Migrating from Magento to Shopify
Transfer your eCommerce data, like products, customers, categories, etc. from Magento to Shopify store with no tech background required. No need to worry about your selling - your current Magento will be 100% active during the migration process.
What data can be
migrated from Magento (Adobe Commerce) to Shopify
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Cart2Cart will seamlessly migrate Magento to Shopify ecommerce data like products, orders, customers, etc. within a couple of hours with zero influence on your current Magento store performance.
How to Migrate from Magento to Shopify In 3 Steps?
Connect your Source & Target carts
Choose Magento and Shopify from the drop-down lists & provide the stores’ URLs in the corresponding fields.
Select the data to migrate & extra options
Choose the data you want to migrate to Shopify and extra options to customise your Magento to Shopify migration.
Launch your Demo/Full migration
Run a free Demo to see how the Cart2Cart service works, and when happy - launch Full migration.
How to Migrate From Magento to Shopify
There are multiple ways to migrate your online store from Magento to Shopify. While the choice of one over the other boils down to preference, some methods are more foolproof than others as far as the risk of data loss goes. Using an automated to Shopify migration service like Cart2Cart isn't just easier and more convenient; it guarantees safe data migration without losing precious customer, order, or product data in the process.
Watch our video tutorial to see how easy it is to automatically migrate from Magento to your Shopify account with the help of the Cart2Cart migration tool:
Here’s how to migrate from Magento to Shopify in a few easy steps:
- Connect your source and target shopping carts.
- Highlight the data you want to transfer and specify any additional migration options you would like to integrate into the process.
- Map the various customer groups you had in your store and the varying statuses of existing orders.
- Run the free demo to launch the Full Migration.
How to Prepare for Magento to Shopify Migration
Before you make the big switch from Magento to Shopify, there are some critical measures you need to take beforehand to make sure you have a smooth transition through and through.
1. Manage Your Magento Store
While using an automated migration tool like Cart2Cart is designed to mitigate the risk of losing precious data when transferring to a new platform, you still need to backup your store data. This is the golden rule of data migration. You also need to perform a data audit and validate the credentials of your current store.
Here’s what you need to do:
Create a Backup
You can never be too careful. Ensure that you backup your store database before initiating the migration process. You can backup your data in Magento using any of the three options outlined below:
- Database backup – Creates a copy of the database only
- Media and database backup – Creates a backup of both the database and the files in the media folder
- System backup – Creates a complete backup of the entire database, file system, and the files in the media folder
Do a Site Data Audit
Carry out an in-depth audit of your store data and create an accurate inventory of the details you hold. Analyze the data held in fields like the Product Name, Product Descriptions, Passwords, Customer Data, Contact Information, and so forth. Comb through everything and identify what to keep versus what to trash.
Validate Your Store Credentials
The final step involves creating a strong link between your existing Magento platform and what is about to become your new Shopify store. To do this, you need to validate the access credentials of your current store, including the FTP/SSH, URL, etc. Only then will the source store connect with the target store to commence the migration.
2. Prepare Your Shopify Store
Once everything is in order on the Magento end of things, it’s now time to take care of the Shopify side. Here’s how to prepare:
Get Your Shopify Store Ready
First, you need to set up your new Shopify website. There are three plans to choose from. The one you pick ultimately depends on the size of your online store and the features and functionalities you want it to have.
Use the 14-day free trial to get a feel for the platform. That way, you’ll know what package works for the current and long-term plans you have for your store and then upgrade or downgrade your bouquet as required.
Choose a Theme
Next, you’ll need to pick a theme. Your newly set up store will have the Shopify default theme installed. As tempting as it might be to choose a template from any of the 80+ professionally-designed themes on the platform, it would be better to hold off on customization until you’ve fully migrated your store from Magento.
Once you do, you can then either retain the theme you had previously installed on your old store or change things up by incorporating a new platform-specific Shopify theme.
Install the Necessary Apps
Apps and API integrations are designed to enhance the functionality of your store. Depending on the app you use for migration, installing the extensions you previously had to your new store might be an automated or manual process. If you’re using Cart2Cart, the process is automatic. If you’re not, ensure that you install the apps you had in your previous store when you convert Magento to Shopify.
How to Migrate From Magento to Shopify in 5 Steps
At this point, you’ve adequately prepared your Source store and Target Store for shopping cart migration. You’re now ready to initiate the process. This section of the migration guide will focus on the procedure for automated data transfer using a migration app – more specifically, Cart2Cart. It is by far the fastest, most convenient, error-free method of all the three possible approaches outlined earlier in the guide.
Use the Cart2Cart Free Demo to sign up and get started. In the meantime, here’s how to transfer website from Magento to Shopify using the app.
Step 1: Connect Your Shopping Carts
In the Source Cart Setup window, click on the drop-down menu and select Magento from the list of options provided in the Source Cart field. Then, enter the URL of your Source store in the field provided.
