WooCommerce to Shopify Migration Checklist

Whatever the case, if you want to do WooCommerce to Shopify migration, we bring this guide for you.

Preparation Phase: Equip Yourself with Required Data

Create a Full-Backup of Your Store

What do you do before sending important documents to someone? You have a photocopy of them in case the documents are lost for any reason. The same applies to WooCommerce to Shopify migration.

The smart move is to create a full backup of your existing store so that you don’t have to worry about your important data while migrating.

You can easily do it manually on WooCommerce:

• Simply, navigate to the dashboard of your WooCommerce admin account
• Click on “Tools” > “Export”. It will show you all the options that you can export, e.g. products, orders, pages, etc. Select the ones you want to back up
• Click “Download Export File”

This process helps in migration from a third-party app. For manual backup, do the following instead:

Navigate to your cPanel > “Database” section

• Find and click the “phpMyAdmin”
• Select your WooCommerce database (the files that you want to keep as a backup). When you click on a database, it will open a table for the database. For example, “wp_posts” usually contains product information
• Navigate to the tab namely “Export” at the top of the page

This is it! Manual data backup can be tricky. We recommend taking the help of an expert to have all the essential data safe.

Preserve SEO Rankings

You wouldn’t want to lose your website visitors and domain rating for any reason. However, platform migration can affect SEO rankings if you’re not being careful.

We suggest preserving your SEO rankings before and during WooCommerce to Shopify migration. You must set redirects of your high-performing pages so that there are no broken links or 404 errors. Also, in the first phase of migration, transfer only very important pages to your new store on Shopify. It will prevent website slowdowns.

Check out this detailed eCommerce SEO migration checklist to learn how to preserve your existing rankings.

Create a Shopify Account

Shopify account setup is a simple process. You can take any of their paid plans: Basic, Shopify, Advanced, or Plus. Here’s how you can set up your Shopify account for your eCommerce store:

• Select a plan as per your preferences and the business stage you are at
• Go through a form and fill in all the required details
• Make the payment and you’ll have your account set up within a few seconds

With your eCommerce account set up on Shopify, let’s start the WooCommerce to Shopify migration process.

Also, read a comprehensive guide on eCommerce migration.

Migration Phase: Perform WooCommerce to Shopify Migration Manually

All set? Now is the time to start the manual migration process. “Manually” here means when you do the data transfer on your own without using a third-party app.

Replatforming can be tricky, especially if you have a huge website. We recommend taking an expert’s help.

This is how you can do WooCommerce to Shopify migration.

First, let’s ensure you have all the required data in hand. To do that, go to your WooCommerce admin dashboard

• Head to the “Product” section and check the data you want to migrate
• Click the “Generate CSV” button
• With everything necessary in your hands, open your Shopify admin account and click “All Products” on the dashboard
• Click “Import” and select the CSV file to upload

The WooCommerce to Shopify migration will take some time. So, wait!

To Conclude

WooCommerce to Shopify migration asks for a lot of wait time. For users well-versed in coding, this manual guide can be a saver. In case you also have a Magento website and want to migrate to Shopify, do go through our how to migrate from Magento to Shopify guide.