An online shop relaunch is far more than just a new design. Anyone wanting to migrate their online shop – for example, from Wix, Ecwid, Jimdo, WordPress, WooCommerce, or PrestaShop – faces a technical, strategic, and SEO-critical challenge. Product data, customer accounts, order history, URL structure, redirects, tracking – everything must be meticulously planned and technically implementedto prevent a drop in sales and rankings.
Masterhomepage GmbH has completed more than 500 web projects in over 20 years – including numerous shop migrations from Wix, Ecwid, Jimdo, WordPress, WooCommerce, and PrestaShop to modern, scalable e-commerce platforms like Shopify. This page provides a practical overview of how a professional migration works, the typical pitfalls, and what you can do to prepare.
Ready for the next step? Book a free and non-binding initial consultation – we will analyze your current shop and show you concrete optimization potential for your migration.
There are typical signals that indicate your current system is reaching its limits:
Instead of simply patching up an existing shop, a structured migration to a more modern, scalable system is often the more sustainable and cost-effective approach. With over 20 years of experience as a web agency in Basel, we know exactly what matters.
Successful shop migrations don't happen by chance. They are the result of a well-thought-out strategy, professional technical implementation, and continuous quality control. Our proven migration process includes:
By combining our SEO expertise with our online marketing service , we ensure that your new shop not only gets off to a technically successful start, but also commercially.
As a Shopify agency and experienced e-commerce agency, we have already successfully completed hundreds of shop migrations – from small shops with 500 products to complex enterprise systems with 10,000+ products, multilingualism and ERP integration.
We have extensive experience migrating from all major e-commerce and website builder systems. Each system has its own unique challenges – and we understand them all. Select your current system for detailed information:
Wix, as a modular system, is perfect for a quick start. However, as your shop grows, you'll quickly reach its limits: limited scalability, restricted SEO control, slow loading times with many products, and a lack of B2B features. Migrating from Wix to a professional e-commerce platform like Shopify gives you the freedom and performance your growing business needs.
Typical challenges with Wix migrations: Limited export options, URL structure changes, customer data export often manual, limited API interfaces.
Our solution: Clean CSV export of all product data, detailed URL mapping for SEO security, manual optimization of the product structure, complete transfer of important content and images.
Ecwid is a flexible e-commerce solution that can be integrated into existing websites. However, it lacks important features for standalone shops: limited design flexibility, restricted SEO options, complicated internationalization, and a dependent hosting structure. Migrating to a full-fledged shop system like Shopify or WooCommerce gives you complete control over design, functionality, and scalability.
Typical challenges with Ecwid migrations: Products are often spread across multiple websites, export functions are sometimes limited, and the category structure needs to be reorganized.
Our solution: Consolidation of all product data from various sources, restructuring of categories for better conversion, creation of an independent shop URL with full SEO control.
Jimdo offers an easy entry into e-commerce. However, its limitations quickly become apparent as needs grow: a limited number of products, restricted design options, slow loading times, a lack of marketing tools, and no B2B features. Migrating to Shopify or another professional system enables unlimited growth without performance degradation.
Typical challenges with Jimdo migrations: Very simple data structure that needs to be extended, limited export functions, URL structure needs to be completely rebuilt.
Our solution: Manual optimization of all product data, strategic rebuilding of the category structure, professional product photography integration (if desired), complete SEO reconfiguration with redirects.
WordPress is a powerful content management system, but as an e-commerce platform, it's often bloated and maintenance-intensive. Many online stores start as a combined blog and shop platform and suffer from plugin conflicts, security vulnerabilities, performance issues, and high maintenance costs. Migrating to a dedicated e-commerce system like Shopify—possibly with a separate, streamlined WordPress installation for the blog—offers significantly less complexity and maintenance.
Typical challenges in WordPress migrations: separating blog content from shop content, cleaning up overloaded databases (revisions, spam), migrating custom post types and custom fields, deciding on plugin replacements.
Our approach: Strategic content analysis (what stays on WordPress, what goes into the new shop?), database cleanup and optimization, migration of important landing pages and SEO content, clean separation of blog and commerce or complete integration – depending on the strategy. As experienced WordPress web designers, we know all the pitfalls.
WooCommerce is one of the most popular shop plugins for WordPress – flexible, open source, with a huge community. However, its disadvantages become apparent, especially for growing shops: constant update effort (WordPress Core + WooCommerce + plugins), performance issues with many products, security risks from plugins, and complicated internationalization. Migrating to Shopify or another low-maintenance system saves time, money, and hassle.
