Magento to Shopify Migration
Senior engineers replatforming Magento and Adobe Commerce stores to Shopify Plus — full data migration, a 301 redirect map that protects your rankings, and a parallel-run cutover so you launch without losing traffic, orders, or SEO.
Our Magento migration process
- Audit the Magento store. We map what you actually have — catalogue size, custom extensions, B2B price lists, integrations, and the URL structure — into a written migration brief. The hidden cost in a Magento migration is always the custom modules nobody documented, so we surface them first.
- Migrate data + build redirects. Products, variants, customers, and order history move across with verification at each step. In parallel we build the 301 redirect map from every Magento URL to its Shopify equivalent — this is the single most important deliverable for keeping the rankings you already have.
- Rebuild theme + integrations. Your storefront is rebuilt on Shopify (Online Store 2.0 or Hydrogen headless) to preserve the brand, and integrations — ERP, payment, email, PIM — are re-pointed to Shopify with the same data contracts. B2B catalogues move to Shopify Plus B2B.
- Parallel-run + cutover. We run Shopify alongside live Magento, reconcile a sample of real orders end-to-end, then cut over DNS during low-traffic hours with the redirect map live from minute one. A monitoring window follows so any ranking or checkout issue is caught in hours.
What's included
- Full data migration — products, variants, collections, customers, and order history moved from Magento or Adobe Commerce with verification at each stage
- A complete 301 redirect map from every Magento URL to its Shopify equivalent — the lever that preserves your organic rankings through the replatform
- Storefront rebuilt on Shopify Plus (Online Store 2.0 or Hydrogen headless) to keep your brand, not a generic template
- Integrations re-pointed — ERP, accounting, email/Klaviyo, PIM, and payment — so the new store plugs into the systems you already run
- B2B migration — Adobe Commerce B2B price lists, company accounts, and net terms moved to Shopify Plus B2B
- A parallel-run cutover with reconciliation and a post-launch monitoring window — no big-bang switch, no lost orders
Migration timeline
Typically 8-16 weeks
A standard catalogue with clean data and a handful of integrations is the fast end — 8-10 weeks. A large Adobe Commerce store with B2B, heavy customisation, and multiple integrations is 12-20 weeks. We confirm a window in writing once the audit surfaces the real shape — the variable is custom extension logic and data quality, not the Shopify build, which is the predictable part.
FAQ
- Why migrate from Magento to Shopify?
- The usual triggers are cost and maintenance burden. Magento Open Source is free to licence but expensive to run — hosting, security patching, and developer time to keep it stable — while Adobe Commerce carries a significant annual licence on top. Add forced platform upgrades (Magento 1 reached end-of-life in June 2020, and 2.x upgrades are regular, disruptive projects) and many merchants conclude the total cost of ownership is higher than a hosted platform. Shopify Plus moves hosting, security, and PCI scope to Shopify, so your team works on the storefront, not the infrastructure.
- Will I lose my SEO rankings when I move off Magento?
- Not if the migration is done properly — and this is where most cheap migrations fail. Magento and Shopify use different URL structures, so every old URL needs a 301 redirect to its new equivalent. Shopify supports URL redirects natively, and we build a complete redirect map as a core deliverable, not an afterthought. Done right, Google transfers the ranking signals to the new URLs and the traffic dip is small and short. Done wrong — or skipped — is how merchants lose half their organic traffic overnight.
- What data can you migrate from Magento or Adobe Commerce?
- Products with variants and images, collections/categories, customer records, and full order history. For a standard catalogue this moves through structured imports with verification; for large or heavily customised stores we migrate via the APIs so custom attributes, B2B price lists, and bespoke fields come across intact. We verify counts and spot-check records at each stage rather than trusting a one-shot import.
- I'm facing a Magento 2 upgrade — should I upgrade or replatform?
- It's the right moment to ask. A major Magento 2.x upgrade is itself a re-platforming-scale project — regression testing, extension compatibility, and downtime — so the honest comparison is the cost of that upgrade plus the next few years of patching and hosting, versus a one-time migration to a platform where upgrades are handled for you. We'll scope both sides honestly; if staying on Magento is genuinely cheaper for your situation, we'll tell you.
- Can you migrate a B2B Adobe Commerce store?
- Yes. Adobe Commerce B2B features — company accounts, customer-specific price lists, quote workflows, and net payment terms — map to Shopify Plus B2B, which has native company, catalogue, and price-list support. B2B migrations need more care in the catalogue and pricing mapping, which is exactly what the audit and parallel-run stages are built to de-risk.
- How do you avoid downtime and lost orders during cutover?
- We never do a big-bang switch. Shopify is built and tested in parallel with your live Magento store, we reconcile a sample of real orders end-to-end through the new stack, and only then cut over DNS during low-traffic hours with the 301 redirect map already live. A monitoring window follows the switch so anything — a checkout edge case, a redirect gap — is caught and fixed in hours, not discovered at month-end.
- How much does a Magento to Shopify migration cost?
- A standard catalogue migration with theme rebuild and core integrations typically runs £25K-£70K. A large Adobe Commerce store with B2B, heavy customisation, and multiple integrations is usually £70K-£200K. We share firm pricing in writing after the audit — the cost driver is custom extension logic and data quality, which we can only assess by looking at your actual store.