When moving from SHOPLINE to Shopify, compare data models, markets, payments, delivery, content, and team workflows—not just which admin UI feels familiar. Preserve source evidence and URLs first, then migrate products, customers, orders, content, and consent as separate workstreams so a single large import does not hide the root cause of a defect.
Pre-migration inventory
Export products, SKUs, variants, collections, customers, orders, discounts, reviews, images, pages, blogs, navigation, policies, tax, shipping, and app dependencies. Mark duplicate SKUs, missing media, missing specifications, broken links, mixed currencies, and historical order states. Apply data minimisation; unused customer fields should not be copied.
Rebuild markets and content
Shopify markets, currencies, languages, and delivery rules need country-level acceptance. Do not overwrite every market with SHOPLINE translations. Separate brand facts, product facts, legal policies, and marketing copy. After migration, inspect hreflang, canonical, internal links, image alt text, structured data, and sitemap.
Verify payment and fulfilment
Use target-country test addresses and payment methods through a real order path. Check discounts, tax, shipping, stock deduction, notifications, refunds, and support lookup. For apps without a direct equivalent, document a native, app, custom, or manual replacement, including permissions, cost, and exit path. Keep a read-only old store and rollback owner before DNS cutover.
Pair this with Shopify order migration, multilingual QA, and payment acceptance.
FAQ
Can SHOPLINE products be imported directly into Shopify?
Some fields may convert, but attributes, variants, app fields, and historical orders require item-by-item validation.
Must localisation be rebuilt after migration?
At minimum, validate language, currency, price, delivery, policy, and SEO by market; seeing translated text alone is not enough.
What should happen to old apps?
Map the business capability and data flow first, then choose native features, an app, custom work, or an operational process rather than matching app names one-for-one.
Can advertising continue during migration?
It can, but freeze, attribution, stock, and URL monitoring must prevent campaigns from sending traffic to broken pages.
When can the old store be removed?
After order, support, refund, indexing, and redirect observation and after exports and read-only lookup are retained.