Moving from Ecwid to Shopify takes more than transferring your products. Your store's design, customer data, SEO, and the tools you rely on all need attention. Whether you're using Instant Site or an existing website, we'll help you make the switch without overlooking the details.
As an official Shopify Select Partner, we handle the migration, rebuild your storefront, and make sure everything works as it should before launch.
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Includes 60 days of free post-launch migration support. We stay with you after the move.
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Has your Ecwid bill crept up over the years?
Reviewers on public sites mention several price rises and the loss of the free plan. Ecwid's pricing page now lists four paid plans, and the old free tier isn't on it anymore.
Add up what you really pay each month, add-ons included, and set it beside a Shopify estimate. Shopify's cost depends on your plan, apps and payment fees, so we work that number out with you.
Is your catalog bumping into your plan's product limit?
Ecwid's pricing page lists product caps on the lower plans, and only the top plan shows as unlimited. Listing more products means paying for a bigger plan every month.
Count your products and variations today, then guess at next year's total. Price both platforms at that bigger number and you'll see whether staying or moving costs less.
Do you want more control over how the store looks and checks out?
Reviewers mention limited customization, no theme marketplace and a checkout that's hard to change. Ecwid is made to sit inside another website, so the look usually comes from that host site.
Ask yourself whether the host site and the store feel like one brand to a customer. Moving means rebuilding the design in a Shopify theme, which can put the whole site in one place.
Are your product pages hard to get indexed or control?
Reviewers call the SEO tools basic, and forum threads say store pages loaded inside another site can end up with hash-style addresses. Results vary with how the store is embedded and set up.
Look up your product pages in Google and see what actually shows. If they aren't indexed one by one, a hosted catalog with a page for each product can help, though rankings are never guaranteed.
Are fixes and answers taking too long?
A few reviewers say integrations broke and took a while to fix, or that support couldn't answer an SEO question. Others found support responsive, so experiences differ.
Jot down the problems you've had and how long each one took to resolve. That record shows how much your store leans on the platform and whether it keeps up.
Do you need VAT handling or e-invoicing that Ecwid does not give you?
Several reviewers selling in Europe say they missed proper VAT handling and B2B e-invoicing. Whether that matters to you depends on your country and your customers.
List your tax and invoice needs. Before you commit, we check what Shopify offers for your region right now, plus any apps you'd need.
Are the renewal and cancellation terms unclear to you?
Reviewers describe confusing cancellation steps and notice periods on annual plans, and a few say they lost access to store data after cancelling. Your own contract has the exact terms.
Export your data and note your renewal date before you cancel anything. We plan the move so the old store stays up until the new one is live.
Pet supplies
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.
Visit the live store
Electronics & gaming retail
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. Your data comes across and your storefront gets rebuilt on Shopify.
Quote after a free store review
Move a complex business. Built for large or heavily customized stores and the systems connected to them.
Custom quote after discovery
Every migration includes redirects for your old URLs, carried-over titles and descriptions, and 60 days of free support after launch. Quotes leave out your Shopify plan, apps and other third-party costs.
Titles, descriptions, SKUs, prices and weights
Combinations, stock, images and required choices
Membership, hierarchy and navigation
Product, variation and content assets
Available records, cleaned and matched
Mapped from the consent available
Agreed date range, line items and totals
Instant Site pages or a separately scoped site
Metadata and an agreed URL plan
After an access and matching check
Reconciled, then recreated as agreed
Feasibility assessed first
Where each item lands in Shopify and what we check before launch.
