Squarespace to WordPress migration is handled entirely by LitExtension’s All-in-One team, no technical skill required on your end. Our experts transfer products, orders, customers, and other essential store data, validated through a Demo Migration before the Full Migration, backed by experience across 140+ eCommerce platforms.
Start with a Free Demo Migration to preview how your data will appear on WordPress. Once you approve the results, we run the Full Migration, and you’re covered by up to 60 days of support after it completes.
How to Perform Squarespace to WordPress Migration
Step 1: Consultant By LitExtension Experts
Our experts will attentively consider your requirements, suggesting necessary measures to guarantee optimal preparation for the migration.
Step 2: Data Mapping & Setting By Experts
We’ll configure your WordPress store, map your Squarespace data, and integrate essential plugins or apps for a seamless migration experience.
Step 3: Perform Full Data Migration
Perform full Squarespace to WordPress data migration. Once the process begins, our experts transfer your data with high accuracy, strong security, and full compliance.
Before You Migrate from PrestaShop to Shopify
Migrating from PrestaShop to Shopify is often not about leaving a bad platform. PrestaShop can still work well for merchants that need open-source flexibility, custom modules, and full control over hosting, customization, and store architecture.
However, as your store grows, managing product combinations, custom modules, multilingual content, hosting, security, integrations, and technical maintenance may require more effort. Shopify becomes attractive when you want a more managed ecommerce environment with hosted infrastructure, built-in security, app-based extensibility, and a checkout experience maintained by the platform.
Before running a full PrestaShop to Shopify migration, you should also review the parts that may need extra handling:
| Area to review | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Product combinations and variants | PrestaShop combinations usually need to be mapped into Shopify variants. Review SKUs, prices, stock, images, and option values before the full migration. |
| Categories and collections | PrestaShop categories and subcategories may need to be rebuilt as Shopify collections, automated collections, product tags, or navigation links. |
| SEO URLs and redirects | PrestaShop URLs can be more flexible than Shopify URLs. If product, category, CMS, or blog URLs change, important pages should be mapped and redirected properly. |
| Customer data and passwords | Customer records, addresses, groups, and custom fields may need review. Customer passwords may require special handling or a reset process depending on the migration scope. |
| Custom modules and workflows | PrestaShop modules, B2B pricing, multilingual content, multistore settings, ERP/PIM integrations, and custom workflows may not map directly to Shopify. |
| Test migration and validation | A Free Demo Migration helps you preview how products, customers, orders, categories, and URLs appear in Shopify before running the full migration. |
Step-by-Step Guide to Migrating from PrestaShop to Shopify
The 3-step summary above gives you a quick overview of how PrestaShop to Shopify migration works with LitExtension App. The detailed walkthrough below explains how to set up your migration, choose the right data and options, run a demo, and review the result before the full transfer.
This guide focuses on store data migration. If your project also includes rebuilding a custom PrestaShop theme, frontend layout, checkout experience, or custom functionality in Shopify, review that scope separately with your developer or LitExtension experts before launch.
Step 1: Set Up Source and Target Carts
The first step is connecting LitExtension to both your PrestaShop and Shopify stores so the migration tool can access the data needed for transfer.
Before you begin, make sure you have access to your PrestaShop admin, hosting or FTP if required, and your Shopify admin. You should also prepare a Shopify store or development store for testing, especially if you want to review migrated products, collections, pages, and orders before going live.
1.1. Set Up Source Cart: PrestaShop
In the Source Cart Setup section, select PrestaShop from the drop-down menu and enter your Source Cart URL.
Depending on your store setup, LitExtension may ask you to connect your PrestaShop store using a connector, API keys, or CSV files. Choose the connection method that matches your store condition and follow the on-screen instructions.
Before moving forward, check that your PrestaShop store is accessible, not blocked by maintenance mode, firewall rules, or server restrictions. If your store has a large catalog, many product combinations, or custom modules, consider contacting LitExtension experts before the full migration so the migration scope can be reviewed properly.
