Hosting and speed stop being your problem
Shopify runs the infrastructure, the CDN and the certificates. Traffic spikes, patching and uptime are no longer a bill you pay or a night you lose.
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Why brands move
The reasons stores replatform are usually the same six. If none of these is the problem you have, a migration may not be the answer, and we will say so.
Shopify runs the infrastructure, the CDN and the certificates. Traffic spikes, patching and uptime are no longer a bill you pay or a night you lose.
Checkout, card data and compliance are Shopify's responsibility rather than something you maintain and audit yourself.
Products, inventory, orders, discounts and customers sit in one admin your team can actually use, instead of split across plugins that update on their own schedules.
A large app ecosystem for the standard jobs, and a proper API and theme layer for the parts of your store that are genuinely yours.
Clean URL structure, editable metadata, structured data and fast templates, so the technical side of search is not fighting you.
Multiple storefronts, B2B, point of sale and international selling are all on the same platform when you need them, not another replatform later.
What comes with you
A migration is an inventory problem before it is a design problem. This is the list we work through, and we agree it with you before anything is touched.
SKUs, options, pricing, inventory levels, collections and product images.
Accounts, addresses, tags and groups, with passwords handled through a reset rather than moved.
Past orders, line items, fulfilment status and refunds, so support and reporting keep their history.
Existing product reviews moved into whichever review app you land on.
CMS pages, posts, categories and authors, with the internal links repointed.
Active codes and rules rebuilt against how Shopify actually models discounts.
A mapped redirect for every ranking URL, written before cutover rather than after.
Zones, rates and rules rebuilt and checked against real orders before launch.
Where stores move from
The data is only half the job. What changes is how much of the old store was workaround, and how much of it is genuinely yours. Pick where you are coming from.
The usual reason for leaving is maintenance: plugins that update independently, hosting you own, and a checkout that is only as good as the last extension you installed. The data itself is well structured and moves cleanly.
Usually a cost and complexity decision. Magento stores tend to carry years of custom logic, so the work is deciding what genuinely needs rebuilding and what was a workaround for the old platform.
Two similar hosted platforms, so the data move is the straightforward part. The care goes into URL structure, which differs between them, and into rebuilding the theme rather than approximating it.
These stores are usually leaving because the commerce side has been outgrown while the content side is fine. The design is often worth keeping, so the job is rebuilding it properly rather than starting over.
An upgrade rather than a replatform, so nothing has to move. The work is in what Plus opens up: checkout, B2B and expansion stores. Not every store needs it, and we will tell you if yours does not.
In-house systems, old frameworks and platforms nobody supports any more. There is no export tool, so the first job is working out what the data actually is and where it lives.
How a migration runs
The order matters. Most migrations that go wrong went wrong in the first phase, by starting the build before anyone had counted what was in the old store.
What you actually have
We go through the current store properly: catalogue size, data quality, integrations, custom logic and which URLs carry your traffic. This is where the scope stops being a guess.
Agreed before anything moves
A written plan covering what moves, what gets rebuilt, what is deliberately left behind, and the redirect map. You approve it before we start.
The store itself
The Shopify theme is built to your design, or your existing design is rebuilt properly. Apps and integrations are set up alongside it rather than bolted on at the end.
Test run first, always
Products, customers, orders and content move into a development store first. You check the result against the real thing before we commit to it.
Before anyone sees it
Checkout, payments, shipping, tax, email flows and the redirect map all tested end to end. Speed and accessibility checked at the same time rather than afterwards.
And the weeks that follow
DNS cutover with redirects live from the first minute. Then we watch search performance, errors and orders, because the fortnight after launch is when problems surface.
Before you commit
Send us your current store and we will come back with what the move actually involves. No obligation to build it with us.
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Selected work
What changes after the move
This is about where the work goes, not about which platform is better. Some of these rows will not matter to you, and the ones that do are the reason to move.
| Where the work sits | Running your own stack | On Shopify After |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting and uptime | Yours to buy, size and monitor | Included, with the platform on call |
| Security patching | A recurring job someone has to own | Handled by the platform |
| PCI compliance | Your responsibility to maintain and prove | Carried by Shopify checkout |
| Traffic spikes | Capacity planned and paid for in advance | Absorbed by the platform |
| Adding a feature | Extension hunt, then hope it stays maintained | App ecosystem, or theme and API work you own |
| Updates and breakage | Version upgrades scheduled around the business | Platform updates arrive without a project |
| Selling in a new market | Usually another install to maintain | Built into the platform when you need it |
| Where your team spends time | Keeping the stack standing | Merchandising and selling |
Every row describes your own operation. Nothing here states another platform's published limits.
