Magento to Shopify · MigrationMagento to Shopify: out of patches and developer costs, into a shop that scales.
Magento is powerful and expensive to run: patches, hosting, scarce developers, and with Adobe Commerce a licence based on revenue. We migrate Magento shops to Shopify or Shopify Plus, with multi-store, B2B, integrations and every URL. In 4 to 8 weeks, depending on scope.
5.0 out of 5from 30 reviews in the Shopify Partner Directory- 4 to 8 weeksto go-live, depending on scope
- Every URLredirected and checked in Search Console
- Multi-store and B2Bmapped on Shopify Plus
- 30 minutes, freeintro call with Robert
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One team. Every channel. More growth.
Growth never comes from one channel alone. Your shop, SEO, ads and email have to work together. That is exactly what we do, all from one team.
A shop that sells.
Fast, clear and built on Shopify. Every visitor finds what they need and checks out without friction.
Found on Google.
Customers find you on their own, every day, without paying per click.
Sales right away.
Google and Meta ads bring new buyers now, while SEO keeps growing in the background.
Customers come back.
Klaviyo flows turn first-time buyers into regulars and bring back abandoned carts.
You focus on product and shipping. We handle everything online.
Talk to usWhat happens after your enquiry.
Intro call, 30 minutes, free
We look at your shop or your concept and tell you honestly what makes sense and what does not.
Written scope
Deliverables, timeline and responsibilities in writing before we start. No open-ended hourly budgets without a goal.
A fixed team
One point of contact, sprints, previews in a staging shop. After launch come SEO, ads and email.
Nothing goes live without approval
Every change to a live shop is agreed in advance and shown in staging first.
The code is yours
Theme, apps and integrations run in your own Shopify account. No lock-in.
Reply within 24 hours
On business days, also after launch. Written into the contract.
Talk to us.
We take on at most two new brands per month, so every project gets the attention it needs.
Book 30 minutes with Robert from Rankist
Free, you pick the time. Robert looks at your shop beforehand and tells you honestly what makes sense and what does not.
Or by email to hello@rankist.ch or WhatsApp +41 76 604 55 83
Sound familiar?
Every patch is a project
Magento 2 releases and security patches need staging, testing and a developer with time. Skip a version and you pay double next time.
Magento developers are scarce and expensive
The market shrinks, hourly rates rise. Small changes to the checkout or a product page wait for weeks.
Hosting that grows with you, in cost
Magento needs servers, caching layers and monitoring. During campaigns someone scales by hand, or the shop goes down.
Adobe Commerce: licence based on revenue
The cloud edition costs high five to six figures per year and grows with your revenue. Shopify Plus covers many of these cases on a fixed plan.
Magento vs Shopify in daily life
What changes for you after the migration, in one table. The technology follows in the text below.
| Magento | Shopify | |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting and scaling | Your own servers, caching, monitoring | Included, scales automatically, Black Friday included |
| Patches and releases | Regular projects with staging and testing | Continuous by Shopify, without your involvement |
| Licence | Open Source free, Adobe Commerce by revenue | Fixed plan, Shopify Plus for enterprise |
| Checkout | Customisable, but every change is development | One page, Shop Pay, Checkout Extensibility on Plus |
| Multi-store | Store views in core | Expansion stores and Markets on Shopify Plus |
| B2B | Strong in Adobe Commerce | Shopify B2B: company accounts, price lists, payment terms |
| Finding developers | Scarce, high hourly rates | Largest shop community worldwide, Liquid included |
Everything moves, nothing stays behind
Magento has the most complex data model of all shop systems. We translate it field by field, including attribute sets and store views.
How the Magento to Shopify migration runs
Weeks 1 and 2: analysis and architecture
Capture data model, attribute sets, store views, integrations and rankings. Every old URL gets its new target.
Weeks 3 to 5: shop and data import
Theme in your design, import into a staging shop, set up B2B and markets, connect integrations.
Week 6: testing and go-live
Test orders per market, payment methods, taxes, shipping. Domain switch in minutes.
After: 30 days of monitoring
Search Console, 404 report and revenue checked daily. Anything odd gets fixed at once.
Magento shops come to us with a similar starting point: the shop can do everything, but every change takes time and money, and patches eat the budget that should go into marketing. After the move to Shopify Plus the first thing people notice is that the team adjusts product pages and campaigns itself, without a ticket to the agency. Multi-store and B2B run in one admin, integrations are connectors instead of custom builds, and marketing has a budget again.
More about Shopify PlusWhat changes after the move to Shopify
A checkout that converts
Shop Pay remembers customers across all Shopify stores. Shopify reports up to 50 % higher conversion for Shop Pay versus guest checkout, measured in a study Shopify commissioned.
No server, no patches
Hosting, scaling, security, backups and updates sit with Shopify. Your developer budget goes into features instead of maintenance.
Marketing from one team
After the move we take care of SEO, Google and Meta ads and email. You do not have to coordinate three agencies.
Ready to move? 30 minutes with Robert, free, and you know what the migration needs.
Request Magento migrationFrequently asked questions.
How long does a migration from Magento to Shopify take?
