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Data migration and a full platform migration solve different problems. A data-only project moves agreed records into a destination store. A full replatform also needs decisions about storefront design, applications, integrations, URLs and launch operations. Define which work belongs in the project before selecting a transfer method.
List products, variants, categories, customers, orders, reviews and other required entities. For each, record the source, destination, unique identifier and relationship to other records. Identify custom fields, media references, tax rules, customer groups, subscriptions and third-party application data that may require a separate approach.
Agree a field map with transformation rules, required values and exceptions. A destination may not support a source feature in the same way. Document omitted fields, historical limitations and unsupported records before transfer. Customer password portability depends on the platforms and authentication method; do not assume passwords can simply be copied.
Use a representative trial transfer before the final import. Compare record counts and identifiers, then inspect relationships, images, prices, variants and order history in the destination. Plan how to handle records created or changed after the trial: a final delta transfer, a controlled pause or another agreed method. Name the person who accepts exceptions and authorizes launch.
Build an old-to-new URL map where addresses change. Test redirects, canonical signals, internal links and sitemaps, and review search performance after launch. Retain the source export and an agreed recovery procedure. Define what would trigger rollback, who decides and how new orders or customer changes would be reconciled. A platform move does not guarantee that rankings stay unchanged.
For a full move, use BigCommerce store migration. For an agreed record transfer, use BigCommerce data migration. Source-specific planning is covered by Volusion to BigCommerce and Magento to BigCommerce.
Start with the platform migration checklist or discuss a website audit when technical risks need investigation before scope is finalized.
Data migration concerns agreed records and their relationships. A full replatform may also include storefront work, integrations, application replacements, URL changes and launch operations. The proposal should say which activities are included.
That depends on how the source stores credentials and what the destination accepts. Check platform-specific authentication support before promising portability. Where transfer is unsupported, plan customer account recovery or activation.
List the required fields and history in the inventory. Inclusion depends on export access, destination capabilities and the agreed mapping. Test representative records and document exclusions before the final transfer.
Compare source and destination counts by entity and agreed scope, then reconcile exclusions and duplicates. Counts alone are not enough: inspect relationships, identifiers, representative values and storefront behavior.
Agree how changes between the trial and final transfer will be captured. The method may involve a delta transfer or a controlled operational pause, depending on the platforms and project constraints.
No blanket guarantee is appropriate. Decide which URLs can remain, map those that change, test redirects and monitor after launch. Search visibility can fluctuate even when a migration is carefully planned.
What we migrate
Three kinds of migration, usually combined: moving to a new platform, moving the data itself, and moving the website (domain, URLs, HTTPS, architecture). Each is scoped, priced, and run by the same engineers, with your own account access throughout.
The move from the platform that is limiting you to the one that fits: BigCommerce, Shopify and Shopify Plus, Magento and Adobe Commerce, WooCommerce, or a headless setup. Platform selection comes first, from your catalog, integrations, and growth plan; see BigCommerce, Shopify, Magento, and WooCommerce store migrations.
Customer accounts and order history, products with images, attributes, options, and SKUs, categories, pricing and inventory, reviews, blog and page content, SEO data, and third-party API workflows, exported, restructured, de-duplicated, archived, imported, and verified against the source; by script with validation reports at scale. See BigCommerce, Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce, and WordPress data migration.
Domain changes, URL restructuring, HTTP to HTTPS, merging stores, and new site architecture, planned, prepped, tested, launched, and followed up, with the redirect map and Search Console change-of-address handled so rankings follow the site.
A full crawl and analytics baseline, a page-to-page 301 map for every product, category, page, post, image, and filter URL, metadata and structured data parity, and thirty days of monitoring; the discipline that separates stores that keep their traffic from the ones that lose a quarter of it. Run with our SEO team.
ERP, accounting, and inventory connectors, email and SMS platforms, search, subscriptions, POS, shopping feeds, and custom apps rebuilt or reconnected against the new platform's APIs, and the custom features you depend on recreated on the new model; see custom development and our technology partners.
The current design rebuilt to match on the new theme system, refreshed, or fully redesigned by our design team, with speed and WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility verified; a migration should leave the store faster than it found it.
Customer groups, price lists, quotes, net terms, dealer portals, and multiple storefronts or brands moved to the destination's B2B and multi-store model (BigCommerce B2B Edition and multi-storefront, Shopify B2B and markets, Magento websites); see B2B development.
From any themed store to a Catalyst, Hydrogen, or Next.js storefront on BigCommerce or Shopify, with a headless CMS for content, as in our Byourbed and Springbok migrations; see headless commerce.
Standard catalog, customer, and order migrations off BigCommerce are free with a new store build or a twelve-month SEO, PPC, or support program; same engineers, same redirect map, same protection. See the offer and ask about eligibility.
Every path we migrate
Sixteen paths, from BigCommerce, Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce, or Volusion to BigCommerce, Shopify, Magento, or WooCommerce, each with its own page and its own playbook for data, options, URLs, and apps. Pick your row and column, or run the free migration audit to get the task list for your pair.
| From ↓ / To → |  |  |  |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| · | → Shopify | → Magento | → WooCommerce |
| → BigCommerce | · | → Magento | → WooCommerce |
| → BigCommerce | → Shopify | · | → WooCommerce |
| → BigCommerce | → Shopify | → Magento | · |
 | → BigCommerce | → Shopify | → Magento | → WooCommerce |
From BigCommerceFrom ShopifyFrom MagentoFrom WooCommerceFrom VolusionComing from somewhere else? Wix, Squarespace, PrestaShop, OpenCart, 3dcart, or a custom build: we migrate from those too. Start with the audit and choose "another platform".
Going headless? A Catalyst, Hydrogen, or Next.js front end on BigCommerce or Shopify is covered on the headless commerce page.
