If your CS-Cart store runs on years of add-ons, custom options and pricing rules, you know how easy it is to break one thing while fixing another.
Shopify takes hosting, security updates and checkout off your plate and as a Shopify Select Partner, we make sure the way you sell comes with you. We migrate your catalog, customers and order history and build the storefront in the same project, so the data and the design are planned together.
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Includes 60 days of free post-launch migration support. We stay with you after the move.
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Is the next upgrade sitting on your list because something custom might break?
According to CS-Cart's own documentation, any file you've edited is flagged as a local modification during an upgrade, and someone has to compare the conflicts and settle them by hand. The developer guidelines add a warning that changes to core files may later be overwritten or broken.
After years of custom tweaks, every upgrade turns into a small project. Put a price on an upgrade or audit, then set it beside the cost of rebuilding that logic with Shopify features or apps.
Do add-ons fight each other, or stop working after an upgrade?
The upgrade documentation says an upgrade doesn't update third-party add-ons and suggests switching them off first. CS-Cart's blog also names add-ons or connected services that conflict with one another as a sign a store may need an upgrade review.
Write down every add-on you depend on and the job it does. On Shopify, some of those jobs are built in, some are covered by an app, and a few need custom work, so don't expect a one-to-one swap.
Is hosting, SSL, backups and patching your job?
You download CS-Cart and run it yourself, which leaves hosting, SSL certificates and maintenance with you or your developer unless you pay for a hosted option. A third-party review notes that the license doesn't cover those costs.
Add up the hours and dollars your team puts into servers and updates. A hosted platform takes most of that on, and in return you work inside that platform's rules.
Can you say what the store costs you each year?
One third-party review calls the pricing somewhat confusing. You pay for a license, then a renewal to keep getting updates after the first period, and then add-ons, themes, hosting and design help on top. Editions and prices have changed over the years too, so look at the current pricing page.
Pull together the last twelve months of license renewals, add-ons, hosting and developer hours. Then put that figure next to a Shopify plan, apps and any one-off build costs, using current quotes for both.
Is getting help slower or pricier than you expected?
A few merchants say the free community help is slow. One reviewer on a software review site described a rough experience after a failed update, when support asked for server access. Another third-party review says paid help works on a credit system. These are individual accounts and experiences vary.
Picture something breaking in your busiest week and ask who you'd call. Put the same question to any platform you're considering, including what the plan covers.
Does nearly every change need a developer?
One reviewer on a software review site liked that you can build add-ons in PHP and that developers are easy to find, and that is a real strength. Deeper changes usually mean code, though, and CS-Cart's blog says heavy customization can slow down later changes.
Go through your recent requests and sort them into code work and content or settings work. Shopify covers many of the second kind through the admin, the theme editor or apps, but it won't cover everything.
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Advance Pet Mart started on WooCommerce, but plugin and hosting problems kept getting in the way. We moved the store to Shopify, and they are very happy with the move. We also worked with them on design, SEO, AI SEO and marketing.
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We moved City of Games from a broken OpenCart store to Shopify in four weeks, kept its look, rebuilt the features it had lost and protected its search rankings with 301 redirects.
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We moved Contours Rx from BigCommerce to Shopify and redesigned the website with a sleek, user-friendly interface and enhanced product pages.
Visit the live storeMove and rebuild. Right for stores that need their data carried over and a new Shopify storefront.
Quote after a free store review
Move a complex business. Right for large or heavily customized stores with connected systems.
Custom quote after discovery
Every migration includes redirects for your old URLs, titles and descriptions carried over, and 60 days of free support after launch. Your Shopify plan, apps and other third-party costs are billed separately from our quote.
Identifiers, prices and stock
Rules and modifiers
Specifications and collections
Product media and files
Delivery and buyer access
Addresses and agreed fields
An agreed history range
A compatible review app
Information pages and posts
Quantity and group prices
Kept separate from customers
A tested redirect map
Where each item lands in Shopify and what we check before launch.
