WooCommerce to Shopify Migration
Moving from WooCommerce to Shopify is rarely hard because of the products. It is hard because product data has been shaped by years of plugins, custom attributes, theme assumptions, and URL decisions.
Data.Page can handle WooCommerce to Shopify migrations as a fixed-scope, one-off project. We focus on the product catalog, images, collections, redirects, and validation so you are not cleaning CSV files by hand for days.
Contact us about this migrationWhat usually needs to move
A clean migration starts by deciding what belongs in Shopify and what should be archived. For many stores, the useful scope is products, variants, product images, categories, tags, SEO titles, SEO descriptions, product descriptions, vendors, SKUs, prices, inventory policy, weights, and old product URLs.
Customer records and order history can be sensitive and messy. If the goal is a lower-friction project, we can leave those out and migrate only public catalog data and SEO-critical URLs.
Where WooCommerce data usually breaks
- Variable products do not always map cleanly to Shopify variants, especially when attributes were added inconsistently.
- Image URLs may point to thumbnails instead of original uploads.
- HTML descriptions often contain shortcode leftovers from page builders.
- Category trees need to become Shopify collections, tags, or metafields.
- Old WordPress slugs need 301 redirects so existing rankings and backlinks are not thrown away.
Typical field mapping
| WooCommerce field | Shopify target | Migration note |
|---|---|---|
post_title | Title | Trim plugin prefixes and duplicated brand names before import. |
post_content | Body HTML | Remove unsupported shortcodes and check embedded tables on mobile. |
_sku | Variant SKU | Shopify works best when every variant has a unique SKU. |
| Attributes | Option1/2/3 Name and values | Shopify supports up to three native options per product. |
| Categories | Collections or tags | Do not blindly flatten every category into tags. Decide the merchandising structure first. |
| Product URL | Redirect source | Use this to generate 301 redirects to the new Shopify handle. |
Our practical migration plan
- Export products from WooCommerce, including custom attributes and image URLs.
- Profile the catalog for duplicate SKUs, missing prices, empty variants, and broken images.
- Agree the Shopify structure: collections, tags, vendors, product types, and metafields.
- Build Shopify-ready product CSV files and a separate redirect map.
- Run a test import into Shopify and inspect a sample of simple products, variable products, and edge cases.
- Fix the mapping, then prepare the final import package.
Acceptance checks before launch
- Every live WooCommerce product has a Shopify destination or an intentional archive decision.
- Variant counts match between the old and new catalog.
- Images load from Shopify, not from the old WordPress uploads folder.
- Critical category and product URLs have redirects.
- Prices, compare-at prices, inventory rules, and taxable flags are spot-checked.
Want us to do the conversion work?
Send us a WooCommerce export or a staging-site export and tell us whether you want products only or products plus redirects. We can quote a one-off migration fee after seeing the catalog shape.
Get a migration quote