Migrating to Shopify

Migrating to Shopify can be a big task, especially for large stores. You have to take your product information, website content, and other crucial store information out of your old platform and move it to Shopify, often while keeping stock levels up to date. We are experts at migrating websites to Shopify and can come up with an effective plan to transfer your website to Shopify.

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What's involved with migrating my website to Shopify?

We've helped New Zealand and global brands migrate from a variety of platforms onto Shopify. Click below to learn more about what we can do for migrating your store.

Migrating from SquareSpace to Shopify

A lot of new online businesses start on SquareSpace, but as their ecommerce requirements grow they look to Shopify to use a platform dedicated to ecommerce. Here are some examples of what we can migrate from SquareSpace to Shopify:

Customer data including name, email, address, and order history.
All historic platform orders.
SquareSpace subscriptions (requires a Shopify subscription app, and users will need to reactivate their subscription on the new platform).
Blog and page content.
Product data, product photos, & inventory levels.

Migrating from RocketSpark to Shopify

Many New Zealand businesses start with a RocketSpark website, but look to using Shopify to achieve their growing ecommerce needs. Our experienced team of data migraters can help you migrate the following from RocketSpark to Shopify:

Customer data including name, email, address, and order history.
All historic platform orders.
Blog and page content.
Product data, product photos, & inventory levels.

Migrating data from RocketSpark has a lot of unique challenges, so get in contact with us if you would like to learn more about how we can help you migrate to Shopify.

Migrating from WordPress / WooCommerce to Shopify

WordPress was most popular in the early 2010's, and plenty of long-operating New Zealand stores still use it today.

WordPress/WooCommerce stores often look to move to Shopify to simplify their website hosting, streamline their inventory management, and take advantage of Shopify's marketing integrations.

Excluding credit card data and customer passwords, we can help you migrate everything else from your WordPress store including customer accounts, order history, product data, collections, and data hosted in custom WordPress plugins such as loyalty programs.

Migrating from Magento to Shopify

Magento users typically want to move to Shopify to reduce hosting complexitiy and streamline their inventory management, payment processing, and store customisation. Here are some examples of what we can migrate from Magento to Shopify:

Customer data including name, email, address.
Full order history.
Staff accounts.
Blog and page content.
Product data, product photos, & inventory levels.
Gift cards can be migrated if using Shopify Plus.

Migrating from an inventory system (Vend, Cin7, or Dear)

If you're looking to connect or migrate data from your inventory system, we can help you smoothly transfer your important data into Shopify, including:

Customer data including name, email, address.
Full order history.
Purchase orders, and inventory movements.
Product data, product photos, & inventory levels.
Gift cards can be migrated if using Shopify Plus.

Migrating from bespoke platforms and websites

Every bespoke platform or website is different, but with our experience in different frameworks (PHP, Python, Laravel, JavaScript, C++, .NET) and database solutions (MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, MSSQL, NoSQL), we can create a comprehensive plan to extract and migrate your data into the Shopify platform.

Migrating from legacy platforms (Expression Engine, Zest, OpenCart, Storbie)

Legacy platforms encompasses a range of different store engines that are not actively maintained or updated by their developers. Like bespoke platforms, every legacy platform can vary in terms of how they were set up, so you will need to work with an agency such as KiwiSprout skilled in being able to look at the backend setup of your current website to best get an understanding of how your data can be migrated to Shopify.

Why choose KiwiSprout?

Migrating with KiwiSprout

Our clients choose us to migrate their website to Shopify because they know we have the skills and experience to make the process as smooth as possible. When you migrate your online store from your old platform to Shopify, we can help you take full advantage of the features and integrations available with Shopify to drive more sales and captivate your customers.

Why Shopify?

Shopify provides all the features you need to run a business at any scale including order fulfilment, inventory management, payment gateways, and more. Whether you’re starting up a new clothing brand or operating a chain of stores across the country, Shopify provides the tools and insights to sell effectively online.

New Zealand's Shopify Experts

If you’re not sure if Shopify is the right fit for you, or you want to know more about how you could migrate your website, get in touch with us. We are official Shopify Experts, which means we have a strong knowledge of what Shopify is capable of, a proven track record of successful stores, and we can help you form an action plan that migrates your website while keeping your online store operational. Schedule a call

Case Study: The Scullery, Hamilton

The Scullery is Hamilton’s favourite seller of quality kitchenware, trusted for over 20 years and stocking the best quality brands.

The Scullery used a custom built ecommerce solution for over a decade, but with the rise of Shopify they were looking to migrate over so that they could utilise the features of the platform. Shopify is great for both large and small businesses, providing built-in solutions for everything you need to run your store such as payment gateways, inventory management, order fulfillment and more.

The Scullery chose KiwiSprout to develop their new Shopify website because they knew we have a strong set of experience with migrating legacy stores to Shopify.

As part of migrating The Scullery to Shopify, we successfully migrated their legacy database of over 4000 photos, 1200 products, and 200 categories to Shopify. Their store seamlessly cutover to Shopify so that nothing was lost in the transfer, including stock and product prices which were crucial for their operation.

“Excellent service. KiwiSprout was knowledgeable and produced great results.”

― Hayden, The Scullery

Work with an agency that understands ecommerce.

We assist our partners with a range of capabilities, including Shopify development, ecommerce strategy, SEO, and bespoke applications. If you need a dedicated digital partner for your store, get in touch.

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Shopify stores supported and launched to date.

“KiwiSprout was amazing at bringing our retail website together so quickly and efficiently. They made the process no stress and we had it up and running with only a 3 week turnaround. I would highly recommend KiwiSprout to anyone.”

― Karen, Nirvana Interiors