Spell&Sell
Spell&Sell
Shopify Partner

Migrate to Shopify

Move your catalog, customers, orders, content and SEO to Shopify without losing what already works.

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Unidukan logoView project
Every. logoView project
MOD Lighting logoView project
MyOlavson logoView project
Diggs logoView project
Groove Pillows logoView project
Commonlines logoView project
Seal Skin Covers logoView project
Royfort logoView project
They Call Her Alfie logoView project

Move products, customers, orders, content, subscriptions, and essential plugin logic into a Shopify setup that is easier to maintain.

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Migration guides by platform

Explore our guides for WooCommerce, Adobe Commerce, Shopware, BigCommerce, PrestaShop, OpenCart, Wix, and Custom-built platforms.

Why brands move to Shopify

A managed commerce platform can reduce maintenance overhead without limiting the storefront, integrations, or customer experience your business needs.

For Seal Skin Covers, we built a Shopify Plus commerce platform around dynamic product configuration, custom pricing, and a catalog with more than one million product variants. The rollout was staged and monitored, with crawl-friendly architecture and analytics designed around the way the business operates.

See the Seal Skin Covers project

Explore our wider Shopify services

  1. 01Managed infrastructure
  2. 02Conversion-ready checkout
  3. 03Connected commerce stack

What we migrate and validate

The scope is mapped before development starts, with clear ownership for every data type, URL, integration, and launch dependency.

  1. 01Catalog & merchandising
  2. 02Customers & orders
  3. 03SEO, content & analytics

A controlled migration from audit to launch

  1. 1.

    Discovery & inventory

    We crawl the current site and document data types, integrations, tracking, business rules, and launch constraints.

  2. 2.

    Data & URL mapping

    Products, customers, orders, content, and legacy URLs are mapped to their Shopify destination before migration begins.

  3. 3.

    Storefront & integrations

    We build the storefront and reconnect the operational, marketing, payment, and analytics systems required to trade.

  4. 4.

    Rehearsal & validation

    Test imports are reconciled against the source, while redirects, pricing, accounts, checkout, and tracking are checked end to end.

  5. 5.

    Controlled cutover

    We agree the freeze window, complete the final data sync, activate redirects, and coordinate DNS and launch responsibilities.

  6. 6.

    Post-launch monitoring

    After launch, we watch checkout, analytics, redirects, indexing signals, and operational workflows so issues are found quickly.

Shopify migration FAQ

We compare the current platform's full cost, including hosting, maintenance, upgrades, extensions, and operational work, with Shopify licensing, implementation, and the expected ongoing support model. The result is a business case based on your store, not a generic percentage.

Most migrations need at least 4–6 weeks. Timelines vary with the size and complexity of the project. Larger catalogues, complex data, international stores, B2B requirements, or custom integrations can take longer. Discovery confirms the migration scope, dependencies, and realistic delivery plan before work begins.

SEO is part of the migration plan from day one. We crawl the current site, inventory indexable URLs, map old URLs to relevant Shopify destinations, implement permanent redirects, preserve important metadata and structured content, and validate the result before launch. Rankings can fluctuate during any replatform, so we also monitor indexing and traffic after cutover.

Yes, where the source platform and Shopify APIs support the required fields. During discovery, we document what can move directly, what needs transformation, and any account activation or password-reset steps customers may need.

We map variants, tiered pricing, bundles, ERP relationships, and custom product rules into the right mix of Shopify data, apps, and custom services. Our Seal Skin Covers work includes a custom catalog supporting more than one million product variants.

See the Seal Skin Covers project

It depends on the current stack and the Shopify plan, apps, integrations, and custom functionality you need. During discovery, we compare total ownership costs, including hosting, maintenance, upgrades, security work, and internal operating time.

We review your data model, URL footprint, storefront, integrations, analytics, operational workflows, and trading constraints. You receive a scoped migration approach, major risks, dependencies, and the decisions needed before implementation.

Yes. Your domain is connected to Shopify by updating its DNS records at cutover. Email hosted with providers such as Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 keeps working as long as the mail records are left untouched, so we map every DNS change before launch.

Not necessarily. Many stores run well on a standard Shopify plan. Shopify Plus becomes relevant when you need capabilities such as deeper checkout customisation, expansion stores for separate regions or brands, or Shopify's most complete B2B toolset.

We recommend a plan during the assessment based on your requirements, not by default.

After the launch monitoring period, our Shopify support and maintenance gives you monthly engineering capacity for fixes, features and store growth.