Migrating from Shopify
Shopify is excellent at the start. It becomes expensive and limiting exactly when you begin to grow.
Why people leave
If none of these apply to you, you probably don't need to migrate. We'll say so directly, on the call.
On Shopify you pay a percentage of every order, indefinitely. On Magento you pay once for the build, then only hosting and maintenance. Above roughly £250k a year in revenue, the difference gets hard to ignore.
Shopify controls checkout. If you need a specific flow, an extra field, or a complex shipping rule, you hit a wall. On Magento, the checkout is yours.
Customer-group pricing, B2B, configurable products with many dimensions, ERP integration — each one is solved with another monthly app, or not at all.
No database access, no reports of your own, and no easy way out. Magento is open source and runs on your infrastructure.
What's preserved
The most common fear about a migration is losing organic traffic. It's justified — and that's exactly why we treat it as the most important part of the project.
What's genuinely hard
We put this on the page because it turns up in the project anyway. Better you learn it now than in week six.
Shopify imposes `/products/` and `/collections/`. On Magento you choose the structure, but that means a 301 for every product and category. We generate them automatically from the export and test them before launch — but it's real work, not a checkbox.
Every app you use has to be replaced with a Magento extension or with custom development. The app inventory is the first part of the audit, so you don't discover gaps at launch.
The design gets rebuilt. We recommend Hyvä, where rebuilding is fast and you come out with a store that outperforms the Shopify one.
How it runs
We build on staging, alongside your current store. The switch happens in a short, planned window.
We inventory the extensions that touch the frontend, measure Core Web Vitals on real field data, and identify what gets ported, what gets rewritten and what gets removed.
You get the extension list with Hyvä compatibility status, a staged estimate and the risks we can see. This is where it's decided whether the migration is worth it — and we'll tell you honestly if it isn't.
The Hyvä theme is built alongside the live store. We don't stop your sales and we don't work in production.
Catalogue, filters, cart, checkout, payment methods, courier and ERP integrations. Tested on real devices, not just in an emulator.
The URL structure stays untouched, metadata and structured data transfer one-to-one, and Search Console is watched daily through the first weeks.
Questions about migrating from Shopify
Including “is it actually worth it?”. Sometimes the answer is no.
Not if the redirects are complete. We export every indexed URL, build the 1:1 redirect map, transfer metadata and structured data, then watch Search Console daily for the first four to six weeks. A temporary dip of a few percent in the first fortnight is normal; recovery usually lands within four to eight weeks.
Ways to work together
We don't sell rigid packages. These are the usual entry points — the final scope gets set once we've seen the store.
Find out exactly what you have and what it costs you, before changing anything.
From stock theme to a store that loads in under 1.5 seconds.
We take the store over from your current agency and keep it in shape.
We don't show fixed prices because a store with 200 products and one with 40,000 don't cost the same. You get a staged estimate after the first conversation, with nothing attached.
Send us your store's address. We'll tell you what transfers simply, what takes work, and how long it would take — no obligation.
