Magento / Adobe Commerce to Shopify

Migrate from Magento / Adobe Commerce to Shopify without losing a thing.

Trade the cost, complexity, and developer dependency of Magento for a platform your team can actually operate — while keeping the enterprise capabilities you rely on.

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Enterprise scaleB2B & multi-storeSEO preservedShopify Plus

Typical timeline: 8–16 weeks
SEO: Every old URL mapped to a 301 redirect
Cutover: Staged, with a rollback plan
Engagement: Fixed scope after a short audit

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In short

What's involved in a Magento / Adobe Commerce → Shopify migration?

Everything moves: catalogue, customers, order history, content, and — critically — your SEO. We migrate into a staging store first, map every old URL to a 301 redirect, QA with real test orders, then cut over in a low-traffic window with a rollback plan.

Why move

Why brands leave Magento / Adobe Commerce

Reason 01
Total cost of ownership
Magento hosting, licensing, and specialist dev retainers add up fast. Shopify Plus is a fraction of the TCO for most catalogues.
Reason 02
Developer dependency
Every merchandising change waits on a developer. Shopify hands day-to-day control back to your team.
Reason 03
Upgrade dread
Major Magento upgrades are projects in themselves. Shopify updates ship continuously with nothing for you to maintain.

What you get

What we migrate.

Nothing gets left behind — and nothing carries over as technical debt.

Every migration includes6 items

Products, variants, options & collections
Customer accounts & full order history
Metafields, tags & custom attributes
Blog posts, pages & media library
301 redirects for every existing URL
Reviews, subscriptions & app data where an API exists

Magento / Adobe Commerce specifics4 items

Complex catalogues & configurable products remapped
B2B / wholesale rebuilt on Shopify Plus B2B
Multi-store consolidated with Shopify Markets
Custom Magento modules re-engineered as Shopify apps

How it works

How the migration runs.

Step 01
Audit & map
We inventory your catalogue, customers, orders, URLs, and integrations, then map every field to its Shopify equivalent before touching anything.
Step 02
Staging migration
Everything moves into a private staging store first — products, variants, metafields, customers, and order history — with zero risk to your live store.
Step 03
SEO & redirects
Every old URL gets a 301 to its new counterpart, so rankings and backlinks carry over instead of resetting to zero.
Step 04
QA & test orders
Cross-browser QA, checkout and payment test orders, and a full data-integrity check before anything goes live.
Step 05
Cutover & monitor
A coordinated cutover in a low-traffic window — DNS switch, rollback plan, and post-launch monitoring of errors and Core Web Vitals.

Questions

Magento / Adobe Commerce → Shopify — answered.

Can Shopify handle our enterprise catalogue and B2B needs?

Yes. Shopify Plus supports large catalogues, company accounts, net terms, and custom pricing via B2B. We remap Magento configurable products, customer groups, and price rules onto native Shopify Plus features, rebuilding custom logic with Shopify Functions where needed.

What happens to our custom Magento extensions?

We audit each extension, map it to a Shopify app where a good one exists, and re-engineer the rest as custom Shopify apps. You don't carry over technical debt — you get purpose-built equivalents.

Will our SEO survive a Magento migration?

Yes. Magento URL structures are fully mapped to 301 redirects, metadata and structured data are preserved, and we validate the redirect map against your top-traffic and top-ranking URLs before cutover.

Will my store go down during the migration?

No. We build and validate everything on a private staging store while your current store stays fully live. The only brief moment of change is the DNS cutover, which we schedule in a low-traffic window with a rollback plan ready.

Do you set up 301 redirects so I keep my SEO?

Yes — a complete 301 redirect map is standard on every migration. We map each old URL to its Shopify equivalent, validate it against your top-traffic and top-ranking pages, and confirm redirects resolve correctly before and after go-live.

What does a Shopify migration cost?

It depends on catalogue size, custom functionality, and integrations — so we give you a fixed-scope quote after a short audit rather than a vague range. You'll know the price and timeline before any work starts, with no invoice surprises.

Can you migrate our apps, reviews, and subscriptions too?

Wherever an export or API exists, yes. Reviews move into Judge.me, Loox, or Shopify Product Reviews; subscriptions into a Shopify subscriptions app; and third-party apps are mapped to Shopify equivalents or rebuilt as custom apps where needed.

Do you keep our customer accounts and order history?

Yes. Customer records, addresses, tags, and full order history migrate across so nothing is lost — important for retention flows, support, and lifetime-value reporting from day one on Shopify.