Depending on scope, 4 to 8 weeks. A store with one market and few integrations is live in 4 weeks, multi-store with B2B and ERP needs 6 to 8. You get the schedule in writing after the analysis.
Do I need Shopify Plus or is Shopify enough?
With several markets, B2B, high order volume or checkout customisation, Shopify Plus is the right tier. A single store without B2B often runs on the standard plan. We tell you in the intro call what fits.
What happens to configurable and bundled products?
Configurable products become products with options, bundled and grouped products are mapped with Bundles or an app. Attributes that are not options go into metafields.
Will I lose rankings when moving from Magento to Shopify?
Not if every old URL points to its new target with a 301 and titles, copy and images move with it. We also carry over the Magento URL rewrites and check Search Console for 30 days.
Is the shop offline during the migration?
No. The new shop is built in parallel. On go-live day we switch the domain, which takes minutes.
Magento to Shopify is the move from the most powerful open-source shop system to the platform that takes over operations. Magento, today Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source, can do almost anything, but demands servers, patches and developers who are becoming ever scarcer. This text explains what happens to products, store views, B2B and URLs during the move, when Shopify Plus is needed and when Magento should stay after all.
Why Magento shops move to Shopify
Magento 1 has been without support since June 2020, and Magento 2 demands regular releases and security patches that cost staging, testing and developer time every time. The licence for Adobe Commerce is based on revenue and sits in the high five to six figures per year; with Magento Open Source there is no licence, but you carry hosting, caching, monitoring and security yourself. The second driver is the market: Magento developers are scarce and expensive, and small changes wait for weeks.
Shopify and Shopify Plus turn the calculation around. Hosting, security, scaling, checkout and updates are part of the platform, the plan is fixed, and the team changes product pages, sections and campaigns itself in the admin. The developer budget goes into features and the marketing budget into marketing.
Magento to Shopify: product types and attribute sets
Magento knows simple, configurable, bundled, grouped, virtual and downloadable products, plus attribute sets with any number of attributes per product type. Shopify has products with up to three options and metafields for everything beyond that. Configurable products become products with options, bundled and grouped products are mapped with Shopify Bundles or an app. Attributes that are not purchase options, such as material, origin or technical data, go into metafields and are displayed and made filterable in the theme.
We export directly from the Magento database, write a mapping per attribute set and import into a staging shop. Samples against the old shop show whether variants, prices, stock, images and attributes are correct before anything goes live.
Store views, languages and currencies on Shopify
Many Magento shops use store views for languages, countries or brands. Shopify maps languages and currencies with Markets, in one shop with local domains or subdirectories. If assortment, prices or processes differ strongly per country, expansion stores on Shopify Plus are added and managed from one admin. Which variant fits is decided by catalogue, stock and accounting, and we clarify that in the analysis.
Magento B2B to Shopify B2B
Adobe Commerce is strong in B2B: company accounts, quote requests, customer groups, price rules, requisition lists. Shopify Plus covers this with company accounts, price lists per customer, quantity rules, payment terms and quotes, together with the consumer business in one shop. What Shopify B2B can do and where the limits are is described on the Shopify B2B page. For very large numbers of per-customer price rules or quote processes with several approval levels we check in advance whether Shopify Plus carries it.
Redirects in a Magento to Shopify migration
Magento URLs are freely configurable, often ending in .html, with category paths containing products and a rewrite system that points old URLs to new ones. Shopify uses /products/handle and /collections/handle. We export every indexed URL from Magento, the URL rewrites and Search Console, assign its new target and create the 301 redirects before go-live, per store view and language. How the redirect mapping works in detail is explained on the Shopify migration page.
Integrations: ERP, PIM, fulfilment, marketplaces
Magento shops are usually connected to an ERP, often to a PIM and to fulfilment or marketplace integrations. Shopify has connectors to all common systems, from SAP and Microsoft Dynamics to Xentral and JTL-Wawi, and an API through which we map special cases. Before the project we define which system leads for products, prices, stock and orders, and test the data flow in staging with real orders.
Checkout and conversion after the move to Shopify
The Magento checkout is customisable, but every customisation is development and every patch can touch it. The Shopify checkout is a single page, knows Shop Pay, Apple Pay, Google Pay and TWINT and is tested continuously by Shopify, on Shopify Plus with Checkout Extensibility for your own fields and logic. Shopify reports up to 50 percent higher conversion for Shop Pay compared with guest checkout, measured in a study commissioned by Shopify. In our own projects we regularly see more completed orders after the migration. How SEO continues afterwards is described on the Shopify SEO agency page.
When Magento to Shopify is not the right decision
If your business relies on deep configurators, prices from the ERP in real time or processes that only work with your own code, and you have a developer team that masters Magento, Magento can stay. The same applies if you must run servers and code yourself for compliance reasons. We have built both and tell you before the project. Which alternatives exist is shown in our article on the Magento agency.
Magento to Shopify with Rankist
We have been in e-commerce since 2015, have supported 293 shops and are one of three Shopify Plus Partners in Switzerland. We deliver enterprise migrations as a Shopify Plus agency, with multi-store, B2B and integrations, and stay on board for SEO, ads and email afterwards if you want. The first step is a free 30-minute call in which we look at your Magento shop and tell you whether Shopify Plus fits and what the move needs.
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