We move online stores to Shopify from other platforms: products, customers, orders, URLs, apps and integrations, with your current store selling until the switch. You work directly with the small Oslo team doing the work, and a like-for-like move can keep your design as it is.
Migrations from $10,000
Separate store-level comparisons. They describe each store over that period, not the isolated effect of one change.
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Simon Alert KristensenHead of Marketing at EpivityWhichever platform you’re leaving, whether that’s Magento or Adobe Commerce, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Craft Commerce or a custom build, six things decide how the move goes.
Every indexed URL gets a 301 redirect to its new address. We build the map from your platform’s exports, Search Console and a crawl of the live site, test it on staging, remove redirect chains and keep the meta titles and descriptions of the pages that rank. After launch we watch Search Console and add anything that was missed.
Products, then customers, then order history, with record counts reconciled between the old store and Shopify. Passwords can’t move because the platforms encrypt them differently, so customers get an activation email to set a new one, and we plan that message with you. Imported orders are read-only: they serve customer service and warranty records, not refunds.
Plugins and extensions don’t run on Shopify. We go through each one and decide whether it becomes a Shopify app, a native feature or custom development. Many exist to work around the old platform and can be retired. When nothing fits, we build it, as with Verandah’s B2B trade application app.
Connections to your ERP, warehouse and shipping systems don’t carry over, so we rebuild them against Shopify’s APIs and webhooks as part of the move, not after launch. We’ve built integrations with Visma, Ongoing, ColliCare, ShipHero and Cin7.
A move doesn’t have to be a redesign. Fjordfiesta kept its design and content while the platform underneath changed. If you do want something new, a redesign or a headless storefront is scoped on top of the move.
Your current store keeps selling while we build on a non-public Shopify store. Before launch we freeze content changes, run a final sync of recent orders and customers and schedule the DNS switch in a window you agree to. Then we test live checkout and payments straight away and confirm that orders reach your other systems.
| Part of your store | What happens to it |
|---|---|
| Products, variants, images | Move with transformation. Custom attributes map to metafields, and complex option sets may need restructuring. |
| Customers and addresses | Move, along with tags and order associations. Passwords don’t: customers set a new one from an activation email. |
| Order history | Moves as read-only records, with line items, prices and fulfillment history. Orders import after products and customers. |
| URLs and SEO metadata | Mapped by hand onto Shopify’s fixed URL patterns, with a 301 redirect for every indexed URL. |
| Pages, blog and content | Rebuilt in Shopify or in Sanity. Pages with no traffic or purpose can stay behind. |
| Category tree and navigation | Rebuilt as Shopify collections and menus, with filters mapped to metafields, tags and product types. |
| Extensions and plugins | Don’t run on Shopify. Each one becomes an app, a native feature or custom development, or is retired. |
| Integrations | Rebuilt against Shopify’s webhooks and Admin API, and tested before launch. |
| Custom checkout logic | Rebuilt as checkout extensions, which need Shopify Plus. |
Six phases, in this order. Nothing switches over until customers can complete an order on the new store.
We audit your platform, catalog, extensions, integrations and checkout, then decide with you what migrates, what gets rebuilt and what retires. The scope, price and timeline come from this.
We clean and map products, customers and orders, resolve products that exceed Shopify’s variant limits and build the redirect map.
We configure a non-public store, import products, customers and then orders, and check your top-selling products by hand.
We build the theme or headless storefront, recreate your pages and navigation and rebuild the custom features you’re keeping.
We reconnect your ERP, warehouse and marketing tools, test orders across payment methods, tax and shipping, and verify the redirects on staging.
We run the final sync, switch DNS and test live checkout. Then we watch crawl errors, rankings and data flow, and fill any redirect gaps that surface.
Migrations from $10,000
We look at your store on a discovery call, then agree the scope and price with you before any work starts.
Book a callPrices are in US dollars. Your Shopify subscription, apps and ongoing development are separate. Leaving Magento or Adobe Commerce? Compare three years of staying with moving in the cost calculator, or read the Magento to Shopify migration guide for the full scope.
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