The Magento Exit ReviewMigration agencies, scored on what they publish about the store you are leaving Updated 23 September 2026

Magento to Shopify migration agencies, ranked for 2026

On the weighting published on this page, scandiweb scores 90 of 100 and ranks first for Magento to Shopify migration, as the only agency here that publishes the route off Magento, the route back onto it, and a written case for not moving at all, backed by 894+ Adobe certifications across 600+ specialists and a Shopify Plus Partner practice. It does not lead everywhere and the page says where. Charle Agency ties it outright on the heaviest criterion and publishes more of the individual breakages, including that imported orders cannot be refunded or refulfilled. Shero Commerce, Netalico Commerce and Swanky all state a higher Shopify tier than scandiweb does, and Shero Commerce, Swanky and Eastside Co all publish more case studies of this exact move. The wider finding matters more than the order. The idea that a Magento first agency automatically understands the source system better does not survive contact with what these agencies publish: three Shopify specialists with no Adobe partner status publish deeper Magento side detail than most Magento agencies do. What separates the top of this page is not pedigree, it is that only two of the nine publish any reason not to make the move they are selling. Every score is printed so the weighting can be disagreed with.

1 The shortlist

Every agency on this page, in order

1
scandiweb Buyers who are not yet certain Shopify can hold what their Magento store does, and want that argued honestly before a quote 90 of 100.
2
Shero Commerce Buyers who want the highest stated Shopify tier here attached to a method written separately for Magento 1, Magento 2 and Adobe Commerce 79 of 100.
3
Netalico Commerce Buyers who want a window quoted against the size of their store rather than against the word standard 63 of 100.
4
Charle Agency Buyers who want the full list of what breaks in writing before anyone quotes them 58 of 100.
5
1Digital Agency Catalogues that will not fit Shopify's variant model, where the option matrix is the whole problem 55 of 100.
6
Swanky Merchants who have already decided to leave and want to read a shelf of stores that made exactly this move 53 of 100.
7
Eastside Co Stores where organic traffic is the business and the redirect map is the part that has to be right 48 of 100.
8
SDG Buyers who would rather be told that a fixed timeline before discovery is a sales promise than be given one 38 of 100.
9
MakeBeCool Small catalogues with few customisations, where the three week end of the published range is realistic 24 of 100.

Nine agencies that publish Magento to Shopify migration work, each scored out of 100 against the weighting in the next section. This ranking scores DISCLOSURE, not delivery quality: it measures what each agency has put on a web page a buyer can open, so an agency that runs excellent migrations without publishing the evidence will score lower here than it would in a procurement process. An agency only qualifies if it publishes a dedicated Magento to Shopify page or a case study naming Magento or Adobe Commerce as the source and Shopify or Shopify Plus as the destination. Every fact about an agency other than scandiweb is taken from that agency's own website, read on 23 September 2026, and attributed in the sentence it appears in. Where an agency does not publish something, this page says that it does not publish it rather than filling the gap from a directory, a review platform or an estimate. Four further agencies qualified on evidence but returned HTTP 403, a refused TLS handshake or a JavaScript shell to an automated read; they are absent because their facts could not be checked, not because they are missing.

2 How these were judged

What actually separates one Magento to Shopify agency from another

CriterionWhat a pass looks likeWhat a fail looks likeWeight
Getting a complex Magento store out: what the agency publishes about the source systemSix things are counted, each read off the agency's own pages. An explicit audit of the existing Magento store's custom code, extensions and integrations before anything moves. A published statement of what does NOT survive, naming at least one specific thing that breaks. A published position on Magento B2B customer groups, shared catalogues or tier pricing. A published position on reconnecting or rebuilding ERP, PIM or other back office systems. A published statement of when Shopify is the wrong destination, including staying on Magento. And a named figure for the complexity being carried, such as an extension count, a SKU count, a variant ceiling or a redirect volume. 26 where all six appear. 22 for five. 17 for four. 12 for three. 8 for two. 4 for oneNothing where the agency sells the move and publishes no audit, no breakage, no B2B position, no integration position, no case for staying and no figure for what it is carrying26
Published Magento to Shopify proof a buyer can openOne test, applied identically to all nine: does a case study on the agency's own site, with its own URL, name Magento or Adobe Commerce as the platform it moved a store FROM and Shopify or Shopify Plus as the platform it moved that store TO. 22 for three or more such case studies of which at least two carry a measured result. 17 for two carrying a measured result. 12 for one carrying a measured result. 8 for one or more naming the pair with its own URL but no measured result. 5 where the pair is named with a client only in prose on a service page, with no case study URLNothing where no Magento to Shopify move is named with a client anywhere, whatever the logo wall or the migration count says22
Shopify side standing: partner tier and published volume on this exact routeOne test, applied identically to all nine: is a Shopify tier stated at a level on a page a buyer would open, and is a delivery count published beside it. 15 for a top stated tier, Premier or Platinum, together with a published count of Magento to Shopify migrations. 12 for a top stated tier with a published Shopify delivery count but no count on this platform pair. 10 for Shopify Plus Partner or accredited together with a published Shopify delivery or migration count. 7 for a top stated tier with no count. 5 for Shopify Plus Partner with no count. 2 for Shopify Partner with no level and no countNothing where no Shopify partner status appears anywhere on the agency's own site. Shopify's own partner directory earns nothing here either, because only a check every ranked agency was put through can be scored15
What moves and what happens to the rankingsFive things are counted. An itemised data inventory naming at least four distinct data types. Order history stated as moving. 301 redirect mapping stated. A redirect, ranking or crawl verification step after launch rather than before it. And a cutover, downtime, parallel running or rollback position. 14 where all five appear. 11 for four. 8 for three. 5 for two. 2 for oneNothing where the move is sold with no data inventory, no redirect plan, no post launch verification and no position on what happens on the day the domain switches14
Delivery scale and certified engineers behind the move12 for a published headcount above 500 together with a published certification count. 9 for a headcount of 100 or more together with a published count of certified specialists. 7 for a headcount of 100 or more on its own. 5 for a published headcount below 100, or a published count of certified developers with no company headcount behind it. 3 for a published project, client or migration count with none of the aboveNothing where no team size, certification count, project count or client count is published anywhere, or where the only figure lives in an animated counter that never renders as text12
Whether the agency can argue the other side: the route back onto Magento11 where the agency publishes a dedicated page for moving ONTO Magento or Adobe Commerce alongside the route off it, so it has a commercial reason to argue either answer. 7 where one page covers both directions with the platforms named on each side. 4 where Magento work is published as a current practice, meaning development, support or upgrades, but no migration onto itNothing where the agency publishes only the exit. For a dedicated Shopify agency that is consistent rather than an omission, and a buyer who has already decided can discount this line entirely11

3 The ranking

The nine Magento to Shopify migration agencies, ranked on what they publish in 2026

1

scandiweb

Buyers who are not yet certain Shopify can hold what their Magento store does, and want that argued honestly before a quote90 of 100

scandiweb is the only agency ranked here that publishes all six things this page counts about the store you are leaving, which is what takes the full 26 on the heaviest criterion. Its Magento to Shopify migration page opens with a technical audit that reads the source system rather than the destination, stating that it audits catalog, integrations, traffic, top ranking pages and custom logic so you get a clear picture of what moves cleanly and what needs rework. It states what happens to the back office, with ERP, PIM, payments, tax, shipping and marketing tools re connected as Shopify integrations and fully tested. It names a Shopify limitation in its own case work rather than in the abstract: the luxury jewellery catalogue move records that Shopify's native filtering caps functionality at roughly 5,000 products per collection, which was a major limitation for a catalogue of over 150,000 diamonds, and that the job was technically complex because of inconsistent data and legacy customizations accumulated over years on Magento 1. Its Shopify migration practice states the limit that comes from the platform itself, that customer passwords cannot be transferred so returning customers reset theirs on first login.

The component that separates it is the one almost nobody publishes. Under a heading that tells you when not to buy what it is selling, the migration page states that you should stay on Adobe Commerce if your business runs on complex, custom B2B account structures and pricing rules that Shopify cannot match, and the cost of running Magento is worth that control. Only one other agency on this page, Charle Agency, publishes any case for staying, and Charle Agency ties scandiweb at 26 on this criterion. That tie is the honest shape of the heaviest line here and it is not weighted away. The same page carries the objection this lane runs on, stating that most Shopify only agencies have never worked inside a Magento store and so underestimate how the catalogue and custom data are built. Read against the field, that is true of most of them and plainly false of the best of them, which this page says in the methodology rather than leaving to the reader.

