Switch from BigCommerce to Shopify with nothing left behind.
We handle every aspect of your BigCommerce to Shopify migration. Products, customers, content, SEO and integrations. Your store stays live throughout and no data gets lost in the transfer.
Shopify's app ecosystem and developer community are hard to match.
BigCommerce is a solid platform and a reasonable choice at the right scale. But Shopify has a broader ecosystem, a larger pool of developers, better internationalisation tooling and a stronger position with UK and European merchants. For many brands, the practical advantages of moving become clear when they start trying to extend their BigCommerce store and find the options are more limited.
The migration between two modern SaaS platforms is more straightforward than moving from a self-hosted platform, but it still requires proper planning. URL structures change, data models differ and any assumptions made during a sloppy migration tend to surface as problems after go-live.
Everything transferred, validated and ready before you switch.
We migrate all product data, variants, categories, customer accounts, order history, reviews and content from BigCommerce to Shopify. BigCommerce and Shopify handle certain data structures differently, so we build the migration scripts to account for those differences rather than relying on generic tools that produce inconsistent results. Every record is validated after migration before the new store goes live.
Your organic rankings move with you.
A platform switch without proper redirect handling is one of the fastest ways to lose years of SEO equity. We treat it as a dedicated workstream. Every BigCommerce URL is mapped to its Shopify equivalent, all 301 redirects are implemented before launch and meta data is transferred in full. We run a pre-launch crawl to verify everything is correct and monitor rankings after go-live.
Common questions about BigCommerce to Shopify migration
Both are capable hosted platforms, but Shopify has a larger app ecosystem, a more widely adopted theme and developer community, and better internationalisation tooling for UK and European brands. BigCommerce pricing tiers, GMV-based plan limits and a smaller pool of specialist agencies and developers are common reasons brands make the switch.
More so than migrating from a self-hosted platform, but it still requires proper planning. BigCommerce and Shopify handle product variants, pricing rules and customer data differently. URL structures typically change. A direct export and import rarely produces a clean result. We build proper migration scripts and validate the output before we touch anything live.
Not if it is handled properly. We audit your full BigCommerce URL structure, map every page to its Shopify equivalent and implement all 301 redirects before launch. Meta data, structured data and canonical tags are all transferred. Post-launch monitoring catches anything that needs attention.
Everything. Products and variants, categories and collections, customer accounts, order history, reviews, blog content and media. We validate the migrated data before launch so there are no gaps.
Most BigCommerce app functionality has a Shopify equivalent. We map your current BigCommerce app stack to Shopify alternatives during discovery and flag anything that needs a custom solution. Nothing is assumed; everything is checked.
Typically 8 to 14 weeks, depending on catalogue size and the number of integrations. Including a redesign, allow 14 to 20 weeks. We give you a clear timeline at discovery.
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Tell us about your BigCommerce store, your current integrations and what the new Shopify store needs to do. We will scope the migration and give you a clear view of what is involved.