A Magento to Shopify migration is not a downgrade. Shopify 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. Still weighing the platforms? Our Shopify vs Magento comparison is the honest version, including where Magento still earns its keep.
Direction: this page covers migrating from Magento or Adobe Commerce to Shopify. If you’re moving the other way — from Shopify to Magento — we don’t do that, and we’d tell you honestly whether you should before any script runs.
Why brands trust us with a Magento replatform
The short version, in numbers. We’ve shipped 100+ platform migrations and 250+ Shopify stores overall. We handle Magento 1, Magento 2, and Adobe Commerce Cloud, including B2B price lists, multi-store setups, and ERP/PIM re-wiring, the parts most migration vendors quote around rather than through. Every launch carries 60 days of post-launch stabilisation with organic traffic, 404s, and conversion monitored daily, so a ranking wobble gets caught in week one, not quarter two. And the architecture review that starts every project is written down and yours to keep, whoever you end up building with.
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.
Migration tools: what we use, and where the off-the-shelf ones break
Cart2Cart, Matrixify (Excelify) and LitExtension are genuinely useful for a clean single-store catalogue, and we use them where they fit, usually to seed a dev store fast via CSV or Excel import. Where they stall is exactly where Magento builds get complicated: EAV attribute sets that don’t flatten cleanly into Shopify metafields, customer groups and tier pricing, order history with split shipments and partial refunds, and Adobe Commerce B2B price lists. Those need a custom script against the Shopify Admin API, REST for reads and GraphQL for bulk writes, with a dry-run import before the real cutover. We run both tool and script, and we tell you which parts are tool-safe and which are script-only before the review is over.
Magento to Shopify migration cost
There is no honest flat number for a Magento to Shopify migration, and any agency that quotes one before seeing your stores is guessing. Magento builds are rarely alike, a single-store mid-market catalogue with clean data is a different project from a three-storefront Adobe Commerce build with B2B price lists and a NetSuite feed. We quote fixed-price after the architecture review, so the number is known and written down before anyone touches a migration script.
What moves the cost is catalogue size and attribute complexity, the number of storefronts and regions, whether B2B segmentation has to come across intact, and how many ERP, PIM, OMS, and search integrations need re-wiring rather than rebuilding. The number worth holding it against is total cost of ownership: the typical mid-market brand is replacing $80k to $150k a year in Magento hosting, Adobe Commerce licensing, and the PHP retainer needed just to keep the lights on. Measured against that, the migration usually pays for itself inside the first year on platform cost alone.
How we protect organic traffic through a Magento replatform
The leverage point is the redirect map. Magento URL rewrites, category paths and layered-navigation URLs don’t map one-to-one to Shopify, so we build a 301 map for every indexed URL, eliminate redirect chains, and preserve canonical tags and structured data. We audit the before-state in Screaming Frog, track rankings in Ahrefs and Semrush, watch Core Web Vitals and indexation coverage in Google Search Console, and resubmit the XML sitemap at launch. Then we monitor daily through the 60-day stabilisation window, so a ranking wobble is caught in week one, not quarter two.
Adobe Commerce to Shopify Plus: what changes on the paid tier
If you’re on Adobe Commerce rather than Magento 2 Open Source, the migration shape is the same with one extra question: what happens to the B2B, staging and multi-store features Adobe layers on top. The answer is Shopify Plus: Shopify B2B for company accounts and price lists, Markets and Markets Pro for multi-region, Shopify Functions for custom discount and shipping logic, and Checkout Extensibility for a branded checkout. Plus runs from roughly $2,300/month, and a mid-market brand replacing $80k–$150k a year in Adobe Commerce licensing, hosting and PHP retainer typically clears the migration cost inside the first year on platform spend alone. If you’re weighing headless, Hyvä and Hydrogen are both on the table; we pick the stack that matches the traffic and team you actually have.
Magento 1, Magento 2 and Adobe Commerce Cloud: which migration path applies to you
We handle all of them. Magento 1 stores are past end-of-life and unsupported, which makes the security and PCI case for moving obvious, and the data model is old enough that the export needs careful scripting rather than a plug-and-play tool. Magento 2 (Open Source) and Adobe Commerce (the paid Cloud tier) share a schema, so a Magento 2 to Shopify migration and an Adobe Commerce to Shopify migration run through the same architecture. The difference is mostly in the B2B, staging, and multi-store features Adobe layers on top, and we map each of those to a Shopify Plus equivalent during the review.
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.