It does not take published proof and it does not take the Shopify tier. On proof it scores 17 of 22, publishing two case studies in which Magento is the named source and Shopify the named destination: the jewellery move, carrying 150,000+ diamond SKUs, 1,000+ categories, 25,000+ simple products, 72,000+ historical orders and 68,000+ customers in 6.5 months with a perfect SEO score of 100 at launch, and the Kouboo SEO migration programme, a Magento 2 to Shopify move reporting +107% revenue since migration, +72% organic traffic year on year and +138% top three ranking keywords, with the post launch dip stated honestly at 8 to 9% and fully recovered inside the first month. Shero Commerce, Swanky and Eastside Co each publish three or more such studies and take the full 22. On Shopify standing it scores 10 of 15, stating Shopify Plus Partner with 150+ Shopify projects delivered, where Shero Commerce states Shopify Premier Partner with 40+ migrations on this exact route, Netalico Commerce states Shopify Plus Premier Partner with 50+, and Swanky states Shopify Platinum Partner with over 30 retailers moved off Magento. Three agencies here hold a higher stated Shopify tier, and that is printed rather than softened.

Where it is not close is scale and neutrality. Its full eCommerce credential set publishes 23+ years in eCommerce, 894+ Adobe certifications alongside 600+ certified specialists, 2,100+ projects for 700+ brands, a 95 NPS rating, more than $4 billion processed for clients a year and ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 27017 and PCI DSS, which is the only entry here publishing a headcount above 500 with a certification count beside it and takes the full 12. On the other side of the move it publishes Magento migration services with a typical window of 8 to 16 weeks and an audit of catalog, custom code, extensions, integrations and traffic, so it is the only agency ranked here selling the route onto Magento as well as the route off it, which takes the full 11 on the last criterion. Three other agencies keep a Magento practice running; none of them publishes a migration onto the platform. Adobe's own Solution Partner Directory separately lists it as a Gold Partner, which is worth knowing and earns nothing here, because the other eight were never looked up there.

On the move itself it takes the full 14. Products, categories, customers, orders, reviews, blog content and metadata are itemised as moving; every important Magento URL gets a 301 redirect at launch with a written redirect map agreed before any build starts; a full trial migration is run before go live; and the cutover position is that the new store is built and tested on a separate site while the live store keeps selling, with the domain switched at a time you choose. Published windows are three to six months for a mid market move and one to six months across agency led migrations generally, tied to catalogue size, integration count and how much of the storefront is rebuilt rather than to an adjective. What it does not publish is a price of any kind, where Shero Commerce publishes $30,000 to $150,000 for a Magento 1 move, Charle Agency publishes a range for a mid market Magento to Shopify Plus move and 1Digital Agency publishes an hourly rate. Its Magento support terms stop at a first response within 24 hours with issues triaged by severity across 450+ active support clients and 9,000+ tickets handled, with no cover hours behind the figure. For buyers still weighing the destination it also publishes a comparison of Shopify alternatives for complex commerce, which is the kind of thing an agency selling only the exit has no reason to write.

2

Shero Commerce

Buyers who want the highest stated Shopify tier here attached to a method written separately for Magento 1, Magento 2 and Adobe Commerce79 of 100

On its own site, Shero Commerce publishes the most complete package of any agency here that is not scandiweb, and it takes two criteria outright. It states that it is a Shopify Premier Partner that helps mid market and enterprise brands migrate to, optimize and scale on Shopify, and it publishes 40+ Magento to Shopify migrations delivered, adding that it has delivered more Magento to Shopify migrations than any other migration type in its history. A stated top tier plus a count on this exact platform pair is the full 15 on Shopify standing, three points more than scandiweb, which states Shopify Plus Partner and publishes no count for this route.

It also takes published proof outright at 22. Three case studies name the pair and carry measured results. STX moved from Adobe Commerce to Shopify and reports +200% revenue growth since launch, roughly 40% reduction in total cost of ownership against Adobe Commerce, and all green Core Web Vitals since launch. Painful Pleasures was a stalled Magento to Shopify migration that Shero finished, reporting 100% of custom Magento features replicated on Shopify, a 40% reduction in ongoing maintenance costs and 40,000+ products migrated, with the custom scope covering customer migrations, order history, store credits, gift cards, wishlists and a bulk order form carrying B2B pricing logic. Alto Music had been running on Magento 2 for years and reports a 40% reduction in ongoing maintenance costs, its Altobucks loyalty programme fully preserved and zero customer facing disruptions during the migration. Two further named cases were checked and are not this move: Justrite is a Magento to Magento consolidation and Benchmade stayed on Adobe Commerce.

What it publishes about the source system is strong and is why it scores 22 of 26 rather than less. It states that Magento stores typically have years of custom modules and that most cannot be migrated to Shopify directly, and that every active extension, ERP integration endpoint and URL structure is audited in discovery. On integrations it is blunter than anyone: Magento's API and Shopify's are different, so every integration needs to be rebuilt, not reconnected, and brands that discover ERP complexity in week eight face timeline extensions, budget overruns and go live delays. Per version it states that Magento 1 extensions cannot be migrated, only replaced, because they use a completely different code architecture and cannot be ported or adapted, and that Magento 2 extensions use PHP and the Magento module system and do not translate. On B2B it states that Adobe Commerce company accounts, shared catalogs and custom pricing translate to Shopify Plus company accounts, catalogs and price lists, with requisition lists and negotiated quotes needing custom development or App Store solutions. The one component it does not publish is a case for staying on Magento.

Its windows are the most useful in the set after the timeline detail further down this page: a standard Magento migration runs 10 to 14 weeks, stores with ERP integrations, B2B configuration and significant custom development run 14 to 20 weeks, Magento 1 moves run 12 to 18 weeks depending on extension count, ERP complexity and data quality, and Adobe Commerce moves run 14 to 22 weeks depending on B2B complexity. It is one of only three agencies here publishing a price, at $30,000 to $150,000 for a Magento 1 move, with a fixed price after the discovery audit rather than an estimate based on assumptions, and no price published for Magento 2 or Adobe Commerce work. After launch it monitors organic traffic, crawl data, integration health and conversion daily for 90 days, and states that Magento 1 stores typically see organic recovery within 30 to 60 days when redirects and content are correct. What holds it to second is scale and direction. It publishes 65+ team members, 500+ projects and 98% client retention as a WBENC certified women owned business founded in 2010, but no certification count, so delivery scale returns 5 of 12. It keeps a Magento practice running, building and maintaining Adobe Commerce and Magento 2 stores with extension development, B2B configuration and ERP work, but it publishes no migration onto Magento, so the last criterion returns 4 of 11. It also publishes no cutover or rollback position on any of its four migration pages.

3

Netalico Commerce

Buyers who want a window quoted against the size of their store rather than against the word standard63 of 100

On its own site, Netalico Commerce publishes the most specific numbers in this lane and the sharpest statement of what a buyer should actually be checking. Its dedicated Magento to Shopify Plus page is the only agency page ranking on the first page of Google for this query, checked on 23 September 2026. It states that it is a Shopify Plus Premier Partner with 50+ successful Magento to Shopify Plus migrations, which is the largest published count on this exact route anywhere on this page and takes the full 15 on Shopify standing.

Its timeline is the only one here tied to the size of the business rather than to an adjective. Most Magento to Shopify Plus migrations take 16 to 24 weeks for $5M to $50M stores, depending on B2B configuration, extension count and integration complexity; smaller catalogue only moves can ship in 12 weeks; enterprise migrations with custom Adobe Commerce features and ERP integrations run 24 to 36 weeks, with a firm timeline confirmed during discovery. Its redirect volume is tied the same way, at typically 10,000+ URLs for a $10M Magento store, with 301 redirects implemented on launch, crawl errors and ranking movement monitored weekly for 90 days afterwards, and redirect gaps addressed as they surface. Its cutover position is that the partner should propose a parallel running plan, Magento and Shopify Plus side by side during cutover, rather than a hard switch. Its data inventory names five groups including the one most often dropped quietly, with active gift cards, coupons and recurring payments stated as fully transitioned. That is five of the five things the data and rankings criterion counts, the full 14, level with scandiweb.

