Shopify Migration Agency: Move Without Losing Your SEO or Your Data
Full product transfer. Every URL mapped. Your old store stays live until the new one is ready.
Designodin is a Shopify migration agency for stores moving from WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, Squarespace, or Wix. You've already made the decision. You just need someone to execute it cleanly, without losing your SEO, your product data, or months of your time.
That's what we do.
We build on WooCommerce too, so if staying put is the better call, we'll tell you.
What Our Shopify Migration Service Includes
Every migration covers the data, the URLs, and the store setup. Nothing gets imported until it has been reviewed.
- Products, variants, and images, validated before import
- Collections rebuilt to the Shopify URL format
- Customer records and order history. Shopify can't import customer passwords, so customers get an account-activation invite instead
- Blog posts and pages, where the source platform exports them
- SEO titles and meta descriptions carried over
- A full 301 redirect map from every old URL to its new address
- Theme configuration
- Apps, payments, and shipping setup
- Analytics and tracking set up again on the new store
Squarespace, WooCommerce, Wix, Magento and BigCommerce to Shopify
We know the data export quirks of each platform. WooCommerce product data is clean if the install was maintained, and messy if it wasn't. Magento catalogs are complex and need careful redirect mapping. BigCommerce and Squarespace have their own export limitations. Knowing these issues in advance is part of why our migrations go smoothly.
Each platform has its own published guide, so you can check our method before you talk to us.
- WooCommerce to Shopify migration: products, customers, orders, posts-as-pages if applicable, redirect mapping. Read the WooCommerce guide →
- Squarespace to Shopify migration: product and variant transfer, collection rebuild, redirect mapping. Read the Squarespace guide →
- Wix to Shopify migration: product data, customer records, 301 redirects. Read the Wix guide →
- Magento to Shopify migration: product catalog, customer data, order history, redirect mapping. Read the Magento guide →
- BigCommerce to Shopify migration: full product catalog, customer data, order history, redirect mapping. Read the BigCommerce guide →
Shopify SEO Migration: How We Protect Your Rankings
Your rankings live on your URLs. The redirect map is built in week one, before a single product is imported, so nothing goes live without its new address.
- Pre-migration crawl and an inventory of every URL that gets search traffic
- One-to-one URL mapping: each old page redirects to its closest new equivalent, never a blanket redirect to the homepage
- Titles, meta descriptions, and headings moved across or deliberately improved
- Every redirect checked at launch
- Search Console monitoring after launch: new sitemap submitted, key URLs inspected, 404 and indexing reports watched
A short dip while Google recrawls the new store is normal. What matters is that every page with search equity has somewhere to send it. Our Shopify migration SEO preservation guide covers what to expect, and the redirect setup guide shows how the map is built.
What Can Go Wrong With a Migration
Most migration problems come from one of three places: missing redirects, broken product data, or a theme that looks fine but performs badly.
Missing Redirects
The most common and most expensive mistake. Every URL on your current store has search equity. When you move to Shopify without a complete 301 redirect map, Google treats your old URLs as gone and your new URLs as new. Rankings that took years to build disappear. Recovery takes months.
Broken Product Data
Less visible but equally costly. SKU mismatches, missing variants, stripped HTML from descriptions, images that reference the old domain. A fast migration that imports products without validating the data creates store problems that take longer to fix than the migration itself.
A Badly Chosen Theme
A migration is a fresh start. Starting on a theme with a 40-point PageSpeed score means fixing performance on day two instead of growing.
Our Shopify Migration Process
A typical migration takes about three weeks. Large catalogs and integration-heavy stores take longer, and we'll tell you how long at the scoping stage.
Data audit and export.
We export and review your catalog before importing anything. We crawl your current URLs and build the full redirect map.
Build and import.
Theme configuration. Product import with full data validation. Collection structure rebuild. Apps, payments, and shipping setup.
Testing and launch.
Full store review. Checkout tested on mobile and desktop. Redirect map verified. Core Web Vitals checked. SEO structure reviewed. Then we go live. Your old store stays live throughout, so there is no downtime window.
Support period.
Redirect and 404 monitoring, Search Console checks, and fixes for anything that surfaces once real customers and crawlers hit the new store.
What Shapes the Scope of Your Migration
No two migrations are the same size. These are the things that decide how much work yours is:
- Catalog size and how deep the variants go
- The source platform and the quality of its export
- How many URLs carry rankings and need one-to-one redirects
- Integrations: ERP, email, reviews, subscriptions
- Multi-currency or multi-language storefronts
- Moving onto a configured theme, or a full redesign as part of the move
If the move comes with a redesign, it's closer to a Shopify store build. Either way, we scope it before we quote. For the detail, read what drives Shopify migration cost and our Shopify migration checklist.
Products in a hypothetical store with four years of rankings to protect.
Say a home textiles brand has been on WooCommerce for four years, with around 1,200 products and solid rankings for several competitive keywords, and wants the move done without putting those rankings at risk.
A 1,200-product store with established rankings needs more than a product import: it needs the redirect mapping, the SEO audit, and the data validation, done before launch.
We would run a pre-migration SEO audit, identify the high-traffic URLs that need clean redirects, rebuild the collection structure to match the Shopify URL format, and validate every product's data before the import.
What Happens After the Migration
A Shopify migration is the start of your store's life on the platform, not the end of the work.
After launch, most stores benefit from ongoing development as new needs emerge, CRO work as you see how real Shopify traffic behaves on the new store, speed monitoring as apps accumulate, and A/B testing to improve conversion from your existing traffic.
Our Shopify Growth Retainer is the natural next step. It covers ongoing development, speed monitoring, and monthly performance reporting.
Not sure if you need a migration or a full rebuild? See our Shopify Store Build service.
Still deciding whether Shopify is the right platform? Read our honest take on why Shopify.
Talk to a Shopify Migration Agency About Your Store
Full product transfer. Every URL mapped. Your old store stays live until the new one is ready.