Craft Commerce to Shopify Migration

A beautiful site you cannot change is not an asset.

Why merchants leave Craft Commerce

Every change needs a developer

Craft is a developer's platform, and that is the point of it. The trouble starts when your marketing team wants to launch a promotion and the answer is a ticket, a quote, and a wait.

Twig lock-in

Your storefront lives in templates only a Craft developer can safely edit. That is a small pool, and it means the person who built your site has more leverage over your roadmap than you do.

The talent pool is small

When your Craft developer moves on, replacing them is genuinely hard. Merchants find this out at the worst possible moment. As John Herring at Perrin put it, developers who disappear for two weeks are not a rare story.

You are maintaining commerce infrastructure

Checkout, payments, tax, fraud, and PCI scope are all yours to own on Craft Commerce. On Shopify they are somebody else's full-time job.

Plugins and upgrades are a project

Craft major-version upgrades are real work with real regression risk, on your budget, on their schedule.

What comes with you

Products and variants

Your whole catalog, including option sets, images, and the metafields your theme depends on.

Customers

Accounts move across. Passwords cannot come with you on any platform, so customers set a new one on first login. We handle the messaging.

Order history

Historical orders come with you, so support and returns do not lose their paper trail. Naväge brought more than a decade of it across.

Content and blog

Pages, posts, and the URLs they live on.

A 301 redirect map for every URL

Built by hand, approved by you, live at cutover. This is the whole SEO story of a migration.

THE PART EVERYONE IS AFRAID OF

Will this wreck my SEO?

This is the question that stalls most migrations, and it deserves a straight answer: a migration hurts your SEO when the redirects are an afterthought. So we do them first.

Craft sites usually have tidy URL structures, which makes this the least painful part of the move. Every URL still gets mapped to its destination and approved by you before we build. At cutover the 301s go live with the store, and after launch we watch Search Console with you while it settles.

CRAFT COMMERCE MIGRATIONS WE HAVE SHIPPED

Perrin Performance

Craft Commerce to Shopify with a year-make-model fitment catalog. Sales rose 15% year over year, the build returned 7.5x ROI in 60 days, and the site is now run day to day by a two-person team instead of a developer.

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HOW A MIGRATION RUNS

1.

CONSULTATION + STRATEGY

We look at your current store, your catalog, and your traffic, then tell you what the move actually involves. If a migration is the wrong call for you right now, we will say so on the call.

2.

CATALOG + DATA AUDIT

Products, variants, customers, order history, and content get inventoried before anything moves. This is where the surprises live: the option set that does not map cleanly, the 12 years of orders, the blog nobody remembered.

3.

REDIRECT MAPPING

Every old URL gets mapped to its new home. This is the step DIY migrations skip and it is why they bleed traffic. You approve the map before we build.

4.

BUILD + DATA MIGRATION

Your store gets built on a fast Shopify 2.0 foundation and your data moves into it. You are looking at a real store with your real products in it, not a demo.

5.

QUALITY ASSURANCE

Usability, browsers, broken links, checkout, and every redirect in the map. We break it so your customers do not.

6.

LAUNCH

Supervised go-live with the redirects switched on at cutover. WheelWiz took their first order 3 hours after launch.

7.

SUPPORT

30 days of post-launch support included, and we watch Search Console with you while the redirects settle. Retainers available when you want us to stick around.

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