PrestaShop to Shopify

Migrate from PrestaShop to Shopify without losing a thing.

Leave the module conflicts, hosting overhead, and shrinking ecosystem of PrestaShop for a platform that scales without a full-time developer on call.

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Products & ordersMulti-languageSEO preservedModule → app mapping

Typical timeline: 6–8 weeks for a single store
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 PrestaShop → 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 PrestaShop

Reason 01
Module maintenance overhead
PrestaShop stores lean on paid modules that break on upgrades — and you own every conflict and every server patch.
Reason 02
A shrinking ecosystem
The PrestaShop developer and app ecosystem is contracting. Shopify's is the largest and most active in commerce.
Reason 03
Scaling & performance
Self-hosted PrestaShop needs constant tuning to stay fast under load. Shopify handles scale for you.

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

PrestaShop specifics4 items

Multi-language & multi-store consolidated with Shopify Markets
PrestaShop modules mapped to Shopify app equivalents
Combinations/attributes remapped to Shopify variants
Customer groups & specific prices rebuilt natively

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

PrestaShop → Shopify — answered.

Can you migrate a multi-language / multi-store PrestaShop setup?

Yes. PrestaShop multi-store and multi-language setups consolidate cleanly onto Shopify Markets, with localised pricing, content, and domains — usually simpler to operate than the original PrestaShop configuration.

What happens to my PrestaShop modules?

We audit each module, map it to a Shopify app where a strong equivalent exists, and re-engineer anything critical as a custom app — so you leave the maintenance burden behind instead of recreating it.

Will my PrestaShop SEO and URLs transfer?

Yes. Every PrestaShop URL is mapped to a 301 redirect and metadata is preserved, so rankings and backlinks carry over rather than resetting.

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

PrestaShop to Shopify migration, done properly

Migrating from PrestaShop 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 PrestaShop → 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 PrestaShop migration isn't a side project for us — it's core work we've engineered a repeatable, low-risk process around.

How much does a PrestaShop to Shopify migration cost?

Cost is driven less by raw catalogue size and more by structural complexity — specifically multi-store, multi-language setups and how many paid modules are load-bearing in your checkout and catalogue logic. A single-store, single-language PrestaShop site with straightforward products is a relatively contained migration. Add a multi-store PrestaShop instance (common for merchants selling across several European markets under one back office) and the work roughly multiplies, since each store's catalogue, pricing, and content need auditing before they can be consolidated onto Shopify Markets. Combinations are another driver: PrestaShop allows more attribute combinations per product than Shopify's native three-option-per-variant limit, so catalogues with deep combination trees (size × colour × material × finish) sometimes need Shopify's Combined Listings or a custom variant strategy, which adds engineering time. We audit module dependencies, store count, and combination complexity before quoting rather than pricing off SKU count alone.

How long does a PrestaShop to Shopify migration take?

For a single-store PrestaShop setup with a moderate catalogue, most migrations run 6–8 weeks. Multi-store or multi-language instances take longer — often 10–14 weeks — because consolidating separate PrestaShop stores onto a single Shopify instance with Shopify Markets requires reconciling potentially divergent pricing, content, and even product catalogues across stores before the migration itself starts. Module audits add time up front: PrestaShop stores commonly run a dozen or more paid modules handling payments, shipping, SEO, and catalogue features, and each one needs a decision — map to a Shopify app, rebuild as custom functionality, or retire if it was solving a PrestaShop-specific problem Shopify doesn't have. Catalogues with heavy use of combinations and specific price rules also extend QA time, since variant logic needs thorough testing against real customer scenarios before cutover. We give a firm timeline after that audit rather than before it.

Will my PrestaShop SEO and multi-language URLs survive the move to Shopify?

Yes, but PrestaShop's multi-language URL handling needs deliberate mapping, not a generic redirect rule. PrestaShop supports several ways of structuring language URLs — separate domains per language, subdirectories, or query-string-based language switching depending on configuration — and merchants often have friendly URL rewriting enabled with SEO-specific settings (canonical URL rules, redirect-on-old-URL settings) that shape what's actually indexed. We pull the live URL structure per language/store from PrestaShop's configuration and cross-reference against Search Console for each market, then map every language variant to its Shopify Markets equivalent with correct hreflang tagging preserved — this last part matters more than on single-language migrations, since broken hreflang after a move can cause the wrong language version to rank in the wrong market. Canonical tag configuration in PrestaShop is also checked directly, since misconfigured canonicals are common on older PrestaShop installs and can mask URL structure that needs fixing during the move, not just carrying over.

What happens to my PrestaShop modules on Shopify?

Each module gets audited individually rather than assumed to have a direct Shopify counterpart, because PrestaShop's module system reaches deeper into checkout and catalogue logic than most app ecosystems allow. Payment and shipping modules typically map cleanly to Shopify's native payment gateways and shipping apps. SEO modules — common on PrestaShop given how much of its native SEO configuration requires manual setup — are generally replaced outright, since Shopify handles more SEO fundamentals natively. The harder cases are modules built custom or by smaller developers for very specific catalogue or pricing behaviour (specific price rules, customer-group-specific catalogues, quantity discounts); these get re-engineered as Shopify apps using Functions or a custom app where no off-the-shelf equivalent exists. The real benefit merchants see here isn't a feature-for-feature swap — it's leaving behind a fragile dependency chain where a core PrestaShop upgrade could silently break three unrelated modules at once.

