WooCommerce to Shopify, without losing your Google rankings.
Plugins, hosting and updates are your job on WooCommerce. On Shopify they are not. We move the whole shop across and redirect every old address, so the traffic you have built comes with you.
From £1,495 + VAT for up to 100 products.
Shopify
- Every URL redirected
- Rankings report
Why shops leave WooCommerce
WooCommerce runs on WordPress, so the shop is only as stable as its hosting, its theme and a stack of plugins that all update on their own schedule. One clash at the wrong time and the checkout stops working.
Shopify looks after hosting, security and checkout for you. The risk is the move itself: done carelessly, the old product and category addresses stop working and Google drops the pages that were bringing in sales.
Your addresses will change
WooCommerce and Shopify structure their URLs differently, so every important address needs a redirect. Usually it looks like this:
/product/rose-face-oil/redirects to /products/rose-face-oil/product-category/skincare/redirects to /collections/skincare/2024/05/how-to-use-face-oil/redirects to /blogs/news/how-to-use-face-oilWe map the real addresses from your store before the move, including any that do not follow the usual pattern.
What needs a plan
Plugins
Subscriptions, bundles, reviews and loyalty schemes usually run on plugins. Each one needs a Shopify app or a decision before launch, and we list them up front.
Customer passwords
Passwords cannot be moved between platforms. Customers keep their accounts and order history, and set a new password with an invite email.
Variations
Shopify limits how many options and variants a product can have. Products with lots of variations are mapped one by one so nothing gets dropped.
A like-for-like move, done properly
- Products, variants, images, collections, customers and order history moved across
- Pages and blog posts moved, with their meta titles and descriptions
- Every old URL redirected to its new Shopify address
- A standard Shopify theme matched to your current look
- A before-and-after Google rankings report 30 days after launch
It is a like-for-like move, so a redesign or custom theme work is quoted separately.
One fixed price, set by the size of the store
All prices + VAT. You get the exact figure in writing once we have mapped the store.
Up to 100 products
£1,495 + VAT
One-off
Up to 1,000 products
£2,950 + VAT
One-off
Bigger stores
Quoted
One-off
Care plan after launch: £145 + VAT a month, optional
Theme and app updates, Security and backups, Speed fixes, Small edits each month.
Our rankings guarantee
If your Google clicks are more than 10% below where they were before the move, 60 days after launch, we keep working on it free until they are back. Any redirect we missed is fixed free for 90 days.
The rankings promise assumes no big changes to the site in those 60 days, so we are comparing like with like.
SEO people who do migrations
A migration is mostly an SEO job: knowing which pages bring in your traffic and making sure every one of them still works on the new store. That is the work we have done for online shops for years. Two of them:
Who does your migration
A small team. The person who maps your store is the person who moves it.
Matthew Ludlow
Runs every migration
Matt maps the old store, moves it to Shopify and checks every redirect after launch. He is the person you deal with from first message to rankings report.
Mike McDonnell
Founder, the SEO side
Mike built Glide on SEO for online shops and local businesses. The way we protect rankings in a move comes from that work.
Questions about moving from WooCommerce
Yes. Past orders and customers move across, so your customers can still see what they bought and you keep your sales records.
Not for the shop. If you also run a blog or other pages on WordPress, we move those to Shopify too as part of the like-for-like move.
Not if the move is done properly, which is the whole point of how we do it. Every old address is redirected to its new page, your page titles and descriptions come across, and we check it all on launch day. If clicks are more than 10% down 60 days after launch, we keep working on it free.
£1,495 + VAT for up to 100 products and £2,950 + VAT for up to 1,000. Bigger stores are quoted. After launch, an optional care plan is £145 + VAT a month.
It is a like-for-like move, so a redesign or custom theme work is quoted separately. So is anything that needs building from scratch, which we price before we start.
Price your WooCommerce to Shopify move
Tell us the store's address and roughly how many products. We map it and come back with a fixed price within one working day.