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Shopify to BigCommerce Migration Without Losing a Single Order, Customer, or Ranking
When a Shopify store runs into three-option products, forced URL paths, an app bill that keeps growing, or B2B that needs more than tags, BigCommerce is where it usually goes. We move the catalog, the customers, the order history, the content, and every URL by API with reconciled counts, rebuild the storefront on Stencil or Catalyst, and cut over at a quiet hour with the redirects already live.
- 600
- SKUs per product on BigCommerce
- 0
- Downtime at cutover
- 1:1
- Redirects for every URL
MAK Digital at a glance
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.
Shopify to BigCommerce
What We Do to Move Your Store to BigCommerce
Shopify and BigCommerce model products, options, customers, discounts, and URLs differently, and a good migration knows the differences before the first export. Here is what ours covers, run by the BigCommerce development team that builds on the platform every week.
Shopify Store Audit & Fit Assessment
Products and variants, metafields, collections and their rules, customer tags and segments, discounts and Functions, apps and their data, theme customizations, Flow automations, and integrations inventoried, then mapped to their BigCommerce equivalents. If BigCommerce is not the better fit, we say so.
BigCommerce Plan & Store Setup
Core, Growth, Scale, or Performance (the plan names since June 2026) sized to your order volume, an embedded payment provider such as Stripe, PayPal, or Adyen, or your own gateway with the 2026 Open Payment Provider Fee understood, tax, shipping, and Multi-Storefront where you run more than one brand or region.
Catalog & Variant Migration
Products, images, categories, brands, and inventory moved by API. Shopify's three options become BigCommerce options with up to 250 values each and 600 SKUs per product; metafields become custom fields and metafields; collection rules become category assignments. Counts reconciled product by product.
Customers, Orders & History
Customer records, addresses, tags as customer groups, store credit, and the full order history with statuses, line items, and totals imported so lifetime value and support history survive. Shopify never exports passwords; we run a reset campaign that keeps your login rate high.
Storefront on Stencil or Catalyst
A Liquid theme cannot be ported, so we design and build on Stencil, or on Catalyst (Next.js) when you want headless speed, tuned for Core Web Vitals with page builder regions your team can edit. See BigCommerce web design.
B2B Edition & Customer Groups
Shopify company accounts, catalogs, and price lists rebuilt in BigCommerce B2B Edition: company hierarchies, buyer roles, price lists, quotes, purchase orders, net terms, and quick order, with customer groups for the rest.
App Replacement & Integrations
Each Shopify app matched to a BigCommerce app, a native feature (reviews, abandoned cart recovery, real-time shipping, and promotions are built in), or a custom integration through the open APIs: ERP, 3PL, PIM, subscriptions, search, loyalty, helpdesk, and marketplaces.
SEO Migration & Redirect Map
A crawl and rankings baseline, every /products/, /collections/, /pages/, and /blogs/ URL mapped to its new path (BigCommerce lets you keep the structure you want), titles, descriptions, canonicals, and schema carried across, 301s loaded before the DNS switch, and Search Console watched daily afterward.
Cutover, Training & Support
A final delta sync of orders and customers, DNS switched at a quiet hour, sitemap submitted, two weeks of daily monitoring, admin training for your team, and support after that if you want it.
Why merchants move
What Stores Gain by Moving From Shopify to BigCommerce
We build on both platforms and we are honest about the trade: Shopify has the larger app ecosystem and a strong checkout, and in 2026 it raised its variant limit and put B2B on every plan. BigCommerce still wins where catalogs are deep, URLs matter, B2B is the business rather than a side door, and you want open APIs without a paywall. Those are the stores we move.
Catalog Depth Without Workarounds
Up to 250 values per option and 600 SKUs per product, unlimited option types, 200 custom fields, and categories up to 16,000 deep; the products you had to split on Shopify become one product again.
Your URLs, Your Structure
No forced /collections/ or /products/ paths; keep the URL structure that ranks, nest categories the way customers browse, and run full technical SEO without a theme hack.
B2B Edition Built In
Company hierarchies, buyer roles, price lists, quotes, purchase orders, net terms, and quick order natively, for wholesalers whose B2B is the business.
Fewer Apps, Lower App Bill
Reviews, abandoned cart recovery, real-time shipping quotes, promotions, customer groups, and faceted search are built in; many Shopify stores drop hundreds of dollars a month in apps.
Multi-Storefront, One Catalog
Up to eight storefronts on Stencil and fifteen on Catalyst from one admin and one catalog, for multi-brand, regional, or B2B-and-B2C businesses.
Open APIs and Headless Freedom
REST and GraphQL with high limits on the Performance plan, Catalyst for a Next.js storefront, and no paywall on the data you own; the right base when integrations and custom experiences matter.
On every Shopify to BigCommerce migration
Our Migration Standards
Whatever the size of the store, these hold on every migration we run:
- A written fit assessment before any commitment, including the cases where you should stay on Shopify
- Every product, variant, customer, and order reconciled by count and spot-checked by record
- Every indexed URL redirected one to one, loaded and tested before the DNS switch
- Titles, descriptions, canonicals, alt text, and structured data carried across
- Core Web Vitals passing on the new storefront on launch day
- A password-reset campaign planned with your email tool, because passwords never transfer
- Zero downtime: the Shopify store keeps selling until the final delta sync
- Rankings, traffic, and conversion watched daily for two weeks after launch
- Fixed price after the audit; no surprises
Related Migration Services
Another direction, or moving to BigCommerce from a different platform? We run these routes too, and the free audit builds your task list in two minutes.
