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Magento to Shopify Migration Built Around Your Store, Not a Template

Most replatforming projects lose products, customer history, or search rankings somewhere in the move. chillicommerce handles Magento to Shopify migration for UK retailers using your existing catalogue, order data, and SEO structure, so your store keeps working the way it should, just faster and easier to manage.

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When does it make sense to migrate from Magento to Shopify?

Magento is still a strong platform for businesses that need advanced customisation and complex commerce functionality. But as your business grows, the cost and effort of managing it can start to outweigh the benefits. A Magento to Shopify migration may make sense when your team needs a platform that is easier to manage, faster to update, and less dependent on ongoing technical maintenance.

Retail team reviewing whether to migrate their Magento store to Shopify

Regular upgrades, security patches, and infrastructure maintenance can increase the time and cost required to keep a Magento store running smoothly.

Simple merchandising, content, or storefront changes shouldn’t always require developer support. Shopify gives internal teams more control over everyday store management.

As Magento stores grow, extensions can become harder to maintain, upgrade, and keep compatible with one another, adding unnecessary technical complexity.

Hosting, development support, upgrades, and ongoing maintenance can make the total cost of running Magento higher than your business needs.

Shopify handles hosting, core platform maintenance, and much of the underlying infrastructure, giving your team a simpler environment for managing products, content, and day-to-day trading.

If you want to migrate from Magento to Shopify, the decision shouldn’t start with moving data. It should start with understanding what your current platform is making harder than it needs to be.

What data do we transfer in a Magento to Shopify migration?

Migration from Magento 1 or 2 to Shopify or Shopify Plus covers every entity your store depends on, mapped correctly rather than dumped across as a raw export.

Product catalogue, categories and pricing migrating from Magento to Shopify

Products, Categories & Pricing

Products, SKUs, descriptions, images, inventory, and variants move across in full, with Magento categories mapped to Shopify collections and pricing or tax rules configured for Shopify’s setup.

Customer accounts and order history migrating from Magento to Shopify

Customers & Orders

Customer names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses transfer alongside order details, statuses, taxes, and shipping and billing information, giving your team full continuity for reporting and service.

SEO metadata, content and custom fields migrating from Magento to Shopify

SEO, Content & Custom Data

Meta titles, descriptions, and redirects are preserved to protect rankings, while CMS pages, blog posts, and custom fields are migrated as Shopify-native content or metafields.

Discount codes, manufacturers and product reviews migrating to Shopify

Coupons, Manufacturers & Reviews

Discount codes, expiry dates, and usage limits transfer as configured, manufacturers move across as product tags or metafields, and reviews are migrated using a dedicated Shopify app.

A migration partner that
learns your store before
building anything

With years of hands-on Magento experience, chillicommerce looks closely at how your existing store works, from catalogue structure and custom functionality to integrations, customer journeys and high-value pages, before recommending how your Shopify store should be built.

This helps us identify what needs to move, what should be rebuilt for Shopify, and where unnecessary complexity can be removed. As a Magento to Shopify migration company in London, we shape the result around how your business actually trades, rather than forcing your store into a standard Shopify setup.

We don’t simply move your store. We use the migration as an opportunity to improve the parts of your Magento setup that were already creating problems.

Retailer reviewing their online store on a tablet before a Magento to Shopify migration

Move to Shopify without losing what your Magento store already does well

We plan every Magento to Shopify migration around your data, integrations, and trading calendar so the switch is straightforward for your team and causes as little disruption as possible for customers.

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Our Magento to Shopify migration process

Each stage starts with your existing Magento setup so the new Shopify store reflects how your business actually sells and operates.

Discovery & Migration Planning

We map out your catalogue, integrations, customer journeys, custom functionality and technical requirements to define the scope before development starts.

Data & Catalogue Migration

We migrate and validate products, variants, media, customer information, and necessary order history against the original Magento store.

Storefront & Integration Build

We build your Shopify storefront, checkout configuration, apps, and third-party integrations, connecting them to the systems your business already uses.