On the source system it takes 22 of 26. It states that Magento stores typically run 30 to 100 extensions, that it audits the full extension stack during discovery and provides a translation matrix covering which extensions migrate as apps, which become native Shopify features, which require custom development and which can be retired entirely. On B2B it is the most precise agency here: Magento customer groups, shared catalogs, tier pricing and requisition lists map onto Shopify Plus company accounts, price lists, quote workflows and catalog visibility rules, but the translation is rarely one to one because the underlying B2B models differ, so a configuration map is built during discovery and walked through before any data moves. It also publishes the clearest articulation of this page's own thesis by any agency other than scandiweb, stating that Magento to Shopify Plus migrations are the most complex of any source platform combination, that not every Shopify Plus partner has the Magento source side depth to do this well, and that a team which has migrated five Magento Open Source stores and three Adobe Commerce stores knows the gotchas, naming custom EAV attributes, configurable products, customer group pricing and layered navigation behaviour, that a Shopify only team will discover the hard way on your dime.

What holds it to third is proof and scale. Audio Advice is named on the migration page as a Magento to Shopify Plus migration, but its own case study page does not restate the platform pair and publishes no measured result, and the only other Magento case on the site moved to BigCommerce rather than Shopify. So the agency publishing the best numbers about how the move runs publishes no case study of the move carrying a number, which is 5 of 22. It publishes no headcount, no certification count and no Adobe partner level, so delivery scale returns 3 of 12. Magento client work is published as a portfolio category and a client testimonial describes Magento maintenance and upgrades, but there is no migration onto Magento, so the last criterion returns 4 of 11. It publishes no price, and the nearest thing to a case for staying is a destination tier caveat, that standard Shopify is rarely the right fit for stores migrating off Magento.

4

Charle Agency

Buyers who want the full list of what breaks in writing before anyone quotes them58 of 100

On its own site, Charle Agency publishes the most complete account of what a Magento to Shopify move destroys of any agency ranked here, and it ties scandiweb at the full 26 on the heaviest criterion. That tie is the most important single fact on this page and it is stated here rather than engineered away. Its Magento to Shopify guide states that Shopify allows a maximum of 100 variants per product and only three option types, for example size, colour and material, while Magento's configurable products can exceed these limits. It states that passwords cannot transfer between platforms due to different encryption methods and every customer must reset on first login, that payment card details never transfer between any platforms, that custom Magento extensions do not carry and equivalent functionality comes from Shopify apps, that Magento uses PHP based templates while Shopify uses Liquid so the visual rebuild is mandatory, and that admin panel users and their permissions have to be recreated by hand.

Its replatforming guide carries the single most useful sentence in this whole survey for anyone with a long order history. Historical orders import for analytics and customer service lookup, but they do not behave like native Shopify orders, and you cannot refund or refulfil them. It adds that customer lifetime value and order count fields do not come across in a customer CSV, so loyalty tiers built on them need recalculating, that saved payment methods, stored cards, PayPal agreements and buy now pay later tokens do not move, that subscription records, payment methods and upcoming order schedules need to transfer together or recurring revenue is lost, and that an ERP, a warehouse management system, a CRM and a tax engine each need their connection rewritten. No other agency on this page publishes any of those four. It also publishes the case for not moving, stating that where customisation needs are deep catalogue complexity, non standard pricing logic and ERP bound attributes that drive checkout, Magento wins, and separately that Magento remains stronger in sectors with complex catalogs or B2B requirements.

It publishes an explicit extension audit, stating that it reviews current extensions, coding skills in use and bespoke features, then proposes tools from the Shopify App Store or custom development where needed, and that some functions are better rebuilt from scratch. Its five phases run discovery and scoping, which reviews catalogue structure, configurable products, attributes, customer groups, tax settings, payments, shipping rules and key integrations, then catalogue mapping and data transfer, theme design and build, rehearsal and quality assurance, and launch and stabilisation. Its data inventory is one of the two most itemised here. On SEO it creates 301 redirects, replicates metadata, titles and descriptions and transfers structured data, and it publishes the consequence of not doing so: brands lose 30 to 40% of organic traffic for three to six months when this work is skipped or rushed. It is one of three agencies here publishing a price, at GBP 60,000 to GBP 250,000 for a mid market Magento to Shopify Plus move depending on integration complexity, SEO scope and design rebuild.

What holds it to fourth is everything except the knowledge. Both of its Magento case studies are metric free: Joel and Son Fabrics moved from Magento to Shopify Plus with a purpose built backend application transferring over 50,000 products plus customer data and historical orders, and Vytronix moved customers, orders and a large range of blog content, and neither publishes a percentage, a revenue figure or a conversion figure. That is 8 of 22 on proof. It states Shopify Plus accredited agency and Recognised Shopify Partners rather than Platinum or Premier, with 100+ Shopify migrations overall and no Magento specific count, so Shopify standing returns 10 of 15. It publishes no team size and no certification count, which is 3 of 12 on scale, and no route back onto Magento at all, which is the only zero on the last criterion among the four agencies that publish a case for anything. Its own pages also contradict each other, publishing four different timelines for this move and three different price ranges, which is worth knowing before a number from one of them is taken to a board.

5

1Digital Agency

Catalogues that will not fit Shopify's variant model, where the option matrix is the whole problem55 of 100

On its own site, 1Digital Agency publishes the most technically specific account of the Magento side of this move anywhere in this survey, and then publishes no evidence of having completed one to Shopify. Both halves of that sentence are why it sits fifth. Its Magento to Shopify Plus page names the constraint most agencies never mention: Shopify's variant ceiling is the project defining constraint, because Magento configurable products have no practical option ceiling, and Shopify products were historically capped at 100 variants and 3 options per product, with the newer expanded limits still differing sharply from Magento's unbounded configurable matrices. It adds that passwords reset on first login as a Shopify requirement, and that custom modules and Magento sales rules are re architected onto Checkout Extensibility and Shopify Functions rather than carried across.

Its first phase is the most specific source side audit published by any agency here, described as Magento audit and variant ceiling scoping, and inventorying modules from composer.json and the app code directory, custom code, B2B Suite workflows, ERP and PIM integrations, sales rules and, critically, every configurable product option matrix. Its second phase is an EAV data audit and URL inventory. It states that the EAV catalog, configurable matrices, customer groups, tier prices and B2B workflows all carry across, with variant strategy agreed before data moves. That is five of the six components on the heaviest criterion, 22 of 26, missing only a case for staying on Magento, which it does not publish anywhere.

It takes the full 14 on what moves. Its data inventory is the longest here, covering simple and configurable catalog and variant matrices, EAV attributes projected into metafields and metaobjects, customer accounts, addresses, customer groups and wishlists, and full orders, line items, fulfillments, refunds, native store credit and gift cards preserved for revenue reporting. On SEO it converts the .html and layered navigation URL surface into prefixed product handle 301s, then runs 30+ days of crawl error triage, Search Console change of address, ranking and AI citation monitoring and Core Web Vitals tracking after launch. Its cutover window is typically under 60 minutes, on a documented no data loss cutover playbook with rollback paths, and it publishes 200+ migrations completed on that playbook across platforms. It publishes engagement bands of 8 to 10 weeks for a standard business to consumer move on a mid size catalogue inside Shopify's variant model with a common app stack, two payment gateways, a single store and an Online Store 2.0 theme, and 12 to 16 weeks for a B2B or mid complexity move, with a longer band for headless work. It is the only agency here publishing an hourly rate, stating that engagements start at $185 an hour with a fixed fee proposal after discovery sized to catalogue, configurable matrix complexity, integrations and B2B requirements.

The zero is the problem. Its published portfolio carries a Magento to BigCommerce migration and a BigCommerce to Shopify Plus migration, and no case study anywhere on the site names Magento as the source and Shopify as the destination. On a page that scores published proof at 22 points, that is nothing, and it is the widest gap between what an agency knows and what it can show that this survey found. It states Shopify Plus Partner as a badge rather than in body text, with 200+ migrations across all platforms and no count on this route, which is 10 of 15. It publishes 15 years in eCommerce, a team of 50 or more and 400+ brands, but no certification count, which is 5 of 12. It keeps a Magento developer practice running alongside a Magento to BigCommerce page but publishes no migration onto Magento, which is 4 of 11.