1.2. Set Up Target Cart: Shopify
In the Target Cart Setup section, select Shopify from the drop-down menu and enter your Target Cart URL.
Follow the setup instructions to connect LitExtension to your Shopify store. Your Shopify store does not need to be fully designed before migration, but it should be ready enough for testing migrated data. At minimum, review basic settings such as store currency, language, markets, tax, shipping, payment, and apps that may affect product, order, or customer data.
Once both carts are connected, you can continue to the data selection step.
Step 2: Configure Your PrestaShop to Shopify Migration
After connecting both carts, choose the data you want to transfer and review the migration options that fit your store requirements.
2.1 Select Entities to Migrate
In the Entities To Migrate section, select the PrestaShop data you want to move to Shopify, such as products, product categories, customers, orders, coupons, CMS pages, blog content, images, and SEO URLs.
If you want to migrate all supported data at once, click Select All. For most stores, however, it is worth reviewing each entity carefully so you understand what will be transferred and what may need extra handling.
Pay special attention to:
- Product combinations, attributes, SKUs, prices, stock, and images
- Categories and subcategories that may become Shopify collections or product tags
- Customer records, addresses, customer groups, and password-related data
- Order history, order statuses, discounts, taxes, and shipping details
- CMS pages, blog content, SEO metadata, and internal links
- Custom fields, module-related data, B2B pricing, multilingual data, or multistore setup
If your store includes unsupported entities or custom module data, contact LitExtension experts for a migration review before running the full transfer.
2.2 Review Additional Migration Options
After selecting your data, review the Additional Options section. Common options include clearing selected data on Shopify before migration, preserving order IDs, creating 301 redirects from PrestaShop to Shopify when URLs change, migrating images in descriptions, stripping HTML tags, and migrating PrestaShop categories into Shopify automated collections.
Do not enable options automatically without reviewing your store needs. For example, 301 redirects are useful when important PrestaShop URLs will change in Shopify, while preserving order IDs may be important if your team uses historical order numbers for accounting, customer support, or internal tracking.
If you are not sure which options to enable, contact LitExtension support before starting the full transfer.
Step 3: Run Demo Migration and Review the Result
Before running the full PrestaShop to Shopify migration, start with a Free Demo Migration. The demo lets you preview how selected PrestaShop data appears in Shopify and gives you time to check data mapping before committing to the full transfer.
After the demo, review sample records in Shopify instead of only checking whether the migration completed. Look at products with multiple combinations, products with images, categories, customers with addresses, orders with discounts or shipping details, CMS pages, and URLs.
Check whether:
- Product combinations are mapped into Shopify variants correctly
- Categories appear as the right Shopify collections, tags, or navigation structure
- Images are displayed properly
- Customer and order relationships are preserved
- Order statuses, totals, discounts, taxes, and shipping details look correct
- SEO titles, descriptions, and important URLs are present
- Any expected data is missing, duplicated, or formatted incorrectly
If something does not look right, adjust your selected entities, migration options, or mapping requirements before running the full migration.
Step 4: Run Full PrestaShop to Shopify Migration
When the demo result looks correct, start the full PrestaShop to Shopify migration. LitExtension runs the transfer on its cloud-based system, so you do not need to keep your browser open during the process.
Keep your PrestaShop store active during migration if you still need to receive orders. After the full transfer is complete, review the migration report and check your Shopify store before launch. If new orders, customers, or product updates were added to PrestaShop during the migration period, you may need Recent Data Migration to transfer the latest data before switching traffic to Shopify.
PrestaShop to Shopify Post-Migration Checklist
Your migration is complete, but your Shopify store should not go live until the migrated data, storefront settings, integrations, and tracking setup are properly verified. Even when the migration finishes without errors, issues such as missing relationships, broken images, incorrect variants, misconfigured apps, or outdated SEO links may appear during review.
Use the checklist below to validate your Shopify store before launch. Start with the most important data and checkout-related items, then move on to integrations, communication channels, internal links, and SEO tracking.
