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Migrate PrestaShop to Shopify
Migrate your PrestaShop store to Shopify with a comprehensive replatforming strategy—from data migration and SEO to UX/UI and ERP integrations—setting your business up for growth on a platform that’s easier to manage and scale.
Migrating from PrestaShop to Shopify
Migrating from PrestaShop to Shopify may make sense when the store’s growth begins to require too much technical maintenance, the infrastructure becomes more complex, or the company is looking for an e-commerce platform where most of the core infrastructure is managed as a service.
In Basicamente Digital we treat the migration as a comprehensive replatforming project. We analyze the current operation, product catalog, modules, data, and integrations before designing and implementing the new Shopify architecture.
Shopify and Shopify Plus
B2C and B2B Projects
Data Migration
UX/UI in Figma
SEO and redirects
ERP Integrations
Less complexity in platform management
PrestaShop allows for a high degree of customization through modules, themes, and custom development. As a business grows, this flexibility can also increase the need for maintenance of the application, modules, server, and their respective compatibility.
With Shopify, a significant portion of the core infrastructure is managed by the platform itself, allowing you to focus more resources on the operation and growth of your e-commerce business.
The decision must, however, take into account the specific features available in PrestaShop and how they will be implemented in the new ecosystem.
Less infrastructure management
Less reliance on core maintenance
Reducing compatibility issues
Shopify-Managed Infrastructure
A platform built for growth
An ecosystem specializing in e-commerce
We'll migrate your PrestaShop store's data
A migration isn't simply a matter of exporting data from PrestaShop and importing it into Shopify.
The two platforms have different data models and ways of organizing catalogs, combinations, categories, customers, and orders. Before the migration, we analyzed the existing data and defined the appropriate mappings for the new architecture.
It is also an opportunity to reorganize a catalog that has accumulated unnecessary structures or information over the years.
Products and Combinations
Part Numbers, Prices, and Inventory
Images and content
Customers and Addresses
Order History
Categories and Collections
We preserve SEO during the migration
Migrating from PrestaShop to Shopify may involve significant changes to the URL structure. Ignoring this aspect during the replatforming process can result in 404 errors and the loss of organic search signals associated with the previous URLs.
We conduct a survey of the existing structure, map the old URLs to their respective destinations, and prepare the necessary SEO elements before launch.
After the go-live, we monitored the new structure and its indexing.
List of Existing URLs
Mapping Old URL → New URL
301 Redirects
Titles, descriptions, and headings
Canonicals and internal links
Sitemap and Google Search Console
We integrate Shopify with your ERP
Migrating from PrestaShop to Shopify does not require replacing the ERP or the company's other systems.
We can set up the necessary workflows so that Shopify can automatically integrate with your existing operations. The ERP can continue to manage business and operational data while Shopify serves as a sales channel.
The architecture is defined based on existing systems and available integration technologies.
Products and Variants
Inventory and Prices
Customers and Addresses
Price Lists
Terms and Conditions
Orders and Discounts
Custom middleware for Shopify integrations
A critical integration should not be limited to simply sending information between two APIs. It is necessary to know what happened when a system is unavailable, an operation fails, or certain data is not processed correctly.
Basicamente Digital . develops its own middleware to create a control layer between Shopify, ERP, and other operational systems.
When the architecture and systems involved allow it, synchronizations can take place in seconds.
Processing Queues
Automatic retry
Synchronization Logs
Monitoring
Backups
Log analysis by our team
A comprehensive replatforming process
The new Shopify store can be developed and tested while the PrestaShop store remains active.
We start by understanding what currently exists and what actually needs to be migrated to the new platform. Features supported by modules or custom development are analyzed individually to determine the best implementation on Shopify.
The goal is not to technically replicate PrestaShop, but to build a new architecture suited to future operations.
Analysis of the Current Store
Survey of Modules and Features
Shopify Architecture
UX/UI and Development
Migration, Integrations, and Testing
Go-live and monitoring
When does it make sense to migrate to Shopify?
PrestaShop continues to meet the needs of many businesses, and a migration should be driven by operational or business reasons.
The move may make sense when a company wants to reduce its infrastructure and maintenance responsibilities, simplify technological upgrades, or prepare its e-commerce operations for new markets, channels, and business models.
Before recommending a migration, we analyze the operation's current and future needs.
Increasing technical maintenance
Dependencies on multiple modules
The Need for Frequent Updates
Growth of the operation
Internationalization
New B2B Needs
Brands That Have Made the Switch to Shopify
Companies rely on our expertise to migrate to Shopify securely, preserving their data, SEO, and operations, while we build a faster, more scalable platform that’s ready for growth.
Are you thinking about migrating your e-commerce site to Shopify?
Tell us about your current platform and the main challenges you face in your operations. We’ll analyze your project and define a migration strategy to Shopify that’s secure, well-structured, and has minimal impact on your business.