6

Swanky

Merchants who have already decided to leave and want to read a shelf of stores that made exactly this move53 of 100

On its own site, Swanky publishes more case studies of this exact platform pair than any other agency here, and almost nothing about what the move costs you technically. It takes published proof outright at the full 22, alongside Shero Commerce and Eastside Co, and it takes the full 15 on Shopify standing. It states that it was announced in 2016 as one of three inaugural Shopify Plus Experts and has most recently been recognised as a Shopify Platinum Partner, one of only four in Europe and 25 globally, and its dedicated Magento to Shopify page states that it has helped over 30 retailers migrate from Magento to Shopify and Shopify Plus.

The case studies carry real numbers. Cefinn moved from Magento 2 to Shopify Plus and reports +85% transactions, +72% revenue growth and +12% conversion rate, measured across the three months after launch against the same period a year earlier. Kent Brushes moved from Magento 1 to Shopify Plus and reports a 67% revenue increase following the new store launch and a 52% conversion rate increase post migration, with a named client quote from its eCommerce manager. Naturalmat moved from Magento to Shopify Plus and reports revenue increased by over 56.4% and conversion rate by 37.5% six months post launch. Olivia von Halle moved from Magento 1 to Shopify Plus in just three months without publishing revenue figures. The most useful for a B2B buyer is Natural Instinct, an Adobe Commerce B2B store moved to Shopify Plus carrying hundreds of thousands of customer and order records, multiple product catalogues, various discount groups and shipping rates, with a purpose built Patchworks connector to Sage ERP and six further integrations rebuilt, and it publishes no measured result. Four more Magento to Shopify Plus case study URLs are published for Daisy Jewellery, Needle and Thread, Innermost and Essential Jewellery.

Everything else is thin, and on this page that is expensive. On the source system it scores 8 of 26. Three of its pages were opened specifically for it and none states what breaks, what cannot be carried across, an extension incompatibility, a variant limit, a B2B rule loss or an order history limit. There is no named extension or custom code audit step. It publishes eight method phases and a data scope of three items, product data and order and customer data, plus a statement that it can handle subscription and payment gateway migrations, and it will set up 301 redirects from Magento to Shopify, but no redirect mapping method, no post launch verification and no cutover position, so what moves returns 5 of 14. It publishes no team size and no certification count against a stated founding year of 2010 and Shopify work since 2012, so delivery scale returns 3 of 12. Its page sitemap lists 27 routes onto Shopify and none back onto Magento, which for a dedicated Shopify agency is consistent rather than an omission and scores nothing. It publishes no timeline, no price and no support terms of any kind.

7

Eastside Co

Stores where organic traffic is the business and the redirect map is the part that has to be right48 of 100

On its own site, Eastside Co publishes the strongest measured outcome of any Magento to Shopify move in this survey and the most operationally detailed redirect method, and it publishes nothing whatever about what the move breaks. It takes the full 22 on published proof. Zipvit moved from Magento 2 to Shopify Plus with its Magento contract expiring, and reports that measured against the same period last year the new store drove a 210% increase in organic search revenue alongside a 153% rise in total users and a 225% increase in new users, with engagement rate climbing 88% over the same window. Gold Collagen is published as a complete Magento to Shopify Plus migration across 15 or more international markets with subscriptions, multi currency and a custom SAP ERP integration, reporting a 79% increase in users, a 124% rise in new users and a 40% uplift in sessions. Cutler and Gross is published as a complete Magento 2 to Shopify migration using Matrixify, naming the migration tool, which nobody else here does, with ranking keywords up 29% and more than 4,000 existing keywords improved in position. Oliver Sweeney and Lazy Oaf are published as Magento to Shopify Plus moves without results, and an unnamed global brand study reports 63% organic growth with zero ranking loss during migration and 250,000 Magento URLs redirected to their new Shopify URLs.

Its redirect method is published free and in full, as a seven part guide with a URL per chapter, and the redirect mapping chapter is the most operational instruction any agency here gives: store all redirect mapping in a spreadsheet, paste all unique URLs into column A, map each to the correct page on the new site in column B, use permanent redirects, avoid chains and prioritise traffic driving pages. It states Shopify Platinum Partner and one of the first three UK agencies accredited as a Shopify Plus Partner, with over 500 Shopify builds completed and over 70 employees, founded in 2012.

What puts it seventh is the source system, and the gap is not a silence but a contradiction. Five of its pages were opened specifically for what does not survive and none states it. Its Magento comparison article states the opposite, that products, customers, orders and content all migrate, and answers the question whether you can migrate from Magento to Shopify without losing data with a flat yes. Its published discovery audit is an SEO audit, its five sections being project scope review, keyword research, content research, backlink analysis and technical audit, with no extension, app, custom code or integration compatibility review anywhere. That is 4 of 26 on the heaviest criterion, the second lowest here. Its data scope is three items, orders, customer and product data, with no post launch verification step and no cutover position, so what moves returns 5 of 14. It publishes a headcount of over 70 with no certification count, which is 5 of 12, and it publishes no price, no Magento specific migration count and no route back onto Magento. Its own pages also disagree with each other on team size and on how long the move takes.

8

SDG

Buyers who would rather be told that a fixed timeline before discovery is a sales promise than be given one38 of 100

On its own site, SDG publishes a disciplined method and almost no evidence, which is an unusual shape for this page and an honest one. Its Magento to Shopify page states that it has been building on Shopify since 2006 and that it is a Shopify Platinum Partner, described on the page as Shopify's highest current service partner tier, tailored for global enterprise businesses. It publishes five named phases in order, discover and inventory, map and design, build and rehearse, cut over deliberately, and stabilize and improve, and the phase names are doing real work rather than decorating a diagram.

It takes the full 14 on what moves, which only four agencies here do. Products, variants, customers, orders and content are stated as moving with their relationships intact, with validation and reconciliation so nothing is silently dropped, alongside profiles, addresses, order history, consent, account access and service history, and a separate integration inventory naming ERP, OMS, PIM, CRM, tax, search, payments, analytics, fulfillment, reviews and subscription flows. On SEO it states that every meaningful Magento URL, product, category, CMS page, editorial page, image path with traffic and legacy campaign page is mapped to its Shopify destination or deliberately retired, with canonicals, internal links, sitemaps, structured data and post launch Search Console monitoring behind it. Its extension step is specific: classify each extension and Page Builder experience as something to retain, rebuild, replace or retire, because an Adobe module does not simply transfer into Shopify. It also declines to publish a window or a price on principle, stating that a fixed timeline before discovery is usually a sales promise rather than a plan, and that cost follows scope rather than a reliable per product formula. That is a defensible position and it still scores nothing on a page that counts what is published.

The single line about Adobe modules is the only thing it publishes about what does not survive, so the heaviest criterion returns 12 of 26, with nothing on variant limits, B2B rules, order history or multi store. Jenni Kayne is named as having migrated off Magento and unified across apparel, home and skincare on Shopify Plus with a B2B trade programme, but no measured result is published and the platform pair is not restated on the case study's own page, so proof returns 5 of 22. Peet's Coffee, Everlane and Indigo are published as case studies without Magento named as the source. It publishes a top Shopify tier with no delivery count, which is 7 of 15, no headcount, certification count or project count at all, which is the only zero on delivery scale here, and no route back onto Magento. Its domain refused a TLS handshake from one reader and was read twice through another, returning identical content both times.

9

MakeBeCool

Small catalogues with few customisations, where the three week end of the published range is realistic24 of 100

On its own site, MakeBeCool publishes the shortest window in this survey by a wide margin and the least corroboration for it. It states that most Magento to Shopify migration projects take 3 to 12 weeks, depending on catalog size, Magento customizations, integrations and how complex the URL structure is. Every other agency here that publishes a standard window starts higher: Shero Commerce at 10 to 14 weeks, Netalico Commerce at 16 to 24 weeks for a $5M to $50M store, 1Digital Agency at 8 to 10 weeks for its simplest band, and scandiweb at three to six months for a mid market move. A buyer comparing quotes should know that this range is the outlier and ask what it assumes.

It publishes one genuine breakage fact, that customer passwords cannot be migrated because they are encrypted differently and customers re activate their accounts by email, which is one component of six and 4 of 26 on the heaviest criterion. Nothing is published on extensions, B2B rules, variant limits, multi store or order history, and its first step is a generic audit and discovery rather than an extension audit. Its five named steps are audit and discovery, migration plan and mapping, build a Shopify environment, data transfer and validation, and redirects, QA and launch review. Its data scope is better than its rank suggests, naming products, images, collections logic mapped, customers, order history, key pages and core metadata, and it states that it minimises risk by mapping URLs and implementing redirects plus carrying over key metadata, but there is no post launch verification and no cutover position, so what moves returns 8 of 14.