Once you do, you will need to download and install the Connection Bridge to allow your two stores to communicate. Here’s how to go about it:
- Download the Connection Bridge
- Unpack the connection_bridge.zip file
- Extract the bridge2cart folder and use an FTP client to import it to the root catalog of your Magento store
- Check the status of the connection to the Source Store to confirm that a link has been created
Once you’ve set up your Source Cart, it is now time to set up your Shopify cart. In the Target Cart Setup window, select Shopify from the list of options provided in the Target Cart field. To enable your Shopify store connection, click the Install Plugin button to download and install the Migration for Shopify extension.
Step 2: Select Data for Migration
The next step involves choosing the data you want to migrate from Magento to Shopify. Click on the Choose Entities button to select the data classes you want to transfer to your new store. Select All to highlight all the listed entities or select individual entities if you don’t want to migrate everything.
For instance, you can select Products and then check the specific data classes you want to migrate. In this case, these would be Reviews, Categories, and Manufacturers. If you select the Customers entity, you can then choose whether or not to include Orders in your migration.
Below is a list of the data entities you can migrate from Magento to Shopify:
- Product details including name, description, images, price, and existing stock
- Product visuals including size, color, and shape of the item
- List of purchased items, total price, payment information
- Static site pages including About Us, Contact Us, Terms and Conditions, etc
- SEO settings and redirects
- Integrations
Step 3: Specify the Additional Migration Options
Once you’ve connected the shopping carts for your Source Store and Target Store and specified the data entities you want to be migrated, you now need to identify any additional migration options you might like to incorporate. The ones you pick ultimately depend on your specific needs. Here’s an overview of the available options:
- Migrate the categories in your Magento store to the Automated Collections in Shopify
- Create 301 redirects in your Shopify store after migration to ensure old category URLs and their respective products keep working in your new store
- Maintain your products’ link structures to ensure their migration SEO URLs preserve your new store’s ranking on SERPs.
Step 4: Map Customer Groups and Order Statuses
The existing customer groups and order statuses you had in Magento will not be migrated to your new Shopify store. Instead, users can match their old groups and statuses with the ones they create in the new store.
In the Stores Mapping window of the app, check the Source Stores data group you want to create and then click on the corresponding Target Stores for the newly created store. If the required Order statuses don’t exist yet in the new store, click on the appropriate buttons to create them.
Here's something else worth noting when migrating Customers from Magento to Shopify: If there’s no valid customer email address on Magento, the Cart2Cart tool automatically creates a default email when migrating the orders. This is usually the case when guest users, who were not registered customers, ordered from your previous store.
That said, during the migration to Shopify, you may receive several email notifications about new orders while they are, in fact, the old orders that were migrated. You can deactivate these notifications by logging in to Shopify Settings, navigating to notifications, and then clicking Disable on the bottom right corner of the window.
Step 5: Run Free Demo / Launch Full Migration
At this stage, you're now ready to run the Free Demo migration or launch the Full Migration if you’re on a paid plan. While the Demo migration will give you a feel for how the Cart2Cart migration tool works, the downside is – you can only transfer a limited number of entities in the 10-30 minute duration it runs.
The plus side to the Free Demo is, running it first before launching the full migration allows you to check the functionality of the Cart2Cart tool. Ensure you keep the window open until the process completes.
You’ll then need to check the migration results in your new Shopify store. If the newly migrated data is not visible on the frontend, confirm whether it is on the system backend. To do this, download the Product IDs file on the Demo Results page and check them against the migrated data in your new store’s backend.
Once you’ve confirmed that the Free Demo migration took place without a hitch, you can now proceed to launch the Full Migration.
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How to transfer my website from Magento to Shopify?
Follow these steps in the Cart2Cart Migration Wizard to migrate from Magento to Shopify:
- Set up your Source and Target carts.
- Select the data you want to transfer and pick the additional options to refine your migration.
- Match Magento’s languages/currencies/order statuses to the Shopify ones
- Run the free Demo migration.
- Launch Full database migration.
How to Migrate to Shopify via the Magento to Shopify Migration App?
Register a new Cart2Cart account and press the Start free Demo button. When done, configure the Source cart and click the Install Plugin button.
Now, click the Choose Entities button to select the data types you'd like to migrate to Shopify. And choose the additional options, like Preserve order IDs, Create 301 redirects on Target store, Migrate SEO URLs, etc.
Then, click the hamburger button to match your order statuses to the corresponding ones on your new Shopify store.
Now, you can start a Free Demo to see Cart2Cart in action. After checking the Demo results, you're all set to launch the Full migration. And move all of your store data to the new Shopify store.
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How to Migrate Magento to Shopify?
Shopify started as a snowboard-selling venture in 2006 and has grown into one of the world’s largest e-commerce companies.
The statistics around the platform are mind-boggling. Shopify has generated over $590bn in sales and is used by millions of merchants in 175 countries. The platform powers millions of online stores, providing online store owners with everything they need to run a competitive online store, including payment gateways, email marketing tools, shipping solutions, and much more.
