Which Shopify Migration Apps Can Transfer Your Store Data?

A Shopify migration app moves your store data, such as products, customers and orders, from another platform into Shopify without rebuilding everything by hand. Most connect to your old store or read its export files, map the data to Shopify’s structure and copy it over while your current store keeps selling.

The apps differ more than their names suggest. Some are full migration services supporting dozens of platforms, some are free tools for simple catalogs and others work through spreadsheets, so the right one depends on where you’re coming from and what data you need to keep.

What a Shopify Migration App Does

A migration app takes data from your current platform and recreates it in Shopify, translating each record into the format Shopify expects. Categories become collections, product options become variants and customer and order records link back to the right products.

Most apps follow the same basic flow: connect or upload your source data, choose what to migrate, run a free test and then run the full migration. The differences lie in which platforms they support, which data types they handle, how they price the work and what happens to orders placed during the switch.

Shopify’s own CSV importer can bring in products and customers for free, but it needs files in Shopify’s exact template and doesn’t import historical orders. Migration apps fill that gap, especially for stores with order history, reviews, blog content or SEO URLs worth keeping.

Shopify Migration Apps Compared

The apps below are common choices for moving a store to Shopify. Ratings, prices and features come from each app’s Shopify App Store listing or provider site at the time of writing, and they change often, so confirm current details before you install.

LitExtension – Store Migration & Import

LitExtension’s app migrates products, orders, customers, collections, discounts, inventory, metafields and reviews into Shopify, along with more advanced data such as multi-language content, gift cards and company records. It supports more than 140 platforms, including WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, Wix, Squarespace, PrestaShop and Etsy, and can also work from spreadsheet, XML or database files.

The app is free to install, with pricing based on how many entities you migrate, and its free demo covers 20 products, 20 orders and 20 customers. It carries the Built for Shopify badge and supports 301 redirects, and you can import new and updated data after the main migration to catch orders placed before go-live.

Cart2Cart Store Migration App

Cart2Cart is one of the longest-running migration services, with its Shopify app launched in 2014 and support for more than 80 platforms. It moves products, customers, orders, categories, images and more, including SEO URLs and 301 redirects as options, and categories can be mapped to Shopify’s automated collections.

Fees depend on store size, the data you migrate and the options you choose. You can run a test migration for platforms such as WooCommerce, Wix, Magento and BigCommerce, keep data updated during the switch and choose between doing it yourself or a managed migration run by Cart2Cart’s team.

MigrationPro: Store Migration

MigrationPro offers a guided setup that maps fields without coding, moving products, customers, orders, collections, images, URLs and 301 redirects into Shopify. Its sources include WooCommerce, Magento, OpenCart, CS-Cart, PrestaShop, Shopware, Square, Squarespace, Wix, Etsy and BigCommerce, plus CSV and Excel files.

Pricing is based on the entities you migrate, with no subscription, and you can start with a trial migration. Its Smart Sync feature re-imports items that changed after the full migration, which helps when your old store keeps taking orders during the move.

Next-Cart Store Migration

Next-Cart’s app migrates products, categories with their hierarchy, customers, reviews, orders, coupons, blogs, pages, SEO metadata and URLs, as well as multilingual data, custom fields and metafields. It supports more than 80 platforms and keeps relationships between products, orders and customers intact.

Unlike most migration apps, its Shopify listing uses monthly plans. The free plan covers 50 of each record type, while paid plans start at $150 per month for 10,000 of each and include URL redirects and unlimited re-migrations.

Matrixify

Matrixify takes a different approach: you export data from your old platform into Excel, CSV or Google Sheets files, reshape it and import it into Shopify. It handles a wide range of data, from products and customers to orders, redirects, pages, blog posts, menus and metafields, and supports files up to 20 GB.

That gives you full control over every field, but it takes spreadsheet skills and more hands-on work than an automated app. Its free plan allows 10 items per data type per file, and paid plans start at $20 per month, which stays useful after the migration for ongoing bulk updates.