How a Shopify to BigCommerce Migration Runs
Six steps that keep rankings, customers, and integrations through the move: an audit and fit assessment first, the data mapped before it is moved, the storefront built in parallel, SEO treated as its own workstream, a rehearsed cutover, and two weeks of watching afterward. Typically eight to twelve weeks.
Audit & Fit Assessment
Inventory of catalog, customers, orders, apps, theme, and integrations; the mapping to BigCommerce; the plan recommendation; a fixed price. Start with the free audit.
Data Mapping & Test Migration
Options, metafields, tags, discounts, and URLs mapped field by field; a full test migration into a staging store; counts reconciled and corrected.
Storefront Build
Stencil or Catalyst storefront designed and built in parallel, with the custom features and B2B tools your Shopify store relied on.
Apps, Integrations & SEO
Apps replaced, integrations connected and tested with real orders, the redirect map built and loaded, schema and meta in place.
Rehearsal & Cutover
A rehearsed cutover with a delta sync, DNS switched at a quiet hour, sitemap submitted, and the Shopify store kept available until the last order is confirmed on BigCommerce.
Monitor & Hand Off
Daily checks of rankings, crawl errors, orders, and speed for two weeks, training for your team, and support or SEO afterward if you want it.
What Migrated Clients Say
Stores that moved to BigCommerce with us and kept everything that mattered.
ANSGear
ANSGear
★★★★★
“I've been trying out various website and marketing firms since 2008, and let me tell you, MAKDigital not only takes the cake for professionalism but they're also the most hands-on crew I've ever collaborated with.”
Webeyecare
Webeyecare
★★★★★
“If you're a BigCommerce user, hitting up MAKDigital is a smart move. It's a hive of skilled web designers and coders. Rest assured, they'll deliver what you're looking for.”
Penelope T Boutique
Penelopetboutique
★★★★★
“They always knocked it out of the park, exceeding our expectations time and again! It was a total blast working with everyone on the MAK team.”
Outgrown Shopify's product model?
Send us your store URL. We will reply with a fit assessment, the task list a Shopify to BigCommerce move involves for your catalog, and a fixed price.
Shopify to BigCommerce Migration Questions
Fees, variants, URLs, B2B, apps, passwords, SEO, downtime, and cost.
Why move from Shopify to BigCommerce in 2026?
The usual reasons: products with more than three options or deep variant structures, URL control for technical SEO, B2B that needs company hierarchies and price lists natively, Multi-Storefront for several brands or regions, open APIs for integrations, and a smaller app bill because reviews, cart recovery, shipping quotes, and promotions are built in. If none of those apply, Shopify may still be the right home, and we will tell you.
What about transaction and payment fees?
Shopify charges 0.2 to 2 percent by plan on gateways other than Shopify Payments. BigCommerce charges nothing on orders paid through its embedded providers (Stripe, PayPal, Adyen, and others) and, since June 2026, an Open Payment Provider Fee of 2, 1, or 0.6 percent by plan on other gateways and on offline orders such as purchase orders. Which is cheaper depends on your gateway and plan; we model it in the fit assessment with your real numbers.
How do Shopify variants map to BigCommerce?
Shopify allows three options per product (and up to 2,048 variants on eligible plans since 2026). BigCommerce allows any number of option types with 250 values each and 600 SKUs per product, plus modifiers for non-SKU choices. Products you split on Shopify can be merged back; variants that exceed 600 SKUs are planned per product in the mapping.
Will my URLs change?
BigCommerce lets you set any URL structure, so we can keep your product and category slugs and drop the /collections/ and /products/ prefixes or keep them, whichever protects rankings best. Every indexed URL gets a one-to-one 301 either way, loaded before launch.
Do customer passwords transfer?
No; Shopify does not export password hashes. Customers, addresses, tags, and history move; we plan a reset campaign with your email tool so returning customers log in once and continue.
What happens to my Shopify apps?
Each is matched to a BigCommerce app, a native feature, or a custom integration through the APIs, and its data (reviews, subscriptions, loyalty balances, gift cards) is migrated where the vendor allows. The audit lists every app and its replacement before you commit.
How is B2B handled?
Shopify companies, catalogs, and price lists are rebuilt in BigCommerce B2B Edition with company hierarchies, buyer roles, price lists, quotes, purchase orders, net terms, and quick order; simpler wholesale setups use customer groups and price lists on the standard plans.
Will I lose rankings?
Not with the SEO workstream we run: a crawl and rankings baseline, one-to-one redirects for every indexed URL, metadata and schema carried across, internal links updated, and daily monitoring for two weeks. Badly redirected migrations lose 20 to 50 percent of organic traffic; ours are built to lose none.
Is there downtime?
No. The Shopify store sells until the final delta sync; DNS switches at a quiet hour with redirects already live, and the old store stays available until the last order is confirmed on BigCommerce.
How long does it take and what does it cost?
Eight to twelve weeks for most stores, longer for large catalogs, B2B, or many integrations. Cost depends on catalog size, B2B scope, the storefront, and integrations; typical projects run from the low five figures into the mid five figures, and some BigCommerce migrations qualify for our free migration offer. The quote is fixed after the audit.
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