The data is the easy half. SEO is where migrations fail.
Any tool can copy products from WooCommerce to Shopify. What breaks stores is everything around the data: product URLs that change from /product/abaya-black to /products/abaya-black with no redirect, collection pages that disappear, Arabic URLs that get flattened, reviews and customer accounts that don't come across, and tracking that silently stops. The result is a traffic drop in the weeks after launch that can take months to recover.
Every NKM migration ships with a complete URL map and 301 redirects, metadata and structured data carried over, and a post-launch Search Console monitoring window.
Platforms we migrate from
| From | What moves | Typical gotchas |
|---|---|---|
| WooCommerce / WordPress | Products, variants, customers, orders, blog posts, pages | Variable products, plugin-stored data (ACF, reviews), /product/ URL structure, WPML Arabic URLs |
| Wix | Products, collections, customers, blog | Limited exports — some content rebuilt manually; URL structure changes |
| Magento / Adobe Commerce | Full catalogue, customers, orders, CMS | Configurable products, multi-store views, layered-navigation URLs |
| Salla / Zid | Products, customers, orders via export | Arabic-first content and URLs; mapping KSA payment and shipping setups to UAE equivalents |
| OpenCart / custom | Whatever the database holds | Custom fields and options need mapping to Shopify metafields |
We use Shopify's own Store Migration app where it's enough, and Matrixify or custom scripts where it isn't (orders history, metafields, multi-language content, redirects in bulk).
Our migration process
- Audit — crawl the old site, export Search Console and analytics, list every URL that earns traffic or links.
- Data mapping — products, variants, options, metafields, customers, orders, reviews, gift cards, blog.
- Build — new Shopify theme (or a redesign — see Shopify web design), payments, shipping, apps.
- Test migration — full import into a staging store, checked against the source.
- Redirect map — every old URL mapped to its best new equivalent, uploaded as 301s.
- Cutover — final delta import of new orders and customers, DNS switch, test orders on live payments.
- Monitoring — Search Console coverage, 404s and rankings watched for 30 days and fixed as they appear.
WooCommerce to Shopify: should you move?
Move if you're spending more time on plugin updates, hosting and security than on selling; if checkout or speed is costing you conversions; or if you want Tabby, Tamara and UAE gateways without plugin roulette. Stay if your business depends on deep custom WordPress functionality that has no Shopify equivalent — we'll tell you honestly in the audit.
Migration cost and timeline
| Store size | Indicative range | Timeline |
|---|---|---|
| Up to ~500 products, theme-based | AED 15–30k | 3–5 weeks |
| Larger catalogue, custom design, bilingual | AED 30–70k | 5–8 weeks |
| Magento / multi-store / ERP | Scoped | 8+ weeks |
Indicative only — every migration gets a fixed written quote after the audit. Related: Shopify development Dubai, Shopify SEO services.