Typical challenges in WooCommerce migrations: Complex database structures with custom tables, variants and attributes need to be remapped, numerous plugin dependencies need to be replaced, and performance optimization is often urgently needed.
Our solution: Direct export from the WooCommerce database, intelligent mapping of product variants, categories and attributes to the target platform, replacement of critical plugin functions with native features or better alternatives, complete SEO takeover including Yoast/Rank Math data.
PrestaShop is a professional, open-source e-commerce platform widely used in Europe. It offers many features but also requires technical expertise, regular updates, and server maintenance. For many shops seeking greater flexibility or reduced maintenance, migrating to Shopify or another modern system is the right choice. Alternatively, we are happy to support you with our PrestaShop support and update services.
Typical challenges in PrestaShop migrations: Very complex database structure, many tables and relationships, multi-store and multi-currency configurations, extensive module landscape that needs to be replaced.
Our solution: Professional database export with all relationships, clean migration of multi-store and multi-currency setups, optimization of the product structure for better performance, and complete transfer of the SEO configuration. Our experience with PrestaShop SEO ensures that no rankings are lost.
To ensure your migration is predictable, low-risk, and successful, we work with a clear, proven process. Here's a sample project for your reference: Migration of a WooCommerce shop with 2,500 products, 2 languages, and ERP integration.
Before we begin the technical aspects, we will analyze your current shop in detail:
Deliverable: Detailed analysis document with concrete recommendations for action and migration strategy.
Phase 2
Together with you, we will select the appropriate target system – in most cases, we recommend Shopify due to its scalability, performance, and low maintenance costs. Alternatively, WooCommerce, PrestaShop, or Magento are also options, depending on your specific requirements.
Deliverable: Project plan with milestones, timeline and clear responsibilities.
Phase 3
Data migration is the technical heart of the project. This is where it's determined whether your data arrives cleanly, completely, and without errors in the new system.
Practical example: During a WooCommerce migration with 2,500 products, we identified and removed 350 outdated products, merged 120 duplicates, and optimized the category structure from 45 to 28 logical main categories. Result: a clearer shop and a better conversion rate.
Phase 4
To ensure you don't lose rankings during online shop migration, SEO is a key component of our strategy. This is where professional migration differs from amateurish approaches:
/shop/category/products → /collections/products). For WordPress: Special attention is paid to blog URLs, page URLs, and shop URLs.Specifically: In a PrestaShop project, we analyzed 1,240 URLs, 890 of which had active rankings. Thanks to clean mapping and 301 redirects, visibility remained stable at 97% – and improved by 12% after 8 weeks because the new shop was technically better set up.
As an experienced SEO agency, we know exactly which details are crucial. Additionally, we support you with our PrestaShop SEO serviceif you are migrating from PrestaShop.
Phase 5
An online shop is more than just products and categories. Interfaces to payment providers, shipping companies, ERP systems, and marketing tools must function seamlessly:
Especially for Switzerland, it's important to support local payment methods like TWINT and PostFinance – this significantly increases the conversion rate. Our online marketing service also helps you get off to a great start after the migration.
Phase 6
Before going live, we test everything multiple times in the staging environment:
Important: After going live, we perform another crawl, check the Google Search Console for errors, and react immediately to any anomalies. This way, we avoid typical post-launch problems.
Total timeframe for this example project: 8-12 weeks – depending on complexity, number of interfaces and availability of your resources.

To ensure your migration starts smoothly, the following checklist has proven effective in practice. The better prepared you are, the faster and more cost-effective the migration will be:
This preparatory work ensures that the actual migration is significantly faster, more transparent, and involves fewer surprises. Our e-commerce agency will support you every step of the way.
Many online shops suffer massive losses in visibility and revenue during a relaunch due to critical mistakes. Here are the most common problems – and how we proactively solve them:
Problem: Google Analytics, Tag Manager, or conversion tracking is missing after the relaunch – you lose valuable data and can no longer evaluate campaigns. In WordPress, this is often caused by outdated PHP tracking code.
Our solution: Complete takeover of all tracking codes before go-live, test orders to verify conversion measurement, modern tag manager integration.
Error 2
Problem: During migration, categories are merged or removed – without regard for existing rankings. In WordPress: Important landing pages or blog articles are lost. Traffic plummets.
