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BigCommerce to WooCommerce Migration That Puts Your Store and Your Content on One Site

For a business whose traffic comes from what it publishes, a separate store platform keeps products and articles apart: different designs, different logins, different analytics. We move the catalog, customers, orders, and blog posts into WordPress and WooCommerce, keep product and category slugs wherever the structure allows, build a lean block theme with a vetted plugin set on managed hosting, and launch with every changed URL already redirected.

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$0: Platform fees on any gateway
1: Site for articles and products
1:1: Redirects for every URL

15
Years in eCommerce
Fifteen years of building, migrating, and growing online stores for B2B and B2C brands.
30⁺
In-house specialists
SEO, AI search, paid media, design, and development experts under one roof.
USA
US-led, globally staffed
A US-based core team you talk to directly, backed by vetted specialists worldwide.
4.9
Client rating
Average score across 650+ verified client reviews.

BigCommerce to WooCommerce

What a BigCommerce to WooCommerce Migration Includes

WooCommerce is a store inside a content management system, which changes the shape of the migration: the blog and pages move natively, the theme becomes a WordPress theme, apps become plugins, and hosting becomes a decision. We handle each of those with the care they need.

WordPress Stack & Hosting Design
A managed WooCommerce host sized for your traffic and catalog, object and page caching, a CDN, image optimization, staging, backups, and a security baseline, chosen and configured before a single product is imported.
Catalog Migration
Products, images, categories, brands, and inventory imported into WooCommerce with BigCommerce options and modifiers rebuilt as variable products, global attributes, and product add-ons, and product URLs preserved as slugs wherever possible.
Customers & Order History
Customer accounts, addresses, and full order history migrated into WooCommerce's High-Performance Order Storage with statuses, totals, and line items intact, so reports, refunds, and reorders work from launch. Passwords cannot move; the reset flow is planned and announced.
Content & Blog Migration
BigCommerce blog posts and web pages migrated as native WordPress posts and pages with authors, dates, categories, images, and metadata, then improved with the editorial structure WordPress makes possible.
Block Theme Design & Build
A custom WordPress block theme with WooCommerce templates: shop, category, product, cart, checkout, and account, designed mobile-first and kept free of heavy page builders so it hits Core Web Vitals and your team can edit it.
Plugin Selection & App Parity
Each BigCommerce app matched to a WooCommerce extension or WordPress plugin we have vetted for performance and maintenance: subscriptions, bookings, memberships, reviews, search, B2B pricing, shipping, and marketing, or custom code when a plugin would be bloat.
Payments, Tax & Shipping
WooPayments or your existing gateway (Stripe, PayPal, Authorize.net, and others) configured with no platform surcharge, sales tax automation, shipping zones, live carrier rates, and real test transactions before launch.
SEO Migration & Redirects
A rankings and crawl baseline, BigCommerce product and category paths matched as WordPress slugs where the structure allows, the remaining URLs mapped to server-level 301 redirects, titles and descriptions carried over, Product schema on every product, and two weeks of monitoring.
Launch, Training & Maintenance
A final sync of orders and customers, DNS cutover at a quiet hour, your team trained in the WordPress and WooCommerce admin, and a maintenance plan covering core, plugin, and PHP updates, security monitoring, and backups.

Why WooCommerce

What Content-Led Brands Gain by Moving to WordPress

WooCommerce is not the right destination for every BigCommerce store. It is the right one when content is your engine, when you already run WordPress, when you want to own the code and the data, or when platform fees are a line item you would rather delete. These are the gains our clients came for.

