How to Migrate From Magento (Adobe Commerce) To Shopify [2022]

2. 2 How to Migrate From Magento (Adobe Commerce) To Shopify [2022] An Overview 3 4 5 1. 2. 3. How to Migrate From Magento to Shopify Shopify vs. Magento: Why Choose Shopify Over Magento Magento to Shopify Migration Checklist Manual migration Assisted migration Automated migration What Migration Method to Choose 7 4.How to Prepare for Magento to Shopify Migration Manage Your Magento Store Prepare Your Shopify Store 5. How to Migrate From Magento To Shopify in 5 Steps Connect Your Shopping Carts Select Data for Migration Specify the Additional Migration Options Map Customer Groups and Order Statuses Run Free Demo / Launch Full Migration 9 15 6. Post-migration recommendation Test Your New Shopify Store Search for the Apps You Need With Shopify Store Invite Customers to Reactivate Their Accounts 16 7.Magento to Shopify Migration: FAQs How to migrate Magento to Shopify How to Migrate Products From Magento to Shopify Why Migrate From Magento to Shopify 8.Final Thoughts 17

3. 3 How to Migrate From Magento to Shopify There are multiple ways to migrate your online store from Magento to Shopify. While the choice of one over the other boils down to preference, some methods are more foolproof than others as far as the risk of data loss goes. Using automated migration tools like Cart2Cart isn't just easier and more convenient; it guarantees safe data migration without losing precious customer, order, or product data in the process. Here’s how to migrate from Magento to Shopify in a few easy steps: 1. Connect your source and target shopping carts. 2. Highlight the data you want to transfer and specify any additional migration options you would like to integrate into the process. 3. Map the various customer groups you had in your store and the varying statuses of existing orders. 4. Run the free demo to launch the Full Migration.

4. 4 Shopify vs. Magento: Why Choose Shopify Over Magento The latest statistics from BuiltWith.com reveal that there are currently 3.8 million + websites running on Shopify compared to Magento's 102,801 sites. Now, if that's not reason enough to make the switch, here are a few compelling reasons why it might be time to pull the plug on Adobe Commerce and migrate to Shopify once and for all.s Parameters Magento Shopify Platform Overview Ease of Use Themes Sales Toolkit Marketing Toolkit Apps and Add-Ons Payment Processing SEO Customer Support

5. 5 Magento to Shopify Migration Checklist There are three different ways you can migrate from Adobe Commerce to Shopify. Here’s a brief overview of each, as well as some of their associated benefits and drawbacks. Manual Migration If you’re running a small-scale business with a handful of products listed on your website, it is possible to migrate your data manually. “Handful” in this case means anything in the realm of 20-40 products. Assisted Migration Assisted migration is exactly what it sounds like – transferring all your product, order, and customer data from your existing Magento website to your new Shopify store with technical help from experts. Try Free Demo Automated Migration Automating the data migration process is the most foolproof way to reduce human error. It is also the most cost-effective as far as time and resources go. Data migration tools like Cart2Cart are specifically designed to transfer all store data from one eCommerce platform to another while effectively eliminating any risk of data loss.

6. 6 What Migration Method to Choose? When deciding on the approach to use, here are a couple of questions you need to keep in mind: 1. Will my new Shopify site include any customizations I previously had? 2. Will the extensions I had on the old site work the same way they did on my new website? 3. Will my new site retain the themes I had on the old one? 4. Is there a possibility of losing data during the migration process? 5. How long will the process take, and will my website be down when carrying out the data transfer? 6. How much is it going to cost? The answers to these all point to one solution: Automated migration. Here’s why: CUSTOMIZATION EXTENSIONS THEMES Any customizations you might have had on your old store will be integrated into the new Shopify platform. The extensions you had on your previous Magento site will automatically be installed on your new site as well. Your online store’s existing structure will be retained when migrating your data to your new platform. DATA UP-TIME COST Every piece of customer data, order data, manufacturer data, supplier data, and product data will be migrated to your new platform with no risk of data loss. Migrating from Magento to Shopify using data transfer tools like Cart2Cart only takes a few hours to complete with no site downtime whatsoever. It is the most cost-effective solution, both time-wise and resource-wise. You don’t need to hire a team of experts to do the migration for you.

