Store migration
osCommerce to WooCommerce migration
Moving from osCommerce to WooCommerce gives you a shop you own outright — no platform fees on your sales, no rules about what you can sell, and no limits on what you can change. The risk is the URLs, and that is the part we take off you.
What we move from osCommerce
A specialist runs the migration and checks it. You keep trading on osCommerce until the day you switch.
- Products, with variants, options, pricing, stock levels, categories and images.
- Customer accounts with their addresses and order history, and their passwords where the source platform releases them.
- Orders with line items, totals, taxes and statuses, so your reporting and your accounts still reconcile.
- Blog posts, pages, reviews and navigation.
- Media, re-uploaded to the new site rather than hot-linked back to a store you are about to close.
What “no SEO loss” actually means here
Your osCommerce URLs will not survive the move to WooCommerce — the two platforms build addresses differently. What survives is the ranking, provided every old address points at its new one.
- 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.
How a osCommerce to WooCommerce migration runs
- You tell us your osCommerce store address and roughly how big it is, and pay a fixed price. No discovery phase, no hourly billing.
- We take a read-only copy of your osCommerce data and build the WooCommerce store on our hosting, alongside your live shop.
- We map every old osCommerce URL to its new WooCommerce one and load the redirects, then check the canonical tags, the sitemap and the structured data.
- You walk the new store and tell us what is wrong. We fix it before anything goes live.
- You choose when to switch the DNS. Your customers see the new WooCommerce shop; anyone arriving on an old osCommerce link is redirected to the right page.
What we will not claim
We will not tell you your osCommerce theme can be moved to WooCommerce — it cannot, on any platform, by anybody. We will not promise your rankings will improve. And where osCommerce refuses to release something, we will tell you before you pay rather than after. What we do promise is that no customer arriving on an old link finds a dead page.
Questions people ask before they buy
Is a osCommerce to WooCommerce migration safe for my SEO?
Yes, if the redirects are done. Your osCommerce URLs change when you move to WooCommerce, and a page whose address changes with no redirect looks to Google like a page that was deleted. We map every one of them and serve a 301, which tells search engines the page moved and carries its ranking with it. Our system refuses to mark the job finished until that map exists.
Will my osCommerce shop go down during the move?
No. Your osCommerce store keeps trading while we build the WooCommerce one beside it. The only change your customers see is at the DNS switch, which takes minutes and happens when you say so.
What does a osCommerce to WooCommerce migration cost?
A fixed price based on the size of your catalogue, shown before you order — three packages covering a small shop, a working shop and a large or unusual one. Agencies typically charge thousands for the same job and want a paid discovery phase first; we do not.
Do my osCommerce customers have to reset their passwords?
Only if osCommerce will not release the password hashes. Where it does, accounts move across and nobody notices. Where it does not, we set up a reset flow and tell you before you pay so you can warn your customers.
Can you move my osCommerce apps and plugins?
The apps themselves, no — they are built for osCommerce and do not exist on WooCommerce. We will tell you which WooCommerce extension does the same job for each one that matters to you, and set it up as part of the move.
What happens to my osCommerce store afterwards?
That is your call. Most people keep the osCommerce subscription running for a month after the switch, as a safety net and a reference, then cancel it. We do not touch it either way — closing your old account is a decision with billing consequences and it is yours to make.