Move from Ecwid to Shopify.
Ecwid adds a shop to an existing website. When the shop becomes the main business, a full Shopify store gives you more control over design, checkout, shipping and selling abroad.
What changes when you leave Ecwid.
A complete store
Theme, product pages, search and checkout built as one, not embedded into another site.
More apps
Reviews, subscriptions, bundles and integrations from a large app ecosystem.
Selling across Europe
Markets for languages, currencies and local payment methods.
Your data comes with you.
Shopify's own guidance is to import products first, then customers, then historical orders. We follow it and check the result.
Products
Titles, descriptions, images, variants, prices, stock and SEO fields.
Customers
Names, emails, addresses and marketing consent. Passwords can't be moved, so customers sign in again.
Order history
Past orders, imported after products and customers so they link to the right records.
Content
Blog posts, pages, gift cards and store credit where the old platform exports them.
URLs and SEO
A 301 redirect for every old product, category and page URL, plus titles and meta descriptions.
Integrations
ERP, email, reviews and shipping tools reconnected or replaced.
The parts we plan before moving anything.
Your current website
Ecwid usually sits inside another site. We decide with you whether that site moves to Shopify too or links to the new store.
Product options
Ecwid options become Shopify variants, with apps for options that don't affect stock.
Customers and orders
Customer records and order history are imported in the right order so they link up.
URLs
Old shop URLs are redirected so links and rankings carry over.
Trade-offs to weigh.
Shopify is not the right answer for every store. These are the points we go through with you before recommending the move.
More to set up
Shopify gives you more control over shipping, taxes and checkout, which also means more settings to get right at the start. That is part of our job.
Some features are apps
A few features come from apps, some paid. We keep the list short and pick well-supported ones.
Design is rebuilt
Your design doesn't transfer automatically. It is rebuilt as a Shopify theme, which is a chance to make it faster.
Planned, rehearsed, then switched.
Your old store keeps selling until the moment we switch the domain.
Map everything
Every product type, plugin, integration, URL and legal page on the old store, and what each becomes on Shopify.
Import and check
Products first, then customers, then order history, so records link up. Then a line-by-line check of the data.
Theme and features
Theme, checkout, payments, taxes, shipping and the apps or custom code that replace old plugins.
Redirect and switch
Redirects for every old URL, test orders, domain switch, sitemap submitted, and a watch on traffic after launch.
Ecwid migration questions.
Will we lose our Google rankings?
Rankings depend on many things, but the biggest avoidable risk is broken URLs. We redirect every old product, category and page URL to its new address before the domain switch, then submit the new sitemap and watch for errors after launch.
Can the old store keep selling during the migration?
Yes. We build and test on Shopify while the old store runs. Orders placed during the build are brought across in a final sync before the switch.
Can customer passwords be moved?
No. Passwords are stored in a form no platform can read or transfer. Customer accounts move over, and customers sign in again on Shopify.
Keep reading.
Planning a move to Shopify?
Tell us about your store. You get a written plan with scope, timeline and cost within two business days.
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