Migrate to Shopify with zero data loss and your rankings intact
Redefine moves your store to Shopify without downtime. We transfer your data, map every SEO redirect, and build a custom theme. Your revenue keeps running while we rebuild underneath it.
Brands we have migrated to Shopify with zero ranking loss
Your platform is costing more than its monthly invoice
Plugin debt, hosting overhead, checkout friction, and developer hours add up fast. They cost more than your license fee. Migrating to Shopify turns that spend into growth.
- Plugin conflicts slow your pages and break without warningEach plugin update is a potential conflict. Each conflict is a developer call you did not plan for this quarter.
- Checkout conversion lags behind Shopify's native performanceEvery percentage point of checkout conversion rate is recurring monthly revenue lost to your platform ceiling.
- Security patching is manual, ongoing, and risk-compoundingPayment Card Industry compliance on a self-managed platform is a team sport. Shopify handles it by default.
- Developer capacity absorbed by maintenance instead of growthEvery hour on platform upkeep is an hour not building the feature that grows revenue.
- 99.99% uptime SLA on Shopify's global CDNNo hosting decisions, no server configuration, no traffic-spike anxiety on your peak revenue days.
- Shopify Checkout delivers higher conversion than any plugin alternativeShop Pay and native one-page checkout remove the friction that costs you orders across every device type.
- PCI DSS Level 1 compliance handled automatically at the platform levelYour team stops managing security and starts selling. Shopify owns the compliance surface.
- Developer hours shift from maintenance to revenue-generating roadmapShopify 2.0 sections-and-blocks architecture means your team builds features, not fixes.
- 8,000 vetted commerce apps replace fragile general-purpose pluginsEvery application is built for commerce. No WordPress-general plugins doing a commerce job with half the reliability.
Tell us about your store. Get a recommended migration path.
Answer five quick questions. Redefine names your migration type, your biggest risk, and your next step before the first call.
Replatform to Shopify. We cover every source platform.
Redefine tailors the migration to your current platform. Pick yours below. You will see what the migration covers and which risks we handle.
Platform migration and Shopify rebuild that drove $70M in annual revenue
A full digital unification on Shopify removed the ceiling on growth. It gave the team real-time decisions across the whole business.
Half Price Drapes ran on disconnected systems for inventory, orders, and fulfillment. The store needed better conversion and scale. Data silos slowed executive decisions and capped growth.
Power BI was integrated with the commerce solution and Dynamics 365 enterprise resource planning to centralize inventory, order, and customer data into real-time dashboards. The Shopify platform was upgraded from V1 to V2 with extensive user experience research supporting the new custom theme. A conversion-focused, mobile-optimized design replaced the legacy experience with measurable improvement in customer engagement and revenue output.
The platform upgrade alone was not the win. Centralizing data across commerce, ERP, and analytics in one stack made real-time decisions and $70M possible.
What most Shopify migration agencies skip, and we cover by default
Generic migration copy stops at data transfer. Redefine covers the layers most partners gloss over: SEO preservation, content mapping, source-specific risks, and 30-day monitoring.
Platform-specific risk audit before we agree any scope
WooCommerce risks differ from Magento risks. We hand you a source-specific risk register and mitigation plan before you commit. You see what can go wrong, and how we fix it, before you sign.
Full 301 redirect mapping, validated in staging
We map every URL on your platform to a Shopify destination. We validate each redirect in staging before go-live. We submit your sitemap to Search Console on launch day.
A confirmed rollback plan before we touch your domain
Launch day is a controlled, reversible event. A rollback procedure is confirmed and tested before touching your domain name configuration. If a critical issue fires post-launch, the store reverts to your previous platform within minutes.
Data reconciliation approved before go-live, not discovered after
Every data object migrated to Shopify is reconciled against its source record in staging. Product count, customer, and order history discrepancies are resolved before cutover. You approve a reconciliation report before any domain name configuration change is made.
Custom Shopify 2.0 theme, not a template applied over migrated data
A migration is not complete when your data is in Shopify but your store looks like a stock import. Redefine builds a custom Shopify 2.0 theme that improves on your previous user experience and is optimized for conversion from the first day live.
30-day post-launch monitoring, not a handoff and goodbye
Redefine monitors your Shopify store for 30 days post-go-live: uptime, Core Web Vitals, ranking movements, and redirect coverage. Issues caught in this window are addressed before they compound into revenue loss.
Shopify migration questions answered
The questions brands ask before committing to a Shopify migration.
WooCommerce and BigCommerce migrations to standard Shopify take 4 to 6 weeks. Magento migrations to standard Shopify take 8 to 12 weeks depending on catalog complexity and custom features. Shopify V1 to 2.0 upgrades complete in 3 to 4 weeks. Enterprise Shopify Plus migrations and replatforming programs run 12 to 16 weeks, typically about 14 weeks. Redefine delivers a specific week-by-week timeline after the Discovery audit phase.
Not with proper redirect mapping. We audit every URL, build a full 301 redirect map, and validate each redirect in staging. We submit your sitemap on launch day and monitor rankings for 30 days.
No. Your current platform stays live throughout the entire migration. The Shopify build runs in parallel in a staging environment. The domain name cutover to the new store takes under 15 minutes and is timed for your lowest-traffic period. A confirmed rollback plan is in place before any domain name configuration change is made. Your customers see no disruption.
Redefine migrates products, variants, inventory levels, customer accounts, shipping addresses, historical orders, blog posts, static pages, and search engine optimization metadata. Platform-specific data structures are mapped to Shopify equivalents during Discovery. Custom plugin or extension data with no Shopify equivalent is assessed and a replacement strategy is built before migration begins.
Shopify Plus is recommended for stores doing over $1M in annual revenue, migrating from enterprise platforms, or requiring B2B functionality, multi-store management, or Checkout extensibility. For most WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and Shopify V1 migrations, standard Shopify plans are sufficient. Redefine recommends the right tier as part of the Discovery audit, not before seeing your store's requirements.
Your current platform has a ceiling. Shopify does not.
Book a free 30-minute audit of our Shopify migration services. We review your platform, name your three biggest migration risks, and hand you a scoped timeline. No commitment to receive it.
We will review your platform and send a scoped migration timeline within 3 business days.