Your B2B buying process needs more than a standard Shopify storefront.
OroCommerce supports company accounts, buyer roles, custom catalogs, and negotiated quotes. We review how your customers buy and how your sales team handles pricing and approvals, then plan how those workflows should work in Shopify, including the ERP and other business system connections you rely on.
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Includes 60 days of free migration support after launch. We stay with you once the store is live.
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Does every small storefront or workflow change end up in a developer's queue?
OroCommerce runs on the Symfony PHP framework. Third party profiles say customizing it usually takes experienced Symfony developers or an Oro partner, and migration agencies often name customization as a main source of cost and delay for merchants.
Think about how often your team sits waiting on a developer for a change. On Shopify, people without coding skills can edit the storefront in the theme editor. Deep custom logic can still call for a developer or an app.
Once you add up license, hosting, developers and upkeep, does the total still match what you get?
Oro doesn't publish its pricing. Third party comparison sites report that Enterprise is quoted individually, with hosting, implementation, integrations and support as separate cost lines, and profiles say the total can run high once hosting, development and maintenance are counted.
Write down every recurring cost you carry today, developer hours and servers included. Then set that beside a Shopify plan plus apps and agency time. Shopify has recurring costs too, so compare like for like.
Do version upgrades drag on or worry you because of your customizations?
Aggregated comparison pages report mixed feedback on upgrades and say heavy customization can make them harder. Those are secondary summaries, so your own experience may differ. Oro publishes supported release lines with end of support dates, so upgrades are something you plan for.
Find out which version you run and when it leaves support. Shopify is hosted and updates the platform for you, though themes and apps still need upkeep.
Are you on Community and missing features that only come with Enterprise?
Oro's documentation lists things like multiple organizations, multiple websites, multiple currencies, multi warehouse inventory and larger scale search and queue tooling as Enterprise additions, along with vendor support. Community is free to use.
If you've outgrown Community, put the Enterprise quote next to what you'd need on Shopify. Shopify handles multi currency and multi region selling through Markets, but check the exact setup on your plan.
Is your team spending time on servers, deployments and security that have nothing to do with selling?
Oro can run on its own cloud, a private cloud or on premise, and hosting is described as a cost apart from the license. When you manage it yourself, patching, scaling and uptime fall to your team or your partner.
Ask who gets the call when there's an outage or a security patch is due. Shopify includes hosting, but you give up server level control.
Does a change in your ERP, PIM or another system mean custom work on the connection?
Agency migration guides point out that connections to other systems may need custom middleware or an integration platform when you switch platforms. The same goes for the integrations you keep running on Oro today.
Make a list of each integration and who looks after it. Some have ready made Shopify apps, others will need rebuilding, and we confirm which in the free store review.
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. Right when your data needs to move and your storefront needs rebuilding on Shopify.
Quoted after a free store review
Move a complex business. Built for large or heavily customized stores with connected systems.
Quoted after discovery
Every migration includes redirects for your old URLs, your titles and descriptions carried over, and 60 days of free support after launch. Quotes leave out your Shopify plan, apps and any other third party costs.
Product names, descriptions and SKUs
Product relationships we agree on
Product families and technical details
Menus and rebuilt pages
Photos, data sheets and certificates
Company accounts, sites and addresses
Negotiated pricing and who gets it
A date range and level of detail we agree
Carried over or archived
Judged one record type at a time
Consent you hold, kept apart
Metadata and a redirect map we test
Where each item lands and what we check before launch.
