Shopify Migration Experts. Re-platform with Minimal Downtime & Maximum Impact

Seamless Migration from:

  • Re-platform Zeald / Zest to Shopify
  • Re-platform Magento to Shopify
  • Re-platform WordPress to Shopify
  • Re-platform Open Cart to Shopify
  • Migrate from and Legacy Cart to Shopify

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Zeald – Zest to Shopify Migration

New Shopify Migration, Design & Development for Go Native New Zealand

This incredibly dedicated NZ family business is thrilled with its recent move, selling organic & pure skincare ingredients – think luscious body oils, skin butters, pure essential oils, Clays, kits and more

  • 750+ products, each with multiple sizes and variations

  • Large customer base & order history seamlessly transferred

  • SEO migrated without drop-off

  • SEO, performance, accessibility & structure – all improved!
    (Benchmarked from 65% to 94%) 

  • Faster, smoother, better user experience

  • More coming 🚀

SEO Retained & Improved

Better Performance 

622%

Increased sessions

UX & UI, Conversion Optimisation

Fast Loading 

13%

Increased conversion

Is Your Current Platform Holding You Back?

We won’t need more than 30 minutes to convince you this is the right move… we know about your struggles with outdated systems and limited functionality slowing down your growth. Slow loading? Frequent downtime? Glitchy integrations? Low conversions? Frustrated customers? An underperforming website is costing you sales – we can turn that around. Shopify offers a reliable, scalable, and user-friendly eCommerce platform with powerful built-in tools to streamline sales, optimise performance, and grow your business effortlessly.

Our Shopify migration experts will move your ecommerce store to Shopify with, zero downtime, zero SEO loss, and zero headaches.

Shopify Data Migration: No Detail Left Behind

From product catalogs, descriptions and meta details, order history, to customer data, we ensure every piece of your ecommerce store transfers flawlessly.

Shopify SEO Preservation: Stay Search-Engine Strong

Your rankings are safe with our Shopify migration experts. Redirects and meticulous SEO mapping guarantee your visibility remains intact. We aim to retain your current SEO or improve it

Shopify Custom Themes & Design Transfer

Our Shopify migration experts work closely with you to ensure your users’ shopping experience is vastly improved post-transfer. We replicate, refresh or totally overhaul your current stores design. Your Shopify store will align with your brand identity, with design solutions focusing on UX, Conversion rate optimization (CRO), performance, and sales.

Shopify Custom Features & Functionality

Need something outside the box? Our developers can handle complex integrations, craft bespoke solutions to fit your specific requirements.

Custom Coding, Themes, and Templates

Whether it’s flexible, editable themes or full custom Shopify sites built from the ground up, we craft designs that guide your customers, and fit your business perfectly.

Testing, Launch Support & Management

Everything is tested rigorously. Your new Shopify store goes live without downtime. We don’t just migrate, we make sure your Shopify store performs perfectly before and after going live. Yes, we do stick around for post-launch tweaks & support. We also offer additional time blocks for both ongoing Shopify tasks customised training and tasks.

Content Marketing & SEO Copywriting

We’re here to extend your in-house capability. Just as us…from captivating rich blogs, product descriptions, to photography. Our smooth blend of authentic and optimised AI content for both SEO & Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO), we make content more visible and relevant to AI-powered search engines, we find creative ways to keep your Shopify store ahead of the competition and bring your brand to life.

Shopify Migration Experts & Experienced Shopify Developers

Shopify Migration Experts & Why we like Shopify…

It’s true, we totally do! Thousands of brands are switching to Shopify for a reason. Shopify has removed a lot of pain of integrating plugins required to operate an online store, by creating a platform where payment gateways, customer accounts, and checkouts all work straight out of the box. Our Shopify migration experts have extensive experience migrating you from well known and legacy platforms to Shopify. Your success is our benchmark, our clients see faster load times, higher conversions, and lower maintenance costs

Faster site = More sales

Security & Updates Included

Built to scale easily

Thousands of Integrations

Shopify handles hosting

Shopify 24/7 support team
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Want to create a new Shopify? Ready to Migrate to Shopify? We are here to answer all your questions.

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“Michele is fantastic to work with. By far the best at what she does! The results have been amazing,”

Adrian Hailwood

Hailwood

“You’ve skyrocketed our sales – again. Just wanted to say thanks! The support over the years for both my retail and wholesale busines has been incredible.”

Kim Holwerda

Karma Imports

Outgrown your current eCommerce platform? Upgrade to Shopify without losing a sale.

We are here for large complex projects, small jobs, or ongoing digital marketing retainers

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Our Shopify migration experts process. We’ve got you covered. No Matter Where Your Coming From

Consultation & Analysis

Our tried and tested approach to Shopify migrations starts from initial discovery, data architectural analysis. We conduct a thorough analysis of your existing online store, understanding its structure, data organisation, and unique features.

Scope & Planning

Navigating the transition to a new eCommerce platform can be intimidating. We’ll work closely with you or your team to decide exactly which content should be migrated to Shopify, and the content that shouldn’t. Based on our analysis, we develop a tailored migration plan that details each step needed to seamlessly transition your store to Shopify.

Data Migration

Our Shopify migration experts handle the migration of your data, which typically includes products, collections, pages, content marketing pages such as blogs, customer data, historical order data, and other essential information to Shopify, ensuring a smooth and accurate transfer.

