monkeyman.agency
monkeyman.agency
Migration · Magento → Shopify

Magento was built for the brand you used to be.

Most mid-market brands on Magento are paying enterprise prices for problems they don't have. We rebuild on Shopify so the platform stops being the bottleneck.

Scope my Magento migration See migration work
Source platform
Magento
Category
Open-source enterprise commerce
Timeline
6-10 weeks
Starts at
Save up to 70%
Why brands leave Magento

Magento's argument is that you can do anything.

The reality is that you need a permanent in-house dev team to do anything, every customisation has a cost-of-ownership tail, and a routine version upgrade is a six-figure project. Most brands on Magento today are over-tooled, they're paying for headroom they'll never use, and the platform is consuming the time that should go to growth.

  • Magento upgrades are projects, not patches. M1 → M2 broke half the merchants on the platform.

  • You need a senior PHP team on staff or on retainer just to keep the lights on.

  • Hosting + Adobe Commerce licensing + extensions easily clear $80k/year before you've shipped anything new.

  • PageSpeed scores below 30 are normal. Mobile conversion suffers accordingly.

  • The marketplace is shrinking, extension vendors are migrating to Shopify themselves.

Magento-specific gotchas

What actually breaks when you migrate.

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

  • EAV product attributes don't map to Shopify's flatter product model.

    How we handle it →
    We audit your attribute set, decide which become metafields vs. variants vs. tags, and migrate with a custom script that preserves filterability via Shopify Search & Discovery.

  • Multi-store / multi-website setups (different domains, currencies, catalogues) need re-architecting.

    How we handle it →
    We move each store to a Shopify Markets region or, for genuinely separate brands, to dedicated Shopify stores under one Plus org with a shared customer database.

  • Customer groups, tier pricing, and B2B price lists are deeply integrated.

    How we handle it →
    We migrate to Shopify B2B (Plus), company accounts, price lists, NET-30 payment terms, without flattening the segmentation.

  • Custom checkout extensions don't have direct equivalents.

    How we handle it →
    We translate custom logic into Shopify Functions (discounts, shipping, payments) or Checkout Extensibility apps so the buyer experience stays the same.

  • Order history with split shipments and partial refunds.

    How we handle it →
    We preserve fulfilment status per line item and document refund history in order notes so finance reconciliation stays clean.

Data we preserve

Your customers, orders, SEO, nothing left behind.

  • Products with EAV attributes mapped to Shopify metafields

  • Configurable, grouped, bundled, and downloadable products

  • Customer accounts with groups and tier pricing

  • Order history with split shipments, partial refunds, and tax breakdowns

  • Multi-store / multi-currency catalogue mappings

  • Categories with anchors, layered navigation, position

  • 301 redirects for every URL plus URL rewrites

  • SEO metadata, canonical tags, structured data

  • CMS pages, blog posts, static blocks

  • Reviews (native, Yotpo, Trustpilot, Stamped)

Magento 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.

Magento Shopify equivalent
Adobe Commerce B2B → Shopify B2B on Plus (companies, price lists, NET terms)
Magento Page Builder → Shopify Online Store 2.0 sections + custom blocks
Custom shipping rate rules → Shopify Functions (carrier-calculated + custom rules)
Mage-OS / multi-store setup → Shopify Markets + Markets Pro
Klevu / Algolia search → Shopify Search & Discovery or keep existing search app
Adobe Sensei product recommendations → Shopify Search & Discovery recommendations or Rebuy
PIM integration (Akeneo, Salsify) → Same vendors with Shopify connectors, we re-wire the feed
Magento ERP connectors (NetSuite, SAP) → Shopify connectors or middleware (Celigo, Boomi), same ERP, new endpoint
How the migration runs

A staged migration. Not a weekend sprint.

6-10 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 your stores, attribute set, customer segmentation, integrations, and custom code. The output is a written migration architecture document covering data, design, and integration paths.

  2. 02, Data modelling on Shopify

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

  3. 03, Migration scripts + dev store build

    We script the migration (no manual entry), build a Shopify dev store, and migrate a sample of products + customers + orders for validation.

  4. 04, Integration re-wiring

    ERP, PIM, OMS, 3PL, ESP, every existing integration gets re-pointed at Shopify. We document each and provide rollback instructions.

  5. 05, Full data cutover + UAT

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

  6. 06, Launch + 60-day stabilisation

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

Shopify’s not a downgrade, plus, Functions, B2B, Markets, and the modern app ecosystem cover the same enterprise surface, just without the dev tax. Most of the brands we migrate end up shipping faster on Shopify than they did on Magento, with smaller teams.

Where the work actually is

Two-thirds of a Magento migration is integration re-wiring, not data movement. ERP feeds, PIM exports, OMS hand-offs, ESP segments, search vendors, review platforms, every existing pipe needs a Shopify endpoint. We document each one and migrate them on a schedule that doesn’t break finance reconciliation in the middle of the month.

What we don’t do

  • We don’t promise a 4-week timeline for a brand with multi-region B2B and 30k SKUs. That’s how migrations fail.
  • We don’t migrate to Shopify Standard for stores that genuinely need Plus. The license cost is recovered in a single quarter of avoided custom dev.
  • We don’t recommend Magento → Shopify if you’re below $1M in revenue and your existing Magento isn’t actively breaking. The TCO maths only flips above a certain volume.
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Magento migration FAQ

Common questions about Magento → Shopify.

How much do Magento brands typically save by moving?

The honest answer is "it depends on your stack," but the typical mid-market brand replaces $80-150k/year in hosting + license + dev retainer with Shopify Plus's flat license and a focused agency relationship. The dev team headcount usually drops by 60-80%.

Can we keep our ERP / PIM / OMS?

Yes, most enterprise integrations have Shopify connectors. We re-wire the feed; you keep the system of record.

We're on Adobe Commerce Cloud, do we need Shopify Plus?

For most B2B + multi-region brands, yes, Shopify Functions, B2B, and Markets are Plus-tier. Standard Shopify works for single-region D2C brands under $5M in revenue.

What about our customisations? They're worth six figures.

We assess each one. Many turn out to be solving problems Shopify handles natively. The ones that genuinely need custom logic move to Shopify Functions or apps. Sunk cost is the worst reason to stay on Magento.

Will our SEO survive a Magento → Shopify migration?

We've migrated brands with 50k+ indexed URLs without losing organic traffic. The 301 map and structured-data preservation are the leverage points.

How long is realistic?

6-10 weeks for most mid-market migrations. Larger multi-region or B2B-heavy stores can run 12-16 weeks. We don't compress past what UAT actually needs.

Read next

Pair your magento migration with the right reading.

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

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