Same store, from Wix to Shopify, free move

We move your Wix store to Shopify for free, usually in about 2 weeks. We bring over your products, your contacts and your order history, rebuild the pages that matter, and redirect every old Wix product URL to its new Shopify address. You pay only your Shopify plan, from $49 a month in Canada ($37 billed yearly), plus any paid apps you choose.

What Wix exports

Wix gives you three CSV exports from the dashboard, and we use all three:

• Products. Up to 5,000 rows per file, with images as web addresses rather than files. Shopify downloads each image from its Wix address during the import, which is why your Wix site has to stay online until we're done.
• Contacts. Up to 50,000 at a time. We map the columns to Shopify's customer format by hand, because Shopify's customer import doesn't map columns for you.
• Orders. One row per order or one row per item. Shopify can't import orders from a CSV, so we bring your order history in with a migration app.

What Wix doesn't export

A few things need extra work. Better to know now than on launch day:

• Digital products. Wix doesn't include them in the export. We recreate them in Shopify and attach your files.
• Reviews. Wix reviews can't be exported. If you have a handful of important ones, we can add them to a Shopify review app by hand. Otherwise you start collecting fresh reviews from day one.
• Products with 4 or more options. Shopify's migration tool imports these as a single product without its variants. We rebuild those variants so size, colour and the rest still work.
• Customer passwords. These never transfer from any platform. Customers sign in to Shopify with their email and a one-time code.
• Blog posts and pages. We copy over the ones worth keeping, clean up their formatting and give each one a redirect.

Collections, ribbons and categories

When products come over with Shopify's migration tool, Wix collections and ribbons such as "New" or "Sale" turn into product tags. We use those tags to rebuild your collections as proper Shopify collections, often as automatic ones that fill themselves by tag, price or stock. A "Sale" collection that updates on its own saves a lot of clicking later.

Redirects from Wix URLs

Wix product pages live at /product-page/your-product. On Shopify the same product lives at /products/your-product. Pages and blog posts get new addresses too. We add a redirect for each product, collection, page and blog post before your domain switches, so links from Google, Instagram bios and old emails keep working.

Payments, and the SEO work you already did

Wix Payments stays with Wix. On Shopify we set up Shopify Payments, which pays out in Canadian dollars to a Canadian chequing account, and add PayPal or other methods if your customers use them. We also carry over the page titles and descriptions you wrote in Wix's SEO settings, product by product, so the work you put into search doesn't start from zero.

Your domain

If you bought your domain through Wix, it can stay registered there and simply point to Shopify, or you can transfer it to another registrar. We walk you through whichever you prefer. Either way we plan the switch for a quiet hour and keep your email working, since many Wix customers have mailboxes tied to the same domain.

Why Wix sellers switch

Wix is a good website builder. Merchants usually move when selling becomes the main job of the site: more products and variants, inventory across locations, a real point-of-sale app for markets or a shop, wholesale prices, or checkout options that need the Shopify ecosystem. If those sound familiar, the move tends to pay for itself in time saved.

How the move goes

1. We export products, contacts and orders from your Wix dashboard together.
2. We import products and customers, rebuild variants and collections, and fix anything the export dropped.
3. We customize a free Shopify theme to match your brand, and set up payments, taxes and shipping.
4. We import order history and build the redirect list.
5. You review and test. We transfer the store to you and switch the domain.

When you shouldn't switch

• Your site is mainly a portfolio or a booking site, with a few products on the side. Wix may suit you better.
• You sell fewer than about ten products and don't expect that to change. The move costs you nothing, but it does cost you a few hours of attention.
• Your business runs on a Wix-specific feature, such as Wix Bookings or a Wix restaurant app, that would need replacing.

Weighing it up? Read our honest comparison of Shopify and Wix, or check what Shopify costs in Canada. When you're ready, send the request form with "Wix" as your platform. All the terms are on the free Shopify setup page.