WooCommerce to Shopify Migration Australia
Move your store to Shopify without losing a single order.
We migrate Australian WooCommerce stores to Shopify — products, customers, order history and subscriptions moved properly, with your current store staying live until the moment we cut over.
What’s included
Every part of the move, covered.
Plugin audit, product and customer migration, order history, subscriptions and SEO — run as one connected project, not an export-and-hope-for-the-best move.
01
Plugin Audit & Store Rebuild
Every plugin, custom function and page builder widget mapped before anything moves.
WooCommerce stacks accumulate plugins fast — we document what each one does, what breaks without it, and what replaces it natively in Shopify or as a Shopify app.
Audit
- Plugin & function audit
- Theme hook mapping
- App replacement plan
- Checkout & payment audit
Rebuild
- Shopify theme build
- Custom Liquid development
- Design refresh
- App configuration
02
Product & Catalogue Migration
Categories, tags, attributes and variants — translated properly, not just exported.
WooCommerce categories, tags and attributes don’t map one-to-one to Shopify collections and tags. We build the translation layer so navigation, filters and URLs survive, and variations move across as Shopify variants with the 100-variant ceiling watched.
Catalogue
- Category & tag mapping
- Attribute translation
- Variant migration
- Product metadata
Structure
- Collection setup
- URL structure planning
- Filtered navigation
- Image & media transfer
03
Customer, Order & Subscription Migration
Full customer records, order history and WooCommerce Subscriptions, moved without gaps.
Customer accounts with meta fields, complete order history with line items, and active WooCommerce Subscriptions data — moved to Shopify Subscriptions or a Shopify-native subscriptions app depending on complexity.
Customers
- Customer account migration
- Order history transfer
- Password reset flow
- Loyalty & rewards data
Subscriptions
- Subscription migration
- Billing cycle preservation
- Payment method re-authorisation
- Churn-safe comms
04
SEO & Redirect Migration
The part most WooCommerce migrations get wrong — losing rankings that took years to build.
WordPress permalinks, category archives and tag pages need specific mapping to Shopify’s URL structure. Every URL gets a tested redirect before launch.
Preservation
- Redirect mapping
- Meta data migration
- Schema migration
- Blog content transfer
Monitoring
- Post-migration tracking
- Search Console management
- Crawl error monitoring
- Ranking monitoring
Clients
Trusted by businesses across Australia.
Meta
Shopify
Microsoft
Klaviyo
TikTok
WordPress
WooCommerce
Google Ads
Google Analytics
ChatGPT
Our process
How we move your store without missing an order.
Plugin & Data Audit
We map every plugin, custom function and page builder element touching commerce before deciding what moves and how.
- Plugin audit
- Data mapping
- Migration plan
Product & Customer Mapping
Categories, attributes, variants, customer accounts and order history mapped to their Shopify equivalents.
- Catalogue mapping
- Customer mapping
- Order mapping
Build the Shopify Store
Theme, custom Liquid and app configuration built properly from the ground up, not a rushed copy of your WooCommerce theme.
- Theme build
- Custom development
- App setup
Migrate the Data
Products, customers, order history and subscriptions moved across with integrity checks at every step.
- Data migration
- Integrity checks
- Subscription migration
Test & Stage
A full staged rehearsal on a parallel environment before the real cutover — your WooCommerce store stays live and selling throughout.
- Staging environment
- QA & testing
- Rehearsal cutover
Launch & Monitor
Zero-downtime DNS cutover, then close monitoring of rankings, orders and errors in the days that follow.
- DNS cutover
- Ranking monitoring
- Post-launch support
Growth Digital
Digital agency, based in Australia
Most WooCommerce migrations we’re called in for happen because a business has hit the ceiling of what a plugin-dependent store can reliably do — plugin conflicts, hosting strain during sales spikes, or a checkout that’s been patched together one plugin at a time. Tell us what your current stack looks like, and we’ll tell you honestly what needs to happen to move it safely.
