How to Migrate from WooCommerce to Shopify Plus: Complete 2025 Guide

Thousands of brands are moving from WooCommerce to Shopify Plus in 2025.

Why? Because Shopify offers better performance, built-in reliability, and a faster path to growth — without the technical overhead.

But migrating successfully takes more than just copying products over.

You’ll need to rethink how your store is structured, ensure delivery and shipping logic is rebuilt, and preserve the experience your customers expect.

This guide walks through everything you need to plan a smooth, effective migration from WooCommerce to Shopify Plus.

🚚 Why Brands Leave WooCommerce

WooCommerce is flexible — but that comes at a cost:

• Too many plugins → site speed and compatibility issues

• Constant maintenance and security patching

• Checkout UX that varies by theme/plugin

• Shipping logic handled via unreliable third-party tools

• Growth bottlenecks for high-volume brands

Shopify Plus offers:

• Fast, stable performance out of the box

• Native checkout customisation via Checkout Extensibility

• Easier theme and design workflows

• A massive app ecosystem

• Scalable shipping and delivery tools built for merchants

🛠️ What You’ll Need to Migrate from WooCommerce to Shopify Plus

Product Data
– Export SKUs, variants, prices, and custom fields or attributes
– Shopify supports metafields for custom product logic

Categories → Collections
– Shopify uses collections (not categories) to group products
– You'll need to rebuild navigation and filtering structures

Theme Design & UX
– Choose a Shopify 2.0 theme or rebuild your current Woo design using Liquid + the Theme Editor
– Opportunity to improve UX for mobile and performance

Media Assets
– Migrate product photos, banners, icons and homepage assets

Customer Accounts
– Export/import user data or invite customers to reset passwords at launch
– Consider tagging high-value customers for retention efforts

Order History
– Useful for continuity and analytics — can be imported into Shopify via the API or third-party tools

SEO: URLs, Redirects, Meta
– Preserve rankings with 301 redirects and consistent metadata
– Shopify's URL structure differs, so plan carefully

Payments & Tax Setup
– Set up Shopify Payments or external gateways
– Match WooCommerce tax rules using Shopify's built-in settings

Delivery & Shipping Logic
– WooCommerce shipping plugins don’t carry over
– You'll need to rebuild logic for delivery dates, zones, cutoffs, and surcharges (see below)

Integrations
– Reconnect your ERP, WMS, CRM, subscriptions, or support tools using Shopify’s app ecosystem or APIs

🧩 What’s Different Between WooCommerce and Shopify Plus?

Migrating isn’t 1:1 — some core differences:

Navigation
– WooCommerce: category hierarchy
– Shopify: collections and tags (filtered via navigation menus)

Theme Management
– Woo: Fully PHP-based with plugin dependencies
– Shopify: Liquid templating + drag-and-drop Theme Editor

Shipping & Delivery Rules
– Woo: often powered by plugin stacks like Table Rate Shipping or ShipperHQ
– Shopify: native Shipping Profiles + apps like Flare for advanced delivery logic

Checkout Experience
– Woo: highly customisable but often inconsistent
– Shopify: Optimised native checkout, with Plus stores gaining Checkout Extensibility for deeper control

Workflows & Automations
– Woo: needs custom dev or plugin chains
– Shopify: low-code flows, automation tools, and apps like Flare, Recharge, and ShipStation

🚧 Common Migration Pitfalls

Even with good planning, these are common issues:

• Broken SEO from missed redirects or changed URL structure

• Loss of customer accounts or order history continuity

• Misconfigured tax or payment setups

• Poor shipping logic that leads to delivery errors or confusion

• Plugin mismatches — WooCommerce plugins don’t have Shopify equivalents

📦 Rebuilding Delivery Logic on Shopify (The Shipping Trap)

Most WooCommerce stores use a patchwork of plugins for:

• Shipping rates by region

• Delivery date selection

• Product-based shipping logic

• Cutoffs, lead times, and surcharges

These plugins rarely migrate cleanly — and Shopify doesn’t offer the same logic natively.

Enter Flare.

Flare is the most flexible delivery logic app for Shopify Plus — trusted by food, furniture, gifting, and B2B brands.

With Flare, you can:

• Let customers choose a delivery date at checkout

• Show accurate delivery windows by product, country, shipping method, or ZIP code

• Set cutoffs, surcharges, lead times, and blackout dates

• Support mixed baskets (e.g. frozen + ambient)

• Sync with carriers or 3PLs for real-time accuracy

✅ Shopify Plus Migration Checklist (WooCommerce Edition)

Before Migration:

• Audit your store’s product structure, theme customisations, and shipping plugins

• List all third-party plugins and critical automations

• Map your current checkout and delivery flows

During Migration:

• Export/import products, customer data, and order history

• Rebuild your theme using Shopify’s 2.0 structure

• Recreate collections, filters, and nav menus

• Configure payments, taxes, and shipping settings

• Rebuild delivery rules using Shopify-native tools or Flare

Post Launch:

• Monitor delivery-related support tickets

• Optimise rates, delivery windows, and cutoffs based on real-time behavior

• Track bounce and conversion rates — especially on mobile

• Collect feedback on the new checkout and delivery experience

🚀 Ready to Migrate?

Migrating from WooCommerce to Shopify Plus can feel daunting — but it unlocks a faster, more scalable path forward.

Just make sure your delivery experience doesn’t fall apart in the process.

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