| Ecwid | Where it goes in Shopify | What we check |
|---|---|---|
| Products, SKUs & identifiers | Products, variants and suitable custom fields. | Titles, descriptions, SKUs, prices, weights, attributes and formatting. Source IDs are kept for matching, not confused with SKUs. |
| Options, variations & input fields | Agreed variants, product configuration, an options app or custom work. | Valid combinations, stock, variation images, pricing and required customer choices. |
| Categories & product membership | Collections and navigation. | Hierarchy, memberships and how customers browse. |
| Images & files | Shopify media and files. | Main, additional and variation images, embedded content assets and access to originals. Remaining dependencies on old URLs are removed. |
| Downloadable files | A separate delivery plan, where included. | Original files, download access, delivery and existing customer entitlements. |
| Ecwid | Where it goes in Shopify | What we check |
|---|---|---|
| Customers & addresses | Customer records and appropriate segmentation. | Available details, duplicates and relationships. Account access is planned separately. |
| Marketing preferences | Supported consent fields, where evidence exists. | Subscriber status versus the full customer list. We don’t assume every customer agreed to marketing. |
| Historical orders | A suitable order-import method, for the agreed date range. | Line items, product choices, customer matching, dates, statuses and totals. Old payments aren’t re-run. |
| Open orders | A separate operational plan. | Who fulfills, refunds and supports each order. Copying the record doesn’t decide that. |
| Reviews | A compatible reviews app, after assessment. | Export access, product matching and destination support. |
| Ecwid | Where it goes in Shopify | What we check |
|---|---|---|
| Instant Site pages & navigation | Shopify pages and navigation, rebuilt in your theme. | Accessible content, formatting, images and menu structure. |
| Surrounding website pages & blog | Shopify pages and blog, or a retained site, scoped separately. | Content ownership, source access, forms and media on the other platform. |
| Store design & layout | A Shopify theme: new, customized or a recreated version of your look. | Mobile layouts, navigation and editable sections. Ecwid layouts don’t install as a theme. |
| Other Ecwid embeds & buy links | Updated to the new selling path, or retired. | Every site, page and campaign that still points at the old cart. |
| Ecwid | Where it goes in Shopify | What we check |
|---|---|---|
| SEO metadata & existing links | Agreed metadata and an old-to-new URL plan. | Actual hostnames, clean and legacy URLs, internal links and destination control. |
| Existing redirects | Tested Shopify redirects, where Shopify serves the address. | Redirect history, query and fragment links, and provider-owned addresses. |
| Gift cards & store credit | A reconciled, redeemable solution, as agreed. | Unused value, ownership, redemption rules and POS dependencies. An export alone doesn’t create balances. |
| Discounts & customer pricing | Shopify discounts, settings or a suitable app. | The actual behavior, not just labels or group names, and any plan requirements. |
| Feeds, POS & connected tools | Supported connectors, or integration work scoped separately. | Source of truth, product identifiers and imports that could trigger emails or fulfillment. |
No standard CSV is a full backup of a working store. Passwords, saved payment credentials and app data shouldn’t be assumed to transfer, and a finished product import doesn’t mean the whole store has moved.
Instant Site, a surrounding website that moves, or one that stays.
Options, variations, input fields, extras and pricing rules.
Products, customers, the order history range and records to validate.
Subscriptions, downloads, bookings, gift cards, POS and discounts.
The theme approach, channels, feeds and connected tools.
Changes during the build, final updates and links to map and test.
Our one-time project fee sits on its own line, apart from Shopify, app and other third-party costs. Price and schedule get confirmed after the review.
FreeStore review and quote before you hire us
60 daysFree post-launch migration support included
Send your store and website addresses, plus the features you can’t do without. We go through your Ecwid setup, catalog, website, channels and key links, then tell you what moves, what gets rebuilt and what it costs.
You don’t need to send exports or logins to begin. We say what we need, and secure access is arranged later.
We scope the storefront, info pages, navigation, images and files, along with the domain connection and existing links. Shopify gets a rebuilt version of your Instant Site design, because the original can’t be installed as a Shopify theme.
When Ecwid lives inside WordPress, Wix or another platform, the pages, blog posts, forms, media, navigation and design all belong to that platform. We scope them as their own piece of work, since an Ecwid catalog export leaves the rest of the site behind.
If it suits you, the content site stays put and connects to Shopify for selling. We look at navigation, where the store sits and how traffic reaches it, product links, checkout, analytics, required features, and who owns and pays for what over time.
If you keep your website, the Ecwid widget won’t be swapped for an identical Shopify one. A Shopify Buy Button or linked store has its own features and limits, so we compare it with what you need. Any same-domain or routing setup gets confirmed once we’ve checked it can work.
Your plan, plus the catalog, customer and order exports your account offers and the fields each one really contains. We treat Ecwid by Lightspeed on its own, since other Lightspeed products are separate systems.
Products, categories, options, variations, customer input fields, images, files and identifiers, and how each of those should connect in Shopify.
Customer records, addresses, order history, open orders and marketing consent. Someone who bought from you hasn’t necessarily opted in to emails.
The website around your store, other embeds and buy links, Google and social catalogs, POS, inventory, apps and tracking. That tells us what has to keep working.
