PrestaShop to Shopify Migration

Step-by-Step Guide to Migrating from PrestaShop to Shopify

To begin migrating products, customers, orders, and more to Shopify using the LitExtension migration tool:

• From your active Shopify store go to Shopify App Store.
• Search for LitExtension Store Migration.
• Click Install. Once installed, open the app and follow the steps below.

Step 1: Set Up Source Cart

On the Migration Page screen, select Create New Migration.

In Source Cart Setup section:

• Select PrestaShop as your Source Cart from the drop-down menu and enter your Source Cart URL.
• Enter your login details and let the system handle the rest.
• Within a few seconds, you will see a confirmation popup with the message: “Connector is successfully installed!”.
• Now, click “Next: Configure Your Migration” to proceed.

Step 2: Configure Prestashop to Shopify Migration

The next step is to select the data you want to migrate.

You can also enable additional options to enhance performance and SEO for your Shopify store.

Entities Selection

In Entities To Migrate section, select the entities you want to migrate.

For the Prestashop to Shopify pair, the entities you can migrate are:

• Products
• Product Categories
• Customers
• Orders
• Coupons
• CMS Pages
• Blog

Or click Select All to transfer everything.

For data you want to migrate that is not listed here, please contact LitExtension experts so we can assist and advise on alternative solutions.

Additional Options

After selecting your data, configure the Additional Options section. Common choices include:

• Clear target cart data before migration: This option allows you to delete the data (on the Target Store) in accordance with selected entities for migration. It is to avoid mixing and duplication of data during the migration process.
• Preserve IDs for products, customers, and orders: With this option, the IDs of your product, customer and order will be kept the same in your Target Store just as in your Source Store. This option is necessary to keep the connection among entities after the migration. Besides that, it helps you manage your Products, Customers and Orders easily.
• Create 301 Redirects from source to target cart: The 301 Redirects option allows you to automatically redirect your old store’s Product and Category URLs to the new ones during the migration. This ensures that your previous links continue to work, helping to maintain a smooth customer experience after replatforming.
• Strip HTML tags from category and product names: Categories, product names in your Source store may already wear HTML tags. However, these tags might have been configured improperly or your new store does not need them anymore.
• Migrate Source Store Categories into Shopify Automated Collections: Shopify doesn’t have sub-categories, instead, it provides collections. Therefore, during the migration to Shopify, choosing this option will migrate all of your categories including sub-categories to Shopify collections.

If you need to answer questions about additional options, you can contact live chat for free consultation.

Step 3: Perform Prestashop to Shopify Migration

After selecting the data to migrate to Shopify and configuring additional options, continue with the Full Migration.

If you need a demo to see if the data is moving correctly, choose Demo Migration. You can learn more about the benefits of using Demo Migration and how to implement it through our detailed step-by-step guide.

Otherwise, simply tick Skip Demo Migration and click Start Full Migration to begin.

The migration process may take a few minutes or longer depending on the number of entities being transferred. LitExtension runs on a cloud-based system, you don’t need to keep your browser or internet connection active during the migration. Additionally, you can easily check the migration progress through the Migration progress section.

Note: Before starting, you’ll be asked to complete the payment. LitExtension supports multiple payment methods, including PayPal, Skrill, Western Union, Bank Transfer, and Cryptocurrencies.

Once the system displays the “Full Migration Is Completed” screen, immediately review your results. Verifying data integrity ensures that all information has transferred correctly to your new Shopify store.

PrestaShop to Shopify Post-Migration Checklist 

You have migrated from PrestaShop to Shopify. But before going live, there is one more critical phase: verification. Even a migration that completes without error messages can still carry broken product relationships, misconfigured integrations, or missing customer records that only surface after launch.

This checklist covers every step to verify after your PrestaShop to Shopify migration, in the order that catches the most serious issues first. After your migration completes, you can access a detailed migration report directly in your LitExtension dashboard. Review it before starting the steps below.

In this guide:

• Verify core data integrity
• Validate data quality
• Review error logs and exceptions
• Run a delta migration
• Reconfigure integrations and apps
• Restore communication channels
• Update internal links and templates
• Check tracking and SEO

Step 1: Verify Core Data Integrity

The first task is confirming that your store’s foundation arrived intact, both the records and the relationships between them.

Compare Record Counts:

• Pull total counts for products, customers, orders, and categories from your PrestaShop export. Then open Shopify admin and confirm the numbers match. A count mismatch at this stage requires investigation before anything else proceeds.
• One thing to watch specifically: PrestaShop and Shopify handle product attributes differently. A product with three color options and four size options in PrestaShop migrates as 12 flat variants in Shopify. That is correct behavior, but all 12 variants need to be present.