Who we help
Built for every business. Proven across every industry.
Every business is different, but every business needs the right digital foundation to grow. Whether you’re launching a startup, scaling a growing business or leading a national enterprise, we tailor every solution to your goals, industry and stage of growth.
By business type
By industry
- Healthcare & Medical
- Finance & Banking
- Education & E-learning
- Real Estate
- Retail & E-commerce
- Professional Services
- Technology & Software
- Fashion & Apparel
- Agriculture
- Government Organisation
- Hospitality & Tourism
- Automotive & Car Care
- Construction & Builder
- Manufacturing
- Transport & Logistics
- Legal Services
- Fitness & Wellness
- Rental & Hire
- Entertainment & Media
- Non-Profit & Charities
Why Growth Digital
More than a digital agency. Your growth partner.
We’re more than a digital agency. We become an extension of your team—bringing strategy, design, development, marketing and AI together to solve problems, unlock opportunities and drive measurable business growth.
01
Results Before Everything
Every decision we make is guided by outcomes, not opinions. From websites and digital marketing to AI automation, we focus on the metrics that matter—qualified leads, conversions, revenue and long-term business growth.
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.”
02
Faster Execution. Smarter Delivery.
Traditional agencies lose momentum in meetings, approvals and internal processes. We keep communication focused, decisions fast and projects moving—so more time is spent delivering results, not discussing them.
“Ideas are easy. Execution is everything.”
03
AI Built In, Not Bolted On.
AI isn’t an extra service—it’s part of how we work. We use AI and automation to streamline workflows, accelerate delivery and help your business operate more efficiently as it grows.
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
04
Different by Design.
Growth Digital was built to challenge the traditional agency model. No expensive offices. No unnecessary overheads. No sales-driven culture. Just an Australian-led team supported by experienced global specialists, delivering premium digital solutions with better value, faster turnaround and greater flexibility.
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking that created them.”
05
Your Long-Term Growth Partner
We’re here for more than a single project. As your business evolves, we continue to optimise, improve and support your digital ecosystem—helping you adapt, scale and grow with confidence.
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
Why us for this migration
Nothing lost, nothing broken.
Your store stays live until cutover
We build in parallel environments and migrate data in stages, with a final sync the night before launch — no sales pause, no downtime during the move itself.
SEO preservation isn’t an afterthought
WordPress permalinks, category archives and tag pages all get mapped to their Shopify equivalent before launch, with a full redirect map tested through a crawler pre-launch.
Reviews
What our clients say on Google.
Excellent
4.9
Urszula Kelly
We’re really happy with Growth Digital. They built our new website and now take care of our SEO. The team was great to work with — professional, responsive, and easy to communicate with. The website looks clean, modern, and represents us perfectly.
Calamvale Medicine
We started Google Ads with Growth Digital for our pharmacy, and it’s made a real difference. More people are finding us online, and the ads actually bring in local customers. Very happy with their work.
Georgia Smith
They helped me build and customise my Shopify website exactly the way I wanted it. I had plenty of requests and lots of back and forth along the way, and they were always so patient, responsive, and accommodating. The end result is even better than I imagined.
Werner Obermeier
I signed up with Growth Digital to replace my website with a new design after about 20 years of mixed experiences with other IT companies. Jignesh and Heath exceeded all of my expectations and I am extremely happy with the outcome and their timely responses to all issues.
David Finnimore
The team at Growth Digital went above and beyond to deliver our project on-time and on-budget under testing circumstances including pushing through non-working hours. The results speak for themselves but the effort and energy put into our project was more than expected.
Bessette Bridal
My brand required a completely new website which had many moving parts. Jignesh, Heath and their team are calm, diligent, and prompt to assist. Nothing was ever a problem — very happy with how the new site has come together.
Maylene Slater-Burns
We are a First Peoples company and required a lot of time to facilitate community consultations. This company has been so supportive and patient and accommodating; we cannot brag up about them enough.