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Guide

Magento / Adobe Commerce to Shopify migration, done properly

Migrating from Magento / Adobe Commerce to Shopify is less about moving data and more about not losing anything that matters while you do it — rankings, order history, customer trust, and revenue continuity. Carryup handles Magento / Adobe Commerce → Shopify migrations end to end: catalogue, customers, orders, content, and a complete 301 redirect map, validated on a staging store before a single visitor is affected.

We work exclusively on Shopify and Shopify Plus, so a Magento / Adobe Commerce migration isn't a side project for us — it's core work we've engineered a repeatable, low-risk process around.

What Drives the Cost of a Magento to Shopify Migration

Magento migration cost correlates less with SKU count and more with how much of the store's business logic lives inside custom modules and EAV attribute sets. A vanilla Magento Open Source store with standard configurable products migrates in a fairly predictable scope. What actually drives cost is B2B logic (customer groups, tiered and contract pricing), multi-store/multi-website configurations serving different brands or regions from one install, custom modules built by an agency years ago with no documentation, and heavily customized checkout flows — Magento's checkout is one of the most commonly modified parts of any build. Adobe Commerce (Magento's paid tier) licensing itself is a cost you eliminate by leaving, which is part of why the migration often pays for itself within a year or two. We scope cost after auditing the module list and database directly, because Magento's admin panel alone rarely tells the full story of what's actually running in production.

How Long a Magento Migration Actually Takes

Magento migrations typically run eight to sixteen weeks, longer than most other platform migrations, because Magento stores skew toward enterprise complexity — multi-store setups, B2B customer groups, custom pricing rules, and bespoke modules that need re-engineering rather than mapping. A single-store Magento Open Source catalogue with standard products can move on the faster end of that range. Add Adobe Commerce B2B features, multiple websites or store views serving different regions or brands, or custom checkout and pricing logic, and the timeline extends because each of those needs to be rebuilt using Shopify Plus B2B, Markets, and Functions rather than copied as data. The EAV (Entity-Attribute-Value) data model also adds discovery time: attribute sets that look simple in the admin can be structurally complex underneath, and untangling which attributes actually drive storefront behavior versus which are legacy cruft takes real audit time before a realistic schedule can be quoted.

Magento's URL Key System and SEO Preservation

Magento generates URLs from a combination of URL keys, category path settings, and a configurable suffix (commonly .html), and — critically — supports multiple store views and websites that can each generate different URL structures for the same underlying product. That multiplies the redirect mapping work compared to a single-domain platform: a product might have a distinct URL per store view, per locale, or per website, and each needs its own 301 target on Shopify, typically consolidated through Shopify Markets rather than separate installs. Magento's layered navigation also generates filtered category URLs that search engines may have indexed and that need deliberate handling — usually canonicalized rather than individually redirected, since Shopify's collection filtering works differently. We extract the full URL rewrite table directly from Magento's database rather than relying on a sitemap, since that catches URLs that are indexed but no longer linked anywhere in the current site.

What Happens to Your Magento Extensions

Magento stores commonly run extensions from vendors like Amasty, Mirasvit, or Mageplaza to fill gaps in core functionality — advanced search, custom pricing rules, loyalty programs, or B2B quoting. None of these carry over directly; Magento extensions are PHP modules tied to Magento's architecture and have no export path to another platform. The migration work is auditing what each extension actually does for the business, then finding its closest Shopify app equivalent or, where the logic is genuinely custom, rebuilding it as a Shopify app or a Shopify Function for things like custom pricing or checkout validation logic. This is usually a net simplification: Magento extensions frequently conflict with each other at the code level since they all modify the same core files or observers, while Shopify apps run in isolated environments and are far less likely to break each other. The extensions worth the most scrutiny are custom-built ones with no commercial equivalent — those need a genuine rebuild, not a swap.

Why Merchants Move From Magento to Shopify Plus

Magento (especially Adobe Commerce) is genuinely capable at enterprise scale — that was never the argument for leaving. The argument is total cost of ownership and who controls the pace of change. Magento requires a specialized development team for anything beyond content edits: hosting, server-side performance tuning, security patching, and major version upgrades are all developer-dependent projects, and Adobe Commerce licensing itself scales with revenue. Shopify Plus covers most of the same enterprise ground — B2B, multi-market, high-traffic scale, custom checkout logic via Functions — as a managed platform with a flat, predictable cost and no server to maintain. The practical difference shows up in velocity: a pricing change or a new checkout rule that takes a Magento development cycle to build, test, and deploy can often be configured directly by a merchandiser on Shopify. Magento still fits businesses that need very deep, ground-up platform customization; most D2C and mid-market brands get equivalent capability on Shopify Plus for meaningfully less operational overhead.

