Shopify to Shopify Migration

Complete Shopify-to-Shopify Migration Guide

A Shopify-to-Shopify migration involves transferring supported store data, validating the results, and preparing the new store for launch. Use the following steps to manage each part of the process.

1. Prepare and Connect Your Shopify Stores

Confirm which Shopify store will be the source and which will become the target. The target store should be active and accessible, but it does not need to be publicly available during preparation and testing.

Review the source store and define what needs to be migrated. Separately record anything that must be recreated or configured on the target store, including the theme, installed apps, payment methods, shipping rules, taxes, domains, custom code, and third-party integrations.

Remove outdated products, duplicate customer records, unused discounts, and unnecessary test data. If the target store already contains data, decide what should be retained or cleared before migration to prevent duplicates.

Sign in at app.litextension.com and create a new migration. Select Shopify as both the Source Cart and Target Cart. Connect the source store, then install or open the LitExtension Store Migration Tool to authorize the target store.

2. Configure and Run the Migration

Select the supported products, collections, customers, orders, discounts, pages, blog posts, and related fields you want to transfer. Then configure any required Additional Migration Options.

Run the Free Demo to transfer a limited sample. Check whether representative records retain the expected content, relationships, images, prices, inventory, metadata, and order information. If anything is missing or mapped incorrectly, review the settings before continuing.

Custom metafields, app-generated records, unusual data structures, and third-party integrations may require additional assessment rather than standard automated mapping.

Once the Demo result has been verified, launch the Full Migration. The transfer continues in the background even if you close your browser, while the source Shopify store remains available to customers.

3. Validate and Launch the Target Store

After migration, compare the entity totals shown in the result with the source store and inspect representative records in Shopify. Resolve any missing data or formatting issues before preparing the store for launch.

Next, complete the parts that are not included in the data transfer:

• Review the theme, navigation, mobile display, and custom code;
• Install and configure the required Shopify apps;
• Reconnect payment, shipping, tax, analytics, email, ERP, CRM, and fulfillment services;
• Test search, filters, cart, checkout, notifications, and order processing;
• Check URL handles, SEO metadata, redirects, and the custom domain.

Customer passwords are not copied between Shopify stores, so prepare the appropriate account-access process for the new store.

If new data was created on the source store while the migration was running, transfer those recent changes before launch. Place a final test order, confirm that essential workflows are working, and then connect or transfer the primary domain.

Keep the source store available until the target store has been fully validated. After launch, monitor redirects, 404 errors, organic traffic, inventory, orders, and third-party integrations.