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● Shopify Migration

Migrate without losing what you built.

Catalogue, customers, order history and search rankings move together. We plan the cutover before we write the first import.

The problem

Most migrations lose something: variant structure gets flattened, customer accounts do not carry over, or organic traffic drops because redirects were an afterthought. The damage shows up weeks after launch.

Technical approach

We model the target catalogue first, then write repeatable import pipelines you can run as many times as needed. Redirects are generated from the real URL inventory, and we rehearse the cutover on a staging store before touching production.

What we engineer

  • Catalogue model and data mapping document
  • Product, collection and variant migration
  • Customer and order history migration
  • URL inventory, redirect map and SEO continuity plan
  • Rehearsed cutover runbook with rollback
  • Post-launch monitoring for the first two weeks

Typical scope

Timeline
8 to 16 weeks
Engagement
Fixed-scope project
Ideal fit
Brands on WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce or a custom platform with real catalogue complexity and organic traffic worth protecting.

Capabilities

  • Admin GraphQL API
  • Bulk operations
  • Redirect mapping
  • Data reconciliation
  • Staging rehearsal
  • Technical SEO

Related work

Demo projectMigrationWooCommerce to ShopifyTechnical SEO

Field & Form

Migrated with catalogue and search rankings intact

View case study

05 / Forge process

Raw problem. Shipped system.

Five stages. The line between them is the transformation.

  1. 01

    Diagnose

    The commercial problem before the backlog. Which constraint is costing money, and where it lives.

    • Business problem
    • Technical constraints
    • Existing architecture
    • Customer journey
    • Operational requirements
  2. 02

    Architect

    Solution architecture written down with its trade-offs, before implementation starts.

    • Solution architecture
    • Shopify capabilities
    • Integrations
    • Technical constraints
    • Implementation plan
  3. 03

    Engineer

    Iterative delivery on a staging store, every change behind a performance budget.

    • Storefront
    • Custom functionality
    • Integrations
    • APIs
    • Automation
  4. 04

    Test

    Functionality, responsiveness, performance and edge cases verified before anything reaches production.

    • Functionality
    • Responsive behaviour
    • Performance
    • Edge cases
    • Integrations
    • Accessibility
  5. 05

    Ship

    Production deployment with monitoring, handoff and an optimisation roadmap for what comes next.

    • Production deployment
    • Monitoring
    • QA
    • Handoff
    • Optimisation roadmap

06 / FAQ

Questions we get before the first call.

Often not. Plus earns its cost when you need multiple stores, B2B company accounts, checkout extensibility or higher API limits. If your constraint is theme architecture or app conflicts, Plus will not fix it. We will tell you which one you have before you commit to the plan.

Projects are fixed scope with a fixed price, quoted after a paid discovery when the problem is not yet well defined. Retainers are a monthly allocation with a three-month minimum. We publish ranges during the first call rather than after a proposal cycle.

A custom storefront runs six to twelve weeks. A migration runs eight to sixteen weeks depending on catalogue complexity. A B2B implementation runs eight to sixteen. Headless is twelve to twenty-four. Discovery sharpens these before anything is committed.

Yes, and most of our work is exactly that. We start with an audit of the theme, app stack and data model, and we give you the findings whether or not you engage us for the remediation.

Modelling your real account structure as companies and locations, building catalogues and price lists per buyer, implementing contract and volume pricing, configuring payment terms, and migrating the wholesale process people currently run by email.

Not if redirects are planned rather than retrofitted. We crawl the live site to generate a complete URL inventory, produce the redirect map from it, and rehearse the cutover on a staging store before touching production. We monitor rankings daily for two weeks after launch.

Yes, when the logic belongs in an app. Frequently it belongs in a Shopify Function or a checkout extension instead, which is cheaper to run and closer to where Shopify evaluates the rule. We choose based on where the logic has to execute.

Usually not. Headless doubles the maintenance surface and checkout stays on Shopify regardless. It earns its cost for content-heavy storefronts and teams with the engineering capacity to own a decoupled front end. We assess that before recommending it.

An agreed monthly capacity with named engineers, a prioritised backlog you control, feature development and bug fixing, performance monitoring, a defined emergency response path, and a quarterly architecture review.

Yes. White-label Shopify engineering behind your brand, working in your tools and to your process. We do not appear in front of your client and we do not approach them directly. Several of our engagements are agency partnerships.

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