WooCommerce is a sensible way to start selling. It runs on WordPress, it is free to install and there is a plugin for almost everything. As a brand grows, that flexibility turns into upkeep. Plugin updates conflict, hosting needs tuning before every sale, and someone has to own security for the whole stack.
Moving to Shopify hands most of that to the platform. The migration still needs care, because a WooCommerce store usually holds years of data spread across WordPress tables and fields added by individual plugins.
What we migrate
- Products. Simple and variable products, attributes, plugin-specific fields and images mapped into Shopify products, variants and metafields.
- Customers. Accounts, addresses and marketing consent, with a plan to invite customers to activate their new accounts.
- Orders. Historical orders so customers and support staff can still see past purchases.
- Subscriptions. WooCommerce Subscriptions moved to a Shopify subscription app, with payment methods carried across where your gateway allows it.
- Content and SEO. Blog posts, landing pages and every indexed URL redirected to the right place.
Deciding what happens to WordPress
Many WooCommerce brands rely on WordPress for content as much as for commerce. Some move everything into Shopify and are glad to run one system. Others put editorial content into a headless CMS and let Shopify run the store. We look at how your team publishes today and recommend the setup that keeps them productive.
Shrinking the plugin list
We list every active plugin and decide what Shopify does natively, what an app replaces and what nobody has used in a year. Custom code that lived in theme files or a functions file is either rebuilt properly or retired. Most brands come out the other side with a shorter, easier stack.
Plus or standard Shopify
Not every WooCommerce brand needs Shopify Plus on day one. We recommend a plan based on your order volume, B2B needs and number of storefronts. Moving up to Plus later is a plan change, not another migration.
Launch follows the same discipline as any of our replatforms. Data is rehearsed in rounds, reconciled against WooCommerce, and cut over with a final delta of orders and customers at a quiet point in your trading calendar.
We run these moves as part of our ecommerce replatforming service on Shopify. Subscription brands often pair it with Recharge, and content-heavy brands with headless CMS implementation.
