Shopify to PrestaShop Migration

Plan Your Shopify to PrestaShop Migration

Define the catalog, customers, historical orders, coupons, app-held reviews, CMS pages, and translations your business needs in PrestaShop. Keep source examples for checking the results, including variation products, customer records, orders with different statuses, coupon restrictions, and information pages.

This page uses LitExtension’s All-in-One Migration Service. Our experts assess access, map records, configure applicable options, run the Free Demo and Full Migration, and validate agreed results. Your Personal Assistant coordinates requirements, feedback, approvals, remaining data work, and handover.

Compare AIO with Manual Imports

Shopify product exports and order exports are separate files. PrestaShop’s native importer presents entity-specific fields and mapping; a Shopify CSV is not automatically ready for every PrestaShop entity. AIO includes assessment and coordinated mapping rather than leaving the full import workflow to your team.

1. Agree on Scope and Access

Describe your Shopify setup, source review apps, custom product fields, subscriptions, loyalty records, target store, and launch requirements. Our experts assess available records and agree on selected entities, mappings, and acceptance checks before transfer.

Provide the access requested for Shopify, relevant source apps, and PrestaShop. Keep it available through the Demo, Full Migration, and validation. App-held records may need separate access or files; the presence of a Shopify app does not establish that its complete data or behavior can move.

Keep original exports and important assets as backups. Record snapshot times for tracking subsequent changes. Shopify’s product-export documentation explains that image files are not embedded in the CSV and source images need to remain accessible during file-based imports. Coordinate source availability with our team before closing the store or deleting products.

2. Prepare PrestaShop and Existing Records

Prepare the target store and identify records that must remain. Save a PrestaShop database and file backup before approving Clear Target Data. Agree on selected entities to clean and on handling Demo records before Full Migration.

Plan the theme, hosting, modules, payments, carriers, taxes, notifications, and checkout separately. Shopify themes, app code, checkout customizations, payment credentials, and subscription logic are not converted into PrestaShop equivalents by transferring listed data.

If the target uses multistore, define the intended shop and review associations and module context before launch. The supported translations and categories do not establish transfer of every Shopify Markets configuration or target shop-assignment rule.

3. Map Products, Variants, and Categories

Products include names, SKUs, short/full descriptions, status, regular/special prices, quantities, stock-management settings, meta titles/descriptions, weight, dimensions, product tags, variants, thumbnail images, and additional images.

Variants remains a parent group without promises for every detailed variation subfield. Compare representative selections, prices, inventory, and cart behavior in the Demo. Standalone Shopify metafields are not assumed to become PrestaShop Attributes, and Vendor is not assumed equivalent to Manufacturer.

Category data includes names, descriptions, images, and meta titles/descriptions. Category sort order and original product/category URL keys are outside the listed scope. Collection conditions and Shopify automated-collection behavior are not recreated as target category rules; review product organization and prepare navigation separately.

4. Map Customers and Historical Orders

Customer profiles include first names, last names, emails, and creation dates. The source generic Address field is not assumed equivalent to target Billing Address. Customer passwords, usernames, status, display names, groups, and email-marketing status are outside this shared scope.

Prepare PrestaShop account access and password setup or recovery communications before launch. Test the planned customer journey rather than expecting Shopify credentials or email-code login behavior to carry across platforms. Billing and shipping addresses on historical orders are separate supported fields.

Orders include IDs, dates, statuses, items, subtotal, discount, tax, shipping price, total price, comments, customer names/emails, and billing/shipping addresses. Order Items and addresses remain parent groups. Tags, tracking number/URL fields, transactions, and invoices are outside this scope.

Our experts configure Preserve Order IDs and check original references with you. Compare order totals and relationships against historical source records; Shopify’s order-export documentation notes that exported order data reflects the time of purchase rather than current product values.

5. Map Coupons, Reviews, Content, and Translations

Coupons include titles, descriptions, codes, coupon dates, customer groups, per-coupon/per-customer limits, amounts/percentages, status, and start/end dates. Coupon creation dates are not included. Test target eligibility and calculations separately, particularly where apps created custom discount behavior.

Reviews include creation dates, status, ratings, reviewer names/emails, and comments. Review titles and product-code/name fields are not shared target fields. Our team assesses access to source app records and coordinates target display requirements; Shopify review-app functionality does not migrate as a PrestaShop module.

CMS pages include titles, creation dates, URLs, content, and thumbnails. Authors, separate handles, descriptions, categories, and page status are outside this shared scope. Review transferred text, internal links, and thumbnail presentation; page records do not recreate the Shopify page template.

Multiple Languages covers product, category, and CMS-page names/descriptions. Translated attributes and blogs are not included. Prepare target languages and inspect representative translations; Shopify Markets settings, regional pricing, and domain behavior need separate planning.

6. Configure Applicable Additional Options

All applicable Additional Options are included for free with AIO. Our experts configure 301 redirects, original order references, HTML cleanup for product/category names, approved target cleanup, and description images.

Description Images covers embedded images in product and category descriptions. Review these separately from catalog images and CMS thumbnails; the option does not establish separate CMS-body embedded-image coverage or blog migration. Shopify Smart Collections does not apply to the PrestaShop target.

Approve target cleanup after saving a backup. Test important redirect destinations; a redirect operation is separate from transferring an original URL key. Unchanged search rankings are not guaranteed.

7. Review the Demo and Complete Migration

Our experts run a Free Demo and coordinate your review. Compare product text, variations, prices, quantities, images, metadata, category organization, customer records, orders, discounts, reviews, page content, and translations with Shopify.

Counts alone do not establish correctness. Provide source and target examples for unexpected values, formatting, images, or relationships. Resolve discrepancies and agree on remaining storefront work before approving Full Migration.

Our team runs and monitors the full transfer, validates agreed records, and investigates migration discrepancies. Shopify can continue accepting orders during transfer. Your Personal Assistant communicates progress and coordinates the completed-data review.

8. Coordinate Final Updates and Launch

Track new orders and changes after source snapshots. Eligible Recent Data Migration, Smart Update, and Re-migration address agreed records under the project terms. Coordinate the final update before handover; these services do not provide continuous synchronization.

Test old URLs, redirects, internal links, customer access, product selection, discounts, payments, carriers, taxes, notifications, and checkout on desktop and mobile. Prepare required blogs, app replacements, and operational settings before directing traffic to PrestaShop.

Cost and timing depend on data volume, access, mapping complexity, custom requirements, and Demo feedback. Use Estimate Migration Cost for an initial estimate or contact our experts to discuss the project.