Sandy Prasad
I have used Growth Digital to set up my medical clinic. Heath has been the main IT specialist. He has been exceptional. Extremely talented. Very efficient and very high quality service.
Alison C
They took my idea and put it into a website that I am proud to go live on. They have been a great source of support during this time and I will continue to utilise their services further as my company grows. Highly recommend.
Jane Dunning
I recently worked with Growth Digital to create the new website for my business, Best in Show Photography, and I couldn’t be happier with the results. As a fine art photography company focused on the deep emotional bond between people and their dogs, it was incredibly important to me that the website felt warm, inviting, and premium. Growth Digital delivered exactly that. They beautifully showcased my portfolio, creating a clean, elegant layout that allows the images and stories to truly shine. Beyond the stunning design, the website is highly functional, easy to navigate, and perfectly set up for clients looking to invest in lifelong family portraits. The communication throughout the project was seamless, and their attention to detail made the entire process stress-free. If you are looking for a digital agency that listens, understands your brand identity, and delivers a high-quality product, I highly recommend Growth Digital!
Courtney Atkins
Growth Digital were amazing; they were very quick and so helpful. Heath was so great to work with and put together our website, very professional and highly recommended for anyone wanting to complete a website!
LA Accounts
Was a pleasure working with Heath to create a fantastic website. He was very helpful and prompt in answering any questions that we had. We can’t recommend Growth Digital enough.
Karin McInerney
The Growth Digital team did a fantastic job fixing up my website and were great to work with – endlessly patient and accommodating. I’m very happy with the end-result. Highly recommended!
Klara Truden
Working with Growth Digital on our new website was an incredibly smooth and positive experience. The entire process was clearly explained, well-organized, and professionally guided from start to finish. The end result is excellent — we’re truly proud of our new site. The team was professional, courteous, and a pleasure to work with. A special thank you to Heath for his patience and support throughout the project. I can wholeheartedly recommend Growth Digital and would not hesitate to work with them again in the future.
Bunarong Aquarium
Growth Digital is very professional and exceeded my expectations for an updated website. Great communication with Heath through out the process and was completed in said time frame. Can highly recommend.
Peter M
Very happy, they kept in good contact with me throughout, were well priced and provided exactly what I was after. Well done Growth Digital.
Travis Mcnaught
I’d definitely recommend this company for building a website and SEO. I had dealings with Jignesh & Heath and our company couldn’t be happier with the design and layout of our website. They made the process extremely easy and smooth, with explaining and answering questions that we had throughout the process. Heath was great to deal with and always quick with his work and with prompt response to my questions.
Dealivered
We recently worked with Growth Digital to set up our website and were extremely pleased with the entire experience. From the initial consultation to the final launch, Heath was professional, knowledgeable, and incredibly supportive. He took the time to understand our needs and ensured everything was running smoothly before going live.
YL
Big thank you to Heath and Jignesh! They were able to cater to my needs and freshen up my shopify store. From start to finish they were very transparent, knowledgeable and also competitive with pricing. Would definitely recommend them to anyone.
Kwong Keet Chan
This team is fantastic from first encounter to finished project. It was a pleasure to deal with Jignesh and Heath in the whole process. They were friendly, professional, patience and get things done promptly and to-the-point. We got our e-commerce store moved from Ecwid to Shopify and nothing is too big or too small to enquire or explore. More than satisfied with the result.
Lea Simmonds
Was very happy with Heaths service and setting up our Website.
Tendai Makanyanga
It was an excellent experience working with Growth Digital. Jignesh, Heath and the team were responsive to our needs setting up our business website, Tutum Mental Health. They were great teachers along the way as well. We would highly recommend this company.
Dave Sullivan
Jignesh and Heath provide an excellent service. My new website professionally reflects my product. One of my core requirements was the website needed to be easy to navigate and understand. My expectations were exceeded. All of my requests were promptly responded to and communicated back to me. I am not all that Tech savvy however, I was respected, and time was taken to explain some of the more complex issues with me. They are patient.
