Squarespace to Shopify.When selling outgrows a site builder.
Squarespace builds a beautiful website with a shop attached. Once commerce is the business rather than a feature of it, the ceiling starts costing you money.
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The problem
What goes wrong leaving Squarespace.
The risks specific to this platform, not generic migration advice.
Commerce is a feature, not the product.
Inventory rules, discounts, shipping logic and international selling are all thinner on Squarespace, because the platform is a website builder first.
There is barely an app ecosystem.
When you need subscriptions, bundles, loyalty or a proper review system, there is often no option at all rather than a choice of ten.
The /shop/p/ URL pattern has to go.
Squarespace product and category paths differ from Shopify's entirely. Without a complete redirect map, every ranking product page starts again from nothing.
How it works
A migration you don't have to worry about.
Planned, staged and verified end to end.
Audit
We inventory your Squarespace data, URLs, integrations and design so nothing is a surprise on migration day.
Build
We rebuild your store on Shopify - matched or improved design - on a staging environment you can review.
Migrate
Products, customers, orders and content transfer across and get reconciled against the source, record by record.
Launch
We flip DNS at a low-traffic window, verify redirects and tracking live, and monitor rankings after.
What's included
The whole move, handled.
- Products & variants
- Customer records
- Order history
- Pages, blog & galleries
- /shop/p/ → /products/
- Category & tag pages
- Blog post permalinks
- Meta & social cards
- Theme rebuild
- App replacements
- Integrations
- Payment & tax setup
- Staging & QA
- Zero-downtime switch
- Analytics & pixels
- Post-launch support
Other platforms
We migrate from these too.
Same process, different source. Every platform gets its own redirect map.
WooCommerce
Leave the plugin stack and hosting bills behind, with products, orders and rankings intact.
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Magento
Escape upgrade projects and developer retainers without losing complex catalogue logic.
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BigCommerce
Move to a larger app and theme ecosystem, with catalogue and customers intact.
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Wix
Escape a closed platform whose exports are deliberately limited, with nothing left behind.
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PrestaShop
Hand back servers, patching and module conflicts without losing multi-language catalogues.
Learn moreCustom platform
Retire a bespoke or in-house store, even with no documentation and no original developers.
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Brands we've moved to Shopify
See more results from our clients.
What are you waiting for?
These kinds of uplifts are one free discovery call away.
Related reading
Worth reading before you move.
Why Your Shopify Store Has No Sales (And What to Do)
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How to Improve Shopify Store Speed (It's a Conversion Problem)
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Frequently Asked Questions
Our Squarespace site looks great. Will Shopify?
Better, usually. Design is not what you give up — modern Shopify themes are at least as capable visually, and we build for conversion as well as looks rather than treating the store as a brochure.
Do we keep our domain and email?
Yes. The domain points at Shopify at cutover, and we handle the DNS so email and any other records keep working. If the domain is registered with Squarespace we can either transfer it or point it, whichever you prefer.
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.
How long does a Squarespace migration take?
Typically three to five weeks for a straightforward catalogue, because the data volume is usually modest and the storefront is a rebuild rather than a port. The audit gives you a firm timeline before anything starts.
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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