SEO Migration

The biggest risk in migration is its impact on organic rankings. Shopify’s fixed URL structure often requires changes, making proper management essential. Our migration team, alongside SEO experts, ensures smooth transitions reatining or improving your current SEO with thorough crawling, strategic redirects, and SEO optimisation. We build Shopify stores to the highest technical SEO standards

Design and Customisation

Migrating to Shopify from a legacy platform can be a perfect opportunity to re-design your store experience to ensure you deliver the very best customer experience on Shopify. We help you recreate or improve your store’s design on the Shopify platform, ensuring a consistent and visually appealing customer experience.

Testing & Launch

Migrating to Shopify from a legacy platform can be a perfect opportunity to re-design your store experience to ensure you deliver the very best customer experience on Shopify. We help you recreate or improve your store’s design on the Shopify platform, ensuring a consistent and visually appealing customer experience.

Launch & Growth

Post-Migration Support means our Shopify migration experts promptly address any questions or concerns you may have. After launching your new store, our growth-focused strategies don’t have to end. We offer ongoing support, maintenance, and growth services tailored to your needs. Our monthly support retainer packages give Shopify and Shopify Plus store owners access to an expert eCommerce team, providing continuous support, insights, updates, and strategic consultation month after month.

“The project was completed on time & launched earlier than expected”

Whatever your industry needs, we can help create a Shopify site with a tailored strategy to meet the unique demands and opportunities each sector presents. Shopify is easy to manage, you can respond to trends and market niches, faster and more successfully. We’re a trusted Shopify migration agency, offering seamless replatforming from
Zeald / Zest, Magento, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Legacy and beyond, ensuring a safe, strategic transition. 

Transform your online store with our expert Shopify support

Reliable and expert Shopify support is only a click away, to troubleshoot, optimise, and enhance your store’s performance, with our flexible monthly subscriptions or Shopify and Shopify Plus.  Utilise your monthly hours to access our comprehensive Shopify Support, including: technical troubleshooting, performance optimisation, content updates, design refinements, adding new features, email, SEO & GEO, Choose from with time-blocks, once-off options for specific projects, or our maintenance-only plan for peace of mind.

Shopify Migration & Development Frequently Asked Questions

Yes Totally! We provide a simple onboarding session – with some how-to videos for every Shopify project. If you need more we have tailored training, customised to your experience level and the specific apps integrated into your store. Training sessions are typically conducted online and recorded for easy future access. For more complex projects, we also offer in-person training to ensure a smooth transition.

Shopify provides a powerful, scalable platform with seamless integrations, customisable themes, built-in marketing tools, and top-tier support. Whether you need advanced design, custom apps, SEO optimization, or a smooth migration, Shopify offers everything to streamline and grow your eCommerce business.

We carefully plan and execute the migration to keep any downtime to an absolute minimum. Our team works with you to schedule the transition at the least disruptive time, ensuring a smooth switch with little to no impact on your customers and sales.

Shopify supports a wide range of integrations, often improving functionality over your current setup. During the scoping phase, we’ll review your current systems to determine if pre-built ‘plug-in connectors are available or if a custom integration is needed. Considering the popularity of Shopify, it likely integrates with your existing technology. If an exact match isn’t available, we’ll find the best alternative to keep your operations running smoothly.

Maybe. While we’re Shopify Plus partners, most of our clients thrive on Shopify Core. Your need for Shopify Plus depends on factors like order volume, business complexity, and growth plans. We’ll assess your needs and recommend the best option for your business.

We migrate key store data, including customer details, order history, email lists, price lists, payment options, product information, images, customer navigation and buying journey. We take this opportunity to look at improving your conversions. If you have specific requirements, our team can tailor the migration to suit your needs.

Absolutely! We follow a detailed process that ensures a clearly defined scope of work, eliminating any ambiguity. By asking the right questions, we not only help you clarify your project needs but also guide you in understanding which areas are most critical for your success. This way, you’ll have a comprehensive roadmap for the entire project, ensuring all objectives are met with precision.

WooCommerce, Zeald/Zest, Magento are some of the names we migrate from, but there are many more that we deal with. Speak to us and we’ll be able to guide you through the steps needed to get you onto Shopify from a legacy system.

from another platform or a custom theme build, along with the need for internal operations and integrations. During the scoping phase, our team will work closely with you to define the estimated timeline based on your specific project requirements. While some websites can go live in as little as 4 weeks, more complex projects, requiring additional development and technical integration, may take anywhere from 4 to 6 months or longer to ensure all functionality is seamlessly implemented.

That’s a BIG yes! You can absolutely retain your SEO rankings and URLs during migration. With proper redirects and a focus on SEO best practices, we ensure your new Shopify store keeps its search engine visibility and ranking. Our team will develop a custom SEO migration strategy to minimize any impact on your organic traffic. Plus, we’ll conduct an audit to identify ways to improve your SEO even further!

A tech stack refers to the collection of apps and tools integrated with Shopify that support different aspects of your business, such as customer service, inventory management, fulfillment, and accounting, among others. The strength of Shopify lies in its robust ecosystem of technology partners that enhance the platform’s functionality. We’ll work with you to ensure you have the right tech stack in place, giving you the tools needed to streamline your operations and support your business growth.

Improved CRO anyone? While redesigning your store isn’t required during migration, it’s an excellent chance to enhance your design if you’re looking to boost user experience and increase conversions. Shopify offers a wide range of customisable themes and templates to help you create a fresh, professional look, we also build from scratch via Figma Wireframes. We are here to guide you in selecting the design that best reflects your brand and meets your business goals, ensuring a seamless combination of aesthetics, conversion rate optimisation and functionality.

Ready to Move? Let’s talk Shopify Migration Solutions.