Leathercare Melbourne
Huge thanks to Growth Digital for an awesome website and SEO work! The team was super easy to work with, and the results speak for themselves — our site looks great, and we’re getting way more traffic. Highly recommend!
Antoinette Braybrook
Very thorough, responsive and supportive. I am new to Shopify and learning a lot from Heath. Thank you.
Karen Wykes
I’m thrilled with my new website from Growth Digital! It’s professional, easy to navigate, and loads quickly. The customer service was outstanding — every request was met with patience and efficiency. I highly recommend Growth Digital for website development!
Ioanna Panou
Growth digital has exceeded my expectations. I am very happy with my ecommerce website. Heath has always been very professional and I feel that it is a company that I can rely on for ongoing support.
Numbers
Real results. Real growth.
Behind every number is a successful partnership, measurable results and years of digital marketing expertise.
$580M+
Revenue Generated
Tracked across client stores and campaigns.
55,000+
Sales Generated
Orders driven through ecommerce builds and ads.
15,500+
Leads Generated
Qualified enquiries delivered to client inboxes.
$150M+
Ads Spend
Managed across Google, Meta and more.
250+
Clients Engaged
From sole traders to national brands.
20+
Team Members
Australian-led, with global specialists.
18+
Years of Experience
Senior people on every project.
10+
Years of Business
And still growing every year.
Where we work
Different cities, different stores.
Melbourne
Melbourne’s competitive retail categories mean even a short ranking or conversion dip during a rushed Shopify migration is genuinely costly — a competitor is ready to take that traffic the moment it slips. Redirect accuracy and checkout parity matter more here than in a less competitive market.
- High-competition retail migrations
- Checkout parity
- Rigorous redirect mapping
- Close ranking monitoring
- Zero-tolerance downtime
- Competitive-market risk management
Sydney
Sydney’s larger WooCommerce stores often carry years of order history, multiple payment gateways and a handful of enterprise-grade plugins with no direct Shopify equivalent, which means more custom app or Liquid development than a smaller store needs.
- Enterprise WooCommerce migration
- Multi-gateway payment migration
- Custom Liquid development
- Complex plugin replacement
- Years-of-order-history migration
- Enterprise account management
Brisbane
Growing Brisbane retailers moving off WooCommerce for the first time are usually chasing more reliable hosting and a checkout that doesn’t buckle during a sale, so the priority is a store that scales without the plugin juggling.
- Growth-stage store migrations
- Hosting-reliability upgrades
- Sale-ready checkout builds
- First-time platform moves
- Simplified app stack
- Foundational rebuilds
Perth
Some WA stores carry heavily customised WooCommerce builds with years of one-off plugin tweaks and little documentation, so discovery — figuring out what’s actually running the store before moving it — is a bigger share of the project.
- Custom-build migrations
- Undocumented plugin audits
- Trade & B2B store moves
- Old-build archaeology
- Careful data extraction
- Wholesale pricing migration
Adelaide
Adelaide’s smaller WooCommerce stores still need the same rigour on redirects, order history and payment gateway re-setup — cutting corners on a small store causes exactly the same kind of damage as on a large one.
- Small-store migrations
- Cost-conscious scoping
- Same-rigour redirects
- Local retailer migrations
- Right-sized app stack
- Data-integrity focus
Gold Coast
Tourism-adjacent and seasonal Gold Coast stores often can’t afford checkout downtime during peak booking or buying periods, so cutover timing gets planned carefully around the calendar, not just around the build schedule.
- Seasonal-retail migrations
- Peak-period cutover timing
- Product bundle migration
- Zero-downtime checkout
- Tourism-adjacent stores
- Careful cutover sequencing
Canberra
Government-adjacent and corporate WooCommerce stores in Canberra sometimes carry data-retention or procurement requirements that add planning steps beyond a standard retail migration.
