Magento to Shopify Migration

For a straightforward catalogue on a standard theme, weeks. For a mid-market store with ERP integration, complex pricing rules and years of order history, plan in months. The storefront is rarely what sets the timeline — data quality, custom Magento functionality that has to be rebuilt rather than carried across, and integrations are. We would rather scope those three honestly than quote on catalogue size and revise later.

Only if URLs are treated as an afterthought, which is the single most common way a replatform destroys value. Magento and Shopify generate different URL structures, so without a mapping the old ones 404 and every ranking attached to them is discarded. Every URL should be inventoried, mapped and verified before launch and again after. We hold ourselves to it — this site was migrated off WordPress with an automated check that fails the build unless 100% of the old URLs still resolve or redirect.

Products, variants, collections, customers and historical orders all migrate. What varies is how cleanly, depending on how much lives in custom Magento attributes rather than standard fields. Passwords are the known exception: hashing differs between the platforms, so customers need one reset. Planning that communication is part of the migration rather than a launch-day surprise.

They do not come across, and that is usually a feature rather than a loss. Most stores are carrying extensions installed years ago for reasons nobody remembers. We audit what is actually in use, map each live function to a Shopify app or custom work, and are explicit about the small number that have no equivalent — those are the ones that decide whether the move is right.

Not always. Adobe Commerce earns its complexity when you have deep catalogue rules, customer-specific B2B pricing, multi-store or multi-brand setups, or ERP integration that has to be exact. Shopify removes hosting, patching and upgrade overhead, which is worth more than the flexibility you give up for most retailers — but not all. We audit before recommending, and we will tell you when staying put is the better spend.

It depends far more on integrations, data quality and how much custom functionality has to be rebuilt than on how many products you have. Our guide to what a Magento to Shopify migration costs in Australia sets out the typical ranges and what moves them.

Our head office is in Sydney and we work with clients across Australia — Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and regional NSW included. Delivery has been remote-first for years, so a project runs the same way whether you are ten minutes away or in another state: scheduled calls, a shared board you can see at any time, and one named point of contact. We are happy to meet in person in Sydney.