Why migrations lose traffic
Across the 2026 studies, migrations handled as a data transfer lose 20 to 40 percent of their organic traffic and take six to twelve months to recover, almost always from redirects that were skipped or sent to the homepage, content and metadata that changed, and integrations nobody inventoried. Stores that run the migration as an SEO project see a dip of a few weeks and full recovery. Every store is different and something unexpected always turns up, which is exactly why the plan comes before the export.
A full crawl, Search Console and analytics by landing page, speed scores, and a feature and app inventory, so the migration is measured against facts, not memory.
Every URL mapped to its new address, page to page, loaded and tested on staging before launch; nothing redirects to the homepage, and image and filter URLs are included.
Titles, descriptions, canonicals, product and review schema, headings, and internal links carried over exactly first; improvements come after rankings are confirmed stable.
Imports run against the API with validation reports per batch and re-run until counts, prices, images, and customer links match the source; order numbers offset, balances reconciled to the cent.
ERP connectors, subscriptions, and custom apps are the highest-risk items, so they are scoped and rebuilt early and cut over with a reconciliation on launch day.
Crawl errors, 404s, rankings, speed, and conversion checked daily after launch against the baseline, with fixes applied as they appear and the old store kept read-only for reference.
Every migration
Whatever the platform pair or catalog size, these hold on every project:
We build, market, and support stores on every one of these, so the migration is planned by people who will live with the result; see development by platform.
Six steps, the same on every platform pair, from the first crawl to the thirtieth day after launch. The audit and the export happen before any build so the plan is made on facts; the import is validated by script; the launch is a checklist, not a leap; and the baseline from step one is the scorecard at the end. Most catalog-and-redirects migrations run four to eight weeks; add a redesign or integrations and the plan says so up front.
The free audit or a full discovery: crawl, baseline, inventory, platform fit, and a written plan with a fixed price and timeline.
Every data element exported (content, blog, reviews, products, customers, orders, SEO data), cleaned of duplicates and obsolete records, and archived securely before anything is imported.
Theme rebuilt, refreshed, or redesigned; integrations and custom features rebuilt against the new APIs; B2B, shipping, tax, and payments configured on staging.
Scripted imports with validation per batch; URL map and redirects loaded; metadata and schema parity checked template by template.
Staging QA, end-to-end test orders, the launch checklist, low-TTL DNS cutover, SSL, and redirect verification within minutes of go-live.
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Run the free migration audit for your platform pair, or send us the store and we will reply with a sequenced plan, the redirect and integration approach, risks, a timeline, and a fixed price.
When to migrate, what moves, what it costs, and what happens to SEO.
When the platform limits the business: features you cannot add, speed you cannot fix, fees that grow with revenue, integrations that fight you, or a theme system your team cannot maintain. The usual trigger is growth; the usual mistake is waiting until the limits cost sales. The free audit gives you the task list for your pair so you can judge the effort before committing.
From BigCommerce, Shopify and Shopify Plus, Magento and Adobe Commerce, WooCommerce and WordPress, or Volusion, to BigCommerce, Shopify, Magento, or WooCommerce: sixteen paths, each with its own page in the matrix above. We also migrate from Wix, Squarespace, PrestaShop, OpenCart, 3dcart, and custom builds, and to headless storefronts on BigCommerce or Shopify.
Products with images, attributes, options, SKUs, pricing, and inventory; categories; customer accounts and addresses; order history with line items and statuses; customer groups and price lists; reviews; blog posts and pages; SEO metadata; and the third-party workflows connected to the store. Passwords cannot move between platforms, so customers set a new one on first login; saved cards and subscription tokens move only with the payment processor's cooperation, which we arrange.
Not when the migration is run as an SEO project. The 2026 studies put the loss for poorly executed migrations at 20 to 40 percent of organic traffic with six to twelve months to recover; the cause is almost always missing or lazy redirects, changed content, and lost internal links. With one-to-one redirects, metadata and schema parity, and thirty days of monitoring, stores typically see a small dip for two to four weeks and full recovery.
A catalog-and-redirects migration with the same design runs four to eight weeks; a refresh or redesign brings most projects to ten to sixteen weeks; large catalogs, ERP connectors, subscriptions, or multiple storefronts extend it to three to six months. We phase launches when a date is fixed: data, SEO parity, and checkout first, the rest second.
Industry ranges in 2026 run roughly $10,000 to $50,000 for a straightforward store move and $50,000 to $250,000 for mid-market migrations with custom data and integrations; the platform license is only a fraction of the total, with implementation, integrations, and data migration the rest. We quote a fixed price after the plan, and standard migrations off BigCommerce are free with a new build or a twelve-month program.
Yes. Custom features are documented and rebuilt on the new platform's model (apps, metafields, or custom code), and integrations (ERP, email, search, subscriptions, POS, feeds) are reconnected or rebuilt against the new APIs and tested with real data before cutover. Nothing is assumed to port; the inventory decides what is kept, replaced, or retired.
Yes. The new store is built and loaded on staging while the old one keeps trading; a final delta sync of orders and customers runs at cutover, and the old store stays in read-only mode afterward for reference. Downtime at launch is minutes, not days.
Platform migration moves the store to a new system; data migration moves the records (products, customers, orders, content) accurately; website migration changes the site itself (domain, URLs, HTTPS, merged sites, architecture). Most projects combine all three, and the plan treats them as one program with one redirect map.
Thirty days of daily monitoring of crawl errors, 404s, rankings, speed, and conversion against the pre-migration baseline, bugs fixed as they appear, and a handover of documentation and credentials. Many clients keep us on for SEO, marketing, or a support plan, which is how a migration turns into growth rather than a one-time project.
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