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Decided to switch eCommerce platforms from Shopify to BigCommerce?
Are you ready to migrate your Shopify store to BigCommerce?
Whether you’re scaling up, hitting limitations with Shopify, or exploring BigCommerce’s powerful B2B and SEO features, Optimum7 delivers error-free Shopify to BigCommerce platform migration services tailored to your needs.
Our team of certified BigCommerce developers handles the full Shopify replatforming process — from data migration and SEO protection to custom functionality and post-launch support. If you’re looking for a Shopify to BigCommerce expert, you’re in the right place.
Beyond a basic data transfer, we also offer customized functionality development to enhance your customers’ shopping experience. We aim to facilitate customer satisfaction and retention by creating an intuitive and pleasant interface that could convert your shoppers into loyal, recurring customers.
Trust Optimum7 with your Shopify to BigCommerce migration and we will optimize your eCommerce store to align with your business needs and customer preferences. Our meticulous Shopify data migration service is designed to help store owners revamp their business and unleash the full potential of their online store after their BigCommerce migration.
In the process of your BigCommerce store migration, we ensure that all customer data, from order details to product reviews, including personal information such as names, emails, and telephone numbers, are accurately migrated. Furthermore, all product-specific information including images, descriptions, meta description, prices, and order comments will be successfully transferred.
We pay particular attention to maintaining your SEO momentum and organic rankings by managing all 301 redirects during the migration process. We utilize API to validate all data, ensuring that special characters and HTML are parsed correctly throughout the migration.
Please refer to our BigCommerce Migration Guide for more information. For larger eCommerce businesses, we can also facilitate the migration of credit card tokens, a service typically executed from Shopify Plus to BigCommerce Enterprise.
Migrate all your Shopify products to BigCommerce without losing critical data. This includes:
Product essentials: Titles, SKUs, descriptions, and all product images
Variants & custom options: Transfer size, color, material, and other customizable attributes
Pricing & inventory: Import pricing rules, quantity levels, and any sales-related fields to ensure accurate tracking and continuity
Whether it’s basic product info or complex configurations, we ensure a seamless, complete migration that sets your BigCommerce store up for success from day one.
Preserve and rebuild your entire category structure on BigCommerce, including:
Category hierarchy: Main categories, subcategories, and associated descriptions
SEO data: Retain critical SEO elements like meta titles, meta descriptions, and category-specific content
Visual elements: Migrate category images to maintain brand consistency and user experience
Product filtering: Rebuild smart product filters to support advanced faceted search and improve navigation
This ensures your new BigCommerce store retains both search visibility and user-friendly structure, laying a strong foundation for SEO and usability post-migration.
Seamlessly migrate all customer and order data to your new BigCommerce store with zero data loss. This includes:
Customer details: Full names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, and company names
Order history: Order dates, statuses, values, quantities, prices, shipping costs, and customer comments
Invoice information: Detailed invoice records for post-migration financial tracking and customer analysis
Promotions & discounts: Retain all past and current promotions, including gift cards, coupon codes, usage limits (per coupon and per customer), discount types, and discount amounts
Shipping & fulfillment: Preserve original shipping methods and any associated details
This comprehensive data transfer allows you to maintain customer relationships, understand buyer behavior, and execute personalized marketing campaigns right after migration.
Migrate all your product review data to BigCommerce to retain valuable social proof and user-generated content. This includes:
Review details: Ratings, usernames, review comments, titles, and associated product names
Timestamps: Preserve original created dates to maintain authenticity and historical accuracy
By carrying over your entire review history, your new store will instantly showcase credibility, trust, and buyer feedback, helping boost conversions from day one.
As part of your eCommerce migration, ensure a smooth transition of all content and SEO assets to BigCommerce, including:
Blog posts: Migrate blog articles, images, tags, and category descriptions
Formatting cleanup: Transfer clean blog content without HTML clutter
301 redirects: Preserve existing URL structures to prevent loss of organic traffic
Product image URLs: Retain original image links to safeguard SEO and visual consistency
This ensures your content marketing and SEO performance stay intact after the migration.
Move over all your promotional assets and configurations, such as:
Coupon codes and gift cards: Including usage rules, limits per customer, and remaining balances
Discount logic: Retain discount types, amounts, and promotion triggers
Your promotional campaigns and marketing tools will continue to work seamlessly on BigCommerce.
