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Migrate osCommerce Store to Shopify for Easier Management and Sales

Moving your store, customers, and orders off osCommerce can feel risky and time consuming. Our team handles full osCommerce to Shopify migration so your new store is ready to sell.

osCommerce To Shopify Migration Challenges We Help You Overcome

Aging Codebase

Challenges

Older osCommerce stores often run on outdated PHP versions and patched code, so every small change risks breaking checkout, product pages, or plugins that you still rely on.

Solution

Audit your osCommerce store structure before any migration step. Identify outdated extensions and customizations that need rebuilding. Plan Shopify architecture to mirror key osCommerce workflows. Refactor critical custom code into Shopify apps or scripts.

Plugin Conflicts

Challenges

Many osCommerce stores depend on a long list of third party plugins that overlap in features, create conflicts, and make it hard to predict how the system will behave during heavy traffic.

Solution

Map every osCommerce plugin to suitable Shopify apps. Remove overlapping features that increase maintenance risk. Configure Shopify apps to match your required store behavior. Test key flows like cart, checkout, and refunds in detail.

Catalog Complexity

Challenges

Large osCommerce catalogs with option groups, custom attributes, and multiple price rules can be hard to translate, so important product data may be lost or misaligned during the move.

Solution

Analyze product types, attributes, and variation structures. Design Shopify product models that preserve options and pricing. Migrate images, categories, and tags with relationships preserved. Validate sample product sets in Shopify before full catalog import.

SEO Risk

Challenges

osCommerce URLs, category structures, and meta tags often differ from Shopify, so a rushed migration can break backlinks, reduce organic traffic, and hurt revenue from search.

Solution

Export existing URLs, titles, and meta descriptions for reference. Plan Shopify collections and pages to keep familiar structures. Create redirect rules from old osCommerce URLs into Shopify. Monitor key rankings and adjust content after launch if needed.

Our Case Studies

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Our osCommerce To Shopify Migration Services

Our team provides full osCommerce to Shopify migration support from planning through launch. Every step is handled so your store data, design, and workflows are rebuilt with care on Shopify.

Product And Catalog Migration

We move your entire product catalog from osCommerce to Shopify while keeping variations, categories, and media organized. Your team gets a clean catalog that is easy to manage inside Shopify.

What we migrate:

Simple and variant products with options and attributes Categories, subcategories, and product to category relationships Product images, galleries, and downloadable files Stock levels, SKUs, and basic pricing rules

Customer And Order Migration

We transfer customer records and selected order history from osCommerce so your team keeps valuable data for support, marketing, and reporting. The goal is to keep context without disrupting live operations.

What we migrate:

Customer profiles with names, emails, and addresses Order history within an agreed time range Order line items, totals, and taxes where possible Basic customer groups or tags for segmentation

Theme And Storefront Rebuild

We recreate your storefront on Shopify using a suitable theme so shoppers recognize your brand while benefiting from a cleaner layout. This includes key templates and reusable sections for future updates.

What we design or configure:

Homepage layout with banners, collections, and featured products Product page templates with galleries, reviews, and details Collection pages with filters, sorting, and pagination Header, footer, navigation menus, and core page templates

Shopify Apps And Integration Mapping

We review the tools you rely on in osCommerce and connect Shopify with comparable apps or native features. This keeps marketing, shipping, and support tools working without unnecessary complexity.

What we connect or replace:

Email marketing, CRM, and basic loyalty tools Shipping calculators, label printing, and tracking links Payment gateways supported by Shopify in your region Accounting or reporting exports for your finance team

SEO And URL Strategy Migration

We protect your search visibility when moving from osCommerce by planning redirects and metadata carefully. The goal is to reduce ranking drops and keep organic visitors landing on relevant pages.

What we migrate or configure:

Page titles, meta descriptions, and image alt text Redirects from key osCommerce product and category URLs Blog and content page structures where used Shopify sitemap and basic indexing preferences

Configuration, Testing, and Launch

We prepare your Shopify store settings so you can start selling quickly once data is migrated. Before launch, we run detailed tests to ensure orders, emails, and taxes behave correctly.

What we set up or verify:

Tax, currency, and regional settings inside Shopify admin Shipping zones, rates, and delivery options Checkout settings including guest checkout and notifications End to end order tests from cart to confirmation emails

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much does osCommerce to Shopify migration cost?

Costs depend on catalog size, order history range, design needs, and custom features. After a short review of your store, we provide a clear estimate.

Smaller stores can move in a few weeks. Larger catalogs with many customizations may take longer because of planning, rebuilding, and testing.

We review your current store, plan data and feature mapping, migrate products and customers, rebuild the storefront, configure apps, test everything, then assist with launch.

Some fluctuation is normal, but proper redirects, metadata migration, and content checks help protect rankings and organic traffic.

We review each custom checkout behavior and then recreate it using Shopify settings, apps, or customizations where supported by the platform.

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