| OroCommerce | Where it goes in Shopify | What we check |
|---|---|---|
| Products & identifiers | Products, variants and the custom fields we agree on. | Structure that holds together, plus SKUs, identifiers, units, prices and availability. |
| Configurable products & kits | Variants, a bundle approach we agree on, an app or custom development. | Choices that make sense, the right components, pricing and stock behavior. |
| Attributes & product families | Product fields, specifications and filters that fit. | What each value means and how it shows on the storefront. |
| Master catalog, categories & web content | Collections, menus and rebuilt pages. | The master catalog, storefront navigation and access rules each get handled on their own. |
| Images & documents | Product media and where each file goes. | Access to the original files, matching them to products and deciding who can open each document. |
| OroCommerce | Where it goes in Shopify | What we check |
|---|---|---|
| Customers (companies) & addresses | Shopify companies, company locations and addresses. | Parent and child accounts, branches, duplicate records and account references. |
| Customer users & roles | Customer records linked to the right companies, with permissions we agree on. | Who can order, see prices and view history. Custom roles get their own decision. |
| Price lists & terms | Agreed pricing, catalogs and eligibility, rebuilt. | The price a customer really pays, plus units, quantity tiers, currencies and payment terms. |
| OroCommerce | Where it goes in Shopify | What we check |
|---|---|---|
| Historical orders | An import we agree on that keeps company context, or an archive you retain. | Dates, line items, totals, references and who placed each order, and for which company. |
| Open RFQs & quotes | Finished in OroCommerce, moved through a supported process we agree on, or archived. | Status, owner, expiry, open obligations and what the customer has been told. |
| Shopping lists | The saved lists we agree on, with the feature that uses them scoped on its own. | List contents we can reach, who owns each list and which products match. |
| OroCommerce | Where it goes in Shopify | What we check |
|---|---|---|
| CRM & custom records | A CRM you keep and connect, a scoped transfer or an archive. | Contacts, opportunities and activities don’t fit into ordinary customer rows. |
| Marketing preferences | Subscriber and consent mapping we agree on. | Having a customer account doesn’t mean someone agreed to marketing emails. |
| Useful SEO content & URLs | Metadata and a destination map we test. | Public and private content, localized pages and old redirect chains. |
OroCommerce offers export and integration tools, yet a standard export doesn’t automatically include every relationship, order, quote, activity and custom record. We look at what your system actually holds, then agree the best home for each kind of information.
We don’t assume customer passwords or saved payment credentials will transfer. Imported orders arrive without the original payment transactions, and imported history doesn’t recreate permissions or approval workflows. A customer record isn’t automatically a marketing subscriber, and files need real access and destination checks.
How many products, units and files you have, and how tidy the records are.
Companies, locations, roles and who can see what.
Contract prices, catalogs, volume breaks and currencies.
Quotes, approvals, saved lists and reorders.
The storefront, plus your ERP, PIM, CRM and finance systems.
Which records come along, open quotes and the plan for switching over.
Your proposal keeps our one time project fee apart from Shopify, app, theme, payment and retained system costs. Price and schedule are confirmed after the review.
FreeA store review and quote before you hire us
60 daysFree migration support after launch, included
Send your store address and a few lines on how your customers buy. We go through your accounts, pricing, quotes, catalog and connected systems, then tell you what moves, what gets rebuilt and what the project will cost.
You don’t need to send exports, price lists or logins to start. We set up secure access later, once we’ve talked.
Business accounts, branches, the people ordering, their permissions, and the products and prices each company may access.
Quote requests, negotiation, approval on your side, approval on the customer’s side, saved lists and quick ordering.
Selling units and packs, your ERP, PIM, CRM and accounting connections, and which system owns each record.
What we review
What we review
Not automatically. Shopify B2B is available on the Basic, Grow, Advanced and Plus plans, and your pricing and customer experience decide which setup fits. We don’t assume every OroCommerce business needs Plus, and a standard plan won’t suit every negotiated pricing arrangement either.
Based on Shopify’s B2B plan guide, checked October 2026. Limits change, so we confirm them in your review.
A customer asks for a price or commercial terms on products, quantities or a project.
Where the sales conversation begins.Your team puts together an offer, maybe with revisions, an expiry date and the customer’s acceptance.
Revision history counts.A salesperson may need a sign off from inside your company on a discount or terms before the offer goes out.
A rule inside your team.A purchasing manager may need to approve before the order can go ahead.