- Compliance-aware migration
- Data-retention requirements
- Corporate & B2B stores
- Documented migration process
- Procurement-aware planning
- Regulatory-aware redirects
Hobart
Hobart stores selling food, produce or freight-dependent goods often have shipping and stock integrations that can’t have downtime during the move, so cutover sequencing gets the same rigour as a much larger mainland migration.
- Freight & shipping-integration migrations
- Produce & export store moves
- Statewide Tasmania migrations
- Same-rigour redirects
- Zero-downtime cutover
- Data-integrity focus
Ready to move to Shopify without losing anything?
Tell us what your WooCommerce store looks like today, and we’ll map out exactly what needs to happen. No cost, no obligation.
WooCommerce to Shopify migration, done properly
A WooCommerce migration is one of the higher-risk projects an ecommerce store goes through — plugin dependencies, payment gateways and years of order history all need to move without a gap. Done well, customers never notice; done badly, you lose rankings, orders or revenue, sometimes all three.
This migration lands you on our Shopify & Shopify Plus Development platform — see that page for what we build once you’re there.
We run this migration for stores across Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, the Gold Coast, Canberra and Hobart — the risk profile shifts from city to city, from zero-tolerance downtime in competitive Melbourne retail to rescuing undocumented plugin builds for WA stores.
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What does a WooCommerce to Shopify migration agency actually do?
Beyond moving products and data, most of the value is in the planning most stores don’t think to do themselves — auditing every plugin and custom function actually running the store, mapping WooCommerce categories and attributes to their Shopify equivalent, and rehearsing the full cutover on a staging environment before it happens for real. The migrations that go wrong are almost always missing one of these steps.
How long does a WooCommerce to Shopify migration take?
Most mid-market WooCommerce stores take 8 to 12 weeks. Stores with heavy plugin dependencies, active subscriptions, multiple payment gateways or years of order history sit at the longer end; simpler catalogues move faster.
Will I lose my Google rankings moving off WordPress?
Not if redirects are done properly. WordPress permalinks, category archives and tag pages need specific mapping to Shopify’s URL structure. We build the full redirect map, test it through a crawler pre-launch, migrate metadata and structured data, and monitor Search Console through the first few weeks post-launch.
What happens to WooCommerce Subscriptions?
Active subscriptions migrate to Shopify Subscriptions or a Shopify-native subscriptions app depending on complexity and your retention flow needs. Billing cycles, customer data and retention history are preserved, and we handle the renewal comms so existing subscribers don’t churn during the switch.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Will my store go offline during the migration?
No — your WooCommerce store keeps running and taking orders until the moment we cut over. We build the new Shopify store in parallel, migrate data in stages, and run a final sync the night before launch.
Can I keep WordPress for content and use Shopify for commerce?
Yes. Many WooCommerce stores don’t need to leave WordPress entirely — they’re mostly leaving WooCommerce the plugin. A headless WordPress content layer alongside Shopify commerce is a clean split if your editorial workflow depends on WordPress.
What happens to my WooCommerce plugins?
We audit every plugin running your store, document what each one does, and map it to a Shopify-native feature or app equivalent. Most plugin stacks shrink noticeably post-migration since Shopify covers more natively.
Do product variations survive the move?
Yes — WooCommerce product variations with variation-level SKUs migrate to Shopify variants, with the 100-variant-per-product ceiling planned around for catalogues that push against it.
Can you migrate order history?
Yes — full order history with line items, customer data and shipping metadata moves across, so your records stay complete and searchable in Shopify.
Is there a lock-in contract?
No — a migration is a one-off project. Ongoing support or Shopify management afterwards is billed separately and month to month.
What happens if something goes wrong after launch?
We monitor closely in the days immediately after cutover — orders, rankings, crawl errors, broken links — specifically to catch and fix issues fast. A proper rollback plan is also part of every migration as a safety net.
Do you only work with businesses in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, the Gold Coast, Canberra and Hobart?
No — those are simply the cities where migration risk and complexity differ enough to be worth calling out specifically. We handle WooCommerce to Shopify migrations for businesses anywhere in Australia; the plan is built around your actual store, wherever you are.