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Szilárd Baróti
Ecommerce Project Manager
Shopify to
Magento 2
migration
Move from Shopify to Magento 2 (Adobe Commerce) without losing data, rankings or a single day of sales.
Adobe Commerce gold partner
#1 Adobe Commerce partner worldwide
Hyvä Platinum Partner
40+ projects delivered
ISO 9001 & 27001
Audited every year
#1 Most Certified Hyva Agency
200+ Adobe Commerce Certifications
55+ Shopify certifications
Trusted by brands globally
The signals it's time to leave Shopify
Shopify is a great place to start. These are the walls brands hit when they've outgrown it.
The platform tax, illustrated
- Plan tier
- Rises as you grow
- App subscriptions
- One per missing feature
- Transaction fees
- Off Shopify Payments
Your monthly Shopify bill
Keeps climbing
Often more than hosting a store you own outright.
The platform tax
Fees, rising plan tiers and an app stack that quietly adds up.
Checkout you can't fully control
Customization is gated. On Magento the checkout is yours.
Catalog complexity limits
Variant ceilings and metafield workarounds instead of real attributes.
B2B as an add-on, not a foundation
Company accounts, quotes and punchout are native to Adobe Commerce.
One store per store
True multi-store, multi-language, multi-currency, from one backend.
Locked URL structure
/products/ and /collections/ are forced. On Magento URLs are yours.
Your data, their platform
Own the code, data and infrastructure instead of renting all three.
Should you stay, or should you move?
Move to Magento 2 (Adobe Commerce)
- You're fighting the platform: complex catalog or B2B
- Multi-store plans, or an app bill like a second payroll
- Full ownership of checkout, code and data
#1 Adobe Commerce partner worldwide
Stay on Shopify, done properly
- Lean D2C with a simple catalog is often best where it is
- Slow pages or messy apps need optimization, not a move
- We'll say so, and do that work with you
Shopify Plus Partner55+ certifications
Not sure? We'll tell you which
- One consultation maps your catalog and operations
- A straight answer, even if it’s “stay where you are”
- No obligation, the plan is yours to keep
Free consultationNo obligation
We have no reason to push you either way
We work with both Shopify and Magento every week. Whichever answer it is, you'll hear it straight.
What maps to what
Nothing you rely on gets lost in translation. Every Shopify concept has a Magento home, usually a more capable one.
Shopify
Where you are now
- Collections
- Metafields
- Product options & variants
- Apps, subscriptions that add up
- Liquid theme
- Shopify checkout
- Shopify Payments
- Discount codes
- Shopify Markets
- Shopify B2B (Plus)
Magento 2
Where you're moving to
- Categories, with dynamic category rules
- Native attributes & attribute sets
- Configurable products, no option ceiling
- Native features plus extensions you own
- Hyvä storefront with Venta, our production-ready theme
- Fully customizable checkout you control
- Your choice of PSP, no lock-in, no penalty fees
- Cart & catalog price rules, far more granular
- True multi-store, multi-language, multi-currency
- Native B2B: company accounts, quotes, contract pricing, punchout
Each row is Magento 1 → Magento 2
ShopifyCollections
Magento 2Categories, with dynamic category rules
ShopifyMetafields
Magento 2Native attributes & attribute sets
ShopifyProduct options & variants
Magento 2Configurable products, no option ceiling
ShopifyApps, subscriptions that add up
Magento 2Native features plus extensions you own
ShopifyLiquid theme
Magento 2Hyvä storefront with Venta, our production-ready theme
ShopifyShopify checkout
Magento 2Fully customizable checkout you control
ShopifyShopify Payments
Magento 2Your choice of PSP, no lock-in, no penalty fees
ShopifyDiscount codes
Magento 2Cart & catalog price rules, far more granular
ShopifyShopify Markets
Magento 2True multi-store, multi-language, multi-currency
ShopifyShopify B2B (Plus)
Magento 2Native B2B: company accounts, quotes, contract pricing, punchout
Your data, moved and verified
Everything Shopify lets out, we take with you: mapped, migrated, reconciled. And the one thing it doesn't let out, we handle properly.
Products
Full catalog: variants, options, media, metafields.
Customers
Accounts, addresses, groups and marketing consents.
Order history
Complete, so support and reporting don't lose their memory.
Discounts & gift cards
Recreated as price rules and gift card balances.
Content
Pages, blogs and navigation carried over.
Validation
Record-by-record reconciliation reports from our AI agents.
The password truth, we say it upfront
Shopify never exports customer password hashes, so no migration vendor can move them. We put the first-login reset flow and re-engagement emails in the cutover plan, not in the cleanup after it.
First login after launch
- j.novak@gmail.comReset link sent
- a.brooks@gmail.comNew password set
- m.sullivan@yahoo.comSigned in
- s.kowalski@outlook.comReset link sent
SEO: surviving the move from Shopify's locked URLs
Shopify forces /products/ and /collections/ into every URL. Moving means every URL changes, which is exactly why SEO is a named workstream, not a hope.
