WooCommerce carries real maintenance overhead: plugin conflicts, security patches and hosting decisions that need a developer's attention. Shopify removes that layer.
WooCommerce runs on WordPress, which means the store inherits everything WordPress requires: plugin updates, security patches, hosting management and the occasional plugin conflict that breaks checkout at the worst possible time. Shopify handles hosting and security as part of the platform. We migrate WooCommerce stores to Shopify with product data, customer records and search equity carried across properly.
Every project starts from a different position. What stays constant is the first question: what does this need to achieve commercially? The steps below are built around the answer.
Every product, page and piece of customer data catalogued before anything moves.
Every WooCommerce URL mapped to its new Shopify equivalent before launch day.
Product data, customer records and order history moved into Shopify properly.
New store launched with redirects live and rankings monitored.
“We hired Skyrocket to rebuild our two websites on Shopify (one for NZ, one for Australia) and we were extremely satisfied with the whole experience. Skyrocket were efficient and cost-effective, delivering everything we wanted for our websites on time and on-budget. I have 15 years of experience in e-commerce and performance marketing, working both client side and agency side. I can honestly say that our project with Skyrocket was one of the smoothest I’ve experienced, and I would enlist them again in a second.”
Courtney Sanders
Clean Collective
Moving to Shopify and improving the store at the same time. We handle the data migration, redirect mapping and SEO preservation alongside a new build. One project instead of two.
Moving the existing WooCommerce store to Shopify with the structure and catalogue largely preserved. Faster and lower-risk than a combined migration and rebuild.
Before anything moves, we assess what's on the current store and what's worth carrying across. Some migrations are a chance to clean up a catalogue that's grown messy over time.
Only if the migration is planned properly. We catalogue every existing URL, map redirects to the new Shopify structure and test them before launch. Ranking loss during a migration is almost always a planning failure, not an unavoidable cost.
Every product, variant, image and customer record is exported, reviewed and migrated into Shopify's structure. We check the data against the source before launch, not after.
We assess your existing plugin stack and identify Shopify app equivalents, which usually offer more choice and less maintenance overhead. Anything custom-built gets scoped separately.
Straightforward migrations typically run six to eight weeks. Larger catalogues or a combined migration and rebuild take longer. We scope the timeline once we understand the size of the store.
Before a project starts, we often come to you. Sitting in your space, understanding how the business operates and working through the brief face to face gives us context that a video call doesn't quite replicate.