Step 1: Verify Core Data Integrity
Start by confirming that your main store records and their relationships were transferred correctly.
Compare the total number of products, customers, orders, and categories in PrestaShop with the migrated data in Shopify. If the numbers do not match, review the migration report before moving forward.
Pay special attention to product combinations. PrestaShop and Shopify handle product attributes differently, so a product with multiple color and size options may appear as multiple Shopify variants. This is expected, but all variants should be present and correctly linked.
Review sample records across products, orders, and customers to confirm that:
- Products are assigned to the correct Shopify collections
- Orders are linked to the correct customer accounts
- Historical order details, taxes, shipping methods, and payment statuses match the original PrestaShop records
Step 2: Validate Data Quality
After confirming that the data exists, check whether it is accurate and usable in Shopify.
Review product names, descriptions, SKUs, prices, variants, inventory, images, and SEO fields. Also check customer emails, billing and shipping addresses, customer groups, and account statuses where available.
Pay attention to:
- Price and currency formatting
- Broken image URLs
- Product variants and combinations
- Customer records and addresses
- SEO titles, descriptions, and friendly URLs
Step 3: Review the LitExtension Migration Report
Open your LitExtension dashboard and review the migration report for skipped, failed, or partially migrated entities.
For each issue, decide whether it should be corrected manually, handled with a custom mapping rule, or reviewed by the LitExtension support team. Platform-specific data, such as PrestaShop custom fields or module-related records, may need to be handled with Shopify metafields, compatible apps, or custom migration.
Step 4: Run Recent Data Migration for New Data
If your PrestaShop store stayed active during the migration, new orders, customers, or product updates may have appeared after the initial transfer.
Use Recent Data Migration to transfer newly added data to Shopify before launch. After the update is complete, recheck record counts and spot-test the most recent orders to make sure the new data appears correctly.
This step helps maintain data continuity before you redirect customers to the new Shopify store.
Step 5: Reconfigure Integrations and Third-Party Apps
Third-party tools do not automatically move from PrestaShop to Shopify. Payment gateways, shipping providers, tax tools, CRM systems, ERP platforms, email marketing services, analytics tools, and fulfillment providers should be reinstalled or reconnected in Shopify.
For each integration:
- Install the matching Shopify app or integration
- Reconnect it with the correct API keys or credentials
- Place a test order to check payment, shipping, and tax behavior
- Confirm that order data syncs to your CRM, ERP, or fulfillment system where needed
Even if the storefront looks ready, checkout, payment, shipping, and tax settings should be tested before launch.
Step 6: Restore and Test Communication Channels
Email services, notification rules, contact forms, and support tools are platform-dependent and may need to be rebuilt on Shopify.
Check:
- Transactional emails, including order confirmations, shipping updates, and password reset emails
- Contact forms
- Live chat tools
- Customer support ticket systems
- Email marketing integrations
Step 7: Update Internal Links, Menus, and Templates
Review navigation menus, internal links, page templates, blog links, collection links, and footer links after migration. Update any PrestaShop URLs that still point to the old store structure.
If 301 redirects are enabled, verify that important product, category, and CMS page URLs redirect to the correct Shopify pages.
Step 8: Check Tracking and SEO Before Launch
Before going live, check your analytics, tracking, and SEO setup. Make sure Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel, conversion tracking, sitemap, robots settings, and important SEO metadata are working correctly.
After launch, monitor 404 errors, ranking changes, organic traffic, and conversion data closely during the first few days.
How to Migrate from Squarespace to WordPress
There are two ways to move your Squarespace site to WordPress: hand the entire process to LitExtension’s migration experts, or handle the export and import yourself using Squarespace’s built-in tools. Below, we walk through both.
Before You Migrate from Squarespace to WordPress
Before you migrate Squarespace to WordPress – whether manually or with our All-in-One service – there are two things you must take care of first. Skipping these steps is the #1 reason migrations go wrong:
- Buy WordPress Hosting & a Domain: You need a live, working hosting account with a fresh, blank WordPress installation ready to receive data before you run any migration tool. LitExtension (and any migration service) needs a destination site to write to – it cannot create your hosting for you.
