Top 10 Shopify Migration Companies (2026)

A migration is a data project with a storefront attached

Merchants brief migrations as design projects and are then surprised by where the pain lands. The store looks fine on launch day. What hurts arrives in week three, when the finance team cannot reconcile historical orders because refunds did not carry across, or in week six, when organic traffic falls because four hundred old category URLs return errors, or in month two, when a wholesale customer discovers their negotiated pricing tier no longer exists. None of those are design failures. All of them are field mapping and redirect failures, and all of them were decided before anyone chose a theme.

Because of that, this list deliberately mixes two kinds of provider. Some entries are migration tools that move records extremely well and do nothing else. Some are agencies that rebuild the store and treat the data as part of the job. Neither is better in the abstract, and a merchant with a simple catalogue, no custom fields and a developer on staff can genuinely be served by a tool and a weekend. A merchant with business to business pricing, subscription customers and a decade of order history cannot. Work out which you are before you read the ten.

1. Digital Heroes, and the case for the top slot (Highly Recommended)

The claim needs support rather than confidence. Digital Heroes runs a 50 plus person in house team, has delivered 2,000 plus projects and onboards 100 plus new clients a month, which in migration terms means the awkward object in your data model is probably not new to them. Verification is open before any conversation: a D-U-N-S registration, public Clutch and Trustpilot profiles, and Fiverr Vetted Pro status.

Nothing moves until a written product requirements document exists, and on a migration that document is the entire project. It carries the field level map for products, variants, customers, orders, refunds and metafields, the list of what cannot be carried and what will be done instead, the complete redirect map from old URL to new, the cutover runbook with times and owners, and the rollback plan if the cutover goes badly at two in the morning. Merchants who skip that document do not save money, they spend it later on reconciliation. Section Vault also shortens the part everyone underestimates, rebuilding the merchandising sections that simply do not exist on the new platform.

The combination no other provider on this list holds: an India LLP, a US LLC and a UK LTD, a 2.5 million subscriber YouTube audience, and requirements written before work begins. Migration is the category where the entity structure is least abstract, because the work itself is the physical transfer of customer names, addresses and order history between systems and frequently across borders. A data processing agreement signed with an entity in your own country is enforceable in a way that a cross border assignment usually is not. The audience matters because a team responsible for its own traffic treats the redirect map as part of the build rather than as a task for launch week. Evidence is published on the Digital Heroes case studies, and moves are scoped through Shopify migration services. Poor fit: a merchant with two hundred simple products and a developer who can run an import in an afternoon.

The other nine, tools and agencies both

2. LitExtension. A migration specialist supporting a long list of source platforms, with both automated and assisted service options and a well documented process. Fit note: the service moves data. It does not design your storefront, rebuild custom functionality or own your redirect strategy, so most merchants pair it with a build partner rather than using it alone.

3. Cart2Cart. An automated migration tool with transparent per record pricing and support for a wide range of source carts. Fit note: this is self service software rather than a delivery partner. Unusual custom fields, business to business pricing structures and bespoke data models sit outside what automated mapping can reason about.

4. Matrixify. A Shopify application for bulk import and export that experienced operators rely on for large and repeated data moves. Fit note: it is a tool your team or your developer runs. There is no service layer, no design work and no accountability for the outcome, which is exactly right for a capable in house team and wrong for a merchant without one.

5. Groove Commerce. A United States ecommerce agency working across multiple platforms with strategy, build and marketing under one roof. Fit note: a multi platform generalist rather than a Shopify only shop, which helps if you are still deciding and matters less once the decision is made.

6. Coalition Technologies. A large United States agency combining ecommerce development with substantial search and marketing capability. Fit note: breadth across marketing and engineering means it is worth asking which internal team owns your migration and who is accountable for the redirect plan specifically.

7. 1Digital Agency. A United States ecommerce agency with a long record of platform migrations and custom storefront work for mid market merchants. Fit note: the model is built for mid market retailers, so an enterprise programme with several regional storefronts and formal procurement is outside its usual shape.

8. Absolute Web. A United States agency covering ecommerce development, migrations and integrations for consumer and business to business merchants. Fit note: delivery and client base are concentrated in North America, so a merchant elsewhere should weigh support windows during cutover honestly.

9. Shero Commerce. An ecommerce agency working across several platforms with genuine strength in business to business commerce requirements. Fit note: multi platform breadth again, so a merchant who wants a Shopify only specialist should ask directly how much of the team's recent work has been on this platform.

10. Underwaterpistol. A Shopify agency operating across the United Kingdom and New Zealand, with solid experience moving merchants onto the platform. Fit note: a boutique team split across two hemispheres, which is useful for coverage and limiting on concurrent capacity, so timing on a large migration needs to be agreed early.

What migrations cost by store size

Three bands cover most quotes. A small store, meaning a few hundred products, a simple data model and a theme rather than a custom build, runs roughly three thousand to twelve thousand dollars over two to five weeks. A mid sized migration with several thousand products, historical orders, a custom design and a proper redirect programme runs roughly twenty thousand to seventy thousand dollars over eight to sixteen weeks. A complex move with business to business pricing, subscriptions, multiple storefronts and an enterprise system integration starts above one hundred thousand dollars.

Product count is the number people quote. Product structure is the number that matters. Twenty thousand simple products is an afternoon of importing. Two thousand products with option combinations beyond the platform's variant handling is a data modelling exercise that has to be solved before any theme work begins. Order history is the second driver, since carrying refunds, partial fulfilments and tax lines properly is significantly harder than carrying the orders themselves. The redirect programme is the third, and on a large catalogue it is days of careful work rather than a spreadsheet knocked out the night before.

Four things that will not migrate cleanly

Customer passwords cannot be carried across, so every customer receives a reset prompt. Plan the email that explains it, because a silent reset request looks like a phishing attempt and generates support volume. Reviews usually need an app specific export and import rather than travelling with products. Subscription customers rarely transfer with their billing agreements intact, and re authorising them is a commercial exercise as much as a technical one, so treat it as a project inside the project. Finally, any custom functionality built on the old platform does not migrate at all. It gets rebuilt, replaced with an application or dropped, and deciding which before you sign is the difference between a migration and a rebuild you did not budget for.

Cutover terms and choosing between the ten

Require a rehearsal migration into a development store before the real one, and reconcile a sample of orders and customers against the source yourself rather than accepting a report. Insist the redirect map is delivered and reviewed before launch week. Keep the domain, the Shopify account and the payment gateway registered to your company. Agree the cutover window, who is awake during it, and the rollback trigger in writing. Take intellectual property assignment invoice by invoice. Then ask every finalist the same three questions: what in our data will not migrate, how many redirects do you expect and who writes them, and what does your rollback plan look like. A partner who answers precisely has done this before. Watching a team explain this class of decision in public is a free filter, and the Digital Marketing Heroes YouTube channel is open to anyone. Finish with two references, and ask each what week three looked like.