Migrate from Wix to Shopify, Including the Blog Wix Won’t Export

Export your products from the Wix Product tab as a CSV, then import them in Shopify under Products > Import. Move customers and order history next, by CSV or a migration app. Rebuild blog posts and reviews, because Wix does not export them. Then set up shipping, taxes and payments, place test orders, add a 301 redirect for every old Wix URL and connect your domain. Shopify’s own Wix guide lists 19 steps in roughly that order.

Only part of it moves as data. Products, customers and orders come out of Wix as CSV files and go into Shopify. The Wix design does not: Shopify runs its own themes, so the look is rebuilt in a Shopify theme. Wix blog posts have no export, and Shopify’s guide says Wix reviews cannot be exported either. So a Wix transfer means files for the store data, a rebuild for design and content, and redirects for the URLs.

Yes, if you do the work yourself. The Wix product, customer and order exports and the Shopify CSV importer are built into both admins. Shopify’s free Store Migration app lists Wix as a source and moves product and customer data, though Shopify’s Wix guide says it is in early access and open only to some stores on desktop. The real cost is your time: re-mapping CSV columns, rebuilding posts by hand and writing the redirect list.

The usual reasons are app choice, checkout options and selling on more channels from one admin. Wix is a website builder with a store added; Shopify is built around the store. A move makes sense when product sales, not the brochure pages, pay the bills. If your Wix site is mostly content with a handful of products, staying on Wix or adding a Shopify Buy Button can be the cheaper choice.

Watch for these before you switch. Shopify’s blog is simpler: you organize posts with tags, and a post author must be the store owner or a staff account. Many features come from apps, some paid, rather than being built in. And Shopify URLs follow fixed patterns such as /products/ and /blogs/, so every Wix URL needs a redirect. None of these block a move, but price the apps you need first.

Yes. Shopify’s Buy Button sales channel adds products to an external website or blog post, and Shopify says it is included in all subscription plans. That lets a Wix content site send shoppers to Shopify checkout without a full move. It works well for a few products. Past that, you run two systems with two logins and two sets of reports, and a full migration is usually simpler.

In Wix, open the Product tab, select all products, then choose More Actions > Export. Wix exports up to 5,000 rows per CSV file, so a big catalog leaves in batches. Re-map the columns to Shopify’s product CSV template and import under Products > Import. Keep each file under Shopify’s 15 MB limit, and clear “Publish new products to all sales channels” until you have checked prices, weights and stock.

Digital products are the first gap: Wix says exporting them is not currently supported, so download files are re-uploaded by hand. Products with more than 3 options lose those options on import, per Shopify’s Wix guide, and prices by location are not supported. In the audit we list every product that hits one of these limits, so nothing drops out without you knowing.

Customer records move; passwords do not. Shopify says you cannot migrate customer passwords from another store by CSV, so each customer sets a new one from an account invite. The Wix file, WixCustomerDownload.csv, also cannot be imported without editing, and Shopify offers no column mapping for customer CSVs. We rebuild the file to Shopify’s headings and keep the email marketing consent column intact.

Yes, through a migration app. Wix exports orders to CSV with either one row per item or one row per order, and purchase times are always in UTC. Shopify’s Wix guide points to third-party apps in the Shopify App Store for importing that history. Before the import, switch off new order notifications, or staff get an email for every old order that lands.

Not with a Wix tool. The Wix Help Center says it is “not possible to export blog posts to other platforms.” So each post is captured from the live site: title, body, images, publish date and slug. We rebuild it as a Shopify blog article, re-upload the images to Shopify and add the old /post/ URL to the redirect map. For blogs with hundreds of posts we script the capture rather than copy and paste.

They do not move by export. Shopify’s Wix guide states that you cannot export or migrate reviews from Wix to Shopify. You can start fresh with a Shopify review app, or copy the published review text from your live product pages, with your sign-off, and load it into the review app with its original dates. We never label copied reviews as verified purchases.

No. Wix layouts do not run on Shopify. Your store gets a Shopify theme, either an existing theme set up to match your brand or a custom build. FactoryJet builds custom-theme stores in 3 to 5 weeks and migrations in 5 to 8 weeks. Before you sign, you see a working demo running on your own products.

Static pages are copied into Shopify pages. Shopify’s migration notes say single pages such as shipping or refund policies can usually be pasted in by hand. We move each one, keep its headings and images and redirect the old Wix path. Forms, bookings and other Wix app widgets do not come across, so we rebuild them with Shopify apps you approve.

Expect some movement after any platform change; nobody can promise none. What protects rankings is a one-to-one 301 map, where each old URL points straight to its closest new page in one hop. We pull every URL from your Wix sitemap and Search Console, map each one, and test them again after launch. Page titles, meta descriptions and image alt text move with the content.

Wix product pages use /product-page/ before the product slug by default, and blog posts use /post/. Shopify uses /products/{handle} for products and /blogs/{blog-name}/{handle} for articles. Neither Wix prefix can be kept, so each old path gets its own 301. If you renamed the Wix prefixes in SEO Settings, we read your live sitemap and map the prefix you actually use.

Shopify allows 100,000 URL redirects on standard plans and 20,000,000 on Shopify Plus. Few Wix stores come close. The catch is that Shopify redirects only work from broken URLs: if a live Shopify page already sits at the old path, the redirect never fires. Shopify also blocks redirects from any URL that begins with /shop. That is why we test every redirect after launch rather than trusting the import.

No. Redirects made in Wix SEO tools live in your Wix account and stop working once your domain points to Shopify. We copy them out before launch, merge them into the new map and collapse old chains, so a URL that used to hop twice now goes to its final Shopify page in a single 301.

In Wix, open Domains and choose to transfer the domain away. Wix emails a transfer authorization (EPP) code to the domain’s registrant contact; you enter that code at Shopify or your new registrar. Wix says a transfer usually takes up to 7 days. Changing registrant contact details locks the domain from transfer for 60 days, so update contacts after the move, not before.

Yes. You can keep the domain registered at Wix and point it to Shopify with DNS records, which avoids transfer delays and the 60-day lock risk. Wix also supports custom nameservers if you want DNS managed elsewhere. We usually point the domain first, launch, and transfer it later only if you want everything in one account.

We build the Shopify store while Wix stays live. On launch day we import the orders and customers created since the first export, switch DNS, then check checkout, notification emails and redirects. Your Wix plan stays active until those checks pass, so going back is a DNS change rather than a rebuild.

It depends on product count, how many products exceed 3 options, blog size and which Wix app features need a Shopify replacement. FactoryJet quotes a fixed price in writing after a short scoping call. Defects are fixed inside the build price for a cover period agreed before work starts, and support afterwards is optional with no monthly minimum.

FactoryJet migrations run 5 to 8 weeks from signed scope to launch. A small catalog with no blog sits at the short end. Hundreds of blog posts, digital products or several Wix apps to replace push it toward the long end. Across 500+ businesses since 2014, 97% of our projects have shipped on time.

A store with a few hundred products, no blog and no order history to keep is a fair do-it-yourself job using Shopify’s Wix guide. Get help when you have a large blog to rebuild, products with more than 3 options, digital downloads, or search traffic you cannot afford to lose. The scoping call is free and you keep the URL audit either way.