Shopify Migrations
Move from Magento, BigCommerce, headless or legacy platforms to Shopify
Moving to Shopify is easy. Moving a commerce operation is not.
Anyone can export a product feed. Replatforming a live business, with its data, integrations, markets and revenue, is a different discipline.
Panagora is a Shopify Platinum Partner. We migrate established Nordic and international brands to Shopify and Shopify Plus, and we treat every migration as what it is: a replatforming of the whole operation.
Migration is not data transfer
Most migrations are scoped as a data move, then stall when everyone realises the store was never just data.
A real migration touches architecture, storefront, product and customer data, SEO and redirects, checkout, integrations (ERP, PIM, WMS, CRM), markets and localisation, B2B and B2C, performance and analytics.
Migration is not moving data between platforms. It is rebuilding how the business runs, on better foundations, without breaking what works.
— Panagora did a great job helping us move from our previous platform and build a completely new Proteinbolaget on Shopify Plus. It was a complex project with a lot of moving parts.
Martin Jonsson, CEO - Proteinbolaget
Proteinbolaget improved site speed across the e-commerce funnel with over 87%, directly targeting bounce rate reduction and conversion rate improvement.
Examples on migration paths we handle
- Magento to Shopify Plus. Re-modelling heavy Magento data cleanly and preserving SEO across large catalogs.
- BigCommerce to Shopify Plus. Direct data mapping putting the value is in the storefront and commercial setup
- Headless to Shopify Plus. Deciding what truly needs to stay custom. Sometimes a full move, sometimes a hybrid.
- Legacy or custom to Shopify. Including platforms being sunset or soon to be. We have done this ourselves.
- Shopify to Shopify Plus. For brands hitting limits on checkout, B2B, automation, API headroom or multi-market.
- Complex multi-market and B2B + B2C. Where the challenge is the operating model, not the platform.
How we work with migrations
Discovery and audit before we propose anything. Deliberate architecture on Shopify. Staged, validated data migration. SEO and redirects planned before launch, not patched after. QA across data, checkout, integrations and performance. And we stay on post-launch, because the first weeks are where value is protected or lost.
Migrations we have delivered
From Litium, Magento, BigCommerce, Brink Commerce, Askås and Legacy platform to Shopify
Casall. Litium → Shopify Plus. We moved an established brand off Litium without disrupting trading, followed by ongoing post-launch data sync and integration work.
SNS. BigCommerce → Shopify Plus. We left an overly complex setup behind in favour of streamlined operations and a smoother shopping journey.
Très Bien. Magento → Shopify Plus. A long overdue move that brought the whole business back in check. Piles of manual workarounds replaced with a clean, native Shopify strategy.
Design House Stockholm. Magento → Shopify Plus. The team now saves days of work publishing and maintaining new collections, with their B2B workflow supported on the same platform.
Tom Wood. Headless (Brink) → Shopify Plus. After two years of building a custom composable setup that became more maintenance than the team could carry, it was time to standardise and optimise. We consolidated onto Shopify Plus.
Proteinbolaget. Askås → Shopify Plus.
We replaced a time-consuming, maintenance-heavy and bug-prone setup with a new UX and simple CMS flows the team can actually work in.
Migration FAQ
How much does a Shopify migration cost?
It depends on complexity: catalog size, data quality, integrations, markets setup, channel strategy and needs. We scope cost against your actual setup in discovery rather than quoting a universal number.
How long does it take?
A focused migration can run in weeks and a complex international or B2B replatforming often runs longer. Data, integrations and markets are the variables that drive the challenge. If you consider a phased migration it will go faster.
Can you migrate from Magento to Shopify Plus?
Yes, we can. In fact, it's one of the most common paths we handle. The biggest work is re-modelling Magento's data cleanly and preserving SEO when we make the switch.
Can you migrate from BigCommerce, or from a headless setup?
Yes to both. For headless, the first question is what genuinely needs to stay custom. We have a lot of tooling that will support the data migration process which will save a lot of time. And should it be necessary, our app-development and integrations team can build custom migrations if needed.
What happens to SEO during a migration?
We spend a great deal of time to understand and protect SEO during the planning process. Carefully supporting mapping URL redirects and technical SEO well before launch so rankings and traffic carry over with minimal risk.
Can you migrate customer and order data?
Yes. Products, variants, metafields, customers and order history, migrated and validated. The biggest risk is depending on the source platform's export quality.
Why Panagora
Over twenty years in e-commerce, since 2005. We ran our own platform, Panagora EDGE, for more than a decade before going all-in on Shopify and migrating off our own legacy stack. We have made the replatforming decision ourselves, with our own business on the line.
We are a Shopify Platinum Partner. We work with established Nordic and international fashion, beauty and lifestyle brands, build custom Shopify solutions, apps and integrations, and run localisation for markets including Korea and Japan.
Migration is not a side service. It is complex commerce work, which is the work we do.