- Do NOT Cancel Your Squarespace Plan: Keep your Squarespace store fully active until the entire migration is complete and you have thoroughly tested the new WordPress site. Your Squarespace account is the source LitExtension pulls data from – closing it early can permanently cut off access to your products, orders, images, and customer data mid-transfer.
Method 1: Migrate from Squarespace to WordPress with LitExtension
Migrate Squarespace to WordPress without losing data or search traffic. Our All-in-One service assigns you a dedicated Personal Assistant to handle the entire move, mapping your products, customers, and orders into WooCommerce so your new store is ready to sell from day one.
Step 1: Consultation & Planning
We analyze your current site structure and plan your move to WordPress.
- Technical Audit: We check your database, custom fields, products, and hosting.
- SLA Guarantee: We sign a Service Level Agreement covering timelines and deliverables.
- High-Speed Option: Large stores can use our multi-threaded tool to bypass server limits and reduce downtime (extra fee applies).
Step 2: Server Setup & Data Mapping
We prepare your target WordPress environment before moving any files.
- Platform Setup: We install WordPress and configure WooCommerce to receive your commerce data.
- Data Mapping: We match your Squarespace data to the correct WooCommerce fields so your products, customers, and orders display right.
- Custom Code: Complex layouts or unique code may require manual adjustments (extra fee applies).
Step 3: Demo Migration & Testing
We run a small test to ensure your data fits the new WordPress structure.
Our team moves a sample of your products and their images. We inspect the test site to fix formatting errors, broken links, or missing images before the final transfer.
Step 4: Full Migration
Once you approve the demo, we securely move your entire product catalog.
- Full Data Transfer: We move all products, customers, orders, and media. Engineers monitor the live transfer to fix errors instantly.
- SEO Protection: We create automatic 301 redirects to help reduce the SEO impact of the move.
Step 5: Quality Assurance
We audit your new WordPress site so you can review the results before launch.
- System Check: We test checkout flows, links, and database integrity.
- Client Review: You check the live site to confirm it meets your standards before launch.
Step 6: Data Syncing & Launch
We keep your new site updated with your latest sales.
- Recent Data Sync: Keep your Squarespace site live during the move. We sync new orders and customers right before launch to keep your WordPress store current.
- Free Support: Get up to 60 days of free technical support after your Full Migration completes.
- Refund Policy: We offer a 30-day money-back guarantee if we cannot fix critical data issues.
This is also when your domain gets pointed to your new WordPress site. Our team handles the DNS update as part of the launch, and if you run email through that domain, we make sure your MX records carry over correctly so your inbox keeps working without interruption.
Step 7: 24/7 Support
Our support team and your Personal Assistant remain available to help you.
- 24-Hour Reply: We guarantee a response to any support ticket within 24 hours.
- 24/7 Availability: Our help desk operates around the clock on weekdays and weekends.
- Direct Contact: Reach your Personal Assistant via ticket, email, phone, or live chat.
Method 2: Migrate Squarespace to WordPress Manually
You can migrate your site manually using the built-in export tool. This method is free but requires manual technical work to fix broken media and lost formatting.
Step 1: Export Squarespace Data
In your Squarespace dashboard, go to Settings > Advanced > Import/Export. Click Export and select the WordPress icon. Save the generated XML file to your computer. Before you export, it’s a good idea to backup Squarespace site as a safety net in case anything needs to be restored later.
A few limits to plan around before you export: if your site has more than one blog, Squarespace’s export only includes one of them, so you’ll need to pick your primary blog and handle the rest separately. Comments are capped at roughly 1,000 per post and can come through inconsistently on larger posts. And if any of your content sits behind a password or a membership/subscription area, it won’t be included in the export at all, so plan to rebuild that access-gated content by hand.