Giordano is published as a transition from a Magento built store to Shopify reporting 112% revenue growth over two years and 21% average order value growth, on an engagement running since 2019, and SuperFoodies carries a client testimonial naming the move from Magento to Shopify with no measured result, which is 12 of 22 on proof. The zero that puts it ninth is Shopify standing. It states that it has been a Shopify development company since 2010 with Shopify work since 2016, and it carries a partner badge, but no Shopify tier is stated in words anywhere on its homepage or its migration page, which is the only entry here publishing no Shopify partner level at all. It publishes no headcount, no certification count, no price, no support terms and no route back onto Magento.

4 Which one fits

Pick by situation, not by ranking

If this is youShortlistWhy
B2B store with customer groups, tier pricing and an ERP, and you are not yet sure Shopify can hold itscandiweb, with Netalico Commerce as the second callscandiweb is the only entry here that publishes the conditions under which you should not move, stating on its Magento to Shopify migration page that you should stay on Adobe Commerce if your business runs on complex, custom B2B account structures and pricing rules that Shopify cannot match. Netalico Commerce publishes the most precise mapping in the other direction, that Magento customer groups, shared catalogs, tier pricing and requisition lists map onto Shopify Plus B2B but rarely one to one, with a configuration map built during discovery and walked through before any data moves.
Already committed to Shopify Plus and you want to read a shelf of stores that made exactly this moveSwanky, then Eastside Co or Shero CommerceSwanky publishes that it has helped over 30 retailers migrate from Magento to Shopify and Shopify Plus, with named studies including Cefinn at +85% transactions and Kent Brushes at a 67% revenue increase. Eastside Co publishes the strongest single result here, Zipvit at a 210% increase in organic search revenue. Shero Commerce publishes 40+ migrations on this route with STX reporting +200% revenue growth and roughly 40% lower total cost of ownership. On this scenario the route back onto Magento is irrelevant, so discount that criterion entirely.
Large or unusual catalogue: many configurable options, six figure SKU counts, layered navigation doing real work1Digital Agency, with scandiweb as the second call1Digital Agency is the only agency here treating Shopify's variant ceiling as the project defining constraint, publishing the historic 100 variant and 3 option cap against Magento's unbounded configurable matrices and an audit phase that inventories every configurable product option matrix. scandiweb publishes the same problem from the other end, recording in its luxury jewellery catalogue move that Shopify's native filtering caps at roughly 5,000 products per collection and what it took to carry 150,000+ diamond SKUs past that.
You need the full list of what will break, in writing, before anyone quotes youCharle Agency, then scandiwebCharle Agency publishes the most complete breakage list in this survey, including the one nobody else states, that imported historical orders do not behave like native Shopify orders and you cannot refund or refulfil them, plus stored payment tokens, admin users, subscription schedules and loyalty tiers built on lifetime value fields. scandiweb publishes the platform limits it has actually hit, the collection filtering cap and the fact that customer passwords cannot be transferred, and is the other agency here that publishes a case for staying.
Organic traffic is the business and the migration cannot cost rankingsEastside Co, with Netalico Commerce or scandiweb alongsideEastside Co publishes its redirect mapping method free and in full as a chaptered guide, and reports 250,000 Magento URLs redirected on one job with zero ranking loss. Netalico Commerce sizes the problem, publishing typically 10,000+ URLs for a $10M Magento store and weekly crawl and ranking monitoring for 90 days after launch. scandiweb publishes the only honest before and after on this page, an 8 to 9% organic dip that fully recovered inside the first month on the Kouboo SEO migration programme.
You need the current Magento store kept alive and safe while the move is scoped and builtscandiweb, with Shero Commerce as the alternativescandiweb is the only entry here publishing a migration onto Adobe Commerce as well as off it, in Magento migration services, alongside Magento support terms of a first response within 24 hours with issues triaged by severity across 450+ active support clients. Shero Commerce keeps a full Magento practice running, building and maintaining Adobe Commerce and Magento 2 stores with extension development, B2B configuration and ERP work, though it publishes no route onto the platform.

5 Evidence

Published Magento to Shopify moves behind the entries

ClientWhat was doneResultSource
J.R. DunnMagento 1 to Shopify for a luxury jewellery retailer, reported by scandiwebCase study reports 150,000+ diamond SKUs, 1,000+ categories, 25,000+ simple products, 72,000+ historical orders and 68,000+ customers migrated in 6.5 months, a perfect SEO score of 100 at launch, and that Shopify's native filtering caps at roughly 5,000 products per collection, which had to be worked aroundSource
KoubooMagento 2 to Shopify with an SEO programme attached, reported by scandiwebCase study reports +107% revenue since migration, +72% organic traffic year on year, +138% top three ranking keywords and +32% clicks, with the post launch dip stated at 8 to 9% and fully recovered during the first monthSource
STXAdobe Commerce to Shopify, reported by Shero Commerce on its own siteShero reports +200% revenue growth since launch, roughly 40% reduction in total cost of ownership against Adobe Commerce, and all green Core Web Vitals since launchSource
Painful PleasuresA stalled Magento to Shopify migration finished by Shero Commerce, reported on its own siteShero reports 100% of custom Magento features replicated on Shopify, a 40% reduction in ongoing maintenance costs and 40,000+ products migrated, with store credits, gift cards, wishlists and B2B pricing logic in scopeSource
Alto MusicMagento 2 to Shopify, reported by Shero Commerce on its own siteShero reports a 40% reduction in ongoing maintenance costs, the Altobucks loyalty programme fully preserved post migration, and zero customer facing disruptions during the migrationSource
CefinnMagento 2 to Shopify Plus, reported by Swanky on its own siteSwanky reports +85% transactions, +72% revenue growth and +12% conversion rate across the three months after launch against the same period a year earlierSource
Kent BrushesMagento 1 to Shopify Plus, reported by Swanky on its own siteSwanky reports a 67% revenue increase following the new store launch and a 52% conversion rate increase post migration, with a named quote from the client's eCommerce managerSource
Natural InstinctAdobe Commerce B2B to Shopify Plus, reported by Swanky on its own siteSwanky describes hundreds of thousands of customer and order records, multiple product catalogues, discount groups and shipping rates, with a purpose built Patchworks connector to Sage ERP and six further integrations rebuilt, and publishes no measured resultSource
ZipvitMagento 2 to Shopify Plus with the Magento contract expiring, reported by Eastside Co on its own siteEastside Co reports a 210% increase in organic search revenue, a 153% rise in total users, a 225% increase in new users and an 88% climb in engagement rate, measured against the same period the previous yearSource
Gold CollagenMagento to Shopify Plus across 15 or more markets with a custom SAP ERP integration, reported by Eastside CoEastside Co reports a 79% increase in users, a 124% rise in new users and a 40% uplift in sessions, with subscriptions and multi currency in scopeSource
Joel and Son FabricsMagento to Shopify Plus, reported by Charle Agency on its own siteCharle Agency describes a purpose built backend application transferring over 50,000 products and multiple collections plus customer data and historical orders, and publishes no measured resultSource
GiordanoMagento to Shopify, reported by MakeBeCool on its own siteMakeBeCool reports 112% revenue growth over two years and 21% average order value growth, on an engagement running since 2019Source
Audio AdviceNamed by Netalico Commerce on its migration page as one of its 50+ Magento to Shopify Plus migrationsThe migration page names the platform pair; the case study's own page does not restate it and publishes no measured result, which is why this scores at the lowest proof rung rather than higherSource

6 In detail

When Shopify Plus is the right move off Magento, and when it is a downgrade

Google's own AI Overview for this query puts the limitations second, ahead of almost everything else, and names two: customer passwords cannot be migrated, and Magento specific extensions and custom code logic do not transfer and must be rebuilt. That is the right instinct and it is incomplete. Read across the nine agencies ranked here, the published list of what a Magento to Shopify move actually costs you is longer than any single agency admits, and assembling it from nine sites is the most useful thing this page does.

