Shopify migration

Migrating your webshop or POS to Shopify.

From Woo, PrestaShop or Tilroy. Every URL mapped before anything moves, catalog and customer data carried across, and the index watched afterwards like it is our own.

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Where you're migrating from

What platform are you currently selling on?

Every platform locks its data in differently. How do you run your e-commerce? We have worked with all types of platforms. The difference is in what comes out, and what does not.

Something else? We have probably met it. Talk to us

Our approach

Rankings and data first, platform second

Most migrations we see treat SEO as an afterthought. We treat the redirect map as the first deliverable, not the last fix.

Arthur LauwersFounderGhent, BE

At 6th Man, our migrations protect what you already earned: the rankings, the customers, the catalog structure. We then rebuild it properly on Shopify, whether you come from WooCommerce, Tilroy or PrestaShop.

Why leave your platform

You already know something's off.

Your current platform made sense, until your business outgrew it.

These aren't edge cases, and you are not the only one. These are the conversations we have on a weekly basis, before almost every migration. Instead of listing platform limitations, here's what growing ecommerce teams actually run into.

Checkout, search, subscriptions, SEO: each on its own plugin, each updating on its own schedule. One conflict and the storefront breaks.

  • Checkout plugins
  • Search plugins
  • SEO plugins
  • Version conflicts

Servers, PHP versions, security patches and uptime are your team's problem, and they surface at the worst possible moment: a sale, a launch, a Friday afternoon.

  • Server uptime
  • PHP upgrades
  • Security patches

Ten thousand products in, the admin starts timing out on bulk edits, and the people who work in it every day quietly start avoiding it.

  • Bulk edits
  • Slow queries
  • Timeouts

Deep variants, bundles and per-market pricing each arrive as another extension, so the rules end up in five places and none of them is the source of truth.

  • Variant depth
  • Bundles
  • Per-market pricing
Before we recommend anything

“What's the right platform for our business?” is a research question.

We're a Shopify agency and we'll still tell you: the answer depends on your assortment, your POS, your payment flows, and what your current system will actually let go of.

You get a written recommendation you can hold us to, including the trade-offs. If Shopify isn't the right answer for you, that's in the document too.

  • Variant limits

    Checked against your assortment before anything is promised.

  • Data export

    What your current platform will actually let go of.

  • POS and terminals

    Hardware and payment terminal reality on the floor.

  • Payment methods

    What they really cost you, month over month.

  • App stack

    And the monthly fixed cost that comes with it.

Our process

6th Man moves your catalog, customers, orders and rankings to Shopify on a strict schedule. It is the only way projects this size move smoothly.

  1. Extraction audit

    What can physically leave your system. Before anything is promised.

  2. Data preparation

    Dedupe, validate, repair. Legacy systems fused into one truth.

  3. Build and enrich

    Store, POS, integrations, product data.

  4. Spot-check

    Checked by real people end to end, approved by you, in every sprint.

  5. Hard cutover

    One date. Shopify becomes the source of truth. No dual-running.

  6. Hypercare and training

    Runbook, workshops, and support from marketeers who know Shopify inside-out.

FAQ

Common concerns about migrating to Shopify.

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Most migrations run 6 to 10 weeks from audit to launch, depending on catalog size and how much needs to be rebuilt on the new platform.

Not if the redirect map is the first deliverable rather than the last fix. We map every URL before anything moves, and we watch the index for weeks after launch.

Yes. Orders, customers and stock history come across as far as your current platform will hand them over. The extraction audit tells you exactly how far that is, before anything is promised.

Yes. Your current store keeps trading until the cutover date. There is one switch, on one day, and no dual-running afterwards.

It depends on catalog size, integrations and how much has to be rebuilt. You get a fixed price after the audit rather than a range before it.

Then we get it out another way: database access, the API, or a scripted extraction. That is what the audit is for, and it is why we check before we promise.

Yes. A runbook, a POS workshop, and the buttons your staff will actually press. Hypercare runs after launch, not instead of it.

Why trust us with it

Moved once, and still growing

These stores changed platform with us and kept their rankings, their data and their trading days.

4.9/5

Trusted by 30+ top brands

A migration is about a lot more than a different interface to tweak your store. It is replacing the digital backbone of the organization, possibly even the backbone of all your sales. Our team is the one that moves it and that grows it, so there is no handover at go-live and nobody else to blame if the rankings dip in week three.

  • 01Haystack Consulting
    Lien JustéBusiness advisor
    Our goal with 6th Man is to develop awareness of Haystack and boost lead generation. What works well is their structured approach, taking it in baby steps, combined with fast thinking and clear communication. The impact is not yet visible, since we are waiting to see the ROI in December and January, but the SEO strategy they are building is exactly what we needed. So far, all good.
  • 02Prado
    Victor VermanderDigital marketeer
    Developing our complicated website was always going to be a challenge, and 6th Man understood that from the first conversation. Our feedback is always well received and they approach it critically, proactively flagging concerns and advising against ideas that could have a negative impact. The site is still in development, but once it is live the impact on my job will be massive: WooCommerce to Shopify, a proper dev team for our requests, better SEO, speed, customer journey and integrations. They deliver quality at a rapid pace and take away our doubts. The only improvement would be slightly more structured status updates so we can follow progress without having to ask.
  • 03Qteal
    Stijn Van PaesschenSoftware Quality Architect
    A personal approach. Arthur really worked as a partner to understand our services and how to market them online.
  • 04
    Aurelie Joos
    Our goal was to build and execute media strategies based on the defined goals of our brands. 6th Man brings a ton of experience into your company in no time, but it goes beyond delivering great results: they make sure everyone truly understands what the work involves and help get everyone aligned and moving in the same direction. That has improved both our internal and external processes, with well executed strategies that made sure projects and campaigns performed as they should. What stands out most is the balance between a realistic, thoughtful strategy and seamless execution.