Migrating from Shopify to WooCommerce

1. Provide your Shopify and WooCommerce stores access credentials.
2. Select data types you want to transfer to WooCommerce.
3. Test the new WooCommerce store with a free demo migration option.
4. Import Shopify to WooCommerce by running the full migration process.

Watch our video tutorial to see how easy it is to automatically migrate from Shopify to WooCommerce with the help of the Cart2Cart migration tool:

Once you’ve decided to perform an automated store migration with Cart2Cart, it is highly advisable to follow these steps:

Prepare Your Stores for Migration

• Review your Shopify store, remove all the irrelevant or useless data.
• Find the required access credentials (store’s URL and API password) for your Source Cart.
• Register a WooCommerce account. But, in case you’re still uncertain whether to migrate to the WooCommerce, check out our free Migration Preview Service. Thus, you will have the possibility to transfer a limited number of data entities to Cart2Cart’s test store. But, please, be aware that it will be available online for three days.
• Additionally, you may calculate the exact price of replatforming with the help of our free Migration Estimator. Just fill in all the required fields and get the total cost in no time.

Apart from that, make sure that you’ve installed all the necessary plugins that will be required for the transfer process:

• If you wish to save your store’s SEO rankings, we recommend you to install the Redirection plugin and choose the additional option “Create 301 redirects on your target store after migration” in the Migration Wizard.
• To preserve order IDs, you should choose the option “Preserve order IDs on Target Store” during the migration setup. It also requires the installation of a WP plugin WooCommerce Sequential Order Numbers.

Also, you can download the Cart2Cart: Shopify to WooCommerce Migration plugin.

Set up Source and Target Carts

Choose Shopify as your Source Cart. Provide the store’s URL and API password (please, read our Shopify API password and API key FAQ to find out how and where to get this data).

Now it’s time to configure your Target Cart. Pick WooCommerce from the list in the drop-down menu and copy the WordPress admin URL, login and password to the corresponding boxes.

When finished, click the Choose Entities button to proceed to the next step of the migration.

Select Data Entities And Additional Options

At this point, you’ll have to choose the data entities that are to be transferred from Shopify store to WooCommerce. You can easily move orders, customers, blog posts, products from Shopify just by ticking the needed box in the Migration Wizard.

Moreover, you can pick some of the additional options that will ease the solution switch process. It must be noted that it is not an obligatory, but only recommended activity.

Also, it is possible to map Shopify order statuses and customer groups to correspond to the ones on the WooCommerce store.

Start Demo Migration

Demo Migration is a free option that enables Cart2Cart clients to transfer a specific number of entities (up to 10) to the WooCommerce store just in 30 minutes. Therefore, you will have the chance to check our service in action and take a look at your store on a new platform. We highly recommend our users not to skip this step of the migration process. Moreover, please, do not close your browser window when the data transfer is in process.

Proceed to Full Migration

After you’ve been notified of the Demo Migration completion, please, check your store. If the results of the solution switch satisfy you, it is high time to start a full Shopify to WooCommerce migration. Keep in mind that Cart2Cart doesn’t interfere with the performance of your store while migrating from Shopify to WooCommerce. Now it is safe to close all the browser windows and return to the ordinary business activities.

Check out our infographic to get a better understanding of the migration process via Cart2Cart:

Can I Import Products from Shopify to WooCommerce?

It sometimes happens that you need to migrate only products from Shopify to WooCommerce. There are two options - you can use the Cart2Cart tool and deal with the task in an automated way. Alternatively, if you have a CSV file with your Shopify products, do the following:

1. 1. Log in to your WooCommerce admin and navigate to Product tab. Click Import.

1. 1. Upload the SV from your computer and configure the data import.

1. 1. Launch the product transfer to WooCommerce.

How to Export Orders from Shopify to WooCommerce?

1. 1. In the Orders menu of your Shopify admin and choose the orders you wish to import.

1. 1. Setup your export and choose the needed file format.
   2. Download the file with your orders data.

Closing Remarks and Recommendations

Once the Full Migration is over, you will receive an email message, and that’s practically it - your store has successfully migrated to the WooCommerce platform. But, to be sure that everything works correctly, we urge our clients to perform the following:

• Check the store performance for common mistakes (inspect the front and backend, make a few test purchases, go through categories and products, etc.)
• Customize your store by installing all the necessary extensions from the WooCommerce website.
• Use the Recent Data Migration Service, provided new items (e.g., orders, customers, products, etc.) have appeared on your Shopify store during or after the switch.