What is a Shopify migration?
A Shopify migration moves an ecommerce site's product catalogue, customer records, order history, content pages and the URL structure that carries its search rankings from the current platform to Shopify. Done properly, it does not just copy data: it rebuilds the category architecture, the redirects and the analytics setup for the new platform.
The two biggest risks in a migration are data loss and a drop in organic traffic. At dotCREA we run every migration on a parallel store first, confirm the data validation list with you, and only then point the domain across.
The migration process, step by step
01
Data inventory
We inventory products, variants, customers, orders, content and URLs, and decide where each piece of data maps to.
02
Setup on a parallel store
A new Shopify store is prepared, the theme installed, and data transferred in a parallel environment.
03
SEO and redirect plan
A 301 redirect map is prepared for the old URLs, and meta structures and schema are rebuilt.
04
Integrations
Payment, shipping, e-invoicing, ERP and marketing tools are connected to the new store and tested.
05
Validation and sign-off
A validation list covering product counts, stock, prices and order totals is confirmed together.
06
Launch and monitoring
The domain is switched during a low-traffic window; crawl errors and rankings are monitored in the first weeks.