Squarespace to Shopify Migration, Product Images Included

Yes. Shopify publishes its own Squarespace migration guide covering products, customers, order history and reviews. Products and customers move by CSV file. Order history moves through an app; Shopify’s guide names EZ Importer and Migration Pro. Your design, portfolio pages and custom CSS do not move, so they are rebuilt inside a Shopify theme.

Products first, then customers, then historical orders, which is the order Shopify’s migration notes give. Before any of that, copy your Squarespace URL mappings and note each store page slug, because product URLs depend on it. Blog posts, images and pages can move in parallel. Redirects and the domain come last, after test orders pass.

Squarespace suits a design-led site that sells a small range next to its content. Shopify suits a business where the store is the main event and you need more apps, more sales channels and more checkout choices. If products are a side line and your current setup works, staying on Squarespace is a fair decision. Move when the store has outgrown the site around it.

For portfolios, service businesses and small catalogs, yes. Stores usually leave because they want a specific Shopify app, a wholesale or subscription setup, or one admin for several sales channels, not because Squarespace stopped working. If none of those apply to you, the cost of a migration may outweigh the gain.

There is no built-in sync between them. The common middle ground is Shopify’s Buy Button, which adds Shopify products to an external website, so a Squarespace site can sell through Shopify checkout. That means two catalogs to keep in step and two admins to log into. For more than a handful of products, a full move to Shopify is usually simpler.

Not from Shopify itself, as of 22 October 2026. Shopify’s free Store Migration app lists Square, WooCommerce, Etsy, Wix, Amazon, eBay, Clover and Lightspeed as sources, and Squarespace was not on that list when we checked. The older Store Importer app is no longer available. So a Squarespace move runs on the product .csv, the .xml export and a few third-party apps.

Open the Products panel and choose Export all, or select products and click Export. Squarespace exports physical and service products to a .csv, up to 10,000 products. The file is a one-time copy: later edits on either side do not sync. Re-map the columns to Shopify’s product CSV template and import under Products > Import, keeping each file under 15 MB.

Because the Squarespace export never had them. Squarespace says its product .csv will not include featured images, variant images, product image alt text, customer reviews or additional product information. We download each image from your live product pages, match it to the right product and variant, and attach it in Shopify with alt text filled in.

Plan to rebuild them. Squarespace’s export article lists physical and service products for Export all and does not list download products. So we recreate each digital product in Shopify, re-upload the files through a digital downloads app you approve, and test a purchase end to end before launch.

Customer records move; passwords cannot. Shopify’s Squarespace guide says it cannot import a customer CSV that does not match Shopify’s headings, so the Squarespace file is rewritten first. Shopify also says customer passwords cannot be migrated by CSV, so customers get an invite to set a new one. We draft that invite email with you so it reads as your brand.

Yes. Squarespace exports Commerce orders as a .csv, filtered by status, date range or product. Know two quirks: partially refunded orders show the full purchase price, and hidden products or disabled store pages are left out. Shopify points to apps such as EZ Importer and Migration Pro for the import. Switch off new order notifications first.

They do not travel. Shopify’s guide says you cannot export or migrate reviews from Squarespace to Shopify, and the Squarespace product .csv leaves reviews out too. Shopify’s guide names Judge.me, Loox and Yotpo as review apps. You can start fresh in one of them or, with your sign-off, re-enter published review text with original dates.

Squarespace exports blog content as an .xml file in WordPress format from the Import and export panel. It holds one blog page, its posts and up to 1,000 comments per post; drafts do not export. Shopify has no admin button for that file, so posts go in through an app or Shopify’s Blog API. We parse the file, re-host the images and keep each slug for the 301 map.

Only one blog page exports. When a site has more than one, Squarespace asks you to pick a primary blog and exports just that one. We take the primary blog from the .xml file and capture the second blog from the live site: title, body, images, date and slug. Shopify supports several blogs, so each keeps its own section.

Not by export. Squarespace lists album, cover, index, portfolio, store and calendar pages as content that does not export, along with audio, video and product blocks. We rebuild those pages as Shopify pages and theme sections, using your original images, and redirect each old path to its new home. Gallery pages are on the export list, but only for version 7.0 sites.

It can look as close as you want, but it is a rebuild. Squarespace style settings and custom CSS do not export, so the look is recreated in a Shopify theme. FactoryJet builds custom-theme stores in 3 to 5 weeks and migrations in 5 to 8 weeks, and you see a working demo on your own products before you sign anything.

They can. Squarespace warns that when its export is imported with the WordPress Importer plugin, images may come across as links back to Squarespace, which stop working once the Squarespace site is cancelled. The same risk applies to any tool that copies links instead of files. We download every image in the export and upload it to Shopify before posting the articles.

Some movement after a platform change is normal and nobody can promise none. What protects rankings is a one-to-one 301 map, with each old URL pointing straight to its closest Shopify page in one hop. We gather every URL from your Squarespace sitemap and Search Console, map each one and retest after launch. Titles and meta descriptions move with the content.

On Squarespace 7.1, a product URL is the store page slug, then /p/, then the product slug, for example /shop/p/linen-apron. Shopify puts every product under /products/{handle}. The slug can often stay the same, but the path cannot, so each product gets its own 301. If you have several store pages, each one has its own prefix to map.

Yes, and it is the trap we check first. Shopify says you cannot redirect URLs that begin with /shop, so old /shop/p/ product links cannot be redirected with Shopify’s own redirect tool. They need a rule outside Shopify, for example at your DNS or CDN provider, and we agree which during scoping. Store pages with other slugs, such as /store or /buy, redirect normally.

They stop working when the domain leaves Squarespace, because they live in your Squarespace settings. That field holds up to 400 KB, roughly 2,500 redirect lines. We copy every line, merge it into the Shopify map and collapse chains. Shopify holds 100,000 redirects on standard plans and 20,000,000 on Plus, and redirects only fire from URLs that return 404.

Turn off the domain lock in Squarespace, then copy the transfer authentication code from the email Squarespace sends and give it to your new provider. Squarespace says the transfer can take up to 15 days. A recently purchased domain may have a 60-day lock. While you wait, Squarespace lets you point the domain to your new site, which is how we usually launch.

Treat the domain and the website plan as two separate things. Before you cancel the site, either transfer the domain out or confirm with Squarespace how the domain is billed on its own. We keep the Squarespace site live until Shopify is launched and checked, then you cancel the website plan, never the domain by accident.

If Google Workspace is attached to your domain, Squarespace says to adjust your MX records with your new domain provider after transferring, to avoid an email outage. Squarespace also says you keep managing the Workspace subscription through Squarespace unless you cancel it. We list your MX records before launch and check mail delivery after the switch.

It depends on product and variant count, how many product images need re-attaching, how many blogs and portfolio pages need rebuilding, and which apps replace Squarespace features. FactoryJet quotes a fixed price in writing after a short scoping call. Defects are fixed inside the build price for a cover period agreed up front, and later support is optional with no monthly minimum.

FactoryJet migrations run 5 to 8 weeks from signed scope to launch. A single store page with a small blog sits at the short end. Several store pages, a second blog captured from the live site, or many portfolio pages push it toward the long end. Across 500+ businesses since 2014, 97% of our projects have shipped on time.