| CS-Cart | Where it goes in Shopify | What we check |
|---|---|---|
| Products & variations | Products, variants and suitable custom fields. | Identifiers, valid groupings, prices, quantities and availability. |
| Options & combinations | The agreed product setup, fields, apps or development. | Required choices, restrictions and price or weight calculations. |
| Features & categories | Specifications, filters, collections and navigation. | Meaning and browsing structure, not just copied labels. |
| Images & attachments | Agreed product media and files. | The actual files and which product each belongs to. |
| CS-Cart | Where it goes in Shopify | What we check |
|---|---|---|
| Digital files | An agreed delivery setup. | Original files, permissions and access for existing buyers. |
| Reviews | A compatible review app. | Access, product associations, available fields and media. |
| Pages & content | Shopify pages, blog posts and navigation. | Formatting, links and images still served from the old host. |
| CS-Cart | Where it goes in Shopify | What we check |
|---|---|---|
| Customers & profile fields | Agreed customer records, addresses and segmentation. | Duplicates, available custom fields and account context. |
| Orders & line items | An agreed import or a retained archive. | Dates, products, totals, statuses and source order references. |
| Consent & subscribers | Available subscription and consent mapping. | A customer record doesn’t automatically mean marketing permission. |
| CS-Cart | Where it goes in Shopify | What we check |
|---|---|---|
| Groups, promotions & quantity prices | Rebuilt eligibility and pricing rules. | Rules, dates, thresholds and how promotions interact. |
| SEO data & URLs | Useful metadata and tested redirects. | Clean and dynamic URLs, languages and existing redirects. |
Importing orders won’t carry over their original payment transactions, and it won’t recreate identical order numbering, every invoice, every accounting report or every operational status. We can keep source order references through a supported method. Don’t assume customer passwords or saved payment credentials transfer either.
In CS-Cart’s documented order export, general order details sit apart from the products in each order, which come from the Order items tab. We check both datasets and the links between them instead of trusting a single export to hold the whole history.
Variations, options, rules and bundles.
Identifiers, duplicates and missing content.
Customers, orders, reviews and pages in scope.
The functions and systems to replace or connect.
How many storefronts, and the storefront build.
Only if Multi-Vendor is in scope, assessed first.
Your proposal lists our project fee on its own, apart from the Shopify subscription, apps, themes, marketplace services, payments, retained systems and ongoing maintenance. Price and schedule are confirmed once the review is done.
FreeStore review and quote before you hire us
60 daysFree post-launch migration support included
Tell us what you sell, how your products are set up and what you’d like to change. We look over the store, then walk you through what moves, what gets rebuilt and what the project costs.
You don’t need technical knowledge, or to know your edition or version. We don’t need exports or logins to begin, and we arrange secure access later.
You sell your own catalog, possibly through several storefronts
Independent sellers manage products or orders
One business running several storefronts, often with shared products and prices or content that differ by storefront.
Planned storefront by storefront.Products from many brands or suppliers that you sell and fulfill yourself. That alone doesn’t make you a marketplace.
Usually a standard migration.Third-party sellers with their own logins, products, orders, commissions and payouts.
Assessed separately.Send your website URL and tell us who manages products and orders. We’ll sort out the rest in the review.
No technical knowledge needed.Your CS-Cart version matters as well. Older installations can use option-combination structures that differ from the feature-based variation groups in current releases, and add-ons reshape the data again. We look at your actual version and data before choosing an export method, and we don’t apply current documentation to every store.
| In your CS-Cart store | What we review | How we decide the Shopify setup |
|---|---|---|
| Stocked variations | Variation groups, each variation’s identifier, price and stock, which combinations actually exist, and whether some variations appear as separate products when browsing. | Products and variants for the combinations you actually sell. We don’t generate every possible combination. |
| Options & customer input | Paid extras, text and personalization fields, file uploads and other instructions. | Plenty of choices shouldn’t become variants. Each one gets a suitable field, setting, app or scoped development. |
| Restrictions & adjustments | Required choices, allowed and forbidden combinations, sequential choices where used, price and weight modifiers and validation. | Rules rebuilt and tested, so nobody can buy a combination you never allowed. |
| Specifications, filters & bundles | Product features, filterable attributes and bundle composition, pricing and stock. | Product fields, filters and a bundle setup, each kept apart from the buying choices. |
The example on the right is made up to illustrate the idea and isn’t a client result. Your test baskets come from your own products and rules.
| Size stocked variation | Large · $32.00 |
|---|---|
| Monogram paid option | + $6.00 |
| Initials text input | R.J. |
| Large + Kraft forbidden | Tries it |
| Variant & stock | Large, 12 left |
|---|---|
| Basket total | $38.00 |
| Order note | Initials: R.J. |
| Large + Kraft | Not purchasable |
The initials reach the fulfillment instructions, and the blocked combination can’t be added to the cart.
Which user groups see which prices and products, and how customers get into a group.
Quantity thresholds, fixed wholesale prices and percentage discounts, product by product.
Product and cart promotions, bundle pricing and the dates they run.
Which discounts stack, which don’t, and what we see when we test typical carts.
| CS-Cart rule | Shopify approach | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Wholesale group: $18.00 from 10 units | B2B catalog or app, by plan | Review |
| Everyone: 10% off 5+ units | Volume pricing or discount | Test |
| Free shipping over $100 | Shopify discount | Agreed |
| Promotion stacking | Combination rules | Test |
| Group-only products | Access rules checked | Not assumed |
A wholesale store doesn’t automatically need Shopify Plus. Shopify’s B2B features come on several plans with different capabilities, and assigning catalogs directly to specific companies currently requires Plus. Importing a customer group won’t recreate its pricing or access. We recommend a plan and setup after reading your actual rules, and we recheck Shopify’s current plan details before you decide.
