Move Off Magento Without Losing Catalog Data Or Search Rankings

It means moving your product catalog, EAV attributes, customer accounts, order history, custom extensions and CMS content from Magento onto Shopify or Shopify Plus. A typical engagement runs through a platform audit, field-by-field data mapping, a staged migration into a private store, custom logic rebuilt as Shopify Functions or apps, a full 301 redirect map, then a planned cutover. The mapping stage is where migrations are won or lost, because the two platforms model commerce differently and the differences are not cosmetic. Deciding early what becomes a variant, a metafield or an app is far cheaper than discovering the mismatch after the data is loaded.

A straightforward migration with a few hundred products usually takes 4 to 6 weeks. Stores with heavy custom extensions, multi-store setups or B2B tier pricing typically run 6 to 12 weeks, depending on how much custom logic has to be rebuilt rather than replaced with an app. The variable is almost never data volume, since moving fifty thousand products is a longer script and not a harder problem. It is the behavior. Every pricing rule, shipping condition and checkout customization that exists in Magento has to be re-expressed in Shopify's model, and each one needs a decision before it needs code.

Worth knowing before you commit rather than after. Shopify gives you less control over checkout unless you are on Plus, and even then it is defined extension points rather than free rein. Complex B2B pricing rules, deeply nested category logic and highly custom attribute structures are all things Magento does natively that need apps, Functions or metafields on Shopify. You also give up server level control, which is a loss if you used it and a relief if you did not. In exchange you stop maintaining infrastructure entirely. We map your specific requirements against this during the audit so nothing important surfaces late.

As its own workstream, because that is where launches slip quietly. Payment means choosing between Shopify Payments and a third party gateway, which affects transaction fees and whether some features are available at all, then testing real transactions rather than assuming the setup is right. Tax means configuring rates for every region you sell into and confirming how your accounting system expects to receive orders. Neither is difficult, but both must be finished before cutover and both need somebody on your side who can confirm the numbers, since we can configure a rate but cannot verify your tax position for you.

Yes. Each Magento store view or website is mapped either to its own Shopify store or handled through Shopify Markets, depending on whether the stores share a catalog or need to stay genuinely separate. Markets suits the common case of the same products sold with different currencies, pricing, languages and domains. Separate stores make sense when the catalogs, brands or fulfillment operations really do diverge, because that isolation is the point. The tradeoff is administrative, since separate stores mean separate apps, themes and reporting. We work through that with you before migrating rather than discovering the constraint halfway through.

Yes. Customer records are migrated with their group assignments, and historical orders are imported as archived Shopify orders tied to the matched customer, so shoppers see their past purchases when they log in after the switch. One thing worth planning for is that passwords do not migrate, because Magento stores them hashed and no platform can recover the originals. Customers set a new password on first login. We handle that with a clear pre-launch email rather than letting people meet an unexplained failed login, since a confused returning customer at the moment of a relaunch is an avoidable loss.

Magento customer group and tier pricing rules are migrated onto Shopify B2B company profiles and catalogs, so negotiated pricing and net terms keep working without your team reconfiguring them from scratch. Worth knowing on both sides of the move: Magento's B2B features, including company accounts, shared catalogs and requisition lists, are Adobe Commerce capabilities rather than Open Source ones, and Shopify's B2B tooling lives on Shopify Plus. We check what your buyers actually use before mapping anything, because a rule that exists in the database but no customer has triggered in two years is worth retiring rather than rebuilding.

The destination is the same, but Magento 1 stores are usually the more urgent case, because that platform reached end of life in June 2020 and has received no security patches since. Running an unpatched storefront that takes card details is the real risk, and it does not improve with time. Magento 1 migrations also tend to need extra discovery, since documentation on older installs is thinner, the developers who built them have often moved on, and customizations were frequently made directly in core files rather than as modules. We budget for that reading time instead of pretending the two cases are identical.

A reconciliation pass compares product counts, order totals and customer records against the original Magento database, redirect rules are tested for the highest-traffic URLs, and checkout, account login and search are manually verified on the live Shopify store before handover. We also check the quiet paths that automated counts miss: tax on a real order to a real address, a discount code, an out-of-stock product, an email receipt actually arriving. Totals matching is necessary but not sufficient, because a catalog can reconcile perfectly while checkout fails for one shipping zone, and that stays invisible until a customer meets it.

We rebuild your visual design and brand elements as a new Shopify or Shopify Plus theme rather than porting Magento template files, because the two platforms use entirely different templating systems and a literal port produces something fragile that neither team can maintain. A relaunch is also the natural moment to fix what the old theme got wrong. We carry over the brand, typography and the layouts your customers recognize, then take the opportunity to correct the parts that were hurting conversion, since Baymard's research across dozens of studies puts average cart abandonment at 70.19 percent and much of that is checkout friction.

Magento's EAV attribute model is mapped field by field onto Shopify's product options, variants and metafields before any migration script runs, so structured data like size, material or spec sheets carries across instead of being flattened into description text. This is the least glamorous stage and the one that decides whether the new store is usable. Shopify limits how many options a purchasable variant can carry, so attributes Magento treated interchangeably have to be sorted into those that drive a variant and those that are descriptive metadata powering filters, search and merchandising. Getting that split wrong is expensive to undo later.

Yes. Every migration includes a 30-day hypercare period with daily monitoring checks, and ongoing Shopify maintenance and support retainers are available afterward if you want continued coverage. Hypercare exists because the first month is when reality tests the assumptions. Search indexes settle, redirects meet real inbound links, integrations meet real order volume, and returning customers meet the new login flow. We watch order rate, checkout errors, 404s and organic traffic against your pre-migration baseline, so a problem is identified by us against a number rather than by you against a feeling that something is off.