WooCommerce to Shopify Migration Services

A full service moves products, variants, customers, past orders, blog posts, pages and reviews from WooCommerce into Shopify, then maps every old URL to its new address with a 301 redirect. FactoryJet also replaces WooPayments with Shopify Payments or another provider, rebuilds plugin features with Shopify apps or custom code, and rehearses the switch on a staging store. You see your own catalog working on Shopify before you sign.

Use an app if your products are simple, you run few plugins and you sell no subscriptions. Shopify's own WooCommerce guide says its Store Migration app reads the WooCommerce product CSV, and that products with more than three options will not have their options imported. Hire an agency when you have four or more attributes per product, WooCommerce Subscriptions renewals, custom checkout fields, or thousands of URLs to redirect.

The data work is the same. The target features differ. Shopify Plus adds B2B company accounts, checkout extensions and Shopify Functions, plus a far higher redirect cap: Shopify lists 20,000,000 URL redirects on Plus against 100,000 on other plans. Plus costs $2,300 a month on a three-year term in the US, per Shopify's help center, so most WooCommerce stores move to a standard plan first.

For a store that wants full control of its code and already has a WordPress developer, WooCommerce works well. Shopify suits teams that want hosting, security updates and checkout handled by the vendor. The trade is control against upkeep. Our Shopify vs WooCommerce comparison sets both side by side. This page is for stores that have already decided to move and need the move done.

Yes, for a short window. During a migration both stores run while we test the Shopify copy, and WooCommerce stops taking orders at cutover. Some brands keep WordPress for content and sell through Shopify with the Buy Button or a headless front end. Running two live catalogs for months means every stock and price change has to happen twice, so we plan to avoid it.

Products come out through the built-in CSV exporter under Products, Export, which WooCommerce documents as a products-only tool. Customers and orders need a plugin export or the WooCommerce REST API at /wp-json/wc/v3, which exposes customers, orders, coupons, products and reviews. On larger stores we use the API, because CSV exports depend on the server's memory and upload limits and can time out.

Since WooCommerce 8.2, new stores keep orders in High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) tables such as wc_orders and wc_orders_meta. Older stores may still keep them in wp_posts and wp_postmeta, the general WordPress tables. We check which mode your store runs before export, because some plugins write extra order fields to only one place, and an export that reads the other one misses them.

Shopify allows three options and up to 2,048 variants per product, per its help center. A WooCommerce product built from size, color, material and finish needs a decision before import. We split it into separate products, move the fourth attribute into a metafield (a custom data field on the product), or turn rare choices into line-item properties. Each choice is written into the mapping sheet you approve.

Yes. The data moves and the plugins stay behind. Fields from Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) or product add-on plugins are stored as post meta in WordPress. We map each field to a Shopify metafield or metaobject, and rebuild paid extras such as engraving or gift wrap as line-item properties or an app. Fields nobody has filled in for years are listed so you can drop them.

Yes. Shopify's help center says you cannot migrate customer passwords from another store using a CSV, and WordPress stores them hashed anyway. Customers come across with email, addresses, tags and marketing consent, then get an invite to set a new password. We schedule that email for launch day and add a short note to the login page so returning buyers know why.

Not with Shopify's own tools. Its WooCommerce guide says you cannot export or migrate reviews from WooCommerce to Shopify, and points to apps such as Judge.me, Loox and Yotpo. WooCommerce keeps native reviews as WordPress comments, so we export them, match each one to the new product handle, and import them into the review app you pick.

WooPayments stays with your WordPress site and does not transfer. On Shopify you connect Shopify Payments or another provider. WooPayments lists 2.9% + $0.30 for US cards with no monthly fee for online payments. On Shopify, using a provider other than Shopify Payments adds a fee of 2% on Basic down to 0.2% on Plus, so the provider you pick changes your card costs.

Yes, when the saved cards can move. WooCommerce Subscriptions charges renewals through gateways such as Stripe, WooPayments or PayPal, which hold the card details. We ask that gateway about moving stored cards to the processor behind your new subscription app, import active contracts into Shopify Subscriptions or a third-party app, and compare the next billing dates. Subscribers whose cards cannot move get a re-authorization email before their next billing date.

We rebuild them by hand, because there is no import route. WooCommerce keeps tax rates and shipping zones in its own settings, while Shopify uses shipping profiles and its own tax settings. We export your current zones, methods and rates, recreate them in Shopify, then place test orders to an address in each zone and compare the totals with the same cart on WooCommerce before launch.

WooCommerce products usually live at /product/slug, categories at /product-category/slug and tags at /product-tag/slug, per its permalink documentation. Shopify uses /products/handle and /collections/handle, and those prefixes cannot be changed. So every product and category URL changes. We keep each WooCommerce slug as the Shopify handle where possible, then load a one-to-one 301 redirect for every old URL.

Some movement in the first weeks is normal, and no honest agency promises none. What we control: a one-to-one 301 map for every indexed URL, single hops with no chains, titles and descriptions carried over from Yoast or Rank Math, and a crawl of the new store before DNS moves. Google's site move guide lists the same steps. We watch Search Console daily after launch.

Yoast and Rank Math save custom titles and meta descriptions as post meta on each product, page and post. We pull them with a database export or the WordPress REST API and write them into Shopify's search engine listing fields for the matching product, collection, page or article. Items with no custom title in Yoast fall back to Shopify's default title.

Shopify's help center lists a maximum of 100,000 URL redirects on standard plans and 20,000,000 on Plus. Most WooCommerce stores fit under 100,000 even after counting products, categories, tags, posts and image attachment pages. Shopify only follows a redirect when the old path is broken, so a redirect from a path that still loads a page does nothing. We test each one after import.

Move it if the blog is small and mainly supports products. Keep WordPress on a subdomain if you publish often or rely on WordPress plugins for content. Shopify blog posts live at /blogs/blog-name/post-handle, so every post URL changes and needs a redirect. Our WordPress to Shopify page covers content-heavy moves in more detail.

It depends on catalog size, the number of plugins to replace, subscriptions, and whether you want a new theme. FactoryJet quotes a fixed price in writing after a short scoping call, paid per phase, and builds a working demo on your own product data before you sign. For a first rough scope, try the replatforming cost calculator.

FactoryJet delivers a custom-theme store in 3 to 5 weeks, and a migration with subscriptions, B2B pricing or heavy data cleanup in 5 to 8 weeks. Headless builds take 8 to 14 weeks. On WooCommerce the biggest time drivers are the number of plugins that change checkout or product data, and how much product data lives in custom fields.

WooCommerce itself is a free plugin, but you pay separately for hosting, premium extensions and payment processing. Shopify bundles hosting into a monthly plan. Prices vary by country, so check Shopify's pricing page for yours. In the US, Shopify Plus is $2,300 a month on a three-year term or $2,500 on a one-year term, per Shopify's help center.

WooCommerce keeps taking orders until DNS moves. We run the full import days ahead, then a final sync of orders and customers created since, pulled from the REST API by date. DNS switches in a quiet hour, and a written rollback rule says when to point back. Orders placed in the last minutes are checked by hand in both admins.

Keep a private, read-only copy until your refund and returns window has passed. You will still need it to refund old WooPayments or Stripe orders, because refunds go back through the gateway that took the payment. The copy also holds anything you chose not to migrate, such as old plugin logs or abandoned carts. After that, you decide whether to archive the database or delete it, and we hand over every export file either way.