Magento to Shopify Migration Guide

We run stores on both platforms, which makes this guide rarer than it should be: most migration guides are written by shops that only sell the destination.

Should you migrate at all?

Magento earns its keep when you need deep customization, complex B2B, or multi-store setups under one roof. Shopify pays off when the win is operational: a hosted platform, a smaller technical surface, and a team that wants to run a store instead of a server.

And sometimes the real problem isn't Magento - it's an unmaintained Magento build. Magento support can be a fraction of the cost of replatforming. We'll tell you which problem you actually have.

What maps cleanly, and what doesn't

• Clean: products, customers, order history, and the URL map for redirects.
• Needs decisions: custom modules become apps, custom builds, or get dropped - each one is a call, not a copy.
• Different on arrival: Magento's layered pricing and B2B features map to Shopify Plus capabilities or custom work, not one-to-one equivalents.

The migration checklist

The hands-on version of this checklist is our Shopify migration service. Moving within Magento instead - Magento 1 to 2, or up a version - that's Magento migration.