Is Shopify actually better than PrestaShop for growing a store?

For most merchants past the early stage, yes, and the gap is widening rather than closing. PrestaShop is open-source and self-hosted, which gives you technical control but hands you the entire operational burden — server management, security patching, PCI compliance, and performance tuning under load all sit with you or whoever you've retained to manage it. Its developer and module ecosystem, while still active particularly in France and other European markets, is materially smaller than it was a decade ago and far smaller than Shopify's, which means fewer people available to build or fix things and less competitive pricing on the modules you do need. Shopify's native multi-currency and multi-market tooling through Shopify Markets is also simpler to operate day-to-day than PrestaShop's multistore feature, which requires more manual configuration to keep catalogues and pricing in sync across stores. The tradeoff is less low-level control in exchange for not needing a developer on call.

What are the biggest risks when migrating off PrestaShop?

The most common risk is migrating stale or broken combination data without auditing it first — PrestaShop's combination system (built on product attributes and attribute values in the ps_product_attribute table) accumulates orphaned or inconsistent combinations over years of catalogue changes, and copying that mess directly into Shopify variants just relocates the problem. Specific price rules are the second risk area: PrestaShop's catalogue price rules and specific prices support complex conditional logic (customer group, quantity break, date range, currency) that doesn't map one-to-one onto Shopify's discount model, and a rushed migration can silently drop pricing logic that customers were relying on. The third risk is module-level data lock-in — some modules store their own data in custom database tables outside PrestaShop's core schema, and if that data isn't identified and extracted during the audit phase, it's effectively lost at cutover rather than migrated, since it won't show up in a standard PrestaShop export.

How do you migrate data out of PrestaShop's database structure?

PrestaShop stores catalogue data across a relational schema — products, combinations, and attributes live in separate linked tables (ps_product, ps_product_attribute, ps_attribute, ps_attribute_group) rather than as flat records, which is powerful for PrestaShop's own logic but needs careful reconstruction to migrate correctly. We extract via PrestaShop's Webservice API where the scope allows it, falling back to direct, read-only database queries for data the API doesn't expose cleanly, particularly around combinations and specific price rules. Combinations get flattened and remapped to Shopify's variant model, with anything exceeding Shopify's three-option limit consolidated using Combined Listings or restructured with the merchant's input on which attributes actually matter to buyers. Multi-store consolidation happens at this stage too — where stores in one PrestaShop instance need to become markets within a single Shopify store, we reconcile SKU overlaps and pricing differences across stores before the data ever touches Shopify, so you're not debugging duplicate products post-launch.

What changes day-to-day once I'm running Shopify instead of PrestaShop?

Server and module maintenance disappears entirely — no more coordinating a core PrestaShop upgrade around module compatibility, no more server patching, no more hosting bills tied to traffic spikes. For merchants who were running multiple PrestaShop stores under one back office, the shift to a single Shopify instance with Shopify Markets is usually the biggest quality-of-life change: one admin, one product catalogue with market-specific pricing and content, instead of managing separate store instances that could drift out of sync with each other. Translation and localisation work moves from PrestaShop's built-in (but manual) translation tools to Shopify's Markets and Translate & Adapt tooling, which is generally faster to update across languages. Reporting consolidates too — instead of pulling separate stats per PrestaShop store and manually combining them, Shopify gives unified cross-market reporting natively. The net effect for most teams is fewer systems to log into and less coordination overhead to make a single catalogue change live everywhere.

Migration or Rebuild? Deciding What to Do With a Multi-Store PrestaShop Setup

For a single-store PrestaShop install with standard products, migration is usually the right call — the data and structure map reasonably well onto Shopify. The harder decision shows up with multi-store PrestaShop instances, common among merchants selling into several European markets from one back office: do you migrate each store's configuration faithfully, or use the move to consolidate years of accumulated, possibly divergent pricing and content differences into a single, cleaner Shopify Markets setup? In our experience, faithfully replicating multi-store drift — where each store's catalogue and pricing evolved slightly differently over time without anyone intending that — usually isn't worth it; it's almost always better to reconcile those differences deliberately as part of the migration and launch with one clean source of truth than to migrate the inconsistency along with the data. The same logic applies to combination data: legacy attribute combinations that have accumulated inconsistently over years are usually worth auditing and cleaning rather than migrating as-is.

How to Choose a PrestaShop to Shopify Migration Partner

PrestaShop's combination system and specific price rules are where an underqualified migration partner does the most damage, so ask directly about experience with the ps_product_attribute schema and PrestaShop's catalogue and cart price rule engine specifically — generic ecommerce migration experience doesn't cover PrestaShop's particular complexity here. Be cautious of quotes priced off product count alone without a module audit; some PrestaShop modules store their own data in custom database tables outside the core schema, and if a partner hasn't identified those before quoting, that data risks being lost rather than migrated, not discovered until after cutover. Multi-language and multi-store setups need a partner who can speak specifically to Shopify Markets and hreflang handling, not just "SEO preservation" in general terms. A properly scoped single-store PrestaShop migration typically runs $12,000–$35,000 over six to eight weeks; multi-store or multi-language instances typically run higher and longer, into the ten-to-fourteen-week range, reflecting the reconciliation work involved.

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