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URL and Redirect Mapping
Full crawl of the existing site with every indexed URL mapped to its new Shopify equivalent via 301 redirects.
Migration & Integrations
Move to Shopify without losing rankings, data or orders.
Replatforming to Shopify from WooCommerce, Magento, Wix, BigCommerce or a custom build — with redirect mapping, catalogue and customer migration, Order history preserved, integrations rebuilt and SEO continuity planned before launch rather than patched after.
150+
Stores migrated
100%
URLs mapped to 301 redirects
0
Order history lost
8 wk
Typical migration timeline
Direct answer
A Shopify migration moves products, variants, customers, order history and content from an existing platform to Shopify while preserving search rankings and revenue. It covers a full URL audit with 301 redirect mapping, catalogue and customer data migration, theme rebuild or adaptation, payment and shipping reconfiguration, integration rebuild, tracking continuity and staged launch with monitoring. AKESTECH plans the SEO work before the build, because fixing rankings after a broken migration is far harder than protecting them during one.
What you get
Everything included, end to end.
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Catalogue Migration
Products, variants, images, pricing, inventory, metafields and SEO fields migrated, cleaned and restructured for Shopify.
03
Customer and Order History
Customer accounts, addresses and historical orders migrated so service and reporting continuity is maintained.
04
Theme Rebuild or Adaptation
Existing design rebuilt natively on Shopify, or a new theme built if the old structure does not translate well.
05
Integration Rebuild
ERP, CRM, fulfilment, payment and marketing integrations rebuilt and tested against live data before cutover.
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SEO and Tracking Continuity
Metadata, structured data, sitemap, Search Console and analytics verified before and after launch, with rankings monitored.
Data
Everything that moves with you
A migration is a data project wearing a design project's clothes. Products, variants, customers, orders, content, reviews and redirects all have to land correctly — and messy source data must be cleaned first, because migration multiplies whatever errors already exist.
- Catalogue migration — Products, variants, images, pricing, inventory and SEO fields, cleaned first.
- Customers and orders — Accounts, addresses and history preserved for service continuity.
- Content and blogs — Pages and articles moved with formatting and internal links intact.
- Reviews and loyalty — Ratings and points carried over so social proof survives the move.
SEO
Rankings protected by plan, not luck
Most migration SEO damage comes from three causes: URLs that change without redirects, metadata left behind, and tracking that breaks silently. We treat all three as core migration scope with pre- and post-launch verification, plus six weeks of monitoring.
- Full URL mapping — Every indexed URL crawled and mapped to its closest Shopify equivalent.
- 301 redirect discipline — Real redirects to relevant pages, never mass redirects to the homepage.
- Metadata continuity — Titles, descriptions, structured data and sitemaps verified before and after.
- Search Console watch — Coverage, crawl errors and ranking shifts monitored for six weeks.
Stack
Your integrations, rebuilt and tested
Every connection the old store relied on — ERP, CRM, fulfilment, payments, marketing — needs a Shopify-native replacement or a rebuilt integration. We inventory the full stack during audit and test each integration against live data before cutover.
- Integration inventory — Every connector catalogued with its data flows and failure modes.
- Native-first rebuild — Shopify equivalents adopted where they are genuinely better.
- Custom where needed — Middleware and private apps for systems with no standard connector.
- Pre-cutover testing — Real orders run through every integration on a staging store.
How we work
From audit to compounding results.
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Audit
We crawl the existing site, export all data, catalogue every integration and record baseline rankings and analytics.
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Map
Every URL is mapped to a destination, and the data model is mapped from the old platform schema to Shopify.
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Migrate
Data migrated to a staging store, validated row by row, with theme and integrations rebuilt and tested.
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Verify
Redirects, tracking, metadata, checkout and email flows tested against a written pre-launch checklist.
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Cutover
DNS switched during a low-traffic window, with live monitoring of orders, errors, rankings and analytics for the following days.
FAQ
Questions clients ask us.
WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, Wix, Squarespace, OpenCart, PrestaShop and custom-built stores, as well as older Shopify stores needing a rebuild. The approach differs by platform mainly in how much data can be exported cleanly, which we confirm during the audit.
Some ranking fluctuation is normal after any replatform, but a properly planned migration protects most of it. The critical work is mapping every indexed URL to its closest equivalent with a 301 redirect, preserving metadata and structured data, and monitoring Search Console closely for the first six weeks. We plan this before the build rather than reacting afterwards.
Yes. Historical orders, customer records and addresses can be migrated so your team keeps full service history and reporting continuity. Customer passwords cannot be moved for security reasons, so customers reset them once via an automated email, which we write and schedule as part of the launch.
Most migrations run six to ten weeks. A small catalogue with a compatible design sits at the shorter end; large catalogues, heavy customisation or many integrations push towards the longer end. The biggest variable is usually how quickly product data can be cleaned and confirmed.
Every integration is inventoried during the audit and either rebuilt, replaced with a Shopify-native equivalent, or retired if it is no longer needed. Integrations are tested against real data on a staging store before cutover, so nothing is discovered broken on launch day.
We minimise downtime rather than promise zero, because DNS propagation always takes some time. The new store is built and fully tested in parallel, then the switch happens during your lowest-traffic window with monitoring in place. For most stores the practical interruption is a few minutes.
Discontinued products are redirected to the closest relevant category or a similar product rather than to the homepage, which preserves as much link equity and user intent as possible. Products removed with no sensible equivalent are allowed to 404 deliberately rather than being mass-redirected, which Google treats as a soft-404 problem.
Yes. We monitor rankings, Search Console coverage, crawl errors, analytics and conversion for at least six weeks after launch, and fix redirect chains, missing pages and tracking gaps as they surface. This post-launch window is where most migration damage is either caught or missed.
Replatform without losing what you have built.
Get a free migration audit with redirect mapping, effort and a fixed timeline.