Shopify to WooCommerce migration
LEAVE SHOPIFY WITHOUT LOSING PRODUCTS, ORDERS, OR RANKINGS
Every SKU, customer, order, and blog post moves. Every old URL gets a clean 301. Your rankings, your revenue, and your reset password flow all survive the switch.
Migration risk check
Question 1 of 3
What are you moving from?
The starting point sets what usually breaks and how careful the redirect map has to be.
The short answer
A Shopify to WooCommerce migration moves your entire store off Shopify onto WordPress with WooCommerce. Products, variants, images, customers, orders, collections, blog posts, and every indexed URL come across cleanly. You stop paying transaction fees on top of a plan, you own your theme and data, and your Google rankings stay put because every old URL gets a single clean 301. Standard stores start at $1,499. Stores with subscriptions or heavy app dependencies start at $2,999. Fixed quote, written SEO safety plan, 30 day rollback window.
Fee reality check
What are you actually paying Shopify?
Plug in your real numbers. This calculator uses public Shopify Payments rates. If you use a third party gateway your surcharge is on top.
Shopify to WooCommerce savings
Estimate what you keep every month
Numbers use Shopify Payments rates. Third party gateway surcharges (0.5 to 2 percent) make the gap bigger, not smaller.
On Shopify Shopify
$745/mo
Plan fee plus 2.7% and $0.30 per order.
On WooCommerce with WebCare
$809/mo
Managed hosting (~$30) plus $99 Care Plan plus Stripe fees.
Estimated monthly savings
$0
That is roughly $0 back in your business every year. Migration usually pays for itself in a few months.
Ballpark only. Actual numbers depend on gateway, chargebacks, apps, and taxes. Ask us for a written scoped quote based on your real Shopify report.
Why store owners leave Shopify
Same pattern every time: the platform gets more expensive as you grow, and the walls close in on SEO and customization.
You are paying twice for the same sale
Shopify plan fees plus 2.5 to 2.9 percent transaction rates add up. Third party gateway surcharges make it worse. WooCommerce plus Stripe usually cuts the monthly bill in half.
You cannot own your storefront
Themes, checkout logic, and apps are Shopify property. On WooCommerce your theme, plugins, and database are yours. You can back it up, host it anywhere, and never lose access.
SEO is boxed in
Forced URL structures (/products/, /collections/), duplicate canonicals, and limited schema keep Shopify sites out of long tail search. WordPress gives you clean URLs and full schema control.
Apps you rented now cost more than a developer
$29 here, $49 there, and suddenly the app stack costs $400 a month. Most of it is free or one time in the WordPress ecosystem.
What actually moves across
Not a copy paste. A structured import that keeps data types, URLs, and customer relationships intact.
Products, variants, and images
Every SKU, option set, and image imported into WooCommerce with the same handles, so your URLs stay recognizable to Google.
Customers and passwords
Customer accounts move over. Passwords are re-issued on first login through a secure reset flow, no leaks.
Orders and order history
Historical orders are imported so refunds, receipts, and lifetime value data survive the move.
Collections to categories
Shopify collections map to WooCommerce categories one to one, with 301 redirects on every collection URL.
Blog posts and pages
Content is imported into native WordPress posts and pages, cleaned of Shopify markup, so it ranks properly.
Redirects for every old URL
Product, collection, page, and blog URLs each get one clean 301. No chains, no lost rankings.
SEO safety, in six locked steps
Ranking loss is the number one fear store owners raise. Every Shopify to WooCommerce move we run passes through these six checkpoints before it goes live.
Full URL map before we touch anything
We crawl the live Shopify site, export every indexed URL (products, collections, pages, blog posts), and match each to its WooCommerce destination.
One clean 301 per URL, no chains
Every /products/handle, /collections/name, and /pages/slug gets a single permanent redirect. No 302s, no daisy chains, no ranking bleed.
Canonicals, sitemaps, and robots re-checked
Canonical tags, sitemap.xml, robots.txt, and product schema are re-audited on WordPress so Google sees consistent signals from day one.
Search Console + Bing warmed on the new stack
We resubmit sitemaps, request indexing on top pages, and monitor coverage for 30 days. If a URL drops, we know before you do.
Ranking baseline, then 30 day comparison
We snapshot your top 100 keywords the day before cutover and compare weekly for a month. Written report at day 30.
No ranking loss guarantee, in writing
If organic traffic falls more than 10 percent inside 30 days from causes we control, we roll back or refund. In writing on your quote.
How we run it
- 1
Export and audit
We pull your Shopify admin exports (products, orders, customers, redirects) and audit the live site for hidden apps and custom code.
- 2
Stage WooCommerce privately
We build the new store on a staging host with your theme rebuilt, products imported, and Stripe or PayPal wired in.
- 3
Test the checkout in every direction
Tax, shipping zones, coupons, subscriptions, and refunds are tested with real cards on staging. Nothing goes live until it passes.
- 4
SEO safety pass
URL map validated, 301s tested, sitemaps and robots re-audited, product schema verified.
- 5
Cutover with rollback ready
DNS switch during your quietest hour. Shopify stays paid for 30 days so a rollback is one click away.
- 6
30 day watch
We monitor coverage, rankings, checkout, and Stripe errors for a full month after cutover.
Written by Ali Yasin Jatoi
Founder of WebCare Studios. Ali has worked with WordPress for more than 10 years, including managing a Pearl Lemon internal fleet of 150+ sites with WP-CLI automation for updates, security cleanup, and malware removal. He has hands on experience across major hosts including Cloudways, A2 Hosting, Hostinger, and Bluehost.
Why owners pick WebCare
4 hour emergency response
Site down, hacked, or broken checkout gets a senior engineer within 4 hours. No ticket queues, no bots.
You only pay when it is fixed
Flat quote up front. If we cannot get you back online, you do not pay. Risk sits with us, not you.
Data safe approach
We work on a snapshot first and never touch your live database until the fix is verified safe.
150+ WordPress sites at Pearl Lemon (founder)
Our founder managed 150+ Pearl Lemon internal WordPress sites. The errors you are seeing are ones we have closed hundreds of times.
Common questions
Will I lose my customer accounts?+
No. Customers are imported into WooCommerce. Passwords cannot be exported from Shopify by design, so first login uses a secure reset email. This is the same flow customers already know.
What about subscriptions and recurring orders?+
We map Shopify recurring apps (Recharge, Bold, Appstle) to WooCommerce Subscriptions. Existing customers keep their billing dates. New charges flow through Stripe on your terms.
Can I keep my theme?+
We rebuild the visual design in a WordPress theme (usually Blocksy, Kadence, or a custom child theme). It looks the same to shoppers, but you own every file.
Will my Google rankings drop?+
Not on our watch. Full URL map, single clean 301 per URL, canonicals audited, sitemaps resubmitted, and 30 days of monitoring. Every quote includes a no ranking loss guarantee in writing.
How long does the move take?+
Typical Shopify to WooCommerce migration takes 2 to 4 weeks depending on catalog size, apps, and subscriptions. Timeline is agreed in writing before we start.
How much does it cost?+
Shopify to WooCommerce migrations start at $1,499 for a standard store and $2,999 for a store with subscriptions or heavy app dependencies. Fixed quote, no hourly surprises.
Send your Shopify store and we send a plan
Four fields. We reply with a fixed quote, a written SEO safety checklist, and a go live date. No downtime, no ranking loss, 30 day rollback.