Safely transfer all Shopify metafields and custom attributes, including:
Product-level custom data
Unique configurations tied to categories, customers, or orders
Mapped equivalents: Translate Shopify-specific fields to BigCommerce-native fields or use custom development for unique data structures
Additionally, take advantage of the migration process to enhance functionality, such as:
Reorganizing inventory with parent/child product listings
Bulk editing category names and descriptions for better structure and SEO
Adding custom functionalities that improve the overall shopping experience
Switching platforms or websites might be potentially risky for your search engine rankings. Most marketing experts are very cautious while working on eCommerce migration projects.
With thousands of product pages on your BigCommerce site, these migrations must be executed carefully. If the migration is done incorrectly, it can result in multiple 404 error pages. These 404 pages could cause you to lose your rankings and authority within days and destroy years of hard work.
Our specialists have compiled a list of critical data you’ll need to migrate from the Shopify platform to BigCommerce. With the guidance of our advanced execution, you can safely migrate your store to a new and improved platform while retaining all the SEO ranking authority you’ve built up over the years. We know all the technical details of BigCommerce server settings to implement 301 redirects the correct way. (Htaccess, apache, admin settings etc.)
Optimum7 staff is very well versed in BigCommerce PPC (Paid Search), BigCommerce SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Amazon, Ebay, Jet, Walmart, Shopping Comparison Engines, Inventory Management Systems, CRMs and all levels of integration.
We can help you determine which functionality is best for Shopify, Bigcommerce, Volusion, VTEX, Magento, 3d Cart, Wordpress / WooCommerce, Opencart, Episerver, Oracle ATG and any Custom Cart.
Contact us today with any additional questions you may have about our functionalities.
Not sure if it’s the right time to move? Here’s a quick decision matrix based on common business pain points:
| Business Scenario | Recommendation |
| You need custom B2B features | ✅ Migrate to BigCommerce |
| You’re paying high transaction fees | ✅ Consider migration |
| You rely heavily on Shopify apps for core logic | ✅ Strong case to replatform |
| You want more SEO control | ✅ BigCommerce is a better fit |
| Your dev team needs flexible APIs or headless | ✅ BigCommerce excels here |
| You have a simple catalog and low volume | ❌ Shopify may still be suitable |
If your brand is scaling, investing in B2B/DTC, or needing platform control — BigCommerce gives you long-term advantages.
Moving from Shopify to BigCommerce opens up new possibilities for performance, design, and cost savings. Many eCommerce brands outgrow Shopify and look to replatform for:
If you’re ready to transfer from Shopify to BigCommerce with a seamless transition without compromising performance, Optimum7 can help you make the move securely and strategically.
Choosing a platform isn’t just about features — it’s about scalability, cost-efficiency, and control. Here’s how BigCommerce and Shopify stack up:
| Feature | Shopify | BigCommerce |
| SEO Customization | ⚠️ Limited access to URL structure | ✅ Full control + no forced subfolders |
| B2B Capabilities | ⚠️ Limited without apps | ✅ Built-in customer groups, pricing |
| Transaction Fees | ❌ Up to 2% unless using Shopify Pay | ✅ 0% (no forced payment gateway) |
| Checkout Customization | ⚠️ Requires Plus ($2k/mo+) | ✅ Available on all plans |
| API Flexibility / Headless Commerce | ✅ Good but app-reliant | ✅ Strong native & MACH-ready |
| Multi-Storefront / International | ✅ via Markets, apps | ✅ Native MSF in Enterprise tier |
BigCommerce wins when you’re scaling fast, need B2B features, or want long-term SEO and cost advantages.
Our proven process eliminates risk and ensures consistency across every data point and functional area:
Automated migration tools skip this step — we don’t.
Our team can:
Want a fresh visual identity? We offer full redesigns as part of your replatforming.
We take data protection seriously. Your migration includes:
All migration activity is logged and reviewed prior to launch.
| Feature | Manual | Automated Tools | Optimum7 Full-Service |
| Product & Customer Migration | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Order & Coupon Transfer | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Metafields & Custom Fields | ❌ | ⚠️ Limited | ✅ |
| Design Theme Migration | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| 301 Redirects & SEO QA | ❌ | ⚠️ Basic | ✅ Advanced |
| Custom Integrations | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Post-Migration Optimization | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
For highly specific needs, Optimum7 also accommodates custom migration requests to ensure all your unique data requirements are met.
We’ve helped hundreds of brands migrate based on real-world scenarios like:
Migrating platforms doesn’t mean sacrificing your hard-earned rankings. Our migration process protects your traffic and visibility with:
Shopify URLs often include /collections/ while BigCommerce does not. We remap these properly to ensure Google knows what’s going on.
One of the biggest migration fears is losing rankings. At Optimum7, we treat SEO like a first-class priority.
✅ Complete 301 Redirect Mapping
Every Shopify URL gets a corresponding redirect to its new BigCommerce equivalent — preserving link equity and indexed paths.
