8 years of order history moved. 0 orders lost.
That's Hentley Farm, off a self-hosted platform onto Shopify, while the cellar door kept trading. If WooCommerce has turned into a maintenance job you didn't sign up for, this page is about the way out.
WooCommerce is free the way a puppy is free. The hosting, the plugins, the security patches and the 2am uptime are all yours.
It runs beautifully until traffic spikes, a plugin update breaks checkout, or a PHP bump takes the site down — and then it's your phone that rings.
What actually breaks moving off WooCommerce
The design is the easy part. A WooCommerce migration fails in the database — in the years of orders, customers and SEO equity that are harder to move than anyone admits up front.
- Permalink structures that don't map cleanly to Shopify's, so rankings drop
- Order and customer history left behind because the export was 'too messy'
- Product variants and metadata that Woo stored one way and Shopify expects another
- Reviews locked inside a plugin, with no clean way out
- Coupon codes and gift cards that silently stop working
- Subscriptions mid-cycle, where a bad cutover means missed billing
- 301 redirects mapped in a spreadsheet nobody rehearsed
How we do it instead
Permalink maps before designs — your rankings are revenue. Every order, customer and review reconciled to the count. Redirects rehearsed on staging, twice. Cutover on a Tuesday morning, both of us watching, with the old site kept warm until the new one's proven.
For Hentley Farm that meant eight years of orders moved off a self-hosted platform into Shopify, intact, with point of sale live at the cellar door between tastings. Nobody noticed except the analytics.
- WE MOVE YOU FROM
- WOOCOMMERCE · WORDPRESS · SELF-HOSTED WORDPRESS + WOO
- WE MOVE YOU TO
- SHOPIFY · SHOPIFY PLUS
- WHAT COMES ACROSS
- ORDERS · CUSTOMERS · PRODUCTS · REVIEWS · REDIRECTS · SEO EQUITY
- TYPICAL TIMELINE
- 8–10 WEEKS, REHEARSED CUTOVER
- NO MORE
- HOSTING BILLS · PLUGIN UPDATES · SECURITY PATCHES · 2AM UPTIME
- GUARANTEE
- ZERO ORDERS LOST — OR THE MIGRATION'S FREE
- GOING TO PLUS?
- WHAT A SHOPIFY PLUS BUILD GETS YOU →
The Zero-Orders-Lost Guarantee. If a single order goes missing in your migration, the migration is free.
We've already kept it once, off WooCommerce. 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.”
Bring us your Woo store. Thirty minutes, live, and you leave with the written punch list — whether you hire us or not.