Seller onboarding and approval, dashboards, product ownership, moderation and who can see or change which records.
Seller isolation is tested.Customer orders that include several sellers, plus seller-specific handling, shipping, returns and status updates.
Split orders reviewed end to end.Commission rules, vendor plans, balances, settlement and payout arrangements, payment-provider requirements and who is responsible for refunds.
Provider support confirmed first.Money owed to sellers, pending withdrawals, refunds, past financial records and reconciliation.
Settled or kept on a retained ledger.The Vendor field simply labels where a product comes from. By itself it gives you no seller logins, seller dashboards, split-order management, commission calculations or payouts. A marketplace app or a custom architecture has to be checked against your operations.
Don’t expect marketplace features to carry over automatically. Seller settings, commission rules and financial arrangements aren’t assumed to transfer. The assessment settles which marketplace solution, payment provider and responsibilities would be involved before we quote anything as a migration.
What we review
What we review
Some storefront setups fit a single Shopify store with Markets, and others work better as separate Shopify stores. We agree the structure first, which keeps shared products from being duplicated and customer information from being merged without a deliberate mapping.
We review the real balances, then agree on replacement, continued redemption or settlement. Keeping the same codes isn’t guaranteed.
Reconciled, so value isn’t spent twice.We review points and earning rules, then agree on a suitable app, a settlement or another approach. Identical rules aren’t assumed.
Customers are told what changes.Original files, existing customer access and any subscriptions or billing, planned as ongoing services and not imported as plain products.
Existing buyers keep agreed access.Where unfinished orders get completed, and who handles fulfillment, refunds and customer service for them.
Old payments may need the old provider.Balances and entitlements need an agreed transition, either continued redemption or settlement, with no duplicate spendable balances left behind. We hold on to the source and payment-provider access you need until outstanding obligations are cleared.
Brand layouts, product templates, navigation and editable content, or agreed parts of your current design.
Explore theme & design →Scoped workflows and integrations for the cases where no existing app does the job.
Explore app development →The agreed migration checks for URLs, content and metadata, with ongoing optimization offered as a separate service.
Explore Shopify SEO →SEO, Google Ads, Meta Ads, email and other suitable channels to support growth after launch.
Explore ecommerce marketing →We quote the migration by itself. Redesign, app development and ongoing marketing come in only if you want them, each with its own scope and price.
A catalog import doesn’t bring these connections along. After launch we check the agreed feeds, tracking and consent settings.
Shopify warns that redirects from URLs with query strings may not behave as expected, so a standard path-based redirect file won’t cover every dynamic link. We test your real URL patterns and agree how much can realistically be covered. Sending everything to the home page isn’t a plan, and we don’t promise identical URLs, unchanged rankings or automatic traffic growth.
These paths are examples. We work from your store’s real URLs, which depend on your SEO settings, languages and add-ons.
Connecting a domain to Shopify is a separate thing from transferring its registration. A domain you own can usually be connected without changing registrar. We look at your DNS first.
Shopify doesn’t host email inboxes. If your mailboxes sit on the same hosting account as CS-Cart, or rely on the same DNS, we plan for them before anything changes.
We hold the agreed backups, files and access until dependencies and outstanding obligations are cleared. After that, you decide when to close the old hosting.
We arrange access to your CS-Cart admin and server securely, and never through the public enquiry form.
Migration tools can move the common CS-Cart records, and some providers add assisted or managed services with human support. If a tool suits your data, we can use it as one piece of the project. We take responsibility for the whole agreed project around it, which covers source review, mapping, data preparation, the storefront, functionality, testing and launch.
| Your question | Self-service migration tool | Migration managed by WEP |
|---|---|---|
| Who reviews the source? | You pick from the records the tool supports. | We identify your edition, version, add-ons and storefronts, and write down what moves. |
| What about options and rules? | Options may arrive as plain labels, and the rules are usually left to you. | We map variations, options and restrictions, then test baskets, including the ones that should be blocked. |
| What about group prices and promotions? | Often outside what the tool covers. | We review eligibility and how rules interact, then rebuild the agreed rules. |
| Who builds the storefront? | Usually a separate job for you or another provider. | Theme setup or customization planned alongside the data. |
| Who runs the launch? | Your team coordinates the cut-off, domain, redirects and checks. | We coordinate the cut-off, domain, redirects and late-order checks, and give you 60 days of free support. |
The online store migration was seamless without having 0 downtime. The staff is properly trained, well communicated and proactive Highly recommended
Web commerce pros created a really lovely design for our website. They also changed the layout for our images and updated/resized images so that the site is overall much more attractive. We have been receiving a lot of positive feedback from customers on the ease of use and the overall look of our site. In addition, we are very grateful to Roy for coming up with a creative solution for allowing customers to easily create their own quotes, which has been very helpful to both our operations and our customers.
