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Migration guide · WooCommerce

WooCommerce
to Shopify.

Swap plugin updates, hosting worries and a slow checkout for a store that just works — with your products, customers, orders and Google rankings carried safely across.

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Typical timeline
~4 weeks
Moves across
Products, customers, orders, posts
Included
Full redirect map
Downtime
None — built alongside

Why brands leave WooCommerce

WooCommerce is flexible, but you own every moving part. Most stores we speak to are tired of looking after the engine instead of driving the car.

  1. 01

    Plugin juggling

    Updates to WordPress, WooCommerce and a dozen plugins that can break each other. Shopify's core, hosting and security updates are handled for you.

  2. 02

    Hosting and speed

    Performance depends on your host and setup. Shopify stores run on Shopify's own global infrastructure.

  3. 03

    Checkout

    Shopify's checkout, with Shop Pay, Apple Pay and Google Pay, is built and tested for conversion — no custom checkout to maintain.

  4. 04

    Selling beyond the website

    Social, Google, marketplaces, overseas and in person, all from one catalogue. See Sell Everywhere®.

What to watch

The WooCommerce details that matter.

Your URLs will change

WooCommerce products usually live at /product/name/ and categories at /product-category/name/. On Shopify they become /products/name and /collections/name. Every old URL gets a 301 redirect to its new home so rankings and backlinks carry across.

Variable products become variants

Attributes and variations map to Shopify options and variants. Extra product data from custom fields is carried across into metafields, so nothing useful is lost.

Blog and content

WordPress posts and pages move to Shopify's blog and pages, with their SEO titles, descriptions and images. Post URLs change too, so they're included in the redirect map.

Customer accounts

Customer records, addresses and marketing consent move across. Passwords can't be transferred securely between platforms, so customers get a friendly invite to activate their new account.

Plugins become apps

Reviews, email, subscriptions, shipping and accounting are reconnected with Shopify apps — often fewer than you had plugins. Subscriptions and saved payment methods need the most careful planning, and we'll flag that early.

Further reading

Insights

Moving to Shopify without losing your Google rankings

The five-step checklist we run on every migration.

Read the article Service

Shopify migrations

How every TigerCommerce migration runs, week by week.

See the process

WooCommerce migration questions

Can I keep my WordPress blog?

Yes, if you'd rather. Most brands move their posts to Shopify so everything lives in one place, but a WordPress blog can stay on a subdomain if it's a big part of your marketing. We'll talk through the trade-offs.

Will my store go offline?

No. The new Shopify store is built alongside your current site, and the switch happens at launch by pointing your domain at Shopify.

What about my subscriptions?

Subscriptions need a Shopify subscription app, and moving active subscribers depends on your payment provider. It's possible in many cases but needs planning, so we look at it in week one.

Moving from WooCommerce?
Let's map it out.

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