Store migration to WooCommerce - without losing rankings.
I move stores from Shoper, PrestaShop, Shopify or a neglected WooCommerce - with the products, the orders and the Google rankings. Typically 4-6 weeks, depending on the number of products and integrations: URL map and 301 redirects, testing on staging, a switch with no break in sales. The code and the database are yours from day one. Fixed bid in writing: a firm number, the scope and a deadline.
Three migration risks I take on myself.
Moving a store sounds risky, and rightly so - most companies fear these three things. I take each of them off you with a process, not a promise.
"I will lose my Google rankings"
The most real risk - and the easiest one to avoid. I map every old URL onto a new one, set 301 redirects, carry over the category structure and the meta, generate a sitemap and watch indexing in Search Console. This is the most common reason shops lose traffic during a migration - and exactly what I prevent. Your traffic stays.
"The shop will be down for days"
It will not. The whole migration runs on a separate staging environment, and your customers keep buying on the old shop until the last moment. Switching to production takes minutes - and I do it only after checkout and payments have been tested.
"I will lose data and orders"
I move products with variants and images, categories, customers and order history 1:1, with a completeness check. Plus the content - pages and blog - and the SEO configuration. Nothing gets lost on the way, and I verify every batch of data before the switch.
Shoper, PrestaShop, Shopify - or your own Woo.
Every platform has a different reason for no longer being enough - and a different way of being migrated. I treat them separately.
From Shoper
A Shoper subscription grows together with your turnover, and an unusual feature is often simply "not possible". I move the shop onto your own WooCommerce code - with products, variants, customers and order history. After the migration you stop paying a subscription on your own success, and platform limits stop blocking you.
From PrestaShop
An old PrestaShop tends to be heavy, expensive to maintain, and its modules bite each other after every update. Migrating to WooCommerce is a clean-up at the same time: a new foundation on HPOS, tidy integrations and a look that earns trust again - with your Google rankings kept.
From Shopify
Shopify is quick to start with, but commissions and app fees can outgrow the cost of running your own shop, and you do not really own the code or the data. I move the catalogue and the customers to WooCommerce, where the shop and the database are yours, with no monthly bill tied to turnover.
From an old WooCommerce
Sometimes it is not a change of platform but a rescue of your own: plugin on top of plugin, the shop dies after an update, white screen. I move you onto a clean WooCommerce foundation with HPOS - the same address and the same rankings, new order under the bonnet.
Migration step by step.
Five stages, the same standard in every project. Nothing happens on the live store until it has been tested.
Audit and migration map
I start with an inventory: how many products and variants, which URLs, which integrations and payment methods. Out of that comes a migration plan in writing - what happens, in what order and how it gets verified. Skip this step and migrations lose data and rankings.
Staging 1:1
I build the new WooCommerce on a separate staging copy. Your shop sells normally the whole time, nothing changes in it. The migration happens next to it, not on a live organism.
Moving the data
Products with variants and images, categories, customers, order history, page and blog content - all moved with a completeness check. I compare every batch against the source so nothing is left behind.
URLs, 301s and SEO
I map every old address onto a new one and set 301 redirects, carry over the meta, generate the sitemap and submit it in Search Console. This is the part cheap migrations skip - and the reason shops lose traffic. With me it is standard.
Testing and go-live
Before go-live I walk through checkout, payments (BLIK, instant transfers), delivery and invoicing. Switching to production takes minutes and happens only after the tests - with no break in sales.
What exactly lands in the new store: products with variants and images, categories, customers, order history, page and blog content and the whole SEO configuration - meta and redirects. I also build WooCommerce stores from scratch and rebuild existing ones: the full scope sits on the WooCommerce e-commerce stores page.
Real deployments, real numbers.
30+ WooCommerce deployments since 2018 - all of them in production, some clients on maintenance for several years. Most of the work sits under NDA, including a national brand migrated from PrestaShop to WooCommerce with no break in sales. The public proof is Złota Faza - a company website rather than a store, but the same bottlenecks: redesign and performance.
"Krystian talked little and did a lot. He quoted, gave a deadline, delivered. The site is up, Google sees it, customers come in." Michał Wacławik · Złota Faza · Electrical Installations · translated from Polish
Before you decide.
Three pieces on migration from the inside, with no marketing:
Before you write.
Typically 4-6 weeks, depending on the number of products and integrations. All the work runs on a separate staging environment - only a tested version goes to production, with no break in sales.
No, not when it is done properly. I map every old URL onto a new one and set 301 redirects, carry over the category structure and the meta, generate a sitemap and watch indexing in Search Console. This is the most common reason shops lose traffic during a migration - and exactly what I prevent.
No. The whole migration happens on a separate staging copy, and your shop sells normally in the meantime. Switching to the new shop takes minutes and I do it only after checkout and payments have been tested.
Products with variants and images, categories, customers, order history, content (pages, blog) and the SEO configuration (meta, redirects). From Shoper, PrestaShop, Shopify or an old WooCommerce - with sales running throughout and every batch of data checked for completeness.
Most often from Shoper, PrestaShop and Shopify, and also from an old, neglected WooCommerce that needs a new foundation. I treat every platform individually - the data export looks different, and so does the URL map.
The quote is always individual and in writing - no price list starting "from X PLN". The price depends on the number of products, the integrations and how much content there is to move. After the audit you get a fixed bid, the scope and a deadline.
No, and I say that openly. At low turnover a subscription platform handles hosting and security for you, and a migration usually makes no sense. It starts to pay off when the subscription, commissions and app fees together exceed the cost of running your own shop, or when the platform blocks your growth.
Move the store once, and properly.
Tell me which platform you are migrating from and roughly how many products you have - I come back personally with the scope, a fixed bid and a deadline.