If you have an eCommerce store on Squarespace, your products are not included in the XML export. Export them as a CSV file instead. Go to Commerce > Inventory and click Export All in the top-right corner. Squarespace will generate a spreadsheet containing your product data, including titles, descriptions, prices, and other details.
Step 2: Import into WordPress
Import XML file: Log into your WordPress admin dashboard. Go to Tools > Import. Install the WordPress Importer tool. Upload the XML file you downloaded from Squarespace and click submit. If this is your first time working in the WordPress dashboard, a quick WordPress tutorial can help you get familiar with where these settings live before you start.
If your site is large, the import can hit your server’s memory limit partway through and fail with a timeout or “allowed memory size exhausted” error. If that happens, ask your host to raise the PHP memory limit, or split the XML file into smaller chunks and import them one at a time.
Import eCommerce data: In your WordPress dashboard, go to Products > Import. Click Choose File and upload the CSV file you exported from Squarespace. Then, select Continue to review the column mapping. WooCommerce will automatically match most fields, such as product names, descriptions, prices, SKUs, and stock quantities.
Verify that the mappings are correct, then click Run the Importer to start the import process. After the import is complete, review your products in Products > All Products to ensure all data has been transferred correctly.
Step 3: Import Images Manually
The standard XML export does not transfer images to your new server; it only links back to Squarespace. You must use a third-party WordPress plugin (like Auto Upload Images) or manually download and upload your media. If you skip this step, your images will disappear when your Squarespace account closes.
Step 4: Fix Permalinks or Create 301 Redirects
To preserve your SEO rankings and prevent broken links after migrating from Squarespace to WordPress, try to keep your URL structure as close to the original as possible. In WordPress, go to Settings > Permalinks and configure a custom permalink structure that matches your Squarespace URLs.
If an exact match isn’t possible, set up 301 redirects from your old Squarespace URLs to the corresponding WordPress pages. This ensures visitors and search engines are automatically directed to the correct content, helping preserve your search traffic and link equity.
After the migration, monitor your website for broken links and 404 errors using tools like Google Search Console. Any missing URLs can then be redirected to maintain a smooth user experience and protect your SEO performance.
Step 5: Rebuild Design and Missing Content
The Squarespace export tool moves standard pages and blog posts, but it drops product data, folders, index pages, event pages, audio blocks, and custom CSS. You must manually rebuild your eCommerce store using WooCommerce and recreate your website layout using a WordPress theme or page builder.
A few specific things to handle while you’re rebuilding: navigation menus don’t come across at all, so recreate them under Appearance > Menus once your pages are in place. Videos embedded from YouTube or Vimeo carry over fine since their embed code is part of the export, but any videos hosted directly on Squarespace need to be downloaded and re-uploaded manually. And if your site used custom JavaScript, save that code separately beforehand, since it isn’t included in the export either and needs to be added back into WordPress through a code snippet once your new site is live.
Step 6: Point Your Domain to WordPress
Once your content, images, and design are in place, it’s time to send visitors to your new site. You have two options:
- Update nameservers or DNS records: Keep your domain registered where it is and just point it at your new WordPress host. This typically takes 24-48 hours to fully propagate.
- Transfer the domain outright: Unlock the domain in Squarespace, get the authorization code, and move it to your new registrar or host so everything is managed in one place.
If you use this domain for email, update your DNS records carefully rather than just swapping nameservers outright, since an incomplete change can disrupt email delivery. Double-check your MX records are carried over before you consider the domain fully switched.
Step 7: Review and Test Your New Site
Once your content, design, and domain are in place, walk through your new WordPress site the way a visitor would. Test checkout flows on your rebuilt WooCommerce store, click through every menu item, and confirm images load correctly across pages. This is also the point where you install a page builder like Elementor or Divi to finish rebuilding your design, since Squarespace’s blocks don’t translate directly into WordPress themes.
