WooCommerce to Shopify, without losing your rankings.
Products, customers, orders and URLs off WordPress and onto Shopify. The redirect map is the first deliverable rather than the last fix, and the plugin conflicts, the security patches and the hosting stay behind.
It was the right call at the time.
WordPress was already there. Woo was open, free to start, and every feature was one plugin away. With a small catalog that was exactly the right trade.
WooCommerce did not fail you. You outgrew what it is good at. The same plugin stack that made it flexible at two hundred products is what takes the checkout down on a Friday afternoon at twenty thousand, and no amount of maintenance turns that back into an advantage.
Then you grew, and the flexibility turned into upkeep.
Five things we hear before almost every WooCommerce migration. Not edge cases: the ordinary result of a store outgrowing the platform it started on.
Checkout, search, subscriptions, reviews, SEO: each on its own extension, with its own release cycle and its own idea of how WooCommerce works. One conflict and the storefront breaks, usually somewhere nobody touched.
- Version conflicts
- Licence renewals
- Untested updates
- No single owner
Servers, PHP versions, TLS, backups and uptime sit with your own team or with an agency you pay to hold them. They surface at the worst possible moment: a sale, a launch, the Friday before a long weekend.
- Server uptime
- PHP upgrades
- Security patches
- PCI scope
WooCommerce keeps product data in WordPress post meta, so a catalog that grows means queries that grow with it. Ten thousand products in, bulk edits time out, and the people who work in the admin every day quietly stop using it.
- Bulk edits
- Slow queries
- Timeouts
- Order search
Deep variants, bundles, per-market pricing and B2B rules each come from a different vendor, so the pricing logic ends up in five places and none of them is the source of truth. Changing a rule becomes a development ticket.
- Variant depth
- Bundles
- Per-market pricing
- B2B rules
The retainer goes on updates, conflicts and the staging server nobody has time to refresh. Nothing in that month made the store better, and the list of things that would have is still where it was.
- Maintenance retainer
- Staging drift
- Frozen backlog
This is not our first replatform.
100k+
SKUs 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 integrations and your numbers, before anything is promised.
Comes across
Read out of your database, cleaned, and loaded into Shopify.
- Products, variants and collections
- Customer accounts and addresses
- Order and refund history
- Blog posts, categories and authors
- Media library, with alt text
- Reviews, where the app allows it
Rebuilt on Shopify
Does the same job, natively, and stops being a plugin you maintain.
- Checkout, as Shopify's own
- Search and filtering
- Subscriptions and recurring billing
- Discount and pricing rules
- Custom fields, as metafields
- Page builder pages, as sections
Left behind
The part of the bill that was never about selling anything.
- The plugin licences
- PHP and security patching
- The hosting and CDN contract
- The staging server nobody refreshes
- 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 WooCommerce owner asks before moving.
Not seeing your question here? A free intro call will settle it, no obligation.
No, but most teams stop wanting it. Shopify carries products, checkout, customers and content, so the usual answer is one system instead of two. If you have a reason to keep WordPress for editorial it can stay and point at Shopify for commerce, and we will tell you which of the two you are.
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.
The paths change, because WordPress and Shopify do not shape them the same way: /product/ becomes /products/, and a WooCommerce category becomes a collection. Every one of them 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.
Posts, categories, authors, images and internal links come across, with their URLs mapped like every other page. Content is usually the part that earned the rankings, so it is not the part we leave for later.
The subscribers and their plans move. The stored cards depend on your payment provider: some hand a token over to the new gateway, others ask your customers to authorise once more. That answer is a fact about your provider, and it is one of the first things the audit checks.
That is normal, and it is exactly why we read the database rather than trusting an export. ACF groups and post meta are inventoried, mapped onto Shopify metafields, and anything nothing has used in years is shown to you before it is dropped.
It ends. Shopify hosts, patches and PCI-certifies the store, so the line items for uptime, updates 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.