Shopify migration for US stores.

A Shopify migration in the United States is more than a product copy. The catalog is the easy part. What cuts into revenue is the stuff around it: an old URL that now returns a 404, a taxable item flagged as exempt, a variant that lost its SKU. This page explains what we move, how, and what is specific to a US store.

What you get

• Products: titles, descriptions, SKUs, prices, compare-at prices, weights, images with alt text, tags and vendors, mapped to Shopify's product fields.
• Variants and options: size, colour and other options rebuilt to fit Shopify's three-option structure, with a plan for anything that needs more.
• Collections: manual and automated collections recreated, with rules checked against the new tags and types.
• Customers and past orders: imported as records where your old platform exports them.
• 301 redirect map: every old product, collection and page URL pointed at its new address, delivered as an import file.
• Tax-ready product data: taxable flags and product categories prepared for Shopify Tax, plus a checklist for the parts only you can set.
• A QA report: counts before and after, plus what we changed and why.

How it works

1. You send access and exports. A staff or collaborator account on Shopify, and an admin export or read-only user on the old store. No passwords.
2. We inspect and quote. We look at the files, count products, variants, images, customers and URLs, and send a fixed quote before work starts.
3. We build. Our AI engine does the volume work of mapping and cleaning; a person reviews every output and tests a sample of products against the old storefront.
4. You approve on a draft. Products are loaded as drafts or into a development store. Nothing goes live until you sign off.
5. Cutover. We load the redirect file, confirm key URLs resolve, and hand back a short post-launch checklist.

What is specific to the US

Sales tax lives in Shopify, not in the price

US prices are shown without tax and sales tax is added at checkout, by destination. That sounds simple until you move. Legacy tax apps and plugins store their own product mappings. Shopify Tax works from product tax categories and your registered regions, so we rebuild the product side and flag what needs your accountant: which states you are registered in, and whether you have economic nexus anywhere new.

Anything that moves a store from an older tax setup should be tested with real orders. We give you a list of test addresses to run through checkout: one in a no-sales-tax state, one with a local rate, one in a state that taxes clothing differently.

Product data that US channels expect

If you also sell on Amazon.com, Walmart Marketplace, eBay or Google Shopping, your Shopify data needs to hold more than a storefront does: UPCs in the barcode field, brand, condition, and a Google product category. A Prop 65 warning for California buyers is a legal text field that WooCommerce stores often keep in a plugin and forget to bring across. We check where these live on your old store and map them to metafields or product description blocks.

Units and sizes

US catalogs run on inches, pounds and ounces, and Shopify's weight field expects you to pick a unit per product. Mixed units are a common export problem. We normalise weights so shipping rates calculate correctly, and keep imperial dimensions in the descriptions or a metafield. US apparel sizing (numeric women's sizes, shoe widths) is kept as options rather than flattened into titles.

Shipping carriers

UPS, USPS, FedEx and flat-rate rules depend on accurate weights and dimensions. We do not configure your carrier accounts, but we make sure the data feeding them is clean.

Pricing

A US Shopify migration is quoted per store. The fixed quote comes after we inspect your files, based on products, variants, customer records and redirects. If you also want the product data cleaned during the move, see catalog cleanup, which starts at $199. Full details are on pricing, and the broader process is on store migration.

Is this a fit?

It suits stores with a few hundred to several thousand products, an existing search presence they do not want to lose, and no appetite for a weekend of CSV editing. It is a good fit if your old platform's export is messy, or you are moving from Magento or a custom build where there is no tidy "export to Shopify" button.

If you have a small, clean WooCommerce store with under 100 products, Shopify's own import tools or an app may be enough, and our WooCommerce to Shopify checklist will get you most of the way. If you need a custom theme or custom app development, we are not the right team for that part; we move the data.

Start with a free sample of up to 10 products, then get a fixed quote through get started.