BigCommerce Migration

BigCommerce to Shopify.A bigger ecosystem.

Move to the platform with the apps, the themes and the talent pool — and take your catalogue, customers and search rankings with you.

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SEO preservedredirects mapped
Zero downtimeat cutover
Data-safeverified transfer

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The problem

What goes wrong leaving BigCommerce.

The risks specific to this platform, not generic migration advice.

01

Options are not variants.

BigCommerce option sets and modifiers behave differently from Shopify variants, and a naive import either loses pricing rules or explodes the SKU count. We restructure them deliberately.

02

Large catalogues expose API limits.

Tens of thousands of SKUs cannot be moved in one pass. We batch, throttle and verify in stages so nothing silently fails halfway through a run.

03

Category URLs do not translate.

BigCommerce nests categories into paths that Shopify's flat collection structure has no equivalent for. Each one needs a deliberate redirect decision.

How it works

A migration you don't have to worry about.

Planned, staged and verified end to end.

01

Audit

We inventory your BigCommerce data, URLs, integrations and design so nothing is a surprise on migration day.

Data auditURL mapIntegrationsSEO baseline
02

Build

We rebuild your store on Shopify - matched or improved design - on a staging environment you can review.

Staging storeThemeAppsRedirects
03

Migrate

Products, customers, orders and content transfer across and get reconciled against the source, record by record.

ProductsCustomersOrdersContent
04

Launch

We flip DNS at a low-traffic window, verify redirects and tracking live, and monitor rankings after.

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What's included

The whole move, handled.

Data
  • Product options & modifiers
  • Price lists & customer groups
  • Order & shipment history
  • Blog posts & web pages
SEO
  • Nested category paths
  • /categories/ → /collections/
  • Product URL slugs
  • Existing 301 chains
Build
  • Theme rebuild
  • App replacements
  • Integrations
  • Payment & tax setup
Cutover
  • Staging & QA
  • Zero-downtime switch
  • Analytics & pixels
  • Post-launch support

Related reading

Worth reading before you move.

Frequently Asked Questions

How large a catalogue can you move?

We have moved catalogues well into the tens of thousands of SKUs. Past a few thousand products the work stops being an import and becomes a batched, verified pipeline, which is exactly what we build for it.

Will our existing redirects carry over?

Yes. We pull your current redirect table as well as your live URLs, so redirect chains built up over years do not break. Chains get flattened to a single hop where we can, which is better for both crawlers and page speed.

How much downtime is there?

None that customers notice. We build and test everything on a staging store, then switch DNS during a low-traffic window. Your old store stays live until the new one is verified.

Do price lists survive the move?

The pricing logic does, though its implementation changes. On Shopify Plus, price lists map to B2B catalogues; on standard Shopify we reproduce them through customer tags and an app. We confirm which route applies during the audit.

Will we lose our Google rankings?

Not if it is done right. We build a complete 301 redirect map from your old URLs to the new ones and preserve your metadata and structure, so link equity carries over. We monitor rankings after launch.

Can you redesign while we migrate?

Absolutely. Many brands treat a migration as the moment to upgrade. We can replicate your current design or build a new conversion-first store as part of the move.

See If We're a Fit

When you book a call, you're not speaking to a salesperson. You're speaking to the founders. Tell us where you're at, we'll tell you exactly what we'd do. No fluff, no pressure.

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