Thinking about migrating your eCommerce store from Shopify to WordPress? 

Shopify is undoubtedly an effective platform to run a smooth eCommerce business, but migrating the store to WordPress would be more advantageous. WordPress is a self-hosted platform with the right features to keep the site up and operating efficiently round out the package. And for Shopify to WordPress store migration, you will need to incorporate the WooCommerce plugin. 

Note: WordPress is a platform on which we can build an online store using any eCommerce plugin. Here, we will discuss the Shopify store migration to WordPress using the WooCommerce plugin. So, let us talk about this in detail below. 

Brief Glimpse How Shopify to WordPress Migration is Best with WordSuccor

Many people consider WordPress as a nice alternative to Shopify because of a number of a number of reasons. Some of them are-

• Low Installation Cost

When you migrate your Shopify Website to WordPress, you have to pay for hosting, domain name and SSL certificate. However, we offer special prices for WordPress users.

• Lots of Opportunities for Developers

WordPress plugin-WooCommerce gives a large number of absolutely free add-ons to developers. This plugin can be used to integrate payment systems, optimize search engine results, speed up the site, and perform other important tasks that will help you to improve the functions of the online store. 

• Flexibility in Integration with Different Payment Gateways

You don’t face hassles when it comes to integrating different payment gateways to your WordPress website. PayPal and Stripe are already integrated into the system. You can integrate other payment systems because of its easy setup in the admin panel. You must also keep in mind that sellers don’t have to pay additional fees for receiving payments from customers (apart from bank fees and charges applied by the platform) when they operate a WordPress website.

• Low Learning Curve

You can easily personalize your website and expand its functionally without facing any problem and seeking help from professional WordPress Developers. However, when you have to take your Shopify Website to the WordPress platform, we recommend you to hire a seasoned WordPress Development Company or individual to ensure the successful migration of your website from one platform to another.

 

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How WordSuccor Migrate Shopify to WordPress

Check out an in-depth, step by step process on how WordSuccor helps you to migrate your Shopify store to WordPress:

1. We Plan for Everything in Advance

Website migration is crucial and should be done in a smooth way. Considering this, we plan everything comprehensively for your future WordPress Website and make a checklist accordingly.

Our checklist includes;

• Product category 
• Orders
• Customer information 
• Discount
• Coupon 
• Pages
• Blogs 
• Shipping rates, etc.  

It will help you to initiate the website migration process properly & easily get the required WordPress Website.

2. Take Website Backup

Before migrating your website from Shopify to WordPress, we take the backup of your existing website. It is important in every website migration activity as things go out of hand & you might lose control over your website. Sometimes, human mistakes disfigure the appearance of the future website.

3. Install WordPress and WooCommerce

We install WordPress to use WooCommerce plugin for your online store.  After completing the installation process, we use the custom themes to control the technical and visual aspects of the eCommerce website. We will start working on WooCommerce after its activation.

 

4. Select a Migration Tool

After installing WordPress and setting up WooCommerce, the next step is to migrate the Shopify store data to WooCommerce securely.

Here are 3 ways that you can consider for store data migration. It includes:

i) Manual Data Import/Export

It may look like a little time-consuming process, product migration comes inexpensive and simple. To do this way,

• Export all data from Shopify, then download it to your computer.

• Open the WordPress dashboard and click on WooCommerce and then Products to access the WooCommerce storefronts.

• Click Import at the top of the page. Product CSV importer will appear to make the procedure simple.

• Press Choose file. Continue after selecting the CSV file you wish to import.

• As a result, a Column Mapping window will open. Shopify's CSV file column names will be automatically matched to WooCommerce fields. Although some of these may need to be mapped independently. Each row has a dropdown menu to do this.
• After clicking on Run Importer, wait for the process to complete.

ii) Hire a Dedicated WordPress Developer

You can hire a professional to do it for you if the manual process is too time-consuming for you.

You can retrieve the data on the internet about the best WooCommerce experts. Also, you can contact WordSuccor to hire specialized WordPress developers. We can help you build a WordPress site, or migrate your Shopify store over to WooCommerce.

iii) Use Cart2Cart

By following the simple steps below, this Cart2Cart extension will help you migrate your store to WooCommerce. Besides, free demo migration features allow you to see how well the process will work.

Not only that, but your Shopify store can continue to run in the background while the migration is taking place. Thus, no worry of missing any revenue opportunities. 

The steps to migrate the store to WooCommerce using Cart2Cart are below.

• SourceCart should be connected to Shopify. This can be done by providing the present URL as well as the API information.
• Connect the WooCommerce target cart. It is possible to automatically or manually install the required connection bridge on your WordPress site.

The next step is to select the data that you want to migrate from one place to another. Select and match the data types with the appropriate WooCommerce fields.

5. Demo Migration

Neglecting the significance of migrating the data smoothly from Shopify to WordPress is not going to work. Keeping that in mind, it is important to decide what needs to be imported.

We give you nine types of data to migrate Shopify to WooCommerce. It includes; shipping, zones, store settings, taxes, blogs, coupons, blogs, coupons, pages, orders, products, and customers.

• STORE SETTINGS: admin email, site title, city, store address, country, postcode, state, timezone, currency code, currency format, and weight unit.
• SHIPPING ZONES: shipping techniques and shipping zones.
• TAXES: tax rate, tax name, province, country, shipping, and zip.
• PAGES: title and content.
• BLOGS: categories, blog content, blog title, featured image, and tags.
• COUPONS: WooCommerce support coupon types, usage limit, coupon amount, minimum amount, and expiry date.
• CUSTOMERS: phone, address, first name, last name, city, company, zip, country, and province.
• ORDERS: shipping method, payment method, company, address first name, last name, country, city, zip, phone, province, subtotal, total, discount, tax, currency, shipping cost, browser IP, date create, line items, customer user agent, order fulfillment, order number, and discount code

Product importing is the crucial part while migrating Shopify to WordPress. We use our tools to import the products to migrate using the price, title, variation, description, categories, and image.

Check out the products that we probably use for migration:

• Title
• Content
• Variations
• Excerpt
• Product image
• Product gallery
• Variations images
• SKU
• Regular price
• Stock
• Sale price
• Categories 
• Weight
• Tags

6. Migrating your Shopify Domain to Your New Hosting

Domain and hosting are the important part while executing the process. Hence, we transfer the domain to the new host to keep it the same as the previous one. For transferring the domain to the new hosting, contact us, one of our service providers will help you out.

7. Removing Shopify

After completing the whole process, we remove the Shopify store, domain,  uninstall the apps, eliminate the memberships, and other functions that are not required.

8. Complete the Website Migration

Bingo!! Your website migration process is now completed. In a few minutes, you get the complete analog of your online store on the WordPress CMS.

We have given you a complete guide on how WordSuccor migrates the Shopify store to WordPress.  Though you can easily migrate from the steps given above, in case of any issues, you can contact us. Our professionals will solve the queries and assure smooth migration.

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Final Words

Shopify-powered stores can become costly and inflexible as the business expands. Migrating to WooCommerce is, therefore, the only viable solution for this problem. After all, WooCommerce is a segment of the WordPress community and comes with several perks and profits. 

Hence, this write-up possesses the right ways to Shopify to WordPress migration. Besides, you can contact us at WordSuccor for WordPress development services. Everything from website development to maintenance, our experts have the know-how and experience to handle it all.