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Migration · PrestaShop → Shopify

PrestaShop to Shopify migration for brands done self-hosting.

PrestaShop gave you an open, free platform. It also gave you the hosting bills, the module conflicts, and the security patching. We run end-to-end PrestaShop to Shopify migration, moving products, customers, orders, and SEO across so you can stop maintaining the platform and get back to selling.

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Source platform
PrestaShop
Category
Open-source PHP commerce
Timeline
4-6 weeks
Starts at
Save up to 70%
Why brands leave PrestaShop

PrestaShop is open-source and free to license, which is exactly why so many European brands started there.

The cost shows up later, in everything around the license. You are hosting it yourself, updating it yourself, patching security yourself, and paying for modules that break each other on every upgrade. A PrestaShop store that has been running for a few years is usually held together by a developer who knows where the bodies are buried, and that is a fragile place for a growing business to be.

  • Self-hosting means the uptime, the backups, and the security patches are all your problem.

  • Paid modules stack up fast, and they conflict with each other on every major version upgrade.

  • PrestaShop 1.6 to 1.7 broke themes and modules for a huge share of merchants, and the next jump will too.

  • The theme system (Smarty) is dated and slow compared with modern storefront tooling.

  • Finding and keeping a PrestaShop developer is getting harder as the ecosystem shrinks.

PrestaShop-specific gotchas

What actually breaks in a PrestaShop to Shopify migration.

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

  • PrestaShop combinations (attribute-based variants) do not map one-to-one to Shopify's variant model.

    How we handle it →
    We audit your attributes and combinations, then map them to Shopify variants and metafields so filtering and merchandising still work through Search & Discovery.

  • PrestaShop multistore setups share one back office across several storefronts.

    How we handle it →
    We split each storefront into a Shopify Markets region or, for genuinely separate brands, dedicated Shopify stores, with the catalogue and customers mapped cleanly.

  • PrestaShop URLs often carry the category path and an .html suffix, so they differ from Shopify's structure.

    How we handle it →
    We export every product, category, and CMS URL and stage a 301 redirect for each one before launch, with canonical tags preserved so Search Console never sees duplicate content.

  • PrestaShop is natively multilingual, and that content has to survive the move.

    How we handle it →
    We migrate each language and wire it into Shopify Markets or a translation app, so hreflang and localised content stay intact rather than collapsing to one language.

  • Custom modules encode business logic that has no direct Shopify equivalent.

    How we handle it →
    We map each module to a Shopify app, a Function, or theme code, and tell you which path before we quote, rather than discovering it mid-migration.

Data we preserve

What we transfer from PrestaShop to Shopify, nothing left behind.

  • Products with combinations mapped to Shopify variants and metafields

  • Customer accounts with addresses and groups

  • Order history with statuses, invoices, and refunds

  • Categories with their structure and SEO settings

  • CMS pages and blog content

  • 301 redirects for every product, category, and content URL

  • SEO metadata, page titles, and meta descriptions

  • Multilingual content mapped to Shopify Markets

  • Vouchers, cart rules, and active discounts

PrestaShop 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.

PrestaShop Shopify equivalent
PrestaShop modules → Shopify apps, Functions, or native theme features
Native multistore → Shopify Markets / Markets Pro
Combinations (attribute variants) → Shopify variants plus metafields for extra axes
Smarty theme → Shopify Online Store 2.0 theme with sections
Native multilingual → Shopify Markets with a translation app
Layered navigation module → Shopify Search & Discovery filters
How the migration runs

A staged PrestaShop to Shopify migration. Not a weekend sprint.

4-6 weeks of structured work, discovery, scripts, theme rebuild, redirect map, UAT, launch. Every phase has a deliverable you keep.

  1. 01, Architecture and module audit

    We inventory your catalogue, combinations, languages, and every active module, then write a migration plan covering data, design, and the module-to-Shopify mapping.

  2. 02, Data modelling on Shopify

    We model the Shopify schema (variants, metafields, Markets) and get your sign-off before any data moves.

  3. 03, Migration scripts + dev store

    Products, customers, and orders move via scripts to a Shopify dev store, with a validation sample checked against the source before the full run.

  4. 04, Storefront rebuild

    We rebuild the theme on Online Store 2.0 rather than porting Smarty templates, so it renders faster and your team can merchandise it without a developer.

  5. 05, URL map and SEO transfer

    Every PrestaShop URL gets a 301 redirect staged in Shopify before launch, with canonical tags and structured data preserved.

  6. 06, Launch + 30-day stabilisation

    DNS cutover with monitoring on 404s, organic traffic, and conversion for 30 days, and we patch anything that drifts.

A PrestaShop to Shopify migration is, at heart, a decision to stop being your own hosting company. PrestaShop’s open-source model is genuinely powerful, but it hands you the full weight of running a commerce platform: the server, the security, the backups, and the module upgrades that break each other. For a lot of brands, that weight quietly became a second job.

Where the work actually is

The data itself exports reasonably well from PrestaShop. The leverage in the project is in two places: mapping combinations and attributes into Shopify’s variant and metafield model so your catalogue still filters correctly, and preserving the multilingual and multistore structure that PrestaShop handles natively. Get those two right and the rest of the migration is routine.

PrestaShop to Shopify migration cost

We quote fixed-price after a free audit rather than off a headline number, because a single-language catalogue and a three-language multistore build are genuinely different jobs. What moves the cost is catalogue and combination complexity, how many custom modules carry business logic, and whether you are running multiple languages or storefronts. The number worth measuring it against is what self-hosting costs you now: hosting, module licences, security, and the developer time to keep it all patched. Measured against that, the move usually pays for itself well inside a year.

What we don’t do

  • We don’t port Smarty theme code. We rebuild the storefront on Online Store 2.0, which is faster and far easier to maintain after launch.
  • We don’t carry PrestaShop’s URL structure forward untouched. The 301 redirects do the SEO work and the new URLs follow Shopify conventions.
  • We don’t recommend the move if you are a small store, comfortable self-hosting, and PrestaShop is genuinely working for you. The maths only flips once the maintenance starts costing more than it saves.
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PrestaShop migration FAQ

PrestaShop to Shopify migration FAQs.

Can I migrate from PrestaShop to Shopify?

Yes. Products with their combinations, customers, orders, categories, CMS content, and SEO metadata all move across. The storefront gets rebuilt on a Shopify theme rather than ported from Smarty, which is usually the upgrade brands wanted anyway.

How long does a PrestaShop to Shopify migration take?

4-6 weeks for most stores, driven more by catalogue and module complexity than raw product count. Multilingual and multistore setups sit at the longer end because each language and storefront is validated separately.

Will I lose my SEO in a PrestaShop to Shopify migration?

Not with a proper redirect map. We stage a 301 for every product, category, and CMS URL before launch and preserve canonical tags, so rankings carry across. Most stores recover full pre-launch organic traffic within 4-6 weeks.

What happens to my multilingual PrestaShop store?

Each language is migrated and wired into Shopify Markets or a translation app, so your localised content and hreflang setup survive rather than collapsing into a single language.

How much does a PrestaShop to Shopify migration cost?

Every migration is fixed-price, quoted after a free audit. The main drivers are catalogue size, how many modules encode custom logic, and whether you are multilingual or multistore. Send your store URL and we come back inside 48 hours with a written quote.

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