✅ Metadata Preservation
Titles, meta descriptions, OG tags, canonical URLs — all retained or re-optimized.
✅ Structured Data Review
Product, article, and breadcrumb schema are validated post-migration.
✅ Crawl Tests & Link Audits
We use tools like Screaming Frog, Ahrefs, and Sitebulb to detect broken links, duplicate content, or crawl issues before launch.
✅ Google Search Console Sync
After go-live, we verify proper indexing, sitemap updates, and resolve any crawl errors.
We can even provide a sample pre/post-migration SEO report showing crawl depth, 404s, and redirect validation — because SEO is measurable, not magical.
We’re not done when your store launches. Optimum7 offers:
Before you commit, we can run a free demo migration to transfer a small batch of products, orders, or customers so you can preview the results.
You’ll see firsthand how your Shopify data will look inside BigCommerce before launching the full migration.
Optimum7 is not just a data transfer service. We offer enterprise-grade Shopify to BigCommerce site transfers including:
Selling globally? We’ve got you covered.
Many Shopify stores use apps like Langify, Weglot, or Shopify Markets to manage multilingual and multi-currency storefronts. During your migration, we’ll ensure those international elements are handled with care and functionality is preserved or improved:
✅ Language Mapping: We migrate language-specific content and map it to BigCommerce’s storefronts or compatible third-party solutions.
✅ Currency Setup: We configure BigCommerce’s native multi-currency support or extend it via custom apps or integrations.
✅ SEO Localization: We preserve hreflang tags, alt attributes, and structured data across languages.
✅ Regional Tax & Shipping: We help configure region-based shipping, duties, and taxes for global compliance.
✅ Multiple Storefronts: BigCommerce’s native Multi-Storefront (MSF) feature allows brands to run localized sites under one backend.
Whether you’re serving 2 or 20 countries, we’ll help you scale internationally with confidence.
We manage every step so your team can stay focused on sales:
Optimum7 offers ongoing post-migration optimization to ensure your BigCommerce store runs better than ever:
Migrations aren’t just plug-and-play. But we know the pitfalls — and how to avoid them.
| Potential Issue | Our Solution |
| Product images missing or mismatched | ✅ Validate all image URLs, alt text, and format |
| Metafields lost in translation | ✅ Custom mapping tools + BigCommerce app support |
| Orders not syncing correctly | ✅ Run a final sync right before going live |
| 404 errors post-launch | ✅ SEO QA + redirect strategy + crawl audit |
| Theme design breaks on BigCommerce | ✅ Manual theme rebuild in Stencil framework |
| Payment tokens not transferred (Shopify Plus) | ✅ PCI-compliant token migration available |
We apply redundancy, staging QA, and post-launch monitoring to ensure your new store functions beautifully from day one.
Whether you’re looking to migrate Shopify products to BigCommerce, run an enterprise replatform, or just need a better foundation for growth — we’ve got you covered.
Most migrations are completed in 7–15 business days depending on the size of your store, number of SKUs, and whether you’re using custom features or integrations.
Not with us. We implement precise 301 redirects, retain meta data, and ensure a clean URL mapping to protect your organic visibility.
Yes! We offer a free demo migration so you can preview how your Shopify store data will appear in BigCommerce before proceeding with the full transfer.
We migrate everything from products, categories, reviews, and Shopify store customers to orders, discounts, metafields, blog posts, custom fields, and the entire data migration process
Absolutely. We can migrate credit card tokens, handle complex permissions, and connect your systems to ERPs, CRMs, and advanced APIs.
We support your launch and offer post-migration optimization, including SEO, CRO, and custom development as needed.
Yes, while our automated tools handle most data, we can also work with CSV files for specific data sets or custom requirements. We’ll ensure proper formatting and import for a smooth transition.
Don’t risk lost data, broken links, or declining rankings. Trust the Shopify to BigCommerce migration experts at Optimum7.
We’ll help you export your Shopify store, transfer all your critical data, and build a faster, more scalable future on BigCommerce.
Optimum7 provides a fully automated migration that doesn’t require any programming skills on your part. Through our services, you’re guaranteed to achieve an effortless and successful switch, free from bothersome bugs and glitches. You’ll have a newly established store that will provide the transformation you’re looking for with everything in tact.
A digital marketing strategy is the path to profitability. Optimum7 can help you set the right goals, offer and implement creative and technical strategies, and use data and analytics to review and improve your business’s performance.
A digital marketing strategy is the path to profitability. Optimum7 can help you set the right goals, offer and implement creative and technical strategies, and use data and analytics to review and improve your business’s performance.