How To Migrate My Shopify Store

Shopify is a hosted ecommerce platform, so a Shopify migration is not the same as copying a server file tree and database. You normally move products, images, customers, redirects, content, theme assets where exportable, and order history through exports or APIs, then rebuild or import that data into the destination platform.

Do not promise a raw database or server-file migration out of Shopify. Treat Shopify as an export/API migration route with ecommerce reconciliation.

Shopify Migration Steps

• Export or sync products, variants, images, collections, pages, blog posts, customers, discounts, and redirects.
• Decide whether the destination is Shopify-to-Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, PrestaShop, custom ecommerce, or another hosted platform.
• Map URLs before launch so product and collection redirects are preserved for SEO.
• Rebuild payment, shipping, tax, email, analytics, app, and checkout behavior on the destination.
• Freeze final changes, run a final delta export when possible, then cut over DNS.

How Migration Monkey Helps

Migration Monkey can route Shopify jobs as export/API migrations, track payload counts, warn when manual reconciliation is required, and keep the operator checklist tied to final ecommerce testing.