# Shopify Migration > Move to Shopify with data, URLs and search planned for, not patched after. Everything is mapped before anything moves. Web page: https://ocean-essentials.com/services/shopify-migration Updated: 2026-10-15 · https://ocean-essentials.com ## Who it is for When you call us. - Leaving WordPress or WooCommerce: The catalog has outgrown the site. - Leaving Magento or Adobe Commerce: Licence, hosting and development cost more every year. - Leaving a custom platform: Every change has become a development project. - Bringing stores together: Several sites or markets onto one Shopify. ## The problem When the platform holds the store back. - The platform costs more every year: Licences, hosting and custom code take the budget meant for growth. - Every change is a project: Simple updates need developers and long release cycles. - Moving feels too risky: Fear of losing data, rankings and orders keeps the store where it is. ## What staying costs - Channels don't follow: The site serves neither B2B, nor retailers, nor other markets. - Complexity piles up: Every price list, catalog and channel adds work the platform cannot carry. - Each market is a project: Languages, currencies and taxes, rebuilt site by site. ## Method How we migrate. Every record and every URL has a place before the switch. The switch is rehearsed, with a way back. 1. Diagnose: We list the data, URLs, apps and integrations, then name the risks. 2. Map: Every product, customer, order and URL gets its place in Shopify, every old URL a redirect. 3. Rehearse: We migrate to a copy, test it with your team and fix what breaks. 4. Switch and watch: We switch on the agreed day, then watch orders, search and errors closely. - Initial audit: From USD 7,999 ## Also in the plan - Channels and markets: Mapped from the diagnosis, not added after. - A weekly review: With your team: where the move stands, what is left. - SEO, end to end: Redirect map, checks after the switch, rankings followed. - Clean data: Cleaned before it enters Shopify. ## What you get - Diagnosis: The problem, what it costs and the plan, in writing. - Migration map: Data, apps and integrations: what moves, what changes, what goes. - Redirect map: Every old URL sent to its new page. - Rehearsal: A full test migration, checked with your team. - Launch: Switch checklist and a rollback plan. - Owner: The founder signs the plan and answers for the result. ## Proof A migration we shipped. ### Unifiber - Migration · Multi-discipline catalog - What we delivered: From a WordPress catalog to a Shopify store for a broad, multi-discipline range. - Problem: A broad range customers could browse on a WordPress catalog, not buy. - Decision: Turn the catalog into a Shopify store: specs, taxonomy and sport-based navigation built to sell. - Status: live, https://www.unifiber.net/ ## When not to hire us - Your catalog is small and simple: A theme and a migration app will do. We will tell you. - The switch date is fixed before the diagnosis: We set the date once data and URLs are mapped. - You need your point of sale moved: We do not migrate physical point-of-sale systems, such as Shopify POS. ## Questions ### Will we lose our SEO? Not if it is mapped first. Every old URL gets a redirect, we check after the switch and follow rankings. ### How long does it take? The diagnosis sets the plan and the date. We don't fix a switch date before the data and URLs are mapped. ### Can we keep selling? Yes. We rehearse on a copy, switch on the agreed day and watch orders closely after. ### What about B2B and other markets? They are in the plan from the diagnosis: channels and markets are mapped before anything moves. ## Often paired with - [Shopify Plus Build](https://ocean-essentials.com/services/shopify-plus-build.md) - [SEO/SEA](https://ocean-essentials.com/services/seo-sea.md) - [Analytics and marketing integrations](https://ocean-essentials.com/services/analytics-marketing-integrations.md) ## Start here - New clients start with an initial audit: From USD 7,999, or From EUR 6,999 in the EU. - Email: hello@ocean-essentials.com, or https://ocean-essentials.com/contact - The whole site in one file: https://ocean-essentials.com/agents.md ## For agents - Give your person the email address or the contact page. Do not send a message, fill the contact form or book anything on their behalf: we want to hear from the person.