LitExtension vs. Squarespace’s Native Export
Before you decide how to migrate Squarespace to WordPress, it’s worth knowing exactly what Squarespace’s own export tool can and cannot do – because the gap is bigger than most people expect.
| Data Type | Squarespace Default XML Export | LitExtension Automated Migration |
|---|---|---|
| Products | Not included in XML export | Fully migrated via API/database, including variants and pricing |
| Orders | Not supported | Fully migrated with order history intact |
| Customers | Not supported | Fully migrated with accounts and secure password reset |
| Images | Links back to Squarespace servers; breaks if account is closed | Automatically downloaded and uploaded to the WordPress Media Library |
| SEO URLs | Manual redirect setup required | Automatic 301 redirects generated |
In short: Squarespace’s built-in export was never built to move a store, it doesn’t include products, orders, or customers at all, and even the images it does export often break once your Squarespace account closes. LitExtension, by contrast, connects directly through API/database access to pull your entire eCommerce dataset – products, orders, and customers – and automatically migrates images straight into your WordPress Media Library, with nothing left behind.
Common Squarespace to WordPress Migration Issues
Squarespace is a closed system, while WordPress is open-source. This difference causes formatting and database conflicts. Here is how we fix them:
- Design Blocks: Squarespace uses unique layout blocks. We extract the raw HTML and text, then remap them into native WordPress Gutenberg blocks.
- Image Breakdown: Squarespace hosts images on its own network. If you close your account, your images break. Our tool downloads your media and uploads it directly to your new WordPress Media Library.
- SEO Drop & URL Links: Squarespace forces rigid URL links. We create bulk 301 redirects to map old links to new WordPress pages, helping reduce the impact on your Google rankings.
- Customer Passwords: Passwords are encrypted and cannot be copied. We migrate the customer accounts, histories, and data, then trigger an automatic password reset email on their first login.
Squarespace to WordPress Post-Migration Checklist
You can’t copy your Squarespace design over to WordPress exactly as it was, Squarespace’s design blocks and WordPress themes are built on completely different systems, so a 1:1 visual clone isn’t realistic. Once your data is in, work through this checklist before you consider the migration done:
- Verify your migrated data: Confirm every product, order, and customer transferred correctly by spot-checking a sample against your original Squarespace records.
- Test your WooCommerce store: Run a test purchase, check inventory counts, and confirm shipping and payment settings are configured correctly.
- Rebuild your design: Install a WordPress page builder like Elementor or Divi to recreate – or improve on – your original Squarespace layout.
- Check redirects and links: Click through your 301 redirects, and monitor Google Search Console for 404 errors in the weeks after launch.
- Confirm password reset emails: Since customer passwords can’t transfer directly, verify the automatic reset email triggers correctly on first login.
- Update MX records if needed: If you use this domain for email, double-check MX records carried over correctly during the domain switch.
Join 200,000+ businesses that have migrated with LitExtension. Start a Free Demo Migration to preview how your Squarespace products, customers, orders, and URLs will be transferred to WordPress before running the full migration.
What Data Can Be Migrated From Squarespace to WordPress
Use the tabs below to see which Squarespace data fields we can migrate to WordPress.
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Products
- Name, SKU, Short Description, Full Description, Status.
- Price, Special Price.
- Quantity, Manage Stock.Meta Title, Meta Description.
- Weight, Width, Height, Depth.
- Tags.
- Attributes.
- Variants.
- Thumbnail Image, Additional Images.
- Created Date.
Product Categories
- Name, Description.
- Image.
- Meta Title, Meta Description.
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- First Name, Last Name, Email.
- Billing Address.
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- Order ID.
- Order Date.
- Order Status.
- Order Items (Name, SKU, Option), Product Price, Quantity.
- Total Price.
- Sub Price, Discount Price, Tax Price, Shipping Price.
- Order Comments.
- Customer Name, Email.
- Tags.
- Billing Address.
- Shipping Address.
Required eCommerce plugin, such as WooCommerce, installed on WordPress. Can’t find the data you need to migrate? Contact us or click on the Live Chat in the right corner for a free consultation.
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