A plugin update broke checkout. Again.
Every update is a gamble, and the things that break tend to break in the part that takes money. So you stop updating — and now you have a security problem instead.
WordPress → ShopifyStop fixing
Stop fixing
your store.
Start selling.
If your week involves plugin updates, a maintenance retainer and quiet anxiety about Black Friday, the platform is the problem. We move WordPress and WooCommerce stores to Shopify — without losing your rankings, your order history or a day of trading.
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Sound familiar?None of this is
None of this is
your fault.
It is what running a self-hosted store eventually costs. Every one of these is a symptom of the same thing: you own a stack that needs maintaining, and maintaining it is not your business.
You pay someone every month to keep it standing still.
The retainer is not buying growth. It is buying uptime on a stack that needs constant attention just to keep doing what it already did.
It gets slower every year.
Each plugin adds weight. Nobody removes any. The store that was quick at launch now loses people before the page finishes loading.
Hosting, security and PCI are your problem.
Patching, backups, uptime, compliance — all yours to own, or your developer's to bill for. A breach or an outage is your emergency at 2am.
Big sale days are stressful instead of exciting.
A campaign that works is also the thing most likely to take the site down. You end up hoping traffic stays moderate, which is a strange way to run a shop.
You are fixing the business, not building it.
Every hour spent on maintenance is an hour not spent on merchandising, marketing or margin. That is the real cost, and it never shows up on an invoice.
After the moveBuilding the business,
Building the business,
not fixing it.
This is the change our clients describe most often, and it is not really about features. On Shopify the platform maintains itself — hosting, security, PCI compliance and checkout are Shopify's responsibility, not yours. There are no plugin updates to fear and nothing to patch. The work left is the work that actually grows a store: merchandising, marketing, margin.
It also just keeps working. A sale that would have taken the old site down becomes a normal trading day.
Stores we movedOff WooCommerce.
Off WooCommerce.
Still trading.
What you keepYou don't lose
You don't lose
anything.
Your Google rankings
Every legacy URL 301-redirected to its new home, so accumulated authority moves with you.
Your order history
Historical orders and customer accounts migrate, so support and returning buyers see what they expect.
Your catalogue
Products, variants, images, inventory and collections — re-checked against your export, not eyeballed.
Your domain
Your domain stays yours and simply points somewhere better. Email is unaffected.
Your trading days
The new store is built in parallel. Nothing changes on your live site until you sign off.
Your plugin functionality
Subscriptions, trade pricing, quote flows and shipping rules get rebuilt natively, not dropped.
Want the technical detail on how the move runs, step by step? Read how a WooCommerce to Shopify migration works.
Get a fixed quoteTell us what
Tell us what
you're running.
A few questions about your current store, and we will come back with a real quote against your actual data — not a package price. A human replies within one business day.
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