options, plugins, integrations, subscriptions, link types and known faults. You mark what the business cannot lose.
Output: A migration map, a plugin-to-app list and my route recommendation.
I open the staging store, build the theme, install the agreed apps, and set up payments, tax and shipping. I also put the migration questions to your payment gateway and your subscription provider.
Output: A staging store that matches the approved scope, and written gateway answers.
I run scripted loads for products, then customers, then order history. I check every load against the inventory, and I build the redirect map.
Output: A loaded staging store and a complete redirect file.
I check the catalogue, the checkout, tax, redirects, tracking and email flows against the agreed migration map. I run test orders. You review the staging store and send one consolidated list.
Output: An acceptance checklist and the acceptance fixes against the agreed map.
I record the rollback point, move DNS and check the live store. I hand over the store, the accounts, the theme code and the data. I watch orders and search performance after launch.
Output: A live store, your accounts in your name, a rollback point and a post-launch watch list.
Safeguards
A replatform puts your search results, your orders and your subscribers at risk. Here is what holds each one down.
Questions
I do. One person runs the inventory, the staging store, the theme, the data move, the redirects and the cutover. If a job needs a named specialist, the written scope names them before work starts.
Every web address changes, because Shopify sets its own format for products, collections, pages and posts. Each old address needs a redirect, so I own the redirect map and you sign it off before launch. I test the redirects on the staging store and watch search performance after launch. I cannot guarantee rankings.
The inventory sets the dates, and they go in the written scope. WooCommerce stays live until you accept the new store.
Customers cannot bring their existing WordPress password into Shopify. The chosen Shopify account model decides how they sign in after the switch.
Treat them as the hard part. Subscriptions do not move as subscriptions, and saved cards move only if your payment provider allows it. Where cards cannot move, your subscribers have to authorise payment again, and some will not. I get that answer in writing before the data move, not after it.
Yes. Orders land as historical records you can search, not as live orders. You fulfil anything still open on cutover day in WooCommerce, not in Shopify.
They do not transfer. Each one becomes a Shopify app, a small piece of custom code, or nothing at all. I audit them in the inventory, and the decisions go in the scope before the build.
The inventory lists the WordPress costs that can end. It also lists the Shopify plan, app, payment and support costs that replace them.
Eight years of agency delivery, CMS sites in it, and a full-stack product rebuild I lead today. On a replatform the control is the same discipline. I count the data, test the redirects, run test orders, and accept against the written map.
One person who knows the store must mark the critical rules, review the staging store and approve the switch.
It moves, but it gets simpler. A Shopify blog holds posts and tags, and nothing more. If content drives your sales, keep WordPress on a subdomain for the blog. Say so in step 1.
Send the WooCommerce URL, your catalogue size and the plugins the business depends on. I will tell you whether a clean-up, a migration tool or a full replatform is the sensible route.
Send me your WooCommerce URL