Migration
A Magebit migration
Every URL 301-redirected 1:1, no chains, no blankets- Metadata, canonicals and structured data carried over
- Faster pages on Hyvä, so rankings usually improve
A careless migration
Blanket redirects dump every URL on the homepage- 404s pile up as old links and bookmarks die
- Rankings earned over years reset to zero
How rankings survive, step by step
- 1
Benchmark before touching anything
Full crawl and URL inventory, current rankings, traffic and top-earning pages recorded as the baseline.
- 2
Map every URL, 1:1
Each /products/ and /collections/ URL gets a 301 to its new Magento home. No chains, no blanket redirects.
- 3
Recreate the on-page layer
Metadata, canonicals and structured data rebuilt on the new store before launch, not left for after.
- 4
Ready staging for the switch
XML sitemaps generated, robots rules prepared, Core Web Vitals passing, all while staging is still blocked from indexing.
- 5
Cut over clean, then watch
Redirects live at the moment of switch, new sitemap submitted, Search Console updated. Then daily rank and 404 monitoring against a 30/60/90-day benchmark.
How we run a Shopify migration: FLOW, phase by phase
FLOW (Frame, Lay Groundwork, Output, Win) is the delivery framework behind 12 years of Magebit projects. Here's what each phase means when the store you're leaving is Shopify.
Nothing gets built until the whole move is mapped: your catalog, your app stack, and the data Shopify will actually let out.
- Full inventory: Structure, variants and media inventoried; metafields mapped to attribute sets
- App audit: Every app catalogued and given a destination, native feature, extension or custom build
- Data access plan: Admin APIs vs exports vs custom extraction, decided per data type
- Passwords: Never exportable from Shopify, so the first-login reset flow is designed upfront
- Risk register: Discount logic, gift card balances, data inside third-party apps, each named
- Team & plan: Team assigned, you meet your project manager, everyone aligned on what and why
Discovery & planning
Data audit
12,480 products
Apps & integrations
18 apps: 12 replaced
Risk register
7 risks
Clarity
of next steps
Reduced
risks
Time
efficiency
A fresh Magento 2 is installed and environments are verified. The key Shopify-specific step: designing where your data lands before it moves.
- Metafields become real attribute sets, mapped before any import
- Extensions go in first, so every record has a proper home
- Hyvä / Venta foundation stood up, so design starts immediately
- Quote Workshops lock app decisions, item by item
- Closes with kick-off: timeline agreed, no open questions
2.4.7
- Products0 of 12,480
- Customers0 of 8,120
- Orders0 of 41,000
The store runs, verified and empty. Data lands next
Environments
- Local
- Dev
- Staging
Extensions
- Hyvä theme
- Algolia search
- ERP sync
- Payments
- 1
Fresh Magento 2
Installed, environments set up and verified
- 2
Attribute sets
Designed upfront, so metafields land properly
- 3
Extensions first
Rebuilt, so every record has a proper home
- 4
Hyvä + Venta foundation
Stood up, so the design track starts immediately
Data and design run side by side, reviewed with you as they go.
Track 1 · Data & functionality
- Short iterations with regular client reviews
- QA every day, not at the end
- Weekly progress, hours, budget & blockers
- App-replaced features built before cutover
Track 2 · Design
- Storefront rebuilt on Hyvä for portability
- Venta foundation, branded for you
- Runs in parallel with the data work, not after it
- Your Shopify store keeps selling
Your Store
Data & functionality
- Subscriptionsrebuilt
- B2B pricing tiersrebuilt
- ERP syncconnected
- Products · 12,480imported
Launch day is the least dramatic day of the project.
- UAT: test and approve on your real, migrated data
- Dry run: full go-live rehearsal, including the 301 redirect map
- Go-live: a DNS switch away from Shopify, rollback standing by
- Hypercare: rankings monitored, 404s triaged, orders flowing
- Shopify stays warm: not cancelled on launch day, closed only once the new store is proven
GO
4 of 4
Checks passed
- UAT signed off
- Dry run clean
- Checklist complete
- Team on call
After launch
Hypercare, then SLA
Standing by
Rollback plan
The same FLOW, proven
The same FLOW that's run 100+ migrations, with every step translated into Shopify's language before we start.
The fast lane: Hyvä + Venta
Leaving a SaaS platform shouldn't mean starting from a blank page. With us, it doesn't: the storefront foundation is already built.
Storefront speed
Typical theme frontendHeavy, slow to load
Hyvä storefrontRadically lighter
Core Web Vitals in the green
- LCP
- CLS
- INP
- 90+Performance
Hyvä: the storefront technology
Hyvä replaces Magento's default frontend with a radically faster one: Core Web Vitals in the green, pages that load like the SaaS store you're leaving promised to.
40+ Hyvä projects delivered
+5255+ certified developers
Our own theme, built on Hyvä
We kept rebuilding the same foundations, so we perfected one. Your Magento 2 storefront starts from a proven base we brand and extend for you.
- Conversion-ready storefront components, from one config
- Magebit-built extensions: SEO, GDPR, tracking and more
- Compatible with the whole Hyvä ecosystem
- Performance patterns from 40+ Hyvä projects baked in
- Configure-first and cleanly upgradeable after launch
demo.ventatheme.com
Magebit’s production-ready theme on Hyvä
The storefront track shrinks.
