Magento to Shopify migration services

Leave Magento's hosting and patching burden behind

Magento gives you deep control, and a running cost to match: servers to scale, security patches to apply, extensions to keep compatible, and developers on hand when an upgrade breaks something. For most mid-market brands the platform now absorbs budget that should go into growth. Starcodia migrates Magento and Adobe Commerce stores to Shopify Plus, keeping the enterprise capability while handing infrastructure, security and checkout to the platform.

When Magento stops being worth the overhead

Two situations push brands off Magento. If you are still on Magento 1, it is end of life and unpatched, which is an active security and PCI risk. If you are on Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce, the platform works but the total cost of ownership, hosting, licensing, specialist developers and upgrade cycles, is hard to justify against what Shopify Plus delivers for a predictable fee.

The migration itself is where the risk sits, because Magento's data model is more complex than the platforms it is usually compared to. The rest of this page covers where that complexity actually bites.

The Magento catalog does not map one-to-one

Magento's product model is richer than Shopify's, so a clean migration is a mapping exercise, not a copy:

  • Configurable products become Shopify products with variants, but Shopify limits a product to 100 variants across 3 options. Large size/color/material matrices need restructuring before they will import.
  • Bundled and grouped products have no native Shopify equivalent and are rebuilt with bundle apps, product references, or custom logic depending on how they sell.
  • EAV attributes that Magento stores as structured attribute sets are moved into Shopify metafields so filtering and specs survive.
  • Multiple store views (language or region) map to Shopify Markets or, where the businesses are genuinely separate, distinct stores.

We inventory every product type up front in data audits and cleanup so nothing is flattened or dropped in transit.

Customer groups, tier pricing and B2B

Magento is common in B2B and hybrid B2B/DTC operations, and that logic has to carry over. Customer groups, tier pricing and catalog price rules map to Shopify Plus B2B company profiles and price lists. Where pricing rules are too complex to hold in Shopify alone, we drive them from your ERP so the storefront always shows the right contract price. This is the point at which standard Shopify is usually ruled out in favor of Plus.

Preserving SEO through Magento's URL structure

Magento SEO migrations are redirect-heavy because of how Magento builds URLs. Products and categories often carry a .html suffix, categories nest deeply, and the same product can be reachable at multiple paths. Every indexed URL needs a single clean 301:

Magento Shopify (301)
/{product-slug}.html /products/{handle}
/{category}/{product}.html /products/{handle}
/{category-path}.html /collections/{handle}
/catalogsearch/result/?q= /search?q=

We build the map from a full crawl plus your Magento URL-rewrites table, collapse duplicate paths to one canonical destination, avoid redirect chains, and resubmit sitemaps. Detail on SEO preservation.

Moving customers and order history safely

Beyond the catalog, customers and orders migrate on jobs built for integrity: customers are deduplicated by email before any order is created, orders are keyed to their Magento increment ID so a re-run never duplicates history, and every job is checkpointed to resume rather than restart. Where you run Magento subscriptions or store credit, those are rebuilt and reconciled separately, because no importer moves them cleanly.

Replatform experience at scale

Starcodia has run complex replatforms onto Shopify and Shopify Plus, including multi-store estates at six-figure order volumes with subscriptions and B2B pricing. Our approach prioritizes catalog integrity and redirect coverage, the two areas where Magento migrations most often lose rankings or revenue. Named, permissioned case studies are available on request and in the work section.

What an engagement looks like

Adobe Commerce migrations typically run 8 to 16 weeks, scoped after discovery and quoted as a fixed fee against catalog complexity, B2B pricing and redirect volume rather than a per-record rate. Engagement models are on the pricing page.

Get a Magento migration scope

Share your Magento version, product types in use (configurable, bundled, grouped), customer-group pricing model and current URL structure. We will return a phased plan covering catalog mapping, B2B pricing and the full redirect strategy for your store.

Request a Magento migration scope

Frequently Asked Questions

Magento 1 no longer receives security patches, which is a compliance and fraud risk for any store still on it. Magento 2 (Adobe Commerce) is supported but carries significant hosting, licensing and developer cost. Most mid-market brands move to Shopify Plus to remove the patching and infrastructure burden while keeping enterprise capability. If you are on Magento 1, the security exposure alone usually justifies migrating.
Magento configurable products become Shopify products with variants, but Shopify caps a product at 100 variants and 3 options, so some Magento catalogs need restructuring. Bundled and grouped products have no direct Shopify equivalent and are rebuilt with product bundles, apps, or custom logic. We map every product type during discovery so nothing is silently dropped or flattened.
Yes, on Shopify Plus. Magento customer groups and tier or catalog pricing map to Shopify B2B company profiles and price lists, or to ERP-driven pricing where rules are complex. Standard Shopify has fewer native B2B controls, so we assess whether Plus is required based on your pricing model.
Magento typically appends .html to product and category URLs and uses deep category paths; Shopify uses /products/ and /collections/ without suffixes. Every indexed Magento URL needs a 301 to its Shopify equivalent, including the .html variants and any category-path duplicates. We build the full map from a crawl plus your Magento URL rewrites table, so ranking pages do not 404.
We audit installed Magento extensions during discovery and map each to a Shopify app, a native feature, or custom development. Much extension logic exists to patch gaps that Shopify handles natively (checkout, hosting, security, CDN), so the replacement list is usually shorter than clients expect.
Adobe Commerce migrations typically run 8 to 16 weeks because of catalog complexity, customer-group pricing, extension mapping and the volume of URL redirects. Catalog restructuring (configurable and bundled products) and B2B pricing are the usual timeline drivers rather than raw record counts.