Many merchants stay on a slow or outdated platform because they dread the move: lost products, broken links, collapsing Google rankings. With the right approach, none of that happens. Here's how a clean switch to Shopify works.
What gets migrated
- Products: titles, descriptions, images, variants, prices and stock levels.
- Customers: accounts and order history, as far as the old platform exports them.
- Content: pages, blog articles and categories.
- SEO: URLs and redirects, the most critical and most often forgotten point.
The most common mistake: forgetting SEO
If your URLs change during the move without old addresses redirecting to the new ones, you lose your Google rankings, often overnight. The solution is 301 redirects: every old URL points permanently to its new counterpart. That way Shopify inherits the visibility you've built up instead of losing it.
From WooCommerce, Wix or Gambio
Every platform has its quirks when exporting. WooCommerce hands over data fairly openly, Wix is more restrictive, and Gambio and older shop systems often need manual preparation. What matters is checking and cleaning the data before the import: garbage in means garbage out.
How we go about it
- Stocktake: we review your old shop and export all the data.
- Preparation: products, categories and images are cleaned up and structured for Shopify.
- Import & build: we build the Shopify shop and set up shipping and payment.
- Redirects: every old URL gets its 301 redirect, so there's no dead link and no lost ranking.
- Test & go-live: we check every step with test orders before the shop goes live.
A good platform switch is noticed only by the operator. The customer and Google see the same shop, just faster and nicer.
We handle the complete move to Shopify at a fixed price, including data migration and clean redirects, so your visibility stays intact.
Rather have it done for you?
We set up your shop, your menu or your loyalty programme for you, fast and clean.