Store Migration by Shopify

Store Migration is Shopify’s own free app for importing product and customer data from Square, WooCommerce, Etsy, Wix, Amazon, eBay, Clover and Lightspeed. You can upload a CSV file or, on supported platforms, connect your account to import automatically, then review the data in Shopify before publishing it.

It’s a reasonable starting point for a small, simple store. It doesn’t list order history as an import type, and some platforms don’t export all of their data, so expect to fix some details by hand and plan another route for orders.

Moving between Shopify stores

If you’re copying data from one Shopify store to another, such as when opening a second store for a new region, you need a different kind of app. Store-to-store tools such as Metizsoft’s Data Migrator link a parent and child store and transfer products, collections, customers, orders, pages, blog posts, menus, discounts and redirects between them.

How to Choose a Shopify Migration App

Narrow your options by platform first, then compare what each app migrates and how it charges. These questions make the decision much easier:

• Does it support your platform? Check that your exact source platform is listed, including its version where relevant.
• Which data will it move? List what you need, such as products, variants, customers, orders, reviews, blog posts, pages, metafields and gift cards, then confirm each one.
• How does it protect SEO? Look for SEO URL migration and automatic 301 redirects so old links and search traffic reach your new store.
• How is it priced? Per-migration pricing based on record counts suits a one-time move, while monthly plans can make sense if you’ll keep using the app afterward.
• Can you test it first? A free demo or trial with your own data shows how well the app handles your products before you pay.
• How does it handle recent data? Re-migration, recent data or sync options bring over orders and changes made while the migration runs.
• What help is available? Check support channels and whether a managed or custom migration is offered if your store has unusual data.

Store size and complexity matter too. A small catalog with simple products may only need Shopify’s free tools, while a store with years of orders, custom fields and strong search traffic benefits from a full migration app or a managed service.

What Migration Apps Won’t Move

No migration app recreates your whole store. Plan for these gaps before you start so they don’t surprise you at launch:

• Design and theme. Layouts, page builder content and theme customizations don’t transfer, so you’ll set up a Shopify theme separately.
• Third-party app data. Data from plugins and apps on your old platform, such as subscriptions or loyalty points, usually needs the matching Shopify app or custom work.
• Customer passwords. Passwords often can’t move between platforms, so customers may need to reset them. Some services offer password migration only for specific platforms.
• Everything outside the app’s list. Each app has its own list of supported data types, and anything not on it needs a separate import or a custom migration.

How to Migrate With a Shopify Migration App

Whichever app you choose, a careful process prevents most migration problems. Most migrations follow these steps:

1. Prepare your Shopify store. Set up your plan, store settings, taxes and shipping, but hold off on importing products by hand.
2. Clean and back up your old data. Remove outdated products and duplicate customers, then export a full backup from your current platform.
3. Run a free demo. Test with real products that have variants, images and custom fields, then check the results in Shopify.
4. Turn off order notifications. Importing historical orders can send staff a notification for every order, so disable these emails before the full migration.
5. Run the full migration. Choose your data types and options, such as SEO URLs and redirects, and let the app copy the data while your old store keeps selling.
6. Bring over recent data. Use the app’s re-migration, recent data or sync option to add orders and customers created during the migration.
7. Check everything before launch. Review products, prices, collections, customer records, orders and redirects, then test checkout before pointing your domain to Shopify.

Product data keeps changing after launch as prices, stock and supplier files update. Bulkflow supports bulk import, export, field mapping and scheduled data updates for Shopify, WooCommerce and Wix, which helps keep your catalog current once the migration is done.

Conclusion

The right Shopify migration app depends on your source platform, the data you need to keep and how much of the work you want to handle yourself. Testing a free demo with your own products and planning for the data no app moves will make your switch to Shopify smoother. We hope this guide helps you choose the right Shopify migration app for your store. If you’ll be managing product updates in bulk after the move, you can explore Bulkflow.