How Much Does It Cost to Migrate to Shopify? (Ranges, Timelines & Hidden Costs)

Straight to the Numbers

Shopify migration cost usually falls somewhere between Rs. 30,000 for a small catalog and Rs. 3,00,000+ for large, complicated stores coming off Magento or a custom-built system. What you pay depends on product volume, how much order history you're carrying over, how messy the SEO redirect situation is, and how much custom functionality has to get rebuilt. Amwhiz handles standard Shopify migrations, SEO redirects, product data, and customer records included, for a flat Rs. 45,000, in 7 days.

Why Migration Pricing Varies So Much

Migrating to Shopify was never really one task. It's a bundle of separate jobs stacked on top of each other: product data transfer, customer and order history migration, rebuilding the theme, replacing whatever apps ran your old store, and keeping your SEO intact through the switch. Agencies quote wildly different numbers largely because they're scoping different combinations of those tasks, sometimes without telling you which ones they've quietly left out. Knowing what's actually involved makes it much easier to judge whether a quote is fair or just optimistic.

Cost by Source Platform

WooCommerce to Shopify

Cost range: Rs. 30,000 – Rs. 1,50,000

WooCommerce stores are generally the easiest to move because product data exports cleanly through CSV. Most of the cost sits in rebuilding the theme and protecting SEO rankings through proper URL redirects, since WooCommerce and Shopify structure their URLs completely differently by default.

Magento to Shopify

Cost range: Rs. 80,000 – Rs. 4,00,000

Magento stores tend to carry more custom functionality, complex catalogs, B2B pricing, custom modules, and all of that has to get rebuilt either through Shopify apps or custom development. That's what pushes the price up.

Wix / Squarespace to Shopify

Cost range: Rs. 25,000 – Rs. 80,000

Smaller catalogs, simpler structures on average. Migration here tends to be faster and cheaper, and it usually fits inside Amwhiz's standard Rs. 45,000 package without needing anything extra.

Custom-Built or Legacy Platforms

Cost range: Rs. 1,00,000 – Rs. 5,00,000+

No clean export tools on custom platforms most of the time, which means data has to be manually mapped or scripted for import. This is the most unpredictable and generally the most expensive category to migrate out of.

What's Included in a Proper Shopify Migration

Any migration quote you get should spell out whether it actually covers:

• Product data: titles, descriptions, images, variants, pricing, inventory counts.

• Customer records: accounts, order history, saved addresses.

• URL redirects (301s): every old URL mapped to its new Shopify equivalent so your SEO rankings don't take a hit.

• Theme design: rebuilding (or upgrading) your look and feel on a Shopify theme.

• App replacements: finding Shopify equivalents for whatever ran your old store's reviews, search, or upsells.

• Testing: checkout flow, payment gateways, shipping rules, tax settings, all verified before anything goes live.

Amwhiz's Rs. 45,000 migration package covers all six of these for standard-sized catalogs, wrapped up inside 7 days.

The Hidden Cost Everyone Forgets: SEO Redirects

The single most common mistake in a migration is skipping 301 redirects, a topic worth covering in more depth in our guide on Shopify SEO best practices. Move to a new URL structure without mapping every old page to its new location, and search engines suddenly see thousands of broken links. Your rankings and organic traffic can drop hard within weeks. If a migration quote doesn't explicitly mention redirect mapping, it's missing the part of the job that actually protects your revenue.

Realistic Migration Timelines

• Small catalog (under 200 SKUs): 5-7 days

• Mid-size catalog (200-1,000 SKUs): 1-3 weeks

• Large catalog (1,000+ SKUs) or B2B complexity: 3-8 weeks

Amwhiz's standard 7-day turnaround applies to small-to-mid catalogs, which honestly covers most of the stores that reach out asking for migration help in the first place.

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Questions to Ask Before You Pay for Migration

• Does the quote include 301 redirect mapping for every existing URL, or just the main pages?

• Is customer order history part of the migration, or only product data?

• Who actually tests the checkout and payment flow before go-live?

• What happens if my catalog turns out bigger than the quoted scope?

• Is there a rollback plan if something breaks mid-cutover?

A Realistic Migration Scenario

Take a home goods brand running 220 SKUs on WooCommerce, pulling around 800 monthly organic visits built up over years. A properly scoped Shopify migration for that store means mapping every one of those 800+ indexed product and category URLs to its new Shopify equivalent, carrying over two years of customer order history, rebuilding the review app's data, and testing every payment and shipping rule before cutover. Done well, organic traffic dips a little for a few weeks and recovers within a month as Google recrawls everything. Done badly, skip the redirects, rush the testing, and that same brand can lose 30-50% of its organic traffic within days. Traffic that took years to build, gone in a week, and it can take months to claw back.

That gap is the whole reason migration pricing should never be judged on the headline number alone. A cheaper quote that skips redirect mapping or proper testing can end up costing far more in lost revenue than whatever it saved upfront.

Preparing for a Smooth Migration

Before you contact anyone, pull together your current sitemap or a full URL export, a list of every app currently running your store's functionality (reviews, search, upsells), and access credentials for your current platform and domain registrar. Having all of this ready cuts the discovery phase down considerably and avoids scope surprises once the actual work starts.

Frequently Asked Questions

Will migrating to Shopify hurt my SEO rankings?

Only if redirects get handled sloppily. With correct 301 redirect mapping, which Amwhiz builds into every migration, most stores see no meaningful ranking drop, and often end up with faster page speeds that help SEO afterward.

Can I migrate order history, or just products?

Both, yes. Full order and customer history migration is more involved and should be scoped explicitly upfront, but it's part of Amwhiz's standard process for typical store sizes.

How long does a small store migration take?

Under roughly 200 SKUs, Amwhiz wraps up migration, theme setup, and testing inside 7 days.

Is Rs. 45,000 enough for my migration?

For most small-to-mid catalog sizes without heavy custom functionality, yes. It's a flat, all-inclusive price covering data migration, redirects, theme setup, and testing.

What happens to my existing domain and email during migration?

Your domain gets pointed to the new Shopify store once everything's tested, with DNS changes timed to keep downtime minimal. Email tied to your domain stays unaffected as long as MX records are preserved through the switch.

Can I keep running my old store while the new one is being built?

Yes. Migration work happens on a separate Shopify instance while your current store stays live, so there's zero downtime until the final, tested cutover.

Migrate Without the Guesswork

Amwhiz moves your store to Shopify, product data, customers, SEO redirects, and a fully tested launch, all for a flat Rs. 45,000, done in 7 days. No hourly surprises, no missed redirects, no months of waiting. Reach out and let's get your migration scoped.