Where Magento Migrations Go Wrong: B2B and Multi-Store Complexity

The riskiest Magento migrations are the ones with layered B2B logic or multi-store configurations that were built incrementally over years and never fully documented. Common failure points: customer-group-specific pricing rules that interact with catalog price rules and shopping cart price rules in ways that aren't obvious until you try to replicate the output; multi-website setups where the same SKU has different prices, descriptions, or availability per store view; and custom checkout fields or B2B quote workflows built as one-off customizations. Teams that treat this as a straightforward product-and-order export often discover post-launch that a wholesale customer segment is seeing wrong pricing, or that a store view's content didn't migrate because it was never distinguished from the default view in the export. The mitigation is auditing pricing rule interactions and store-view differences directly against real order history before cutover, not just against the admin configuration, since Magento's rule engine can produce results that don't match what the settings screen implies.

Why Magento's EAV Data Model Complicates Migration

Magento stores product data using an Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) model, where attributes aren't fixed columns in a table but rows split across multiple type-specific tables (varchar, int, decimal, text, datetime) linked by attribute ID. It's a flexible design that lets Magento support arbitrary custom attributes without schema changes, but it also means a single product's full attribute set can't be read from one table — it has to be reconstructed by joining across the EAV structure, attribute sets, and attribute groups. Configurable products add another layer: the parent-child relationship between a configurable product and its simple product variants needs to be correctly interpreted to map onto Shopify's product-and-variant model. Tier pricing, customer-group pricing, and website-scoped attribute values, where the same attribute has different values per store view, all need explicit handling rather than a flat export. We migrate by querying Magento's database directly rather than relying solely on its data export tools, since the exports often flatten or drop scope-specific values that matter.

Operating Shopify Plus Day-to-Day After Magento

The biggest operational shift after Magento is who can make a change without opening a developer ticket. On Magento, adjusting a pricing rule, launching a new store view, or modifying checkout behavior typically requires a developer to touch code, test in staging, and deploy through a release process. On Shopify Plus, merchandisers manage pricing, promotions, and content directly in admin, while Checkout Extensibility and Shopify Functions let custom logic ship without redeploying the whole platform. Release cadence changes too — Magento major version upgrades are multi-month projects with real regression risk, while Shopify ships platform updates continuously with nothing for your team to plan around or test against. Server and infrastructure management disappears entirely: no more capacity planning for Black Friday, no more PCI compliance scope tied to your own servers. Teams coming from Magento often need a short adjustment period simply because so much operational overhead they were used to budgeting time for no longer exists.

Migration or Rebuild: What a Magento Move Actually Requires

With Magento, the migration-versus-rebuild question isn't optional — it's usually the first decision that determines everything else about scope. A store running standard Magento Open Source with configurable products and minimal customization can genuinely migrate: data and logic map fairly directly onto Shopify Plus. A store with years of custom modules, bespoke EAV attribute sets, and a checkout modified by three different agencies over its lifetime is a different project entirely — the honest move is auditing which of that customization represents real competitive differentiation (a genuinely unique B2B pricing model, say) versus legacy complexity nobody would choose to build today if starting fresh. Enterprise Magento instances in particular accumulate customization that outlived the reason it was built; treating a decade of accreted logic as sacred and porting all of it is usually the most expensive path, and rarely the one that serves the business best on the other side.

How to Choose a Magento to Shopify Migration Partner

Magento migrations punish an underqualified partner more than almost any other platform on this list, because the failure modes — mismapped EAV attributes, broken customer-group pricing, a multi-store consolidation done wrong — don't surface in a demo, they surface in production weeks later. Ask any prospective partner directly about their experience with Magento's EAV data model, with HPOS versus legacy order storage, and with Adobe Commerce B2B specifically, not just "Magento migrations" generically — those are meaningfully different skill sets. Be wary of fixed-price quotes given before a module and database audit; custom modules with no Shopify equivalent are where Magento projects hide cost, and an agency that hasn't reviewed yours yet can't have priced them. A properly scoped Magento to Shopify Plus migration for a mid-market catalogue typically runs from the low tens of thousands into six figures depending on B2B and multi-store complexity, usually over eight to sixteen weeks.

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