Talk to a migration developerWhy Enstacked
The redirect map is written during planning and tested before cutover. Most ranking losses on a replatform happen because this was treated as a launch-day task.
Everything lands in a development store first and you check it against the live site. Nothing is committed on trust.
Your store is built as a proper Shopify theme rather than forced into a template that nearly fits. That is what keeps it fast and editable afterwards.
If the problem you have is not one a migration solves, we would rather say so during the plan than take the project and have you find out later.
Core Web Vitals and WCAG are checked as the theme is built, not audited after launch when fixing them means rework.
The developer who audited your store stays on it. Nothing gets handed to a team that was not in the room when the plan was written.
Industries we work with
What makes a migration hard is usually the catalogue. Variants, subscriptions, bundles and wholesale pricing each behave differently on Shopify, and each one is worth planning for.
How we work together
Every store arrives with a different amount already done. Pick where you want us to start, and the quote is scoped to that rather than to a package.
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When we were looking to hire developers, we anticipated that it would be challenging to find the ideal developers for our team. Then we partnered with Enstacked and we are impressed by their expertise in hiring remote developers and their services.
We turned to this IT development company for custom software development, and they delivered beyond our expectations. Their ability to understand our unique business needs and provide tailored solutions has been invaluable to our growth and efficiency.
Enstakced has been doing an excellent job with the software and helping the client transform it into a SaaS platform. A responsive and organized team, their communication is awesome, with daily reports and regular calls for project updates. The team's availability has secured an ongoing partnership.
When we were looking to hire developers, we anticipated that it would be challenging to find the ideal developers for our team. Then we partnered with Enstacked and we are impressed by their expertise in hiring remote developers and their services.
We turned to this IT development company for custom software development, and they delivered beyond our expectations. Their ability to understand our unique business needs and provide tailored solutions has been invaluable to our growth and efficiency.
Enstakced has been doing an excellent job with the software and helping the client transform it into a SaaS platform. A responsive and organized team, their communication is awesome, with daily reports and regular calls for project updates. The team's availability has secured an ongoing partnership.
When we were looking to hire developers, we anticipated that it would be challenging to find the ideal developers for our team. Then we partnered with Enstacked and we are impressed by their expertise in hiring remote developers and their services.
We turned to this IT development company for custom software development, and they delivered beyond our expectations. Their ability to understand our unique business needs and provide tailored solutions has been invaluable to our growth and efficiency.
Enstakced has been doing an excellent job with the software and helping the client transform it into a SaaS platform. A responsive and organized team, their communication is awesome, with daily reports and regular calls for project updates. The team's availability has secured an ongoing partnership.
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FAQs
What store owners ask us before a replatform, answered straight.
No, if the migration is planned properly. Products, customers, order history, content and images are transferred into a development store first, and you check that against your live site before anything is committed. The one thing that cannot be moved is customer passwords, because they are stored hashed on every platform. Customers set a new password on their first login, which is normal on any replatform.
They should, if redirects are treated as a design decision rather than a launch-day task. We map every URL that carries traffic before the build starts, put the redirects live at cutover, and keep the metadata, structured data and internal links intact. Rankings usually wobble for a few weeks after any replatform while search engines recrawl, then settle.
It depends on catalogue size, how many integrations you run and how much custom logic the old store carries. A small catalogue with a standard setup is a very different job from thousands of SKUs with an ERP connection. We give you a real timeline in the migration plan, before any commitment, rather than quoting an average that would not apply to you.
No. The new store is built and tested in full while your current site keeps trading. The only change at cutover is DNS pointing at Shopify, with redirects already live. Customers who are mid-visit finish on the old site until their DNS refreshes, and both stores work during that window.
Each one is assessed during the audit. Some have a direct Shopify equivalent, some are already built into the platform and can be dropped, and a few need rebuilding as theme code or a custom app. You get that list in the migration plan, so there are no surprises about what your team loses or gains.
It is quoted per project, because the range is genuinely wide. The variables are catalogue size, data quality, how many integrations need rebuilding and whether the design is being rebuilt or redesigned. The migration plan prices the work before you commit to it, and there is no charge for that conversation.
Yes. The fortnight after cutover is when problems surface, so we watch search performance, error logs and orders through it. After that you can stay on a retainer for ongoing development, or take the store and run it yourself. The build is documented either way, so you are not tied to us to change it.
Usually yes, including in-house systems with no export tool at all. Where no export exists we pull the data from the database directly, map it to Shopify's structure and run a test migration you check before the real one. Send us what you are on and we will tell you honestly whether it is straightforward.
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