7. 7 How to Prepare for Magento to Shopify Migration Before you make the big switch from Magento to Shopify, there are some critical measures you need to take beforehand to make sure you have a smooth transition through and through. 1. Manage Your Magento Store While using an automated migration tool like Cart2Cart is designed to mitigate the risk of losing precious data when transferring to a new platform, you still need to backup your store data. This is the golden rule of data migration. You also need to perform a data audit and validate the credentials of your current store. Here’s what you need to do: Do a Site Data Audit Carry out an in-depth audit of your store data and create an accurate inventory of the details you hold. Analyze the data held in fields like the Product Name, Product Descriptions, Passwords, Customer Data, Contact Information, and so forth. Comb through everything and identify what to keep versus what to trash. Validate Your Store Credentials The final step involves creating a strong link between your existing Magento platform and what is about to become your new Shopify store. To do this, you need to validate the access credentials of your current store, including the FTP/SSH, URL, etc. Only then will the source store connect with the target store to commence the migration. Try Free Demo

8. 8 2. Prepare Your Shopify Store Once everything is in order on the Magento end of things, it’s now time to take care of the Shopify side. Here’s how to prepare: Get Your Shopify Store Ready First, you need to set up your new Shopify website. There are three plans to choose from. The one you pick ultimately depends on the size of your online store and the features and functionalities you want it to have. Use the 14-day free trial to get a feel for the platform. That way, you’ll know what package works for the current and long-term plans you have for your store and then upgrade or downgrade your bouquet as required. Choose a Theme Next, you’ll need to pick a theme. Your newly set up store will have the Shopify default theme installed. As tempting as it might be to choose a template from any of the 80+ professionally-designed themes on the platform, it would be better to hold off on customization until you’ve fully migrated your store from Magento. Once you do, you can then either retain the theme you had previously installed on your old store or change things up by incorporating a new platform-specific Shopify theme. Install the Necessary Apps Apps and API integrations are designed to enhance the functionality of your store. Depending on the app you use for migration, installing the extensions you previously had to your new store might be an automated or manual process. If you’re using Cart2Cart, the process is automatic. If you’re not, ensure that you install the apps you had in your previous store when you convert Magento to Shopify.

9. 9 How to Migrate From Magento to Shopify in 5 Steps At this point, you’ve adequately prepared your Source store and Target Store for shopping cart migration. You’re now ready to initiate the process. This section of the migration guide will focus on the procedure for automated data transfer using a migration app – more specifically, Cart2Cart. It is by far the fastest, most convenient, error-free method of all the three possible approaches outlined earlier in the guide. Try Free Demo

10. 10 1. Connect Your Shopping Carts In the Source Cart Setup window, click on the drop-down menu and select Magento from the list of options provided in the Source Cart field. Then, enter the URL of your Source store in the field provided. Once you do, you will need to download and install the Connection Bridge to allow your two stores to communicate. Here’s how to go about it: Download the Connection Bridge. Unpack the connection_bridge.zip file. Extract the bridge2cart folder and use an FTP client to import it to the root catalog of your Magento store. Check the status of the connection to the Source Store to confirm that a link has been created. Once you’ve set up your Source Cart, it is now time to configure your Shopify cart. In the Target Cart Setup window, select Shopify from the list of options provided in the Target Cart field. To enable your Shopify store connection, click the Install Plugin button to download and install the Migration for Shopify extension.

11. 11 2. Select Data for Migration The next step involves choosing the data you want to migrate from Magento to Shopify. Click on the Choose Entities button to select the data classes you want to transfer to your new store. Select All to highlight all the listed entities or select individual entities if you don’t want to migrate everything. For instance, you can select Products and then check the specific data classes you want to migrate. In this case, these would be Reviews, Categories, and Manufacturers. If you select the Customers entity, you can then choose whether or not to include Orders in your migration. Below is a list of the data entities you can migrate from Magento to Shopify: Product details including name, description, images, price, etc. Product visuals including size, color, and shape of the item. List of purchased items, total price, payment information. Static site pages including About Us, Contact Us, Terms and Conditions, etc. SEO settings and redirects. Integrations.

12. 12 3. Specify the Additional Migration Options Once you’ve connected the shopping carts for your Source Store and Target Store and specified the data entities you want to be migrated, you now need to identify any additional migration options you might like to incorporate. The ones you pick ultimately depend on your specific needs. Here’s an overview of the available options: Migrate the categories in your Magento store to the Automated Collections in Shopify. Create 301 redirects in your Shopify store after migration to ensure old category URLs and their respective products keep working in your new store. Maintain your products’ link structures to ensure their migration SEO URLs preserve your new store’s ranking on SERPs.

