Working with Studio Future on our new Shopify site was an exceptional experience. Their proactive approach and dedication exceeded our expectations.
Shopify Migration Agency in Dubai
We move established stores from WooCommerce, Magento, and BigCommerce to Shopify without losing rankings, data, or revenue.
Plan Your Migration
Migrations for Stores Doing Real Volume
This page is for teams running an established store, not a first launch. If you're processing hundreds of orders a month on WooCommerce or Magento and the platform is starting to fight you, a migration is an engineering project with revenue on the line, and it deserves to be treated like one.
We know both sides of this move. We've built and maintained WooCommerce at scale, including one store that processed over 150,000 orders and more than £5m in revenue. We recommend Shopify when the maintenance burden, plugin fragility, and hosting overhead start costing more than the platform saves. When that's your situation, we plan and execute the move end to end.
We're certified Shopify Partners based in Dubai, working with brands across the UAE and beyond.
Our Migration Process
- 1
Audit
We map your current architecture: catalogue structure, custom functionality, integrations, URL inventory, and traffic-earning pages. This is where we catch the things that sink rushed migrations, like a plugin doing silent business logic nobody documented.
- 2
Parallel build
We build the new Shopify store alongside your live site. Theme, apps, and integrations are rebuilt or replaced with Shopify equivalents. Your current store keeps trading throughout.
- 3
Data migration
Products, variants, customers, and order history move across in full. For high-volume stores we sync data in near real time, so the new store is current on cutover day, not a week stale.
- 4
SEO and redirects
Every URL that earns traffic gets a mapped 301 redirect. Titles, metadata, and structured data carry over. This is the step that protects the rankings you've spent years building.
- 5
Cutover and aftercare
We execute the switch at a quiet trading window, verify redirects and checkout end to end, and monitor Search Console for crawl errors in the weeks after launch.
What Carries Over
Products and variants
Your full catalogue, including variants, images, and metadata. Large catalogues are migrated programmatically, not re-keyed by hand.
Customers and order history
Customer records and order history come across. One honest caveat: passwords can't migrate between platforms, so customers reset on first login. We plan the comms for that.
SEO equity
Rankings survive when redirects are done properly. We 301 map every indexed URL, because Shopify enforces its own URL structure and unmapped pages become 404s.
Content and blog
Blog posts, landing pages, and reviews (via your review platform) all move. Anything earning organic traffic is treated as an asset, not an afterthought.
Custom functionality
Plugins don't transfer. Each one gets a named decision: replace with a Shopify app, rebuild as a custom app, or retire it if nobody actually uses it.
Integrations
ERPs, email platforms, shipping and fulfilment tools are reconnected via Shopify APIs. We test these before cutover, not after.
Timeline and Cost
Most migrations run 6 to 10 weeks from kickoff to cutover, depending on catalogue size and how much custom functionality needs rebuilding. A 500-product store with standard integrations sits at the lower end; a multi-warehouse setup with ERP sync sits at the upper end. We build the new store in parallel with your live one, so there's no rush and no gap in trading.
On running costs, the honest comparison isn't Shopify's subscription against WooCommerce's free licence. It's the total: hosting, plugin renewals, developer retainers for updates, and the hours your team loses to breakage. To see what Shopify would actually charge at your volume, use our Shopify fee calculator. It breaks down subscription and transaction fees by plan and country with your real order numbers.
How We Think About Migrations
We write up our process in the open. Start with our WooCommerce to Shopify migration guide, which covers the pre-migration checklist and the step-by-step process we run. For a worked example of moving live subscription revenue between platforms, read how we migrated Yotpo subscriptions to Recharge.
Don't Just Take Our Word For It
Shopify Migration FAQs
Most migrations run 6 to 10 weeks from kickoff to cutover. Catalogue size, order history volume, and custom functionality drive the timeline. Because we build the new store in parallel with your live one, your current store keeps trading the entire time and cutover itself is measured in hours, not days.
Not if the migration is done properly. Ranking loss after a migration is almost always a redirect problem: Shopify enforces its own URL structure (/products/, /collections/), so every existing URL needs a mapped 301 redirect. We build that map from your full URL inventory during the audit, carry over titles and metadata, and monitor Search Console after launch to catch anything that slipped through.
Yes. Products, variants, customers, and full order history migrate to Shopify. The one thing that can't move is passwords, because password hashes aren't portable between platforms. Customers reset their password on first login, and we help you plan the email comms around that so it doesn't generate support tickets.
Plugins don't transfer, and that's usually a good thing: plugin sprawl is often why stores leave WooCommerce. During the audit we list every plugin and make a named decision for each: replace it with an established Shopify app, rebuild it as a custom app if it's genuinely bespoke, or retire it. Most stores find a meaningful share of their plugins fall into the third bucket.
It depends on catalogue size, custom functionality, and integrations, so we scope every migration individually and give you a detailed proposal before any work begins. For the platform side of the equation, our Shopify fee calculator shows what Shopify itself charges at your order volume, by plan and country. Bring the calculator output to a call and we'll put a build figure next to it.
Yes. WooCommerce is the most common starting point, but we've migrated stores from Magento, BigCommerce, and custom-built platforms. The process is the same: audit, parallel build, data migration, redirect mapping, and a monitored cutover.