Shopify to WooCommerce Migration

Pre-Migration Checklist: Shopify to WooCommerce

Prepare before migrating from Shopify to WooCommerce:

• Choose a hosting provider: Shopify is a fully hosted platform, but WooCommerce is a self-hosted plugin built on WordPress core. You need a WordPress hosting environment that meets WooCommerce’s current server recommendations. Our experts can help you choose the right one.
• Back up your Shopify store data: Export your product catalog, customer records, and order history from the Shopify admin panel before starting the migration. Our experts can help with this step.
• Identify features that need to be replaced: Shopify apps and built-in features do not carry over to WooCommerce automatically. Before you migrate, list the features your current store relies on and identify the WooCommerce plugin that covers the same functionality. Our experts can help you map these out.
• Plan your store design: Shopify’s Liquid-based themes are not compatible with WooCommerce, which runs on WordPress’s block editor and PHP templates. You will need to select a WooCommerce-compatible theme and configure it separately. Our article on the best WooCommerce themes can help.

What We Migrate from Shopify to WooCommerce

Our team reviews your Shopify store and classifies your data into three groups before migration starts, so you know exactly what to expect on the other side.

We flag anything in the second and third groups during the technical consultation, so you can decide how to handle it before migration begins rather than discovering a gap after launch.

What Happens to Your Shopify Apps When You Move to WooCommerce

Shopify apps don’t migrate with your data. If your store relies on apps for subscriptions, reviews, loyalty, bundles, wholesale pricing, email marketing, or search and filtering, we handle this separately from the core data migration:

• We audit which apps your store currently uses and what each one stores.
• We identify the WooCommerce plugin that covers the same functionality.
• We assess whether the app’s data can be exported and mapped into that plugin.
• We set up a custom migration path for data that needs it.
• We test the resulting workflow on WooCommerce before launch.

This step is often the difference between a store that looks migrated and one that actually works the way your team expects on day one.

Shopify to WooCommerce Data Mapping

Here’s how core fields typically map between the two platforms. Every migration includes a full mapping review specific to your store.

How Our Shopify to WooCommerce Migration Service Works

Migrating from Shopify to WooCommerce involves more than moving data from one platform to another. Here is exactly what happens when you use our managed migration service, from the first consultation to post-migration support.

Step 1. Store audit and technical consultation

Every migration starts with a one-on-one consultation with our team. This is where the plan takes shape.

During the call, we assess your Shopify store’s structure, size, and requirements end to end: products, product variants, orders, customers, blog posts, apps, and any custom fields or metafields. We also review your WooCommerce hosting environment to confirm it’s ready to receive data. Mapping this out early lets us catch potential schema conflicts before they become migration issues.

Stores with custom fields or unique Shopify workflows, such as custom checkout logic or app-injected metafields, receive full documentation of those elements so nothing is misaligned when the data lands in WooCommerce’s database structure.

Step 2. Data mapping plan

Before any data moves, we build a full data map: product categories, product attributes, customer groups, and order fields from Shopify are matched to WooCommerce’s post types and taxonomy structure. Custom fields, metafields, and business-specific rules are accounted for in the configuration so transfers stay clean.

Store URLs, admin credentials, and the API keys needed to connect Shopify and WooCommerce securely are also collected and validated during this step. By the end, every data field is mapped and double-checked.

Step 3. Test migration

We run a test migration before the full transfer begins. This gives you a preview of how your data will render in WooCommerce and confirms the field mapping is working correctly.

A representative sample of your Shopify data is migrated: data structure, formatting, and field mapping are reviewed, and products, customers, and orders are verified to display as expected in the WordPress admin. Any issues found at this stage, such as mismatched attribute values or missing variant data, are resolved before the full migration proceeds.

Step 4. Full migration

Once the test migration is approved, we move all data included in your migration scope to your new WooCommerce store according to the plan built in the earlier steps.

Your Shopify store remains live throughout, so you can keep taking orders while the transfer runs in the background.

We notify you once the transfer is complete so you can review your WooCommerce store and begin post-migration tasks.

Step 5. Data validation

After migration, we run a full review to confirm the data transferred correctly and matches your original store’s structure.

Products, product variations, categories, customer accounts, order history, and product-order-customer relationships are all checked against the source data. Any inconsistencies, missing fields, or formatting problems are corrected immediately. A project outcome report is then sent to you for your own review.

Step 6. Recent data synchronization

Because your Shopify store stays live during migration, new orders, sign-ups, or product updates may come in while the transfer is running. The following services are available to keep your WooCommerce store current:

• Unlimited Recent Data Migration: Syncs new data created during migration, available for 30 days, provided new data is under 5% of the initial migration volume.
• Free Re-migration: Unlimited re-runs of the full migration, available for 30 days after completion.
• Free Smart Update: Unlimited incremental updates to sync changes between platforms, available for 90 days after completion.

Step 7. Launch support

Your Shopify store stays available while we perform the initial migration on your WooCommerce environment. Before launch, we migrate recently created customers, orders, and other eligible records, then validate checkout, redirects, and transactional emails before the domain is switched over.

Support continues after launch. For 30 days following completion, our support team is available to answer questions, resolve issues, and help with anything related to your new WooCommerce setup – whether that’s a plugin conflict, a checkout configuration question, or general platform guidance.

You get a fully migrated WooCommerce store, and a team available whenever you need one.

Service Scope and Deliverables

Our standard migration service includes:

• Migration assessment and data mapping document
• Test migration
• Full data migration within scope
• Entity count and relationship validation
• SEO redirect configuration
• Recent data migration
• Launch checklist and post-migration support

The following typically fall outside the default scope and are quoted separately when needed:

• WooCommerce theme development
• Complete website redesign
• Custom plugin development
• Payment gateway account setup
• Recreation of Shopify apps
• Custom integration development

We confirm scope with you during the technical consultation, so there are no surprises once the project starts.

Can You Migrate From Shopify to WooCommerce Manually?

Shopify and WooCommerce both support CSV-based data transfer, so a manual migration is possible for smaller catalogs with simple product structures. A few things to know before going this route:

• Shopify’s product CSV can transfer core product data through WooCommerce’s built-in importer.
• Customers and orders need a plugin, since WooCommerce core has no native importer for those record types.
• Metafields, product relationships, and SEO URLs typically need extra mapping work.
• Your Shopify theme, apps, and Shopify-specific checkout logic won’t carry over and need to be rebuilt separately on WooCommerce.
• You’ll also need to set up your own 301 redirects to prevent broken URLs from affecting your search visibility.

Manual migration can work for small stores with straightforward data. It gets harder to manage once variants, metafields, order history, and redirects scale up, which is where our managed service takes over the mapping, validation, and launch work for you.

Moving from Shopify to WooCommerce is a bigger technical shift than a typical replatform. You’re going from a fully hosted platform to a self-hosted stack you’re responsible for, which means hosting, PHP versions, plugin compatibility, and security updates all become your job. Add in Shopify apps, metafields, and customer order history, and it’s easy to underestimate what a clean migration actually takes.

That’s the gap our migration service closes. Every step, from the store audit to data mapping to test migration to launch support, is built to catch the issues a manual CSV import tends to miss, so your product data, customer accounts, and order history land in WooCommerce as close as possible to how they were on Shopify.

Get a free migration consultation and see what your Shopify to WooCommerce migration would involve before you commit to anything.