Magento to Shopify Migration Stop Bleeding Money on
Magento Maintenance

I won't quote you an average, because every Magento bill is different and an average would be a number I'd made up. What I'll do is put the two side by side. On Magento the costs are yours to carry: hosting, security patches, extension licences, and whatever developer time keeps the thing upright. On Shopify it's one published price — £25 to £289 a month depending on plan, with hosting, security, updates and support included, or £2,000 a month for Plus. Send me your last three months of Magento invoices and I'll work out what the move is actually worth to your store, and how long the migration takes to pay for itself on your numbers, before you commit to anything. If you're coming off Adobe Commerce with B2B catalogues or multiple storefronts, the honest comparison is against the enterprise tier instead — what Shopify Plus costs and when it's worth it sets out that case, including the times it isn't.

Not if the redirect work is done properly, and that work is the largest single piece of the migration. Every Magento URL gets mapped to its Shopify equivalent, your existing URL rewrite table gets lifted wholesale, 301s go in, metadata transfers, sitemaps get resubmitted. Expect a few weeks of turbulence while Google recrawls. What I won't do is promise you a position — nobody honestly can, and the migrations that lose ground lose it in the redirect map, not in the platform. So I map every URL rather than sampling, I record a ranking baseline before cutover, and I monitor Search Console daily through launch week. How migration SEO works covers the baseline, the redirect map and the checklist I run before any cutover.

I audit all your Magento extensions and identify Shopify app equivalents. Most functionality has better, more affordable alternatives in Shopify's app ecosystem. For truly custom features, I can build Shopify apps or use Shopify Flow for automation.

Four to eight weeks of build for a standard Magento store, agreed against your catalogue at quote stage. Complex multi-store Magento Enterprise installations sit at the top of that band or above it — custom integrations and large catalogues are what move the number, and you'll know yours before you commit. Your existing store keeps trading right up to the switch.

Yes, and you should migrate urgently. Magento 1 reached end-of-life in June 2020 and receives no security updates. Running an unsupported Magento 1 store puts your business and customer data at serious risk. I've spent years migrating ecommerce stores between platforms — EKM, WooCommerce, Wix, bespoke builds — and Magento's export quirks are a variation on patterns I already handle through the API.

All customer data transfers to Shopify including names, emails, addresses, and order history. Customers will need to reset their passwords on first login (for security - passwords can't be migrated), but all their account information and purchase history will be intact.