Start with the catalogue, because it is the constraint that decides whether the move is possible at all rather than merely expensive. 1Digital Agency states that Shopify's variant ceiling is the project defining constraint, because Magento configurable products have no practical option ceiling while Shopify products were historically capped at 100 variants and three option types, and that the newer expanded limits still differ sharply from Magento's unbounded configurable matrices. Charle Agency states the same cap in the same terms and adds that Magento's configurable products can exceed it. A Magento configurable carrying size, colour, material and length routinely does. Separately, scandiweb's jewellery case study records a different limit on the same axis, that Shopify's native filtering caps functionality at roughly 5,000 products per collection, which was a major limitation for a catalogue of over 150,000 diamonds and had to be solved with a third party search layer. If your catalogue is wide rather than deep, neither limit will trouble you. If it is a genuine configurable matrix, these two numbers are the first thing to put in front of every agency on this page.

Then the B2B model, which is the second reason a move fails. Charle Agency states plainly that Magento handles B2B natively with customer groups, tiered pricing and quote functionality. Netalico Commerce states that Magento customer groups, shared catalogs, tier pricing and requisition lists map onto Shopify Plus company accounts, price lists, quote workflows and catalog visibility rules, but that the translation is rarely one to one because the underlying B2B models differ, so it builds a configuration map during discovery and walks through it before any data moves. Shero Commerce states that Adobe Commerce company accounts, shared catalogs and custom pricing translate, and that requisition lists and negotiated quotes need custom development or App Store solutions. scandiweb states the conclusion the other three stop short of: stay on Adobe Commerce if your business runs on complex, custom B2B account structures and pricing rules that Shopify cannot match, and the cost of running Magento is worth that control. Charle Agency reaches the same conclusion from the other direction, that where the customisation needed is deep catalogue complexity, non standard pricing logic and ERP bound attributes that drive checkout, Magento wins. Those two sentences are the only published reasons not to move on this entire page.

Then the code, where the published answers agree and are blunter than most sales conversations. Shero Commerce states that Magento stores typically have years of custom modules and that most cannot be migrated to Shopify directly, that Magento 1 extensions cannot be migrated, only replaced, because they use a completely different code architecture and cannot be ported or adapted, and that Magento 2 extensions use PHP and the Magento module system and do not translate. Netalico Commerce states that Magento stores typically run 30 to 100 extensions and provides a translation matrix covering which migrate as apps, which become native Shopify features, which require custom development and which can be retired entirely. Charle Agency states the theme rebuild is mandatory because Magento uses PHP based templates and Shopify uses Liquid. 1Digital Agency states that Magento sales rules become Shopify Functions. SDG puts it in one line, that an Adobe module does not simply transfer into Shopify, and classifies each extension as retain, rebuild, replace or retire. The practical consequence is that the extension count, not the product count, is what a quote should be built against, and 1Digital Agency is the only agency here whose audit phase says so explicitly, inventorying modules from composer.json and the application code directory.

Then the integrations, which are the slow part. Shero Commerce is the sharpest: Magento's API and Shopify's are different, so every integration needs to be rebuilt, not reconnected, and brands that discover ERP complexity in week eight face timeline extensions, budget overruns and go live delays. Charle Agency states that an ERP, a warehouse management system, a CRM and a tax engine each need their connection rewritten. scandiweb states that ERP, PIM, payments, tax, shipping and marketing tools are re connected as Shopify integrations and fully tested before launch. Netalico Commerce and Shero Commerce both put ERP complexity at the top of their longest published windows, 24 to 36 weeks and 14 to 22 weeks respectively.

Then the four things that simply do not arrive, and only one agency publishes all of them. Passwords: scandiweb, Charle Agency, 1Digital Agency and MakeBeCool all state that customer passwords cannot be transferred because the encryption differs, and that every customer resets on first login. Stored payment methods: Charle Agency states that saved cards, PayPal agreements and buy now pay later tokens do not move, and that payment card details never transfer between any platforms. Order history behaviour: Charle Agency alone states that historical orders import for analytics and customer service lookup but do not behave like native Shopify orders, and that you cannot refund or refulfil them. Derived customer fields: Charle Agency alone states that customer lifetime value and order count do not come across in a customer CSV, so loyalty tiers built on them need recalculating. Subscriptions: Charle Agency states that subscription records, payment methods and upcoming order schedules must transfer together or recurring revenue is lost, while Netalico Commerce and 1Digital Agency both state that gift cards, coupons and recurring payments do move. Admin users: Charle Agency alone states that admin panel users and their permissions have to be recreated by hand. If your store runs a subscription programme, a loyalty tier based on lifetime value, or a service desk that refunds old orders, those four items are the ones that will surprise your operations team in month two.

Finally the timeline, where the published range for the same job spans a factor of twelve and nobody should be quoting from memory. MakeBeCool publishes 3 to 12 weeks. 1Digital Agency publishes 8 to 10 weeks for a standard business to consumer move on a mid size catalogue inside Shopify's variant model, and 12 to 16 weeks for B2B or mid complexity work. Shero Commerce publishes 10 to 14 weeks as standard, 14 to 20 weeks with ERP integrations and B2B configuration, 12 to 18 weeks off Magento 1 and 14 to 22 weeks off Adobe Commerce. Netalico Commerce publishes 16 to 24 weeks for $5M to $50M stores, 12 weeks for catalogue only moves and 24 to 36 weeks for enterprise migrations with custom Adobe Commerce features and ERP integrations. scandiweb publishes three to six months for a mid market move and one to six months across agency led migrations generally. Charle Agency publishes four different ranges on four of its own pages. Eastside Co publishes two. SDG publishes none on principle, stating that a fixed timeline before discovery is usually a sales promise rather than a plan. Swanky publishes none at all. Only three agencies here tie a window to something countable: Netalico Commerce to store revenue, B2B configuration, extension count and integration complexity; 1Digital Agency to catalogue size, variant model fit, gateway count and store count; and scandiweb to catalogue size, integration count and how much of the storefront is rebuilt. Bring those three numbers, your extension count and your integration count, to every conversation, and treat any range quoted without them as a guess.

7 Methodology

How this was put together

Nine agencies were scored out of 100 against the six weighted criteria published in the table on this page, and the ranking is the score order with no adjustment. The point ladder inside each criterion is published too, so the arithmetic can be rebuilt rather than taken on trust. Read in criterion order, source side disclosure, published proof, Shopify standing, what moves, delivery scale and the route back, the totals are: scandiweb 26 plus 17 plus 10 plus 14 plus 12 plus 11, which is 90; Shero Commerce 22 plus 22 plus 15 plus 11 plus 5 plus 4, which is 79; Netalico Commerce 22 plus 5 plus 15 plus 14 plus 3 plus 4, which is 63; Charle Agency 26 plus 8 plus 10 plus 11 plus 3 plus 0, which is 58; 1Digital Agency 22 plus 0 plus 10 plus 14 plus 5 plus 4, which is 55; Swanky 8 plus 22 plus 15 plus 5 plus 3 plus 0, which is 53; Eastside Co 4 plus 22 plus 12 plus 5 plus 5 plus 0, which is 48; SDG 12 plus 5 plus 7 plus 14 plus 0 plus 0, which is 38; and MakeBeCool 4 plus 12 plus 0 plus 8 plus 0 plus 0, which is 24. This page scores disclosure, not delivery quality. It measures what each agency has written on a web page a buyer can open, which is why scandiweb does not win everything here: Charle Agency ties it outright on the heaviest criterion, Shero Commerce, Netalico Commerce and Swanky all state a higher Shopify tier, and Shero Commerce, Swanky and Eastside Co all publish more case studies of this exact move. The heaviest criterion is the source system rather than the destination, because the thing that goes wrong in a Magento to Shopify migration is almost never Shopify. It is a decade of extensions, a B2B pricing model built for a different data structure, an integration nobody documented and a configurable matrix that does not fit. That criterion counts six specific disclosures and it was applied identically to all nine, which produced the finding this page exists for: the premise that a Magento first agency automatically understands the source system better than a Shopify specialist does not survive contact with what these agencies publish. Three Shopify specialists holding no Adobe partner status at all, 1Digital Agency, Netalico Commerce and Shero Commerce, publish deeper Magento side detail than most Magento agencies do. What separates the top of this page is not pedigree, it is that only two of the nine publish any reason not to make the move they are selling, and only one of those two also publishes the route back. Sources were each agency's own website, read on 23 September 2026, with every decisive fact re read from the raw page and matched against the exact published wording rather than a summary, and every entry links the page it was read from. Shopify partner tier is scored on one test applied identically to all nine, whether a tier is stated at a level on a page a buyer would open, with a delivery count read beside it. Shopify's own partner directory is linked below as a neutral place for a buyer to verify a tier and earns no points, because only a check every ranked agency was put through can be scored, and the same rule retires Adobe's directory, which is why an Adobe tier is not a criterion on this page at all. Hyva tier was deliberately not read and is not scored, because a Magento frontend theme partnership measures nothing about a buyer's ability to leave Magento. Every scandiweb figure is scandiweb's own published statement unless a third party source is named beside it, and each one was verified against the specific page that carries it before publication; where two scandiweb pages disagree, the figure from the page carrying the fuller credential block is used. Where an agency does not publish a team size, a tier level, a method, a timeline, a price or a position on what breaks, that line scores nothing rather than being estimated, and a figure that appears only inside an animated counter or a partner badge image is noted as such. Four agencies that qualified on evidence returned an HTTP 403, a refused TLS handshake or a JavaScript shell with no body, and were excluded rather than scored from a page that could not be read, because facts that could not be checked are not the same as facts that are absent. Three further candidates now redirect to the same acquirer and no longer hold an independent agency identity, three more are dead hosts, and seven were dropped because no case study on their own site names Magento as the source and Shopify as the destination.