Arfat and team were proficient with BigCommerce Page Builder and Shogun to create and modify pages. We successfully completed the migration with their assistance and were happy with their work. We would hire again soon for our next project.
We pin down your edition, version, catalog, pricing rules, storefronts and integrations, then agree where each one goes in Shopify.
We set up Shopify on its own, then go through sample records and buying journeys with you, including blocked choices and group prices.
A catalog freeze or change log, the final cut-off, the chosen updates, which system has the final word on stock and how structural changes are handled.
We coordinate the domain and integrations, then check late orders, inventory changes, customer updates and any separately scoped marketplace liabilities.
So launch day follows a plan.
We run the migration around a set cut-off, and there’s no continuous two-way sync between CS-Cart and Shopify. We cut the risks down as far as we can, but we can’t promise zero downtime or zero data loss.
That comes down to what your store depends on today. Heavy custom code, a long add-on list or a marketplace model all take more planning than a plain catalog. In the free store review we go through your store and tell you straight which parts move easily, which need an app and which may not fit.
It depends on catalog size, the number of add-ons you use and how much design work you want. A simple store goes faster than a multi-store or multi-vendor setup. You get a timeline after the free store review, and we don’t hand out a generic estimate beforehand.
Add-ons don’t transfer directly. Each one gets one of four outcomes, a built-in Shopify feature, an app, a small custom build, or retirement. During the review we go through your add-on list and match each add-on to one of them.
Yes. We build the new store separately while your current one keeps taking orders. Then we agree a switch date and bring over recent orders and customers close to launch, so very little gets missed.
Yes, CS-Cart ships with product import and export tools, and migration tools can read the database as well. Products, options, images and categories can usually come across, and categories typically turn into Shopify collections. We confirm exactly what comes over during the free store review.
Option combinations can generally become Shopify variants. Shopify currently allows up to three options and up to 2,048 variants per product, so very large option sets may need restructuring. Plan features can change, so we check the current limits for your plan.
Usually, yes. Migration tools or apps can bring past orders across as historical records, though you can’t edit them the way you would a live order. Shopify’s own customer import doesn’t include order history. We confirm the method and any limits in the review.
Blog posts and pages can generally move. Reviews usually need a reviews app on Shopify, and coupons are often recreated as Shopify discount codes. Some fields have no exact match, so we give you a list of what moves and what gets rebuilt.
Possibly, but it takes more planning. Standard Shopify is built for a single merchant, so vendor accounts, commissions and payouts don’t carry over by default. Marketplace setups usually call for a marketplace app, Shopify Plus features or a custom build, and we’d scope that carefully before you commit.
Yes, in most cases. Shopify’s help documentation says passwords can’t be moved from another store through a CSV because they’re encrypted elsewhere. Customers get an invitation or use the password reset flow to choose a new one, and we can plan a short email to explain it.
Names, emails and addresses can be imported. CS-Cart customer groups have no exact Shopify equivalent, so they usually become customer tags or segments. If you use group-specific pricing, let us know so we can plan for it.
They can, once we set up permanent redirects. CS-Cart and Shopify build URLs differently, so we map each old address to its new one. Shopify supports redirect imports by CSV, within documented limits. Redirects help protect search visibility, but we can’t promise rankings will stay unchanged.
No, because each platform builds themes its own way. We rebuild the look in a Shopify theme, either matching your current design or improving on it, and carry over your content and branding.
It should be brief. Your current store keeps selling until the switch, and we plan the domain change to be short. DNS changes can cause a little disruption, so we schedule the switch for a quieter time and test beforehand.
Yes. The domain stays yours, and at launch we point it to Shopify. Email normally runs apart from the website, and we check your DNS records so your mail isn’t disturbed.
It depends on catalog size, custom features, marketplace needs and design work. You get a written quote after the free store review. Budget separately for your Shopify plan and any apps, which Shopify and the app providers bill directly.
Yes. Every project comes with a free post-launch support period for fixes and questions, and we can arrange ongoing support after that if you want it.
Our own team does the migration, theme build, app setup and testing. You review and approve each stage, and you have one point of contact the whole way through.
We quote once we’ve reviewed your store and the functionality you need, so there’s no fixed price or delivery date before then. Shopify, app and other platform costs are listed separately. Every migration comes with 60 days of free post-launch migration support within the agreed scope.
Tell us what has to stay and what you’d like to improve. We’ll look at your store model and requirements, then propose a scope, a next step and a quote.
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60 days of free post-launch migration support within the agreed scope.