The Best Editorial CMS, Selling Directly
Articles, buying guides, landing pages, and product content in one editor, with categories, authors, and SEO tooling built for publishing, and products embedded wherever the content sells them.
Zero Platform Fees
Open-source software, any payment gateway with no platform surcharge, and hosting priced by traffic rather than revenue. What you save on fees usually funds the maintenance plan and then some.
One Site Instead of Two
If you already run WordPress, the store joins it: one design system, one navigation, one login, one analytics property, and internal links that pass authority between content and products.
You Own the Stack
Full access to templates, checkout, database, and exports. Change hosts, change agencies, or change anything else whenever you decide.
An Extension for Every Model
Subscriptions, memberships, bookings, digital downloads, wholesale pricing, and marketplaces through WooCommerce extensions, chosen sparingly and vetted for speed.
A Modern, Fast Front End
Block themes with WooCommerce blocks, no page-builder overhead, and a performance budget enforced in the theme, so a WordPress store can be as fast as any SaaS storefront.

How we keep ownership from becoming a burden

The WooCommerce Stack We Ship With Every Migration

Most slow or insecure WooCommerce stores were built on cheap hosting with dozens of unvetted plugins and no maintenance plan. Ours are not. Every BigCommerce to WooCommerce migration launches with this stack in place:

Managed WooCommerce hosting sized for your traffic, with staging, daily backups, and a web application firewall
Object caching, full-page caching with cart and checkout exclusions, and a CDN for images and assets
A custom block theme with WooCommerce templates, no page builder, and a JavaScript and font budget enforced in the theme
A plugin inventory kept to what earns its place, each one vetted for performance, maintenance, and compatibility
High-Performance Order Storage enabled, with order history migrated into it and reports verified
Payments, tax, and shipping tested with real transactions, including refunds and partial shipments
Product, Offer, Breadcrumb, and Article structured data on the templates, plus an SEO plugin configured, not just installed
Server-level 301 redirects for every changed BigCommerce URL, tested before DNS moves
A maintenance plan for core, plugin, and PHP updates, uptime and security monitoring, and Core Web Vitals checks

More Migration Routes

Other ways out of BigCommerce, other ways into WooCommerce, and the free audit that sizes up your store before you commit to any of them.

How We Move a BigCommerce Store Into WordPress

From BigCommerce into WooCommerce or a headless WordPress front end in six steps: audit and plan, data export and cleanup, the WordPress build and plugin map, scripted import with redirects, a tested launch, and managed hosting and monitoring afterward.

Content & Commerce Audit
We inventory products, customers, orders, apps, and every indexed URL, and separately the content: posts, pages, media, and the existing WordPress site if there is one. Scope, timeline, and fixed price follow.
Stack & Design
Hosting provisioned with caching and staging, the plugin set chosen, and the block theme designed mobile-first, either as a new site or as WooCommerce templates matched to your current WordPress design.
Migrate Products, People & Posts
Catalog restructured for WooCommerce and imported, customers and orders loaded into HPOS, blog and pages migrated as native content, and everything reconciled against BigCommerce.
Build & Connect
Theme templates built, payments, tax, and shipping configured, plugins configured to replace each app, and email, accounting, and marketplace integrations reconnected.
Test & Redirect
Real orders, refunds, and account flows tested; performance, accessibility, and structured data checked; the redirect map installed at the server and every URL verified.
Launch & Maintain
Delta sync, DNS switch at a quiet hour, sitemap submitted, two weeks of monitoring, and the maintenance plan that keeps WordPress updated and fast.

Businesses That Brought Their Store Home to WordPress

Publishers, brands with a blog that sells, and companies that were tired of running two sites. In their words.

Arman
Glowback, glowbackledstore.com
★★★★★
“Launching and managing an e-commerce store can be daunting, but this team made it simple and stress-free. Their comprehensive approach, from website design to marketing strategies, ensured a seamless and engaging customer experience. Our store's performance surpassed our wildest expectations, thanks to their expertise and dedication. Working with them was truly a game-changer for our business.”
PMArmory
PMArmory
★★★★★
“Teaming up with MAK is a total thrill! We're over the moon with our brand-new website. Alexis was all ears for our needs and hatched a plan that checked all our boxes. Her communication skills throughout the whole process were simply top-notch.”
Fantasia by Deserio
Fantasia by Deserio
★★★★★
“I really enjoyed working with them to build my company's new website. Very responsive and professional. We were extremely happy with the results.”