A rule inside your customer’s company.Moving saved lists and building a shopping list feature are two separate jobs. Doing one doesn’t give you the other, and a similar name doesn’t mean the same behavior.
Draft orders can support a sales process we agree on, but they don’t automatically match an RFQ conversation, negotiation history, quote revisions, expiry behavior, audit history or custom approval stages. We test the journey you need and close any gap with an app, development or a changed process.
| In OroCommerce | What we review | How we decide the Shopify setup |
|---|---|---|
| Units & packs | Each, case, pack, length or weight, plus unit conversion, rounding, minimums and order increments. | A setup that sells the unit you agreed and passes the right quantity to stock and fulfillment. Relabeling a unit isn’t enough on its own. |
| Fractional quantities | Where customers order 2.5 m or 0.75 kg, and how price and stock follow that quantity. | An approach we agree on, often an app or development, tested before anyone signs it off. |
| Configurable products | Which choices are valid, the identifiers, prices and which record owns stock. | Products with variants for the combinations you really sell, or another structure we agree on. |
| Product kits | Required and optional components, how they relate, and how pricing and stock behave. | A supported bundle approach, an app or development. We don’t squash kits into ordinary variants. |
| Attributes & documents | Product families, technical specs, data sheets, certificates and images. | Product fields, filters and file storage that fit, with restricted documents kept private. |
This shows how we test and isn’t a result from a client project. We also test what should fail, like a customer from another company trying to get in. Shopify currently caps B2B orders and draft orders at 500 line items, so we test large purchase lists early.
| Nitrile gloves × 2 cases · North depot buyer · contract $48.00 a case | $96.00 |
|---|---|
| Unit conversion 1 case = 10 boxes | 20 boxes |
| Subtotal before tax & shipping | $96.00 |
| Company location | North depot |
|---|---|
| Contract price | $96.00 |
| Stock reduced | 20 boxes |
| ERP order line | 2 cases |
A buyer from another company can’t see this product or price
What we review
Each part ends up as one of these
What we review
Each part ends up as one of these
A customer who reorders the same list every month isn’t on automatic subscription billing. Shopify currently lists subscriptions as incompatible with native B2B, so we make no promise of a smooth subscription transfer and we don’t assume a consumer subscription app works in B2B checkout. We assess any alternative first.
Importing data doesn’t reconnect these services. After launch we check the feeds and tracking we agreed on, and confirm no restricted B2B data gets published by accident.
Shopify uses its own URL structure, and rankings can shift after any migration. We can’t promise identical URLs, unchanged rankings or traffic growth.
These are example tests. We agree the real cases with you from your accounts, catalogs and permissions.
Pointing a domain at Shopify doesn’t mean moving its registration. A domain you own can usually stay with its registrar. We go over your DNS before we switch.
Shopify doesn’t host email inboxes. Before any DNS or hosting change, we find out where your mailboxes and transactional email run.
We hold on to the exports we agreed on and to source access until dependencies, open quotes, orders and other obligations are settled.
We set up access to your current system securely once we’ve talked. It never goes through the public enquiry form.
Product pages that suit business customers, quick order layouts, navigation and editable content.
Explore theme & design →Scoped B2B workflows and integrations for cases where no existing app does the job.
Explore app development →The migration checks we agree on for URLs, content and metadata. Ongoing optimization is a separate service.
Explore Shopify SEO →SEO, paid advertising, email and other channels for your business customers and consumers.
