Magento to Shopify, without losing what ranks.

What you get

Magento stores carry more structure than most platforms, so the deliverable is a mapped, checked Shopify store rather than a raw import.

• Simple, configurable and grouped products rebuilt as Shopify products and variants, with SKUs, prices, special prices, weights and stock quantities.
• Product images re-hosted on Shopify, with the base image first and the gallery order kept.
• Categories rebuilt as collections, manual or automated depending on how the category was populated.
• Attribute sets and custom attributes converted into metafields or tags, using a mapping you approve.
• Customers (names, addresses, email, marketing consent where recorded) and, if you want them, historical orders.
• The 301 redirect file for products, categories and CMS pages, plus a launch-day QA report.

How it works

1. You send a product export (System > Export in Magento 2, or a database dump) and tell us your store views, currencies and any B2B pricing. We review it free.
2. We send a fixed quote and the data map: what becomes a variant, a metafield, a collection or gets dropped.
3. Our AI engine builds the import files and transforms the data. A person reviews every output against your source, product by product on a sample and by rule across the rest.
4. We load everything into an unpublished Shopify store using a staff account. You check products, collections and customers before anything is public.
5. You approve. We load the redirects, you point DNS, and we run the launch checks.

Magento quirks that decide the project

Magento's flexibility is where migrations get slow. The table shows what we map and where decisions are needed.

Also worth knowing: Magento descriptions often contain widgets and CMS block directives. Those do not render in Shopify, so we strip or rebuild them.

URLs and redirects

Magento product and category URLs often end in .html and sit at the root, sometimes with a category path. Shopify uses /products/handle and /collections/handle. Every ranking page needs a one-to-one redirect.

Redirect from,Redirect to
/mens/shirts/oxford-shirt-blue.html,/products/oxford-shirt-blue
/mens/shirts.html,/collections/mens-shirts
/about-us,/pages/about-us

Shopify imports this CSV from the Navigation area of the online store. We also redirect the older catalog/product/view/id/ style paths if your logs or Search Console still show them. The background is in our Magento to Shopify checklist and the 301 redirect guide.

SEO protection

• Crawl the live store before we touch it, so we have the full URL list including pages with traffic.
• Carry over meta titles, meta descriptions and image alt text into Shopify's SEO fields.
• Keep handles identical to Magento URL keys wherever possible.
• Check the sitemap after launch and resubmit it in Search Console.
• Watch 404s in the first two weeks and add redirects for anything we missed.

What we do not do

We do not design themes, write custom Shopify apps or replace Magento extensions with bespoke code. If your store depends on a module for bundles, subscriptions or custom pricing, we point you to an app or a developer we can recommend. Our work is the data and the SEO plumbing.

Cutover and downtime

The Magento store stays live while we build the Shopify store in parallel. Close to launch we agree a cutover window and ask you to pause catalog edits. We then take a fresh export so new customers and any orders placed since the first pass are included, load redirects, and you switch DNS. Choose a quiet trading day and avoid a sale week. Keep Magento available for a while afterwards as a reference.

Shopify or Shopify Plus

Most Magento stores with one or two currencies and standard B2B needs run well on regular Shopify plans. Plus is worth a look for several markets, heavy B2B or checkout customisation. We can migrate to either; the choice sits with you, and we tell you which Magento features push towards Plus.

Timeline factors

Timeline depends on catalog size, how many configurables exceed three options, store views, image volume, whether orders are migrated, and how fast you answer the mapping questions. Decisions usually take longer than the transfer itself.

Pricing

The fixed quote follows once we have seen your files. See pricing and the store migration service.

Is this a fit?

It suits stores with a few hundred to tens of thousands of SKUs, configurables and a real need to keep search traffic. If you have a small, clean catalog of simple products, a Shopify import app may be enough. If you need the storefront rebuilt, hire a designer first and bring us in for the data.

Start with a free 10-product sample, or request a quote.