8 years of order history moved. 0 orders lost.
That's Hentley Farm, off a custom platform onto Shopify, while the cellar door kept trading. If your platform has outgrown itself and the frightening part is the move — this page is about the move.
The bigger the move, the more the question stops being 'are they any good?' and starts being 'what happens if this goes wrong?'
Migrations are where that fear is earned. The orders, the reviews, the customers, the rankings — all of it lives in the platform you're leaving.
Seven ways a migration goes wrong. Seven ways it doesn't have to.
Not the design — the design is the easy part. Migrations fail in the decisions nobody rehearses.
- N°01
Redirects mapped, never rehearsed
Rehearsed on staging, twice. Rankings are revenue.
- N°02
Eight years of order history left behind
Moved intact, reconciled to the cent.
- N°03
Reviews that don't come across
Every review comes across, stars attached.
- N°04
Customer accounts forcing a launch-week password reset
Shopify's new customer accounts — no passwords left to reset.
- N°05
Structured data quietly dropped
Schema moves with the URLs. The rich results never blink.
- N°06
Subscriptions that quietly stop billing
Billing tested with real cards before cutover.
- N°07
A cutover rehearsed once, on a Friday, by one person
A Tuesday morning, both of us watching.
*EVERY STRIKE IS FROM A REAL MIGRATION PLAN WE WERE HANDED. THE FIXES ARE HOW HENTLEY FARM KEPT TRADING.
*EIGHT YEARS OF ORDERS MOVED BETWEEN TASTINGS.
How a Shopify migration should run.
URL maps before designs — rankings are revenue. Redirects rehearsed on staging, twice. Order history reconciled to the cent. Cutover on a Tuesday morning with both of us watching — for Hentley Farm, point of sale went live between tastings and nobody noticed except the analytics.
You'll know the plan, the price and the cutover date before you commit a dollar.
The audit
Every URL, every integration, every place your history lives — mapped before anyone designs anything.
You get the plan and the price, then you decide.
Build, in the open
Built and tested on a live staging link, weekly demos, no big reveal.
The cutover gets rehearsed on your real data — twice.
The morning
A Tuesday, not a Friday. Redirects live before the DNS moves, both of us watching.
You keep trading through it.
Reconciliation
Orders, customers and rankings checked against the old platform, line by line.
Then docs and training — so you're never dependent on us. Leave whenever.
The Zero-Orders-Lost Guarantee. If a single order goes missing in your migration, the migration is free.
We've already kept it once. Writing it down costs us nothing — it only costs the agencies who lose orders.
“They moved eight years of our history without losing a single order. The site got faster, the cellar door got simpler, and nobody held us hostage.”
- WE MOVE YOU FROM
- WOOCOMMERCE · MAGENTO · BIGCOMMERCE · CUSTOM BUILDS
- WE MOVE YOU TO
- SHOPIFY · SHOPIFY PLUS · HYDROGEN WHEN IT EARNS IT
- BUILDING ON PLUS
- SHOPIFY PLUS BUILDS — WHAT YOU GET →
- TYPICAL TIMELINE
- 8–10 WEEKS, REHEARSED CUTOVER
- THE QUOTE
- FIXED PRICE, OR A SCOPED ESTIMATE ON TIME & MATERIALS — YOUR CALL
- WHO YOU GET
- THE SENIORS YOU MET ON THE CALL
- CAPACITY
- ONE BUILD AT A TIME — SUPPORT FOR EXISTING CLIENTS RUNS ALONGSIDE
Thirty minutes on your store, live. You leave with the written punch list — whether you hire us or not.