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Moving From Shop ify to Magento 2 Need Suggestions Tips from Those Who’ve Done

Moving From Shop ify to Magento 2 Need Suggestions Tips from Those Who’ve Done

Hi everyone,

 

I run PowerhouseExpress.com.pk, a store with thousands of products ranging from electrical accessories to home and kitchen appliances. We’ve been running on Shop ify, but we’re planning to make the jump over to Magento 2 because of the flexibility and scalability it offers. Honestly though, I know it’s a big move and I don’t want to walk into it blind.

 

What worries me most is making sure the migration doesn’t become a mess — we’ve got:

 

  • Thousands of SKUs with detailed product data (specs, images, categories, custom attributes).
  • A lot of history with customers and orders that I’d like to carry over.
  • Decent SEO rankings that I don’t want to risk losing in the switch.

I’d love to hear from anyone who has already migrated a large Shop ify store to Magento:

 

  • What’s the smoothest way to handle product/catalog migration?
  • Any “gotchas” you ran into with SEO redirects or data mismatches?
  • How did you keep Magento fast and stable with a huge catalog (indexing, caching, hosting choices, etc.)?
  • Did you test everything on a staging site before launch, and if so, what was most important to double-check?

If you’ve been through this before, I’d really appreciate any best practices, tools, or lessons learned. Even a quick list of “what not to do” would help me out a lot. Thanks a ton in advance. I know this community has a lot of experience with big builds like this, and I’d love to learn from you before we take the plunge.

 

Mark Pousee

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Re: Moving From Shop ify to Magento 2 Need Suggestions Tips from Those Who’ve Done

Limit ElasticSearch to Min Max 1G to begin with, it will save you a lot of heart ache.

Find a good host

 

URL mapping is going to be a pain, but 301 redirecting via the .htaccess file will be your best bet.

 

 

Re: Moving From Shop ify to Magento 2 Need Suggestions Tips from Those Who’ve Done

Hi @markpousee5d45 ,

 

  1. You can check system requirements based on Magento version from here: https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/commerce-operations/installation-guide/system-requirement...
  2. For migration of major entities you can use tools like Lit Extension or Cart2 Cart
  3. Use Fastly/Cloudflare + full-page cache to stay fast
  4. Map all Shop ify URLs to Magento with 301 redirects.

Thanks,

Ankit

Ankit Jasani