Testing, Launch & Support

We test checkout journeys, payments, shipping rules, redirects, and integrations before managing the switch-over. After launch, we remain available for monitoring and fine-tuning.

chillicommerce Magento to Shopify migration team working at a multi-screen desk

Why choose chillicommerce as your Magento to Shopify migration agency?

Many migration providers apply essentially the same replatforming process to every store. As a Magento to Shopify migration agency in the UK with deep Magento development experience, chillicommerce starts by understanding what your existing store actually needs to preserve, replace, or improve.

  • Detailed data migration – We migrate products, customers, and required order history with checks against your original Magento store rather than relying on a best-effort copy.
  • SEO migration included – URL mapping, redirects, and important organic landing pages are considered during the migration rather than after the new store has already launched.
  • Custom functionality reviewed properly – Where Magento functionality needs replacing, we look for the most suitable Shopify-native approach before adding unnecessary third-party apps.
  • Straightforward technical advice – If a problem can be fixed without migrating platforms, we’ll tell you. Migration should solve a genuine business or technical problem.
  • Post-launch involvement – We remain involved after launch to help monitor the store and fine-tune functionality as your catalogue, customers and traffic grow.

Ready to migrate from Magento to Shopify?

Tell us how large your catalogue is, which systems your Magento store connects to, and when you need the new store to go live. As an experienced Magento to Shopify migration company, we’ll review what needs to move, what needs rebuilding, and what can be simplified before recommending the right migration approach.

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What our clients feel

chillicommerce quickly understood the commercial pressures we were facing. They simplified our operations and gave us a clearer growth structure.

Laura Bennett

What stands out about chillicommerce is their discipline. Every recommendation was grounded in scalability and long-term sustainability. They operate like an extension of our internal social media marketing team.

Jeff Nogosek

Our AI-powered product recommendations went live in weeks, not months. chillicommerce made a complex integration feel straightforward. Customer engagement has noticeably improved since launch.

Tom Adeyemi

From day one, the chillicommerce team treated our project as their own. Their technical knowledge and genuine commitment to results set them apart from every agency we have worked with before.

Sarah Mitchell

We appreciate how chillicommerce always thinks commercially. They do not just build features; they question whether those features serve the business. That mindset is rare and invaluable for any retail brand.

Priya Sharma

They combine deep technical understanding with clear commercial thinking. The honest advice on where AI would and would not help saved us from spending on the wrong things.

Emma Clarke

chillicommerce helped us integrate our systems without a single day of downtime. Their technical discipline and project management are outstanding. Highly recommended for complex builds.

Natalie Cross

Working with chillicommerce felt like working with an in-house team. They understood our catalogue complexity and built a solution that genuinely works for our operations.

Mark Ellison

Frequently asked questions

For a medium-sized store, a Magento to Shopify migration typically lands between £15,000 and £35,000. That figure usually covers catalogue, customer, and order migration, a full theme rebuild, integrations, SEO preservation, and testing ahead of launch. If your store has B2B requirements, ERP connections, or runs across multiple storefronts, the cost climbs accordingly.

Most medium-sized UK stores are looking at 6 to 12 weeks for a complete migration, though a more straightforward Magento to Shopify move can sometimes be done in 4 to 8 weeks. What stretches that timeline is usually custom integrations, a large or complex catalogue, thorough testing, internal approvals, or SEO work that needs extra care.

Yes, and it’s usually a smooth process using a migration app or CSV/API import. The main thing is checking everything landed correctly afterwards: ratings, review text, author names, dates, which product each review is tied to, verification status, moderation flags, and how it all displays on the storefront.

A platform migration doesn’t automatically mean losing rankings. Problems are more commonly caused by missing redirects, changed content, broken internal links, or poorly mapped URLs. A complete URL mapping and 301 redirect plan helps preserve the rankings and backlinks you’ve already built.

Yes, where the information is required for reporting, customer service, or business continuity. The exact migration approach depends on your Magento setup and is confirmed during discovery.

No. Many Magento extensions have suitable Shopify app equivalents. Where no equivalent exists, we assess whether custom development is necessary or whether the functionality can be simplified during the move.