Running a store and a blog on two platforms?

Send us both URLs. We will reply with a plan to bring them together on WordPress and WooCommerce, the plugins we would use and the ones we would not, and a fixed price.

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BigCommerce to WooCommerce Migration Questions

Hosting, security, scale, plugins, existing WordPress sites, SEO, and cost.

Is WooCommerce fast and secure enough to replace BigCommerce?

Yes, when it is built and hosted properly. WooCommerce runs some of the largest stores on the web. The stores that struggle are on cheap shared hosting with dozens of unvetted plugins and nobody applying updates. We build on managed WooCommerce hosting with caching and a firewall, keep the plugin set lean and vetted, enforce a performance budget in the theme, hit Core Web Vitals on mobile before launch, and keep the site patched through a maintenance plan. Built that way, it is as fast and as safe as a SaaS store.

We already have a WordPress site. Can the store move into it?

Yes, and it is the best reason to migrate. We add WooCommerce to your existing WordPress site, build store templates that match your current design, migrate the BigCommerce catalog, customers, and orders, redirect the old store URLs to the new product and category pages, and retire the separate store domain. You end up with one site, one login, one analytics property, and internal links between articles and products that help both rank.

Does our BigCommerce blog transfer?

Yes, natively, which is one of the advantages of this route. BigCommerce blog posts become WordPress posts with their titles, content, images, dates, and metadata, and old blog URLs are redirected to the new ones. From there your content gets the editorial tooling WordPress is known for: categories and tags, authors, scheduling, revisions, and a block editor built for long-form content.

How do BigCommerce products, options, and modifiers map to WooCommerce?

Products with options become WooCommerce variable products with global attributes and variations; modifiers that add text, files, or price adjustments become product add-ons; and brands, categories, images, pricing, inventory, and SEO fields migrate directly. We review products with unusual option structures during the audit and restructure them before import so nothing arrives broken.

Do customer passwords and saved cards transfer?

No, on any platform migration. Passwords are hashed with BigCommerce's algorithm and cannot be converted; customers set a new one on first login through a flow we announce by email. Saved payment methods cannot transfer for PCI reasons; customers re-enter a card at their next checkout. Accounts, addresses, and order history transfer completely.

Will the migration affect our search rankings?

Handled correctly, no. WordPress lets us keep most BigCommerce product and category slugs, so many URLs do not change at all; the rest are mapped to server-level 301 redirects that are live when DNS switches. We carry over titles, descriptions, and alt text, add Product and Article structured data, submit the new sitemap, and monitor Search Console daily for two weeks. Because content and products then live on one domain, internal linking usually improves rankings over the following months.

What happens to our BigCommerce apps?

Each one is matched to a WooCommerce extension or WordPress plugin we have vetted, or replaced with a small piece of custom code when a plugin would add more weight than value. Reviews, subscriptions, wholesale pricing, search, shipping rules, and email integrations all have mature equivalents; we configure and test each with live data before launch and list the final plugin set in the handover.

Who handles updates and security after launch?

You choose. Owning the stack means core, plugin, theme, and PHP updates, security monitoring, and backups are someone's job. Most clients keep us on a maintenance plan that covers all of it with staged updates and Core Web Vitals checks; if you have an internal team, we hand over documentation and the staging workflow.

How long does a BigCommerce to WooCommerce migration take?

Six to ten weeks for a typical store with a custom block theme, full data and content migration, plugin parity, and SEO work. Merging into an existing WordPress site can be quicker; large catalogs, subscriptions, or B2B pricing take longer. We give a dated plan after the audit.

What does it cost, now and ongoing?

A full-service migration with a custom block theme, data and content migration, plugin selection, and SEO work typically runs in the low-to-mid five figures depending on catalog size and integrations, quoted as a fixed price after the audit. Ongoing costs are managed hosting, any paid extensions, and a maintenance plan, which together usually come to less than the BigCommerce subscription plus platform fees you are paying now.