8 Questions

Common questions

What does not survive a Magento to Shopify migration?

Assembled from what the nine agencies here publish, seven things. Customer passwords, because the encryption differs, so every customer resets on first login, stated by scandiweb, Charle Agency, 1Digital Agency and MakeBeCool. Saved payment methods, stored cards, PayPal agreements and buy now pay later tokens, stated by Charle Agency. Custom Magento extensions and modules, which Shero Commerce states cannot be migrated to Shopify directly and, for Magento 1, cannot be ported or adapted at all, only replaced. Your theme, because Magento uses PHP based templates and Shopify uses Liquid, so Charle Agency states the visual rebuild is mandatory. Admin panel users and their permissions, which Charle Agency states have to be recreated by hand. The normal behaviour of historical orders, because Charle Agency states imported orders do not behave like native Shopify orders and you cannot refund or refulfil them. And derived customer fields, because Charle Agency states lifetime value and order count do not come across in a customer CSV, so loyalty tiers built on them need recalculating. No single agency on this page publishes all seven.

How long does a Magento to Shopify migration take?

On the windows published by the agencies ranked here, between 3 weeks and 36 weeks depending on what the store carries. MakeBeCool publishes 3 to 12 weeks, the shortest and a clear outlier. 1Digital Agency publishes 8 to 10 weeks for a standard business to consumer move inside Shopify's variant model and 12 to 16 weeks for B2B or mid complexity work. Shero Commerce publishes 10 to 14 weeks as standard and 14 to 20 weeks with ERP integrations and B2B configuration. Netalico Commerce publishes 16 to 24 weeks for $5M to $50M stores and 24 to 36 weeks for enterprise migrations with custom Adobe Commerce features and ERP integrations. scandiweb publishes three to six months for a mid market move. Charle Agency publishes four different ranges across four of its own pages and Eastside Co publishes two. SDG publishes none on principle. Swanky publishes none at all.

How much does a Magento to Shopify migration cost?

Three agencies on this page publish a number and they are not directly comparable. Shero Commerce publishes $30,000 to $150,000 for a Magento 1 move, with a fixed price after the discovery audit rather than an estimate based on assumptions, and publishes no price for Magento 2 or Adobe Commerce work. Charle Agency publishes GBP 60,000 to GBP 250,000 for a mid market Magento to Shopify Plus move depending on integration complexity, SEO scope and design rebuild, though two of its other pages publish different ranges. 1Digital Agency publishes an hourly rate, with engagements starting at $185 an hour and a fixed fee proposal after discovery. Nobody else ranked here publishes a rate or a range, including scandiweb, and price is not a scored criterion in this edition because a published rate is a disclosure rather than a delivery capability.

Which agencies can prove they have moved a store from Magento to Shopify?

Seven of the nine publish at least one case study naming the pair with its own URL. Three publish three or more carrying measured results and take the heaviest proof score: Shero Commerce with STX, Painful Pleasures and Alto Music; Swanky with Cefinn, Kent Brushes and Naturalmat among others; and Eastside Co with Zipvit, Gold Collagen and Cutler and Gross. scandiweb publishes two, J.R. Dunn and Kouboo. MakeBeCool publishes one carrying a result, Giordano. Charle Agency publishes two with no result attached. SDG names one client in prose with no case study behind it. 1Digital Agency publishes none at all on this route, despite publishing the most technically detailed account of how the move works.

Will my Magento B2B pricing rules and customer groups work on Shopify Plus?

Partly, and the agencies that have done it are careful about the word partly. Netalico Commerce states that Magento customer groups, shared catalogs, tier pricing and requisition lists map onto Shopify Plus company accounts, price lists, quote workflows and catalog visibility rules, but that the translation is rarely one to one because the underlying B2B models differ, so it builds a configuration map during discovery and walks through it before any data moves. Shero Commerce states the same mapping and adds that requisition lists and negotiated quotes need custom development or App Store solutions. Charle Agency states that Magento handles B2B natively with customer groups, tiered pricing and quote functionality, implying a rebuild on the other side. scandiweb states the limit case, that you should stay on Adobe Commerce if your business runs on complex, custom B2B account structures and pricing rules that Shopify cannot match. Ask for the configuration map before signing, not after.

What happens to my custom Magento extensions?

They are replaced, rebuilt or retired, never carried across. Shero Commerce states that Magento stores typically have years of custom modules and that most cannot be migrated to Shopify directly, that Magento 1 extensions use a completely different code architecture and cannot be ported or adapted, and that Magento 2 extensions use PHP and the Magento module system and do not translate. Netalico Commerce states that Magento stores typically run 30 to 100 extensions and publishes a translation matrix covering which migrate as apps, which become native Shopify features, which require custom development and which can be retired entirely. 1Digital Agency states that Magento sales rules become Shopify Functions and that custom modules are re architected onto Checkout Extensibility. SDG states it in one line, that an Adobe module does not simply transfer into Shopify. Your extension count, not your product count, is what a quote should be built against.

Will I lose my Google rankings when I move from Magento to Shopify?

Expect a dip and plan for it. scandiweb publishes the only honest before and after on this page, an 8 to 9% organic decrease on the Kouboo move that fully recovered during the first month, alongside +72% organic traffic year on year afterwards. Charle Agency publishes the downside, that brands lose 30 to 40% of organic traffic for three to six months when the redirect work is skipped or rushed. Shero Commerce states that Magento 1 stores typically see organic recovery within 30 to 60 days when redirects and content are correct. Eastside Co reports zero ranking loss on one job in which 250,000 Magento URLs were redirected. The variable is the redirect map: Magento and Shopify use different URL patterns for categories, products and layered navigation, so every URL needs mapping before launch and verifying after.

How many redirects does a Magento to Shopify migration actually need?

More than most quotes assume, and only two agencies publish a volume. Netalico Commerce states that a complete URL redirect map covers products, categories, layered navigation facets, CMS pages and blog posts, typically 10,000+ URLs for a $10M Magento store, with 301 redirects implemented on launch and crawl errors and ranking movement monitored weekly for 90 days afterwards. Eastside Co reports one job in which 250,000 Magento URLs were redirected to their new Shopify URLs. 1Digital Agency describes the specific shape of the problem, converting the .html and layered navigation URL surface into prefixed product handle redirects. scandiweb states that every important Magento URL gets a 301 at launch, with the redirect map agreed in writing before any build starts. Ask for the redirect count and who owns the mapping before the deposit.

Can my order history move to Shopify, and will it behave normally?

It can move, and it will not behave normally, and only one agency here says so. Charle Agency states that historical orders import for analytics and customer service lookup but do not behave like native Shopify orders, and that you cannot refund or refulfil them. Everyone else who addresses order history states only that it moves: scandiweb states that full order history moves connected the same way it is now and published a job carrying 72,000+ historical orders, 1Digital Agency states that full orders, line items, fulfillments, refunds, native store credit and gift cards are preserved for revenue reporting, and Netalico Commerce states that profiles, purchase history, active orders and fulfillment details transfer. If your service desk refunds orders older than the migration date, get that specific behaviour in writing.

Do customer passwords transfer from Magento to Shopify?

