How to Migrate Delivery Logic from Magento to Shopify (Without the Headaches)

Making the move from Magento to Shopify? You're not alone.

More and more brands — especially in food, gifting, and furniture — are leaving Magento behind for Shopify’s ease, speed, and flexibility.

But migrating platforms isn’t just about data and design.

It’s about retaining what actually works — and making sure nothing breaks along the way.

🔄 Why Brands Leave Magento

Magento is powerful, but it comes with baggage:

• Expensive to host and maintain

• Dev-heavy, hard to customise

• Slow performance without serious optimisation

• Plugin conflicts and upgrade pain

• Complex delivery setups often break without warning

Shopify offers a clean slate — with built-in scalability, faster site speed, and a thriving ecosystem of tools (like Flare).

📦 What You Need to Migrate from Magento

Migrating isn’t just about product data. Here’s the full list:

✅ Product Catalog: Product names, descriptions, SKUs, prices

✅ Media & Assets: Product images, banners, brand files

✅ Customers & Order History: Keep customer records + retain order analytics

✅ URLs & Redirects: Preserve SEO and inbound links

✅ Delivery & Shipping Logic: Match or improve scheduling, surcharges, and cutoffs

✅ Integrations: WMS, CRM, ERPs, Subscription tools

🧰 Tools to Help You Migrate

Shopify Plus Partners and tools to consider:

• Migration Apps like Matrixify (Excelify), LitExtension

• Shopify Agencies for frontend/dev work

• SEO Tools like Ahrefs or Screaming Frog to manage redirects

• Apps like Flare to rebuild advanced delivery logic

⚠️ The Delivery Logic Gap

One common issue when migrating from Magento?

Broken delivery scheduling.

Magento brands often use:

• ShipperHQ

• Custom-built delivery date pickers

• Zip code logic extensions

But these rarely port cleanly to Shopify. That’s where Flare comes in.

💡 Case Study: Fine Food Specialists

“We migrated from Magento and ShipperHQ to Shopify and Flare — saving £21,000+ and gaining advanced delivery logic without the dev costs.”
— Fine Food Specialists

They needed:

• Delivery date picker at checkout

• Rules by product (perishable vs ambient)

• Country-specific lead times and surcharges

• ZIP code shipping logic

• One unified setup for DTC and wholesale

Flare replaced all of it — with no custom code.

🚀 Shopify + Flare = Smooth Migration

Flare works natively with Shopify and Shopify Plus:

✅ Checkout delivery date picker (Checkout Blocks supported)
✅ Logic by shipping method, country, product or tag
✅ Cutoffs, surcharges, lead times, and blackout dates
✅ Works with carriers, WMS, subscriptions and more
✅ No fragile custom scripts — just reliable logic

🔚 Final Tips for a Smooth Migration

• Audit your current setup (what’s custom? what’s critical?)

• Plan your redirects early — preserve traffic & rankings

• Test shipping logic thoroughly — especially if international

• Replace plugins with native or trusted Shopify apps

• Validate your checkout flow with test orders

👉 Ready to Migrate?

Flare helps brands move from Magento to Shopify — without losing control of delivery, operations, or customer experience.

→ Try Flare for Shopify
→ Explore case studies from brands who’ve made the switch