Store migration
Move your store to us, without losing your rankings
Replatforming is where most shops lose their search traffic — not because the products fail to copy across, but because every URL changes and nobody maps the old ones to the new. We do the data and the redirects together, by hand, and we check the result against your own pages before we hand it back.
The moves we do most
Pick the one you need. Each page covers what comes across, what does not, and what happens to your URLs.
What “no SEO loss” actually means here
It is not a promise, it is five things a person has to do — and our system will not let a migration be marked finished until all five are done.
- Every old URL mapped to its new one and served as a 301, so the links and rankings you already have keep working.
- Canonical tags checked on the new site, so two addresses for one page cannot split your authority.
- A fresh sitemap generated and resubmitted, so the new URLs are found in days rather than months.
- Product, review and article structured data carried across and validated, so rich results and AI answer engines still recognise your pages.
- A check against your own pages before handover — not a script that reports success and walks away.
What comes across
Products with their variants, options and images. Categories and collections. Customers, with their addresses and — where the source platform allows it — their passwords, so nobody has to reset. Orders with their line items and statuses, so your history and your reporting survive. Blog posts, pages and media. Where a platform will not release something, we say so before you pay, not after.
What we will not claim
We cannot move a design. Themes are built for the platform they run on, and anyone who tells you a Shopify theme can be copied to WooCommerce is describing a rebuild and calling it a migration. We also cannot move an app or a plugin — we can tell you which WooCommerce extension does the same job, and set it up. And we cannot promise your rankings will rise; what we can do is stop the drop that comes from broken URLs, which is the part that is actually in our control.
Platforms we move stores from
These are the ones with a page of their own. We handle more than sixty in total — if yours is not listed, ask us and we will quote it.
Shopify · Wix · Squarespace · BigCommerce · Magento · PrestaShop · OpenCart · Volusion · Weebly · GoDaddy · Ecwid · Big Cartel · Zen Cart · osCommerce · Etsy · Square Online · WordPress
Questions people ask before they buy
Will my shop go down while you move it?
No. We build the new store alongside the old one and you keep trading throughout. The only moment anything changes for your customers is the DNS switch at the end, which takes minutes and which you choose the timing of.
Will I lose my Google rankings?
Not from the move itself, provided the redirects are done properly — which is the part we will not sign off without. Your URLs change when your platform changes; a 301 from every old address to its new one is what tells Google the page moved rather than disappeared, and it carries the ranking with it.
What happens to my customers' passwords?
It depends on the platform you are leaving. Some release password hashes and we bring them across, so your customers never notice. Others do not release them at all, in which case we set up a password-reset flow and tell you in advance so you can warn people. We will tell you which case you are in before you pay.
How long does it take?
Five working days for a small catalogue, ten for a working shop, fifteen for a large or unusual one. Those are the packages, and the clock starts when we have access to your current store rather than when you order.
Can you move my design too?
Not as-is — a theme is written for one platform and does not port. We can rebuild it, and we will quote that separately so you can see what it costs and decide. Most shops take the move as the moment to refresh the design anyway.
What if something is missing after the migration?
Tell us and we fix it. The job is not marked complete until the redirect map, the canonical tags, the sitemap and the structured data have each been checked, and a specialist has walked your own pages — so a missing category or a broken product image is something we find before you do.