Explore ecommerce marketing →Migration gets its own quote. Redesign, extra development and ongoing marketing come in only if you want them, each with its own scope and price.
| Your question | Self-service migration tool | Migration managed by WEP |
|---|---|---|
| Who defines the scope? | You pick from the records and options the tool supports. | We go through your B2B processes and write down what moves, what gets rebuilt, what stays connected and who does what. |
| Companies, customers and access? | Customer records may move, but you review relationships and permissions yourself. | We map companies, locations and users and test who can see and order what. |
| Contract prices and quotes? | Price values may move, while the rules and open quotes need separate planning. | We rebuild the pricing we agree on and plan for every open quote at launch. |
| ERP, PIM and CRM? | Usually a separate job for you or someone else. | Every connection gets an owner, a data flow and an acceptance test. |
| Who runs the launch? | Your team handles final updates, the domain, redirects and checks. | We run the final update, domain switch, redirects and late order checks, then 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 map your must have workflows, data and integrations along with the options on Shopify, then settle the scope and the setup.
We prepare the Shopify store on its own, then try typical customer journeys and sample records with your team.
We agree on a catalog freeze or change log, the cutoff time, and a final update of the customers, orders, prices and stock we select.
We coordinate the domain and connections, reconcile late orders (even a single one) and handle open quotes as agreed.
That way the switch is planned in advance.
This is a coordinated migration with a set cutoff. It isn’t ongoing two way synchronization between OroCommerce and Shopify. We keep the risks down, but we can’t promise zero downtime or zero data loss.
Usually when costs, upgrades or waiting on developers stop fitting how you run the business. We begin with a free store review that covers your catalog, price lists, customer groups, integrations and custom features, then tell you what moves directly and what needs rebuilding.
Yes, it changes the planning. Enterprise adds things like multiple organizations, websites and currencies, so a store that uses them has a more complicated structure to map. We find out which ones you use in the free store review.
Not feature for feature. Shopify has built in B2B tools like company accounts, catalogs, payment terms and quantity rules, and some of them depend on your plan. A few Oro specific workflows may call for an app, a custom build or a changed process. The free store review lists the gaps.
No. Our team handles the data move, theme work, app setup, testing and launch, and brings you in when a decision is yours to make.
Oro's documentation describes CSV export from the admin for things like products, price list prices and customer data. We use those exports where they fit and compare the result with your live store. A large catalog may need to be exported in parts.
The export list in the Oro documentation we reviewed didn’t include orders, so getting them out may take another route, like a custom export or the API. In the free store review we confirm what your version offers and what Shopify can import.
Shopify can hold company profiles with locations, contacts, catalogs and payment terms, so the structure often carries over. Deep hierarchies or custom approval rules may get simplified or rebuilt. We map it out with you before anything is imported.
Yes. Shopify doesn’t import passwords from other platforms, so customers normally set a new one from an account invite or reset email. We plan a clear message to your customers before launch.
This is one of the areas that needs the most planning. Shopify supports catalogs, volume pricing and quantity rules, but a complicated set of price lists may need restructuring. We look at how your prices are built before promising any mapping.
URL structures differ between platforms, so we point your old addresses to the new ones with redirects. Rankings can still shift temporarily after a move, and we can’t promise they’ll stay the same.
We build and test the new store separately while your current one keeps selling, then switch at a planned time. We can’t promise zero downtime, but we aim to keep any gap short.
Yes, the domain stays yours. At launch we point it at the new store, and we leave your email settings alone unless you want them changed.
Some systems have Shopify apps, and others need a custom connection or middleware. In the free store review we list each integration and tell you which route fits.
That depends on catalog size, price structure, integrations and custom features. After the free store review you get a realistic timeline instead of a fixed number.
It comes down to your Shopify plan, apps and our build work, set against your current license, hosting and developer costs. After the free store review we give you a written estimate so you can compare.
Not always. Shopify says many B2B features are available across plans, though some, like unlimited catalogs and partial payments, are Plus only. Plan rules change, so we check the current details against what you need.
Yes. We look at your current store and tell you what moves, what needs rebuilding and what it may cost, with no obligation.
Send us your store URL and a few lines on how your customers buy and how your team sells. Deeper access is set up securely after we’ve talked. Every migration includes 60 days of free migration support after launch, within the agreed scope.
Describe how your customers buy and what you’d like to change. We’ll go through the requirements and suggest a next step.
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