No wonder that Shopify is the top shopping cart that online business owners most frequently migrate to.
For those who want to migrate Magento to Shopify, this article will provide a step-by-step guide.
How to Handle Magento to Shopify Migration?
You can migrate Magento to Shopify by following these steps.
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Set up a Shopify Account and choose a Shopify plan
Go to the Shopify platform online and sign up for a free trial. You can play around with Shopify for 14 days for free or for three months at $1/month on certain plans.
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Create a Backup of your store
Before you attempt to move your store, first ensure that your store’s data is safe and secure. If you don't benefit from automatic backups via your hosting provider, you need to create a backup of your Magento store yourself (before the migration itself).
To do this, access your Magento Admin sidebar, click on Tools, and then Backups. Make a backup choice:
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System Backup
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Database and Media Backup
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Database Backup
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Choose Cart2Cart in the App Store to do the migration
Set up the Magento to Shopify migration by first configuring the source cart and then the target cart.
Set up the Source cart
Choose Magento in the drop-down menu and then enter the URL of your Magento store. Next, install Connection Bridge on your Magento. This will enable data migration between your two stores.
Set up the Target cart
Choose Shopify from the drop-down list and click the Install Plugin button and provide your store’s URL.
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Select the data you want to migrate
Make your choice under Select entities for migration. You can choose items separately or click on Select All.
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Select migration extras
Cart2Cart offers many migration extras that ensure a complete store migration, including 301 redirects, preservation of products, customer and order IDs on the Target Store, and more.
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Map customer groups & order statuses
Launch a free Demo migration to make sure you match your Magento order statuses and fulfillment statuses correctly to the corresponding ones on Shopify.
Migrate up to 10 products in 15 minutes to check that the migration is working according to plan.
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Start full migration
Click the Start Full Migration button to start the migration of your Magento database to your Shopify store.
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Review the Imported Data
Check if everything has been imported. Test the shopping process by creating a test product and placing an order. Also, select shipping and payment options to check that everything works perfectly.
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Customize your Shopify store
Choose from Shopify's free and premium themes to create a store that will suit your needs. Each theme is mobile responsive, so consumers will be able to view your store and products via mobile and desktop.
Benefits of Migration from Magento to Shopify
Hosting
Shopify provides fully managed cloud-based hosting, which means you don't have to worry about hosting, technical issues, or the security of your site.
Security
Shopify offers online store holders superior security. Shopify is Level 1 PCI DSS compliant – the highest level of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. In addition, all Shopify stores have SSL certificates, ensuring encrypted connections for all visitors.
Customization
With Shopify, merchants have extensive store customization resources. Magento users have the same, but for them, it's significantly more difficult to implement customization since the skills of a professional developer are required.
In contrast, Shopify has a user-friendly interface, which enables merchants to do their own customization without any coding skills.
Extensive Range of Apps
Shopify's own features are completely sufficient for building and running a comprehensive online store. But, should you need more, Shopify also offers an extensive range of apps. Online store owners have access to more than 4,000 plug-ins in the Shopify app store, enabling and enhancing many e-commerce functions.
Automation
Shopify offers its merchants access to a range of powerful automation tools, including Flow, Scripts, and Launchpad, aimed at speeding up all store operations.
24/7 Support
One of the greatest aspects of choosing to run a store on Shopify is the technical support. Shopify has a dedicated support team available 24/7 via email, or live chat.
When Do You Need to Migrate from Magento to Shopify?
Magento is too expensive
If the monthly costs of running the Magento store and maintaining it keep exceeding the proceeds, it might be time to look at something that would be more cost-effective.
The store is being held up by the need for programming skills
If even small changes to your Magento site require months to accomplish because the changes must be done by a programmer, it might be time to re-platform your store to a solution like Shopify, which doesn't require any developing skills.
The platform is complicated to use
Magento is a huge platform that's difficult to learn and then manage. Let's face it, an e-commerce platform should support your business, not burden you. If your Magento user panel is not intuitive, or it's difficult to add products or personalize the shop’s look, it may be time to look for an e-commerce solution that offers a more user-friendly solution.
Too many updates and patches
If your team is spending an inordinate amount of time fixing bugs, you are wasting time and money. If your software architecture is partly to blame for this problem, fixing the bugs won't solve the problem. The only solution is to start using a completely new platform.
The store is too slow
A host of issues can slow down a Magento store – server misconfigurations, too many 3rd-Party extensions, apps, and unoptimized front-end content are a few examples. Magento sites often experience speed issues due to the high consumption of resources.
Conclusion
Both Magento and Shopify are top-rated e-commerce platforms. However, Shopify is much easier to use. If you feel you can handle most of the technical stuff yourself, or at least with fewer developers than you need for a Magento store, it might be worth your while to consider Magento to Shopify migration.
If you need help with this, one of the best solutions is the cart migration tool Cart2Cart. It is a simple and trustworthy cart migration tool that migrates all website data securely and accurately.