BigCommerce to Shopify Migration

Most BigCommerce to Shopify migrations take around 4 to 8 weeks, depending on the size and complexity of your store. Simpler stores with fewer products and customisations can often be completed in as little as four weeks, while larger stores with complex product options, custom functionality, shipping rules or third-party integrations may take longer.

Every migration is carefully planned to minimise disruption to your business. We complete the majority of the work behind the scenes before scheduling the final migration and launch, helping to keep downtime to an absolute minimum.

No. Protecting your existing SEO is one of the most important parts of every migration. We migrate your important SEO data, including page titles, meta descriptions and URLs where possible, and implement 301 redirects from your old BigCommerce URLs to their new Shopify equivalents.

This ensures search engines and existing backlinks continue pointing customers to the correct pages, helping preserve your rankings and organic traffic. While it’s normal for Google to re-crawl your website after a platform migration, a properly planned migration significantly reduces the risk of losing SEO performance.

Yes. As part of your BigCommerce to Shopify migration, we can migrate your existing customer records and order history across to Shopify. This helps keep your new store organised and gives you access to important historical data after the move.

Some customer and order data may need to be mapped carefully due to differences between BigCommerce and Shopify, but this is handled as part of the migration process. Before launch, we review the imported data to make sure everything has transferred as accurately as possible.

We plan every migration to minimise downtime. Your existing BigCommerce store remains live while we build and test your new Shopify store. Once everything has been thoroughly checked and approved, we schedule the final migration and domain switch, which is typically completed with little to no disruption for your customers.

Yes. Most custom product options, variants and option sets can be migrated to Shopify. Where BigCommerce functionality differs from Shopify, we recommend and configure the most suitable app or custom solution to ensure your products continue working as expected.

Yes. BigCommerce themes cannot be transferred directly to Shopify because the two platforms use completely different theme frameworks. We’ll help you select a Shopify theme that suits your business and customise it to match your branding and requirements

Yes. As part of your BigCommerce to Shopify migration, we can customise your Shopify theme to better suit your business, branding and functionality requirements.

This may include layout changes, product page customisations, navigation adjustments, app styling, custom sections, checkout-related setup, or other theme improvements. If your BigCommerce store has custom functionality, we can review it during the migration and recommend the best way to recreate it in Shopify, either through theme customisation, apps or custom development.

No. Your business email is usually hosted separately from your ecommerce platform, so it will continue working throughout the migration. We also manage the domain transfer carefully to avoid interrupting your email service.