Several stores into one.
Many European brands run a store per country, often on different platforms. Every price change and new product has to be made several times. We merge them into one Shopify store with Markets: one catalog, local languages, currencies and domains.
What changes when you leave several stores.
Change things once
One catalog, one set of apps, one admin for every country.
Local where it matters
Each market keeps its language, currency, prices, domain and payment methods.
Clearer reporting
Sales for every country in one place.
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.
Product matching
The same product often has different IDs, names or SKUs in each store. We match and de-duplicate before import.
Translations
Each store's language becomes a Shopify language, with its own URLs.
Domains and redirects
Country domains (.de, .fr, .nl) or subfolders are assigned to markets, and each old store's URLs are redirected.
When to keep stores separate
Very different ranges, legal entities or teams can still justify separate stores. We say so if that's your case.
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.
Shared catalog
One store means one catalog with market-level differences. Truly different ranges per country are harder to manage this way.
Legal entities
If each country is a separate company, separate stores may be required for accounting.
Integrations are the big job
ERP, OMS, PIM and marketing integrations are reconnected one by one. On enterprise migrations this is usually the largest part of the project.
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.
several stores migration questions.
Do we lose our country domains?
No. Country domains can be connected to their markets and keep working.
Can prices differ per country?
Yes. Markets support local currencies and price adjustments or fixed prices per market.
What about VAT in each country?
Shopify's tax settings are set to match your VAT registrations. Registration and filing stay with you and your tax adviser.
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.
Plan my migration