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Migration · Adobe Commerce → Shopify

Adobe Commerce to Shopify migration for enterprise brands.

Adobe Commerce, the paid Magento tier, is powerful and expensive. We replatform Adobe Commerce and Adobe Commerce Cloud stores to Shopify Plus, keeping B2B price lists, multi-store architecture, and every ERP, PIM, and OMS integration intact.

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Source platform
Adobe Commerce
Category
Enterprise commerce (paid tier)
Timeline
8-16 weeks
Starts at
Save up to 70%
Why brands leave Adobe Commerce

Adobe Commerce sells control, and it delivers, at a cost that keeps climbing.

Licensing, hosting, extensions, and a senior PHP team mean the platform bill can clear $150k a year before a single new feature ships. Meanwhile the features you actually use, B2B, multi-store, and custom checkout, are the same ones Shopify Plus ships natively for a flat license.

  • Adobe Commerce licensing + hosting + a PHP team clears $80k-$150k a year before new features ship.

  • Version upgrades are six-figure projects, not patches, and skipping them leaves you unsupported and exposed.

  • B2B price lists, staging, and multi-store, the features you pay Adobe for, are Shopify Plus-native.

  • The Adobe Commerce extension ecosystem keeps shrinking as vendors move to Shopify themselves.

Adobe Commerce-specific gotchas

What actually breaks in a Adobe Commerce to Shopify migration.

Most migration vendors quote a price and stay vague on what's hard. These are the Adobe Commerce-specific traps and how we handle each one.

  • B2B price lists, company accounts, and NET-30 terms are deeply woven into the data model.

    How we handle it →
    We migrate to Shopify B2B on Plus with company accounts, price lists, and NET terms preserved, so segmentation doesn't flatten.

  • Multi-store / multi-website architecture doesn't map one-to-one to Shopify.

    How we handle it →
    Each store becomes a Shopify Markets region, or a dedicated store under one Plus org for genuinely separate brands.

  • Custom checkout and discount logic on the Adobe side.

    How we handle it →
    We translate it into Shopify Functions and Checkout Extensibility apps so the buyer experience stays the same.

Data we preserve

What we transfer from Adobe Commerce to Shopify, nothing left behind.

  • Products with EAV attributes mapped to Shopify metafields

  • Customer groups, company accounts, B2B price lists, and NET terms

  • Order history with split shipments and partial refunds

  • Multi-store / multi-region catalogue mappings

  • 301 redirects for every URL plus SEO metadata and structured data

  • CMS pages, static blocks, and reviews

Adobe Commerce feature → Shopify equivalent

Every feature has a Shopify-side answer.

The thing most migration vendors leave vague: which Shopify app, theme, or Function replaces each piece of your existing stack. We tell you in week one.

Adobe Commerce Shopify equivalent
Adobe Commerce B2B → Shopify B2B on Plus (companies, price lists, NET terms)
Adobe Commerce Page Builder → Online Store 2.0 sections + custom blocks
Multi-store / multi-website → Shopify Markets + Markets Pro
PIM integration (Akeneo, Salsify) → Same vendors with Shopify connectors, feed re-wired
How the migration runs

A staged Adobe Commerce to Shopify migration. Not a weekend sprint.

8-16 weeks of structured work, discovery, scripts, theme rebuild, redirect map, UAT, launch. Every phase has a deliverable you keep.

  1. 01, Architecture review

    We audit stores, attribute sets, B2B segmentation, integrations, and custom code. Output is a written architecture document covering data, design, and integration paths.

  2. 02, Data modelling on Shopify

    We model the Shopify-side schema, metaobjects, metafields, B2B companies, and Markets before any data moves. You sign off on the model.

  3. 03, Migration scripts + dev store build

    We script the migration, build a Shopify dev store, and migrate a sample of products, customers, and orders for validation.

  4. 04, Integration re-wiring

    ERP, PIM, OMS, 3PL, ESP, every existing integration gets re-pointed at Shopify with rollback instructions.

  5. 05, Full data cutover + UAT

    Final import of products, customers, and orders, then a two-week UAT window with your team running real flows on staging.

  6. 06, Launch + 60-day stabilisation

    DNS cutover, redirect verification, and daily monitoring of search, conversion, and integration health for 60 days.

An Adobe Commerce to Shopify migration is not a downgrade, it’s a re-allocation of budget. The B2B, multi-store, and checkout capabilities you pay Adobe a six-figure annual bill for are the same ones Shopify Plus ships for a flat license. What changes is who carries the operational weight: Shopify, not your PHP team.

Adobe Commerce vs Shopify Plus: what you’re actually replacing

Adobe Commerce and Shopify Plus cover the same enterprise surface, but the cost structure is opposite. Adobe Commerce charges for the privilege of running it: licensing, cloud hosting, extensions, and the team to keep them integrated and patched. Shopify Plus bundles hosting, security, and upgrades into one license, and the features that matter, B2B price lists, Markets, Shopify Functions, and Checkout Extensibility, are native. The migration is the moment you stop paying enterprise prices for headroom you’re not using.

How we handle the B2B and multi-store pieces

These are the two places an off-the-shelf migration tool stalls. B2B price lists, company accounts, and NET-30 terms are deeply woven into the Adobe data model, and multi-store architecture doesn’t map one-to-one to Shopify. We migrate B2B to Shopify B2B on Plus and move each store to a Shopify Markets region, or to a dedicated store under one Plus org for genuinely separate brands. Segmentation stays intact, not flattened.

Adobe Commerce to Shopify migration cost

We quote fixed-price after a free architecture review, because a single-store DTC catalogue and a three-storefront B2B build with a NetSuite feed are genuinely different jobs. The number worth holding against it is total cost of ownership: a mid-market brand replacing $80k-$150k a year in Adobe licensing, hosting, and PHP retainer typically clears the migration cost inside the first year on platform spend alone.

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Adobe Commerce migration FAQ

Adobe Commerce to Shopify migration FAQs.

Do we need Shopify Plus to replace Adobe Commerce?

For most B2B, multi-region, or high-volume brands, yes. Shopify B2B price lists, Shopify Functions, and Markets are Plus-tier, and they're the features you're already paying Adobe for. A single-region DTC brand under roughly $5M can often run on standard Shopify.

What happens to our B2B price lists and company accounts?

They migrate to Shopify B2B on Plus. Company accounts, price lists, and NET terms all come across without flattening the segmentation.

How long does an Adobe Commerce to Shopify migration take?

8-16 weeks depending on storefront count and integration complexity. Multi-region B2B builds run longer than single-storefront DTC.

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The service page covers scope and pricing; the field notes cover what's actually broken before we touch it.

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