Shopify Plus migration cost, priced from your own store.

Most mid-market Shopify-to-Plus moves land in the low hundreds of hours. The spread is driven by your source platform and catalogue size: a Shopify-to-Shopify Plus move is largely a retheme, while Magento or a bespoke stack means real data remodelling. Rather than quote you an average, the estimator scans your storefront, prices the seven phases against our current rate card, and shows you that rate alongside the result.

For most mid-market stores, somewhere between six and sixteen weeks, assuming a dedicated team and no long content freeze. Engineering hours are only part of it. Approvals, content sign-off and getting access to third-party integrations are what usually stretch a timeline. The estimator converts hours to weeks at a realistic delivery throughput rather than assuming everyone works on your project full time.

We scan your storefront, then a language model classifies each of the seven phases as low, moderate or high complexity and writes the commentary. It never produces a number. A fixed rubric turns those complexity bands into hour ranges, and the hour ranges into cost at our blended rate. The headline total is the literal sum of the seven phase rows, so the breakdown can never contradict the figure above it.

Not exactly, and we would rather tell you than pretend otherwise. The rubric that turns a complexity band into an hour range is fixed, and the model never writes a number. But the model does choose the band, and that judgement can move between runs, so repeat scans of the same store shift by a modest amount rather than landing on an identical figure. Every result carries an estimate reference so you can quote one specific run back to us. A scoped proposal from a migration lead is what turns a range into a firm number.

We tell you, and we do not produce an estimate. If your store is password protected, rate-limiting our requests, rendered entirely in JavaScript or behind a bot wall, you get an explicit message naming the reason and a way to reach a migration lead. A confident number built on a page we could not read is worse than no number.

Only what any visitor can open. We read your homepage, one collection page and one product page, plus your sitemap and your product feed. From those we fingerprint your platform, count products and collections, detect third-party apps from your script tags, and look for multi-market, B2B and custom-checkout signals. No login, admin access or app install is involved.

Export products, customers and orders. Map WooCommerce attributes and variations onto Shopify options and metafields. Rebuild the theme rather than porting it. Replace plugins with Shopify apps, which is where scope usually hides. Build a complete 301 redirect map from your old URL structure, then cut over DNS after a full staging QA pass. WooCommerce carries more data-model distance than most people expect, particularly around variable products and subscription plugins.

Magento is the most expensive common source, because its data model, multi-store setup and custom extensions rarely map one to one. Expect most of the effort in data mapping and integration replacement rather than design. If you run multiple Magento store views or B2B pricing tiers, treat those as separate workstreams. Shopify Plus handles both, but not with a straight import.

No, provided every old URL has a redirect waiting on launch day. Most ranking loss after a replatform traces to missed 301s on product and collection URLs, changed pagination, or lost structured data. Budget real hours for redirects and validate them against a crawl of the old site before cutover, not after.

Plus adds checkout customisation, higher API limits, multiple storefronts, B2B, and Functions for custom logic. If you are on standard Shopify and none of those limits are biting, you may not need it. Moving to Plus is most defensible when checkout customisation, multi-market or B2B is already on your roadmap.