How To Migrate My WooCommerce Store

WooCommerce is a WordPress migration with ecommerce risk added. You still move files, uploads, plugins, themes, and the database, but the migration also has to protect products, product variations, orders, customers, coupons, shipping, tax, payment settings, and subscription records.

For most WooCommerce stores, freeze edits before the final sync. Orders placed during a file/database move are the usual reason a clean migration turns into a reconciliation job.

WooCommerce Migration Steps

• Detect WordPress and WooCommerce, then record PHP, MySQL or MariaDB, plugin, theme, and upload sizes.
• Move the WordPress files and database with a serialized-safe search and replace for the final domain or temporary domain.
• Confirm products, variations, images, downloadable products, order history, customers, coupons, and tax settings.
• Reconnect payment gateways, webhooks, subscriptions, email sender settings, and shipping integrations.
• Test cart, checkout, payment sandbox or low-value live payment, refunds, account login, and order emails before DNS cutover.

What Changes The Credit Estimate

WooCommerce stores are usually database-heavy and media-heavy. Product image libraries, order tables, action scheduler logs, analytics tables, subscriptions, multilingual plugins, and object-cache tables can increase the estimate even when the public site looks small.

Use Migration Monkey

Use the Migration Monkey walkthrough to detect WooCommerce, set the source and destination endpoints, review the credit estimate, and keep the migration log tied to checkout and post-launch verification.