Shopify migration for UK stores.

Most UK stores moving to Shopify are coming off WooCommerce on a hosting plan that has started to creak, or off a Magento build that cost too much to maintain. The data transfers fine. The mistakes tend to come from tax, postage and the small things British shoppers notice at once: a price that suddenly shows ex-VAT, or a delivery promise that no longer matches.

What you get

• Products: titles, descriptions, SKUs, prices, compare-at prices, weights in kilograms, images with alt text, tags and vendors, mapped to Shopify fields.
• Variants and options: sizes and colours rebuilt within Shopify's option limits, with a clear plan for products that need more.
• Collections: manual and automated collections recreated.
• Customers and past orders: brought in as records where your old platform exports them, set up so customers are not emailed during the import.
• 301 redirect map: old product, category and page URLs matched to new ones, supplied as a file you can import.
• VAT-ready data: price format confirmed as gross or net, zero-rated and reduced-rate lines flagged.
• A QA report: before and after counts and a list of changes.

How it works

1. Send access and exports. A staff or collaborator account on Shopify and an export or read-only user on the old store. Never passwords.
2. We inspect and quote. Products, variants, images, customers and URLs counted, then a fixed price in pounds before work starts.
3. We build. The AI engine does the mapping and cleaning; a person reviews each output and compares sample products with the live storefront.
4. You approve. Everything is loaded as draft or into a development store first.
5. Go live. Redirects loaded, key URLs tested, and a post-launch checklist handed back.

What is specific to the UK

Prices include VAT

UK shoppers expect to see the price they will pay. Shopify can show tax-inclusive prices for the UK market, but the setting is easy to miss and depends on your store address and tax registration. WooCommerce stores often hold prices net and add VAT with a plugin, so an import can quietly turn a £24.00 shirt into a £20.00 one, or into a £28.80 one. Before loading anything, we confirm with you which way the numbers are held, then test checkout with a UK postcode.

Postage, couriers and delivery promises

Royal Mail, Evri, DPD and Parcelforce all price by weight and size band, so weights have to be right and in grams or kilograms consistently. We clean up weights during the migration and check that product pages do not promise delivery times the new shipping profiles will not meet. Northern Ireland and offshore postcodes often need their own rules, and we flag where your catalog data touches them.

Spelling, units and product text

British spelling (colour, jewellery, trainers) matters for search as much as tone. Migrated descriptions written for a US supplier often say "sneakers" and "pants", which UK shoppers do not search for. We do not rewrite your whole catalog during a move unless you ask, but we flag the worst of it. Sizes are kept in UK sizing, with conversions in a size chart where you sell internationally.

Marketplaces

If you list on Amazon.co.uk, eBay UK or OnBuy, we check that barcodes, brand and condition fields survive the move, since marketplace sync apps depend on them.

Product safety and marking

Some categories, such as electricals, toys and cosmetics, carry labelling and marking requirements. We keep any existing safety or compliance text in product descriptions so it is not lost in the move. We do not give compliance advice.

Pricing

A UK Shopify migration is quoted per store. The fixed quote follows once we have inspected your files, and depends on products, variants, customers and redirects. If you want the product data tidied at the same time, catalog cleanup starts at £159. See pricing for the rest, and store migration for the standard process.

Is this a fit?

It suits UK stores with a few hundred to several thousand products that rely on organic traffic and cannot afford a week of broken links. It also helps if your data is spread across a plugin, a spreadsheet and a supplier feed.

If your store has fewer than 100 clean products, you can do it yourself with Shopify's import tool and our UK VAT guide. If you need a bespoke theme or custom app, we move data and do not build those.

Ask for a free sample of up to 10 products, then request a fixed quote at get started.