PrestaShop to Shopify, without losing your rankings.
Catalog, combinations, customers, orders and URLs off a self-hosted PrestaShop and onto Shopify. The redirect map is the first deliverable rather than the last fix, and the paid modules, the version upgrades and the server go with it.
Serious commerce, without a licence fee.
Open source, self-hosted, a rich data model, and a module for almost anything. For a catalog that needed real control, PrestaShop was a genuinely capable choice, and it still is.
PrestaShop did not let you down. Keeping it running became a second job. The licence was always free and never the cost: the cost is the paid modules, the version upgrades that turn into rebuilds, the server you patch yourself, and the shrinking number of people who still want to work on it.
The cost was never the licence. It was the running of it.
Five things we hear before almost every PrestaShop migration. Not edge cases: the ordinary result of self-hosting a store that has grown up.
Search, filtering, marketing, feeds, checkout tweaks: each bought from a different vendor, each with its own support window. When that window closes you pay again, rebuild, or run something nobody maintains.
- Per-module licences
- Support windows
- Vendor lock-in
- Renewal creep
Moving between major versions means every module has to follow, and the ones that will not are yours to replace. Plenty of stores sit on an old version for exactly that reason, which then makes everything else harder.
- Major versions
- Module compatibility
- Stuck releases
- Security exposure
Every module assumes it is the only one, and years of custom overrides sit on top of core. The thing that breaks is never the thing you last touched, so a small change gets quoted like a large one.
- Core overrides
- Module conflicts
- Regression risk
- Slow estimates
PHP versions, caching, image handling, query counts, backups and uptime are all your team's to configure. Speed becomes a project rather than a starting point, and it surfaces at the worst possible moment.
- Server management
- Caching
- PHP upgrades
- Backups
The pool of developers who know PrestaShop well keeps shrinking as they move to Shopify, so hiring takes longer, costs more, and leaves you dependent on whoever already knows your overrides.
- Hiring
- Key-person risk
- Handover
- Rising rates
Complex data, moved cleanly.
100k+
SKUs restructured and moved onto Shopify with the rankings intact.
Migrated by the same team that grows the store.
SEO protected end to end, from the first redirect to the first ranking check after launch.
T'Hooft Buitengewoon
100,000 sku e-commerce migration from Tilroy to Shopify
- Migration
- Shopify App Development
- POS Integration
What moves, and what does not.
Three answers, because one list of everything that comes across is a promise nobody can check.
The extraction audit turns this into your catalog, your combinations and your numbers, before anything is promised.
Comes across
Read straight out of your database, cleaned, and loaded into Shopify.
- Products, attributes and combinations
- Categories and features
- Customer accounts and addresses
- Order, invoice and credit note history
- CMS pages and blog content
- Every language you sell in
Rebuilt on Shopify
Does the same job, natively, and stops being a module you license.
- Checkout, as Shopify's own
- Combinations, as variants and options
- Search and faceted filtering
- Languages and currencies, as Markets
- Specific prices, as discount rules
- Overrides, as apps or theme code
Left behind
The part of the bill that was never about selling anything.
- The paid module licences
- The next major version upgrade
- The PHP server and the database
- Caching and performance tuning
- The developer on call for uptime
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.
Extraction audit
What can physically leave your system. Before anything is promised.
Data preparation
Dedupe, validate, repair. Legacy systems fused into one truth.
Build and enrich
Store, POS, integrations, product data.
Spot-check
Checked by real people end to end, approved by you, in every sprint.
Hard cutover
One date. Shopify becomes the source of truth. No dual-running.
Hypercare and training
Runbook, workshops, and support from marketeers who know Shopify inside-out.
What every PrestaShop owner asks before moving.
Not seeing your question here? A free intro call will settle it, no obligation.
It depends on how your attributes are structured, and measuring that is the first thing the audit does. Plenty of catalogs map straight onto Shopify variants; deeper ones need the option structure rethought, or split across linked products. You get the answer for your catalog in writing before anything is promised, not a yes on the call.
That is the normal PrestaShop shape, and none of it survives as is: an id-and-slug product URL becomes a Shopify product path, and a category becomes a collection. Every one is mapped and redirected before launch. The redirect map is the first deliverable rather than the last fix, and we watch the index for weeks afterwards.
That comes across. Shopify runs languages and currencies through Markets, so each language keeps its own URLs and its own translated content, and the redirect map is built per language rather than for the default one and then patched.
Every one of them ends up as a native Shopify feature, a Shopify app, or nothing at all. The audit lists them one by one with which of the three it is and what it costs per month afterwards, so the monthly number is on the table before you commit to anything.
For the migration itself, rarely. Self-hosted is the one real gift PrestaShop gives you: the database is yours, so we read it directly rather than depending on an export that an old version may not offer. Being stuck is usually an argument for moving, not against it.
That is normal, and it is why the audit reads the code as well as the data. Each override is written down as what it does rather than as what it is, then rebuilt where it belongs on Shopify: in the theme, in an app, or not at all because the platform already does it.
It ends. Shopify hosts, patches and PCI-certifies the store, so the line items for servers, uptime, upgrades and security testing come off the bill. What you keep paying for is the platform and the apps, and the audit gives you that number in advance.