Migration to Shopify

Migration to Shopify is the process of moving a store's products, customer data, orders, and design from another platform, WooCommerce, Magento, or BigCommerce, onto Shopify without losing history or interrupting sales. Merchants typically migrate for Shopify's stability, app ecosystem, and mobile app compatibility, since a Shopify-native app, unlike a platform-agnostic wrapper, is built directly around Shopify's checkout, inventory, and customer data. Bonsify is a Shopify services company by FetchSky that builds native iOS and Android apps, PWAs, new Shopify stores, platform migrations, custom apps, and more.

What's included

• Full product catalog migration, including variants, images, and metadata
• Customer and order history migration
• URL structure and redirect planning, to preserve SEO rankings through the move
• Custom theme development on Shopify, rather than a generic default theme
• Integration setup for apps, payment providers, and shipping tools the store already relies on

Why migration timing and structure matter

A rushed migration risks losing SEO rankings through broken URLs, losing customer order history, or launching on Shopify with a slower store than the one being replaced. Bonsify's migration process is built around avoiding all three: redirect mapping is planned before launch, customer and order data is migrated in full rather than partially, and the new Shopify store is custom-built rather than a default theme with the old catalog dropped in.

For merchants planning a mobile app as part of the same move, migrating to Shopify first makes the eventual app build faster and more capable, since it can work directly with Shopify's APIs rather than wrapping a legacy platform's storefront.

How the process works

Migration starts with a free audit of the current store, its catalog size, its traffic and SEO position, and its integrations, to scope the move accurately. From there, the build follows a phased approach: catalog and data migration, theme development, integration setup, and a launch plan designed to minimize downtime and preserve search rankings.

Beyond migration

Once on Shopify, the same team can build a mobile app, set up subscriptions, or handle ongoing store optimization, so migration isn't a one-off handoff to a different team for what comes next.

Getting started

The free audit reviews the current store's setup and scopes the migration plan and quote, in days.

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