After the review we set up a secure, private onboarding channel for account access and exports. Nothing like that should go through the enquiry form.
Within the agreed date range, we check line items, product choices, customer matching, dates, statuses and totals. Imported history is a record only, and no old payment is run again.
Passwords don’t transfer. We plan the switch around the Shopify account setup you choose, which may use email sign-in codes, then test sign-in and order history.
Customers and opted-in subscribers are kept as separate groups. We map whatever consent information exists, and a purchase on its own never subscribes anyone.
We review notifications and connected automations before importing history, so no stray emails, fulfillment actions or marketing flows get triggered. Open orders get their own plan for fulfillment, refunds and support.
Cleaned up, matched and moved by a suitable method, depending on access and the agreed scope.
Counts and sample records reconciled with you
Designed and built on Shopify from the decisions we make with you.
Reviewed by you on a private preview store
Migrating Ecwid doesn’t automatically migrate your POS, and an existing connector may not work unchanged with Shopify. We review these items.
We test the agreed connection to Shopify and explain any separate implementation work.
A URL fragment never reaches the server the way a normal path does, so handling it in the browser can’t match a server-side 301. Once you cancel, we have no control over an address the provider owns. We agree on a workable approach and write down the limits first.
We don’t dump every old link on the homepage. Rankings and traffic can shift after a migration. We cut the risks we can control, but no one can honestly promise unchanged rankings, zero traffic loss or an automatic SEO gain.
Example mapping only. Your store’s patterns depend on its setup; we inventory the actual links and test each type.
Account access, product identifiers, landing-page changes, the feed connection you choose and diagnostics. We don’t leave the old and new feeds running side by side.
The source of truth, order routing, product matching, cut-off times and stock updates. We test that new orders land in the right place and reduce the right stock.
Agreed events, pixels, consent handling and checkout tracking, followed by test purchases and a check for double-counted reports.
We update or remove the agreed Ecwid selling widgets and check where campaigns point, so a new order never slips through an old cart.
Nobody can guarantee that product identifiers, ad history and audience matching stay the same, or that Google, Meta or any other platform approves the move.
We pick a theme and configure it for your brand, catalog and customer journey.
We change templates, product layouts and navigation to fit the way you sell.
Hold on to what your customers already recognize. We agree which pages and details matter, then rebuild them for Shopify.
Ecwid widgets, Instant Site layouts and another platform’s theme don’t turn into a Shopify theme on their own, so we rebuild them. A pixel-identical copy isn’t promised by default, and complex functionality is scoped explicitly.
Set up and customize a suitable theme, including templates, navigation and editable sections for your brand and products.
Explore theme & design →Custom functionality and integrations for requirements that native features and suitable apps can’t cover.
Explore app development →Agreed migration checks on content, metadata and old links. Ongoing optimization is a separate service.
Explore Shopify SEO →SEO, Google Ads, Meta Ads, email and other suitable channels for what comes next, each scoped separately.
Explore ecommerce marketing →Migration gets its own quote. Redesign, app development and ongoing marketing come in only if you ask for them, each with its own scope and price.
A new store platform doesn’t normally mean moving your domain registration. We plan the DNS changes around where the website and store will run.
Shopify hosts your store, not your email inboxes. We review mail and DNS records separately before touching anything.
Hold on to the agreed exports, media and historical records until the final-order and dependency checks are done.
Hold off cancelling Ecwid on launch day. Check for remaining selling embeds, late transactions, active subscriptions, gift-card value, exports, media and connected services first. If you keep the website around your store, you may still need its hosting.
Ecwid exports and third-party migration services can move common records, and some providers add human support and testing. If a tool suits your store, we can use it inside the project. What we add is the coordinated scope around it, covering the website, product behavior, features, channels and launch.
| Your question | Self-service migration tool | Migration managed by WEP |
|---|---|---|
| Who defines the scope? | You choose the records and options the tool supports. | We review your Ecwid setup and document what moves, what is rebuilt and who does what. |
| What happens to the surrounding website? | Usually a separate job for you or another developer. | We agree whether it moves, is rebuilt or stays, and plan the connection. |
| How are options, inputs and variations handled? | Mapped to the structure the tool supports, then checked by your team. | We agree the setup and test totals, stock and order instructions. |
| Who handles channels and embeds? | Your team reconnects feeds and updates old buy links. | We include the agreed feeds, tracking and embed updates in the launch plan. |
| Who runs the launch? | Your team coordinates final updates, the domain, redirects and checks. | We run the final update, domain switch, redirects, catch-up checks and 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.
