How To Transfer Your Website From Shopify To WooCommerce?

One of the most widely used e-commerce website builders, Shopify, is what many individuals choose when starting an online business. Unfortunately, when you try to scale up Shopify, it may occasionally get pricey. As a result, switching to WooCommerce is a wise decision since it gives you many alternatives for setting up an e-commerce shop that is completely operational. You have the option to switch from Shopify to WooCommerce and choose WooCommerce hosting when launching your online business.

You will need to import all of this data into your new WooCommerce shop after migrating your website from Shopify. This will include moving your current store data, orders, customers, and goods from Shopify.

Step 1 : Exporting Your Data From Shopify

Shopify provides all the information  and help posts that include complete information about orders, products and customers and you can easily export all the information through CSV files.

Step 2 : Importing Your Data In WooCommerce

Now that you have all the store data from Shopify, you will have to get all the data imported in your WooCommerce store. WooCommerce comprises of a native CSV importer for useful products, but it has certain limitations. If you have to import a large number of CSV files, you will have to map every field in the CSV for every part of the product import like for product title and for product SKU. For importing a CSV file, you will have to go to WooCommerce >> then to Products and then select the option – ‘Import’. Select the CSV file and confirm all the field mappings for the importer to start running.

Alternative To This Step : Using WP All Import Plugin

The process of manually mapping every file for every CSV import can be challenging and time-consuming. However, if you utilize a plugin, you can avoid doing this. The WP All Import plugin is made up of WooCommerce and user addon plugins. This plugin’s WooCommerce addon makes it simple for you to import orders and goods, and its user addon makes it possible to import customer data.

You will have to install the WP All Import plugin for proceeding further. For simplifying the entire process, this plugin enables you to create templates. As we are showing the process of importing products in this article, it is important to create a template to map all the product fields for the complete product import.

For importing the products through this template, you have to save the template as a TXT file first. Open the plugin and go to – All Import >> Settings. In the section – ‘Import/Export Templates’, select the text file of the template and import it.

In order to import your product CSV export from Shopify thought the WP All Import plugin, Go to All Import >> New Import. Select the particular CSV file, then select the ‘New Items’ and then select the ‘WooCommerce products type’.

Confirm the number of rows for importing and then proceed to the next step.

Go to the bottom of the page and click on ‘load Template’. Select the Shopify product template. This denotes that all the files present tin the CSV are mapped correctly so that the products can be imported in WooCommerce. You can continue this process and all the products that were exported form Shopify will be imported in WooCommerce.

It is possible to import and map the photos used on the Shopify store to items by importing them into the media library. The items will have accurate information and photographs in this way. Shopify offers the option to export all of the client information and orders as CSV files. The WP All Import Pro plugin and the user-added version of this plugin may be used to import customer data into the newly created WooCommerce website. In a similar vein, orders can also be imported.

This only covers the retrieval of the information from Shopify and then importing this information to WooCommerce. You cannot use the exact theme used on the Shopify store for the WooCommerce store but you can try replicating the look with a wide range of themes available with WooCommerce.