Validate Structural Relationships. Open 10 to 15 sample records across products, orders, and customers and confirm:

• Products are assigned to the correct Shopify collections, not dumped into a default category
• Orders are still linked to the right customer accounts
• Historical order data, including taxes, shipping methods, and payment statuses, matches PrestaShop records

Step 2: Validate Data Quality

Knowing the data exists is not the same as knowing it is correct. Review a representative product sample for names, descriptions, SKUs, prices, variants, and images.

Pay close attention to:

• Decimal and currency formatting. PrestaShop stores prices with comma separators in many locales. Shopify expects period-based decimals. Misformatted prices are invisible until a customer tries to buy.
• Broken image URLs. Product images that pointed to your PrestaShop server now need to resolve to Shopify’s CDN.
• Customer records. Review email addresses, billing and shipping details, customer groups, and account statuses. If passwords were migrated, test login on a handful of accounts to confirm customers can access their profiles without friction.

Step 3: Review the LitExtension Migration Report

💡LitExtension users: Open your dashboard and navigate to the migration report for your completed job. This report lists every entity that was skipped or partially migrated, along with the reason.

Go through every failed or skipped entity and categorize each one: does it need manual correction, a custom mapping rule, or a targeted re-run?

Records skipped due to platform limitations, such as PrestaShop-specific custom fields with no Shopify equivalent, should be handled through Shopify metafields or a relevant app if the data is operationally important. Addressing exceptions now prevents hidden problems from surfacing after launch.

Step 4: Run a Delta Migration for New Data

If your PrestaShop store stayed active during the initial migration, new orders came in and customer records were updated while the transfer was running. A delta migration closes that gap.

Using LitExtension, you can run a Recent Data Migration directly from your dashboard to re-migrate data created or modified after your original cutoff point. After it completes:

• Recheck record counts
• Spot-test the most recent five to ten orders to confirm they appear correctly in Shopify

This step is what ensures data continuity when you redirect customers to the new store.

Step 5: Reconfigure Integrations and Third-Party Apps

Third-party tools do not follow your data when you change platforms. Payment gateways, shipping providers, tax tools, CRM systems, ERP platforms, email marketing services, and analytics platforms all need to be manually reinstalled and reconnected on Shopify.

For each integration:

• Reinstall the relevant Shopify app and reconnect it using updated API keys or credentials
• Place a test order to confirm payments process, shipping rates calculate correctly, and tax rules apply as expected
• Confirm order data syncs to your CRM or ERP
• Run a test fulfillment if you use a third-party logistics provider

A store that looks ready but has a broken payment gateway is not ready.

Step 6: Restore and Test Communication Channels

Email services, notification rules, and contact forms are platform-dependent and do not migrate automatically. Work through every customer-facing communication point:

• Transactional emails: Order confirmations, shipping updates, password resets
• Contact forms
• Live chat tools
• Customer support ticket systems

Verify that sender domains are authenticated and your SMTP configuration or third-party email service is correctly connected in Shopify. Then run end-to-end tests: place a test order, submit the contact form, and trigger a password reset. These tests take less than 30 minutes and prevent embarrassing post-launch failures.

Step 7: Update Internal Links, Templates, and Automations

Migration changes URL structures. A PrestaShop URL like /en/clothing/t-shirts/product-name.html becomes structurally different on Shopify, and every internal link pointing to the old format is now broken.

Audit your help center articles, FAQ pages, blog posts, and policy pages for outdated links. Where URL changes were unavoidable, set up 301 redirects using Shopify’s native URL redirects feature.

Beyond links, review your operational logic:

• Front-end templates: product pages, checkout layouts, email designs
• Backend automations: order fulfillment rules, inventory updates, abandoned cart flows, marketing triggers

Rebuild or adjust each workflow to match Shopify’s logic and test using controlled scenarios before launch.

Step 8: Verify Tracking and SEO Configuration

Confirm that Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager, advertising pixels, and reporting dashboards are correctly installed and collecting data. Test a complete purchase flow and confirm the transaction appears in your analytics platform.

For SEO, review URL structures, meta titles, meta descriptions, canonical tags, and indexing settings. Submit an updated sitemap to Google Search Console after the Shopify store is live and monitor crawl errors in the days following launch.

One honest caveat: even a well-executed migration will see some ranking fluctuation in the weeks after the platform switch. That is normal. A sudden, sustained drop in indexed pages is not, and usually points to missing redirects or a misconfigured robots.txt file.

If you face any challenges during the setup, data transfer, or post-migration review, do not hesitate to reach out. Contact the LitExtension Customer Support team at any time, we are available 24/7 to ensure your migration is accurate, secure, and successful.