Together we settle the Ecwid records, website plan, design, features, channels, responsibilities and costs.
You approveScope & quote
We pull the selected records, map options and variations, and keep the source references we need for matching.
You reviewMapping & sample records
We build the agreed storefront, content, replacement features and chosen integrations.
You reviewA private preview store
We check the records and how they connect, then test complex products, purchases, accounts and feeds.
You reviewTest results & open issues
Your team goes through the workflows that matter most. Open issues get fixed or agreed on first.
You approveGo-live
We run the agreed final update, switch over the website and domain, and update embeds and channels.
You getA live Shopify store
We search for orders that still reached Ecwid around the switch, old embeds included, and reconcile them.
You getNo orders left behind
After launch we help sort out migration issues within the agreed scope.
You getThe same team, on hand
Costs that sit outside our migration fee, so you see them up front.
Your Ecwid store keeps selling the whole time. Orders and customers move in stages, starting with an initial migration, then a pre-launch update, a coordinated launch and a catch-up check for any order that still reached Ecwid around the switch. For the build period we agree a catalog freeze or change log, and prices and stock follow the agreed synchronization plan.
Ecwid is still on sale and we found no announcement of a shutdown. Lightspeed acquired it in 2021. Moving comes down to fit and cost, and nothing is forcing you to leave.
We decide that with you in the free review, choosing between moving the whole site to Shopify and keeping the old site linked to it. Ecwid often sits inside an existing site such as WordPress or Wix, and both routes work, each with trade-offs.
The time depends on catalog size, variations, design work and how much order history you want moved. Smaller catalogs go faster, and you get a timeline once the free store review is done.
Yes. We go through your plan, products, host site, integrations and traffic sources, then tell you what moves cleanly and what needs rebuilding. You're under no obligation.
Our own team handles setup, the data move, theme work and testing. You review and approve each stage, and we ask for access to your Ecwid admin and domain settings.
It depends, since Ecwid prices tiered plans by product count with no transaction fee of its own, while Shopify's cost comes from its plan, apps, theme and payment fees. After the free review we give you a side-by-side estimate.
Wait until the new store is live and your exports are confirmed. Look at your plan's renewal date and notice period first, since reviewers say annual-plan terms have caught people out.
Through CSV exports from the control panel. Ecwid's help center describes them for the catalog, orders and customers, and documents the customer export as available on paid plans above the entry level. Formats differ depending on when your account was created, so we confirm the right route in the free review.
Usually not directly. Guides report that column names and the way variations are written differ from Shopify's template, so the file has to be remapped. A small test import comes first, letting you check products before the full move.
Often yes, though not through Shopify's admin. Ecwid exports orders as CSV, but Shopify's own help says historical orders need an app or the API to be imported. We can often bring them in with a migration tool, and we keep the original exports as a record.
All three can move. Variations and categories cause the most mistakes, so we test them first. We also check image links, because broken ones are a known problem when files are imported from another store.
Discount rules, shipping and tax settings, pages and, in some cases, SEO titles and descriptions usually need rebuilding by hand, and apps or integrations need reconnecting. The project plan lists each one.
No. Passwords can't be copied from one platform to another, so customers will set a new one on Shopify. We can help you draft a short announcement.
Yes. Customer details export from Ecwid and import into Shopify. Shopify's customer import doesn't carry order totals, so we check how to handle those. Import only contacts you have permission to email.
Yes, your addresses will change, because Shopify has its own URL structure. We build a redirect map and watch Search Console after launch. We can't promise unchanged rankings, and the effect depends on how your pages are indexed today.
Yes. The domain can stay with your current registrar and point to Shopify, or you can transfer it. If it currently serves a separate website, we plan so that site keeps working and your email isn't disturbed.
Your Ecwid store stays live while we build and test the new one, and the switch happens at a time you pick. A short interruption at the switch is possible, so we plan around your busiest hours.
60 days of free post-launch migration support comes with the agreed scope. To start, send your store URL, rough catalog size and key requirements, and we arrange deeper access securely after the first conversation.
Tell us where your store runs, what you need to keep and what you’d like to improve. We’ll review the setup and put together a migration scope and quote.
Or call 888-711-2347
60 days of free post-launch migration support within the agreed scope.
