Your catalogue
Products, every variant, images, inventory levels, collections and category structure — moved across and re-checked against your WooCommerce export rather than eyeballed.
Services · Platform MigrationWooCommerce to
WooCommerce to
Shopify.
Move off WooCommerce without losing your rankings, your order history or a day of trading. We are an official Shopify Partner in Johannesburg, and migration is one of the things we do most.
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Why stores moveThe difference is
The difference is
who maintains it.
On WooCommerce
On Shopify
You own the plugin stack. Every update is a compatibility risk, and the things that break tend to break in checkout.
Core commerce is maintained by Shopify. Apps are reviewed and versioned against the platform, not bolted on.
Hosting, patching, backups and PCI compliance are your problem, or your developer's retainer.
Hosting, security, PCI compliance and uptime are the platform's responsibility, included in the plan.
Speed degrades as plugins accumulate. Traffic spikes — a campaign, a feature, Black Friday — are when it shows.
Checkout and CDN are built for spikes. A sale that would have taken the old store down is a normal trading day.
Cost is spread across hosting, licences, plugin renewals and developer hours. It is rarely the number you budgeted.
One predictable monthly platform cost, plus the apps you actually chose.
What moves with youNothing gets
Nothing gets
left behind.
Your customers and orders
Customer accounts and historical orders come with you, so support can still look up a purchase from two years ago and returning buyers do not land on an empty account.
Your search rankings
Every legacy URL is mapped to its new destination with a 301 redirect. Titles, meta descriptions and structured data carry over, and an updated sitemap goes to Google on cutover day.
How the migration runsFive steps,
Five steps,
zero downtime.
Audit the existing store
We export and inspect your WooCommerce data first — product count, variant complexity, custom fields, plugin dependencies and the full URL inventory. That audit is what the quote and timeline are built on, not a guess.
Build in parallel
The Shopify store is built and populated while WooCommerce keeps trading. Nothing about your live store changes while this happens, so there is no revenue at risk during the build.
Rebuild what plugins were doing
Anything that relied on a WooCommerce-only plugin gets a Shopify equivalent — subscriptions, trade pricing, quote flows, shipping rules. Functionality is rebuilt, not quietly dropped.
Map every URL
We build the complete redirect map from the old URL inventory to the new structure, so no existing link — from Google, from an email, from another site — lands on a 404.
Cut over and watch
You sign off, we point the domain, and the store is live. Then we monitor indexing, redirects and checkout in the days after launch, because that is when problems surface.
Already on Shopify and want it rebuilt rather than moved? That is Shopify development. Not sure which you need — tell us what you are running and we will say so honestly.
Shopify stores we runBuilt, launched,
Built, launched,
still trading.
- rcvr.co.za
Sports Nutrition / HydrationRCVR Electrolytes
More than your average electrolyte.
Read the case study - gourmetpaws.co.za
Premium Pet FoodGourmet Paws
Fresh meals your dog actually deserves.
Read the case study - pilateswarehouse.co.za
Pilates Studio EquipmentPilates Warehouse
Trusted by the best studios in SA.
Read the case study
FAQ
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