13. 13 4. Map Customer Groups and Order Statuses The existing customer groups and order statuses you had in Magento will not be migrated to your new Shopify store. Instead, users can match their old groups and statuses with the ones they create in the new store. In the Stores Mapping window of the app, check the Source Stores data group you want to create and then click on the corresponding Target Stores for the newly created store. If the required Order statuses don’t exist yet in the new store, click on the appropriate buttons to create them.

14. 14 5. Run Free Demo / Launch Full Migration At this stage, you're now ready to run the Free Demo migration or launch the Full Migration if you’re on a paid plan. While the Demo migration will give you a feel for how the Cart2Cart migration tool works, the downside is – you can only transfer a limited number of entities in the 10-30 minute duration it runs. The plus side to the Free Demo is, running it first before launching the Full migration allows you to check the functionality of the Cart2Cart tool. Ensure you keep the window open until the process completes. You’ll then need to check the migration results in your new Shopify store. If the newly migrated data is not visible on the frontend, confirm whether it is on the system backend. To do this, download the Product IDs file on the Demo Results page and check them against the migrated data in your new store’s backend. Once you’ve confirmed that the Free Demo migration took place without a hitch, you can now proceed to launch the Full Migration. Try Free Demo

15. 15 Post-Migration recommendations Migrating your data from Magento to Shopify is one thing. Getting your new store launch-ready is a whole different ball game. Below is a migration checklist you can use to ensure your Shopify store is working as it should. 1. Test Your New Shopify Store You’ll need to do a post-migration audit to identify any potential issues your new store might have. Here are a couple of questions to keep in mind: Is your new domain name active? Are the navigation links working as they should? Can you see all the products in the various catalogs? Is your onsite search function working properly? Have you verified the links in the headers, footers, menus, and site pages? Once you’ve confirmed all the above, run a few test purchases just to make sure. 2. Search for the Apps You Need With Shopify Store Explore the Shopify App Marketplace to find extensions that enhance the functionality of your new store. If you used Cart2Cart, your old integrations would have been migrated to the new platform. Nonetheless, there’s no harm in adding more apps that may previously have not been supported by Magento. 3. Invite Customers to Reactivate Their Accounts Your customers are your top priority. This is why you should inform them that you are migrating/have migrated to a new platform. Invite them to reactivate their accounts and request them to let you know of any errors they might encounter while using the site. The Bulk Account Invite Sender is a nifty little feature you can use to send out bulk invites to all your customers.

16. 16 Magento to Shopify Migration: FAQs How to migrate Magento to Shopify 1. Connect your shopping carts by entering the URL of your Source Store (Magento) and then download and install the Connection Bridge Choose the data you want to migrate Specify any additional migration options Match the various customer groups and order statuses with the newly created ones in Shopify Run the Free Demo and then launch the Full Migration 2. 3. 4. 5. How to Migrate Products From Magento to Shopify If you’re using Cart2Cart, check the relevant boxes displayed on the migration wizard to select the product entities you want to migrate. On the other hand, if you’re doing it manually, use the Export function in Magento’s System menu, and then proceed as follows: Select the Products option in the drop-down list that appears Choose CSV Export File Format Pick the product attributes you want to transfer Click Continue Why Migrate From Magento to Shopify Magento is an open-source, self-hosted solution with a steep learning curve and loads of frontend and backend coding that only a web developer can do. On the other hand, Shopify is a fully-hosted solution with a beginner- friendly, highly-intuitive user interface that relies on a drag-and-drop website builder. There are dozens of free and premium professionally- designed templates available for download and thousands of apps to enhance your store’s functionality. It is the better option of the two eCommerce platforms.

17. 17 Final Thoughts There you have it – everything you need to know about how to migrate Magento to Shopify. While Magento (Adobe Commerce) is a great eCommerce platform, it is built for coders. If you have no coding background or web development experience and would rather be hands- on when it comes to the management of your store, Shopify is the no- brainer option. Use this migration guide to help with your transition. Sign up to Cart2Cart for a Free Demo today and discover how quick and easy it is to migrate your old store data to your new Shopify website. Try Free Demo

18. 18 Contact us Website: https://www.shopping-cart-migration.com/cart2cart Email: support@shopping-cart-migration.com Support Department business@shopping-cart-migration.com Business and Partnership Phone: 1-800-224-1462