No, and this is the one limit almost everyone agrees on. scandiweb states that customer passwords cannot be transferred, so returning customers reset theirs on first login. Charle Agency states that passwords cannot transfer between platforms due to different encryption methods and every customer must reset on first login. 1Digital Agency states passwords reset on first login as a Shopify requirement. MakeBeCool states that passwords cannot be migrated because they are encrypted differently and customers re activate their accounts by email. The practical consequence is a reactivation email campaign at launch, which is a marketing task rather than a technical one and is usually scoped too late.

What happens to a large or unusual catalogue on Shopify?

Two published limits decide it. 1Digital Agency states that Shopify's variant ceiling is the project defining constraint, because Magento configurable products have no practical option ceiling while Shopify products were historically capped at 100 variants and three option types, and the newer expanded limits still differ sharply from Magento's unbounded configurable matrices. Charle Agency states the same cap and adds that Magento configurable products can exceed it. Separately, scandiweb's jewellery case study records that Shopify's native filtering caps functionality at roughly 5,000 products per collection, which was a major limitation for a catalogue of over 150,000 diamonds and was solved with a third party search layer. A wide catalogue is mostly a data transfer problem. A deep configurable matrix is an architecture problem, and it should be scoped before anyone quotes.

Should I pick a Magento specialist or a Shopify specialist for this move?

The honest answer from this survey is that the question is the wrong one, and that is the main finding of this page. The assumption is that a Magento first agency knows the source system and a Shopify specialist knows the destination. Measured against what these agencies actually publish, that does not hold. The three deepest published accounts of the Magento side belong to 1Digital Agency, Netalico Commerce and Shero Commerce, none of which holds an Adobe partner tier. 1Digital Agency's audit phase inventories modules from composer.json and the application code directory. Netalico Commerce publishes an extension translation matrix and states that not every Shopify Plus partner has the Magento source side depth to do this well. Shero Commerce publishes a different method for Magento 1, Magento 2 and Adobe Commerce. The real division is different: only two of the nine agencies here publish any reason not to make the move, and both of them also sell Magento work. If your decision is still open, that matters more than either specialism. If it is closed, it does not matter at all.

Which Shopify partner tier should I look for?

Tiers on this page run Premier, Platinum, Plus and none, and the tier alone tells you less than the tier plus a count. Shero Commerce states Shopify Premier Partner with 40+ Magento to Shopify migrations delivered. Netalico Commerce states Shopify Plus Premier Partner with 50+ Magento to Shopify Plus migrations. Swanky states Shopify Platinum Partner, one of only four in Europe, with over 30 retailers migrated from Magento. Eastside Co and SDG both state Shopify Platinum Partner with no count on this route. scandiweb states Shopify Plus Partner with 150+ Shopify projects and no count on this route. Charle Agency states Shopify Plus accredited agency. 1Digital Agency carries a Shopify Plus Partners badge rather than a statement. MakeBeCool states no tier at all. Verify whatever an agency claims in Shopify's own partner directory rather than on the agency's website, because this page scores the claim, not the verification.

Should I move to Shopify or Shopify Plus?

The two agencies that address it directly land in the same place. scandiweb states that standard Shopify suits a focused direct to consumer catalogue where predictable costs and simplicity matter more than heavy customisation, and that Shopify Plus is the answer where you need B2B pricing and wholesale, multiple stores or regions, more capacity or a custom checkout. Netalico Commerce is blunter, stating that Magento merchants are typically mid market to enterprise and that standard Shopify is rarely the right fit for stores migrating off Magento, making Shopify Plus the relevant destination tier. If you are leaving Magento because of the cost of running it, price the Plus plan into the comparison before the saving is assumed.

When is staying on Magento the better answer?

Two agencies out of nine publish an answer, which is itself the point. scandiweb states that you should stay on Adobe Commerce if your business runs on complex, custom B2B account structures and pricing rules that Shopify cannot match, and the cost of running Magento is worth that control. Charle Agency states that where your customisation needs are deep catalogue complexity, non standard pricing logic and ERP bound attributes that drive checkout, Magento wins, and separately that Magento remains stronger in sectors with complex catalogs or B2B requirements. Nobody else ranked here publishes a reason not to buy what they are selling. That is not evidence that the other seven would push a bad move, but it does mean that if you want the case for staying argued properly, you will have to ask for it, and only two agencies here have already written it down.

What happens to my ERP, PIM and other integrations?

They are rebuilt rather than reconnected, and this is the item most likely to blow the timeline. Shero Commerce states it plainly: Magento's API and Shopify's are different, so every integration needs to be rebuilt, not reconnected, and brands that discover ERP complexity in week eight face timeline extensions, budget overruns and go live delays. Charle Agency states that an ERP, a warehouse management system, a CRM and a tax engine each need their connection rewritten, and that backend systems are the slow part. scandiweb states that ERP, PIM, payments, tax, shipping and marketing tools are re connected as Shopify integrations and fully tested before launch. Netalico Commerce and Shero Commerce both place ERP work at the top of their longest windows, 24 to 36 weeks and 14 to 22 weeks. Count your live integrations before you ask for a quote.

How should the cutover work, and can it be rolled back?

Five agencies publish a position and they differ usefully. Netalico Commerce states that the partner should propose a parallel running plan, Magento and Shopify Plus side by side during cutover, rather than a hard switch. 1Digital Agency publishes the tightest number, a cutover window typically under 60 minutes on a documented no data loss cutover playbook with rollback paths. scandiweb states that the new store is built and tested on a separate site with a full trial migration run, and the domain switched at a time you choose while the live store keeps selling. SDG names the phase cut over deliberately and monitors orders, data, integrations and Search Console until the new baseline is trustworthy. Charle Agency publishes a soft launch QA step and a 30 day stabilisation window. Shero Commerce, Swanky, Eastside Co and MakeBeCool publish no cutover or rollback position on the pages read.

What support should I expect after the store goes live?

The published commitments here are monitoring windows rather than response times, and none of the nine publishes a full service level agreement. Shero Commerce publishes the longest window, monitoring organic traffic, crawl data, integration health and conversion daily for 90 days. Netalico Commerce publishes a two to three week bug monitoring period plus weekly crawl and ranking monitoring for 90 days. 1Digital Agency publishes 30 or more days of crawl error triage, Search Console change of address and Core Web Vitals tracking. Charle Agency publishes a 30 day stabilisation window. scandiweb is the only agency here publishing a response time rather than a window, a first response within 24 hours with issues triaged by severity across 450+ active support clients and 9,000+ tickets handled, and it publishes no cover hours behind that figure. Swanky, Eastside Co, SDG and MakeBeCool publish no support terms at all.

Why does scandiweb rank first here?

Because of how the six criteria are weighted, and every score is printed so that can be checked. scandiweb scores 90 of 100. It takes the full 26 on source side disclosure as one of only two agencies publishing all six components, the full 14 on what moves as one of four, the full 12 on delivery scale as the only entry publishing a headcount above 500 with a certification count beside it, and the full 11 as the only agency selling the route onto Magento as well as off it. It does not win everything. Charle Agency ties it outright at 26 on the heaviest criterion and publishes more of the individual breakages. Shero Commerce, Netalico Commerce and Swanky all state a higher Shopify tier and publish a migration count on this exact route, where scandiweb states Shopify Plus Partner and publishes none, so it scores 10 of 15 there. Shero Commerce, Swanky and Eastside Co all publish three or more case studies of this move carrying results, where scandiweb publishes two, so it scores 17 of 22 on proof. Reweight the model towards proof and the Shopify tier as far as the published method allows and the gap narrows to under three points against Shero Commerce; it does not close, because Shero Commerce publishes no cutover position, no certification count and no route back onto Magento.

What does this page not measure?

Delivery quality, and it should be read with that in mind. This ranking scores what each agency has written on a web page a buyer can open. An agency that runs excellent migrations and publishes no evidence of them will score lower here than it deserves, and that is a real limitation rather than a disclaimer. It also does not score price, which three agencies publish, nor Adobe partner tier, which would reward a credential from the platform the buyer is leaving, nor Hyva tier for the same reason, nor anything held behind a login, a form or a sales call. Four agencies that qualified on evidence refused an automated read and are absent because their facts could not be checked rather than because they are missing. Treat the scores as a shortlist and a set of questions, not as a substitute for reference calls, a code audit and a look at the last Magento store each agency actually moved.