What a PrestaShop migration plan covers
We start with what your PrestaShop store actually does: products, combinations and features, categories, specific prices and customer groups, modules and core overrides, multistore and languages, and the integrations around it. Each part gets a decision: move it, rebuild it on Shopify, replace it with an app or retire it. Then follow the URL map and redirects, the migration of products, customers and orders, tracking and feeds, and QA on real processes, from checkout to invoices and returns.
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What moves from PrestaShop, and how
PrestaShop and Shopify structure a catalogue differently. We export through the PrestaShop Webservice or the database and map every part to its Shopify counterpart before anything is imported:
Products with combinations move as products with variants. Attribute groups such as size and colour become options. Shopify allows three options and 2,048 variants per product, so extra attribute groups become metafields or separate products.
Features become metafields, with the storefront filters rebuilt on top of them.
Categories become collections. A product in several categories appears in several collections, and the default category becomes the main collection for navigation and breadcrumbs.
Specific prices and catalogue price rules become sale prices, discounts or B2B catalogues, depending on who they are for.
Packs become bundles, and customisation fields become line item properties.
Customers, addresses and groups move. Passwords cannot be imported, so we plan activation emails or passwordless login.
Order history moves through the Shopify API, with original order numbers, dates and statuses.
There is no PrestaShop case on our site yet. The method is the same one we used for Malelions, OGÉR, Mason Garments and NØORDCODE., who moved to Shopify Plus from other platforms.
For every step in detail, read our guide PrestaShop to Shopify migration.
Modules, B2B and integrations
A PrestaShop store is usually a stack of Addons modules: faceted search, one-page checkout, reviews, loyalty, payment and carrier modules, invoicing. Some modules also override core classes, which is often where the real custom logic sits. Each one gets a decision: covered by Shopify itself, replaced by an app, rebuilt with Shopify Functions or a custom app, or retired.
B2B on PrestaShop usually means B2B mode for company fields, customer groups with group discounts and specific prices per customer. On Shopify these become companies, locations, catalogues and payment terms: three active B2B catalogues on the standard plans, unlimited on Plus. More on Shopify B2B.
Connections with ERP, WMS, accounting and marketing tools often set the critical path. For each one we define the data owner, sync frequency and error handling, and test it before launch. See ERP integration.
Shopify or Shopify Plus: which plan fits follows from the scan, not from your current licence. See what Shopify Plus adds for larger brands.
PrestaShop URLs and SEO
PrestaShop puts IDs in its URLs: a category looks like /12-dresses, a product like /dresses/34-summer-dress.html, and combinations add a second ID. On Shopify these become /collections/ and /products/ with a handle and no ID, so every URL changes and the redirect map is the most important SEO deliverable of the project:
We crawl every indexable URL, including language folders, CMS pages under /content/, brand pages and paginated categories.
We store the PrestaShop IDs in metafields, so every old URL maps to its new page by ID rather than by guesswork.
Each old URL goes to its closest new page, never to the homepage by default. Faceted-search filter URLs do not get individual redirects.
Language versions move to Shopify Markets, with hreflang rebuilt per language and market.
After launch we compare per template and folder, so a drop is found where it starts.
Shopify allows up to 100,000 redirects on its standard plans and 20 million on Plus, and only from URLs that return a 404, so the redirect map is built and tested before launch.
Approach
We work in fixed phases, so you know at every point what has been decided and what is still open:
Migration audit: data, modules, overrides, B2B prices, URLs and processes, with scope and risks per decision.
Solution design: Shopify or Shopify Plus, data model, markets and the role of apps versus custom work.
Design and build, delivered in reviewable parts.
Trial migrations with real data, to measure completeness and duration.
QA on real processes: orders, payments, invoices, returns and tracking.
Cutover with data freeze, final sync and redirects, followed by monitoring after launch.
Plan backwards from your peak. To sell on Shopify on Black Friday 2027 (26 November), we count six weeks for the scan, four for scope, about twenty for build, migration and testing, and six for launch and hypercare, followed by a code freeze from early November. In practice: the decision has to be made in February 2027.
We migrate in three runs, never one: a dry run in a development store to find fields that arrive empty, a dress rehearsal with the full data set to time the import, and a delta run after the freeze. After launch our hypercare runs 90 days, starting with daily checks of orders per hour, checkout conversion, failed payments per method, 404s and support tickets.
Brands we moved to Shopify Plus
Planning to leave PrestaShop?
Tell us your PrestaShop version, the modules you rely on, whether you sell B2B or run multistore, and your timing. We reply with a first view on scope, risks and the route to Shopify, and suggest a short call to walk through it.