Our solution: SEO analysis upfront, prioritization of high-ranking pages, and clean redirects during structural changes. For WordPress: Content audit before migration.
Error 3
Problem: Google Analytics, Tag Manager, or conversion tracking is missing after the relaunch – you lose valuable data and can no longer evaluate campaigns. In WordPress, this is often caused by outdated PHP tracking code.
Our solution: Complete takeover of all tracking codes before go-live, test orders to verify conversion measurement, modern tag manager integration.
Error 4
Problem: The new shop looks better, but it's slower – because the theme is overloaded or too many apps are installed. With WordPress: Too many plugins or poorly programmed themes.
Our solution: Performance optimization from the start, selection of lean themes, critical testing of each app for speed impact.
Error 5
Problem: The new shop looks great on desktop, but is difficult to use on mobile devices. Since 60-70% of e-commerce traffic is mobile, the conversion rate drops dramatically.
Our solution: Mobile-first approach, extensive testing on various devices, optimization of the core web vitals for mobile.
Error 6
Problem: WordPress migrations often carry over years-old revisions, spam comments, and orphaned database entries – the new shop starts with unnecessary baggage.
Our solution: Thorough database cleanup before migration, export of only relevant data, optimization of the data structure.
With a professional migration strategy, we ensure that these mistakes don't happen – whether it's a Wix shop migration, Ecwid migration, Jimdo shop migration, WordPress migration, WooCommerce migration, or PrestaShop migration. As a web design agency from Switzerland , we understand the specific requirements of the Swiss e-commerce market.
To give you a feel for the process, here is an anonymized customer project from our practice:
Initial situation: A medium-sized company from Switzerland operated a WooCommerce shop with 8,000 products, 3 languages (German, French, Italian) and a connection to an ERP system. The shop was slow (4-5 seconds loading time), maintenance was time-consuming, and the SEO structure was suboptimal.
Objective: To migrate to Shopify to reduce loading times to under 2 seconds, minimize maintenance, optimize SEO structure, and integrate B2B functionalities.
Project timeline:
Total project duration: 10 weeks
Another typical scenario is the migration of WordPress shops that started as a blog + shop combination:
Initial situation: A Swiss company was using WordPress with WooCommerce – originally started as a blog, later expanded to include shop functions. They had 1,200 products, 450 blog articles, slow loading times due to 28 installed plugins, weekly update problems, and plugin conflicts. Maintenance was costing the company 12-15 hours per month.
Objective: Focus on e-commerce with Shopify, keep the blog separate on WordPress (lean installation), drastically reduce maintenance effort, double performance.
Project timeline:
Result:
Total project duration: 8 weeks
Important note: When migrating WordPress, the strategic decision regarding blog content is crucial. We help you find the best solution for your situation – whether it's integration with Shopify, a separate, streamlined WordPress installation, or a complete migration. As experienced WordPress web designers, we know the system's strengths and weaknesses inside and out.
Would you like similar results for your shop? Request a free, no-obligation quote – we'll analyze your current shop and show you the potential of a migration.
What sets us apart from other agencies?
Furthermore, we also support you with other digital projects with services such as Joomla web design, web app development, online marketing consulting, or as a web design agency based in Basel. Our support team is available to assist you even after the migration. We also offer specialized services such as PrestaShop support, PrestaShop updates, Joomla updates , and Joomla maintenance .
Do you want to migrate your online shop and value planning security, SEO performance, and a stable system? Here's how to proceed:
This depends heavily on the scope of the project. Smaller shops with 500-1,500 products and few interfaces can be migrated in 4-6 weeks. Larger projects with several thousand products, multilingual versions, and ERP integration require 8-12 weeks or longer. WordPress migrations with extensive blog content can require an additional 1-2 weeks for content strategy and migration. Crucially, thorough planning and sufficient testing time before going live are essential.
When you migrate your online shop, you're not just investing in a new system – you're laying the foundation for sustainable growth, improved performance, higher conversion rates, and more satisfied customers. A professionally executed migration with a sound SEO strategy, detailed URL mapping, and comprehensive testing is crucial to avoid ranking and revenue losses.
Masterhomepage GmbH is your experienced partner – with over 20 years of experience, in-depth technical expertise in WordPress, WooCommerce, PrestaShop and other systems, and a clear focus on measurable results. Whether you're moving from Wix, Jimdo, Ecwid, WordPress, WooCommerce or PrestaShop to Shopify – we'll guide you through the entire process and beyond.
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