Configure and brand a proven foundation instead of coding from scratch.
The two FLOW tracks converge sooner.
While data migrates, the Venta storefront is branded and extended in parallel.
Quality isn't rushed, it's pre-built.
The speed comes from starting further ahead, not from cutting corners.
Trusted by brands running Venta
Are you ready to start your
e-commerce success with Hyvä?
By improving site speed and user experience, Hyvä helps your store meet Google's Core Web Vitals, leading to better SEO rankings and increased visibility in search results.
Read more about VentaSee what we've done
The move is one project. The team behind it is the same one running stores for brands you know.
Migration from Shopify to Magento 2 Cloud, the exact move this page is about
- Broke free of SaaS limits for full checkout and catalog control
- Site search rebuilt on lightning-fast Algolia discovery
- Recognizable-brand scale, delivered with a zero-drama cutover
A global icon's storefront, served fresh on Magento 2 + Hyvä
- Migrated a WordPress catalog to a full Magento + Hyvä store
- Launched MVP-first, growing feature by feature ever since
- Conversion up 100% and Core Web Vitals issues eliminated
A global bestseller, running at full Hyvä speed
- Hyvä-grade page speed at global consumer-brand scale
- Algolia-powered search that surfaces anything instantly
- A large catalog kept fast in every market
Luxury catalog commerce, crafted to exacting standards on Magento
- Design-led product presentation worthy of the showroom
- A large premium catalog, merchandised with precision
- Built to the standards a luxury brand demands
100+
Migrations in 12 years
40+
Hyvä projects delivered
100+
Brands' stores actively managed
What partners say about us
Appreciate everyone’s hard work and effort in getting us there!
Alex Brynou
Director of Systems Architecture
Within just two to three months, they resolved issues that previously seemed unresolvable.
Tim Johnson
CTO
Magebit does an excellent job covering every one of our needs.
Daniel Eisen
CEO
Why ambitious brands choose Magebit
#1 Adobe Commerce partner worldwide
The top-ranked Adobe Commerce agency on the planet, by Adobe themselves.
55+ Hyvä Certificates
The most certified Hyvä agency in the world. Confirmed by Hyvä themselves, twice.
Award-winning solutions
Innovator, World Traveler, and eCommerce Excellence awards across Meet Magento NYC and HIVE London, and more. Recognized year after year for global, high-performance Hyvä, Magento and Adobe Commerce builds.
Hyvä Platinum Partner
The most-certified Hyvä agency worldwide and the first Hyvä Platinum Partner in the USA. 55+ certified developers and 40+ projects delivered.
ISO certified
ISO 9001 & 27001 for quality and security.
Scrum Alliance certified team
Truly agile team that moves and adapts faster than your typical agency.
Baymard and CXL certified design team
UX grounded in large-scale ecommerce research.
Magebit team at Meet Magento, #1 Adobe Commerce agency worldwide
The world’s leading
Magento agency
By certified developers, Magebit holds the number-one spot among Adobe Commerce agencies worldwide, and we’re the most certified Hyvä agency on the planet. Proof that the depth is real, not a logo on a page.
#1 Adobe agency worldwide
200+ Adobe certifications
Most certified Hyvä agency
Adobe Subject Matter Expert
Your next step is one conversation away
We hold partner status on both platforms, so this consultation has no thumb on the scale. Tell us what you run on Shopify, and we'll show you what the move takes, or tell you not to make it.
Reviewed by Kristaps Rjabovs
Co-founder of Magebit, Forbes 30 Under 30
Frequently asked questions
If you can't find the answer you're looking for, feel free to reach out to us. We're here to help!
No, and anyone who says otherwise is guessing: Shopify never exports password hashes. We design the first-login reset flow and re-engagement emails into the cutover plan, so customers are guided straight back into their accounts instead of hitting a dead login.
Every app gets a destination in the audit: a native Magento 2 feature, an extension you own outright, or a custom build. Much of a typical app stack maps to capabilities Magento ships natively, which is where the monthly app bill goes away.
Yes, when SEO is run as a named workstream. Every URL gets its own 301 to its new Magento home, metadata, canonicals and structured data are rebuilt before launch, and rankings are monitored daily against a 30/60/90-day benchmark.
No, Shopify Payments exists only on Shopify. The upside of the move: you choose your own PSP, negotiate your own rates, and there's no penalty fee for using the provider you prefer.
It depends on catalog size, app count and customization; the consultation gives you a phased plan with real dates. The storefront starts from Venta, our production-ready Hyvä theme, so a redesign doesn't extend the timeline.
It usually makes the case clearer: Plus pricing is where the platform tax bites hardest, and B2B or multi-store needs are exactly where Adobe Commerce is native. We hold partner status on both platforms, so you'll get a straight answer either way.
Tell us what you run on Shopify
Plan, catalog, apps and ambitions. A consultation tells you what the move takes, or that you shouldn't make it, before any pitch.
- 1
A real specialist replies
Not a sales script.
- 2
Straight platform advice
If you shouldn't move, we'll say so.
- 3
No obligation
The plan is yours to keep.