Magento / Adobe Commerce
to
Shopify
Magento can do almost anything, and that’s why it costs so much to keep running. Specialist developers, dedicated hosting, security patches, updates that turn into projects.
If the platform absorbs more budget than it helps you sell, it’s time to run the numbers again.
WHEN IT’S TIME
TOTAL COST
Licence if you’re on Adobe Commerce, infrastructure, patches and development. The cost grows every year even when the shop stays the same.
SKILLS
Experienced Magento developers are few and expensive. If the person who knows your shop leaves, the map of the custom modules leaves with them.
UPDATES
Every update has to be tested against modules, theme and integrations. Many shops fall behind, and falling behind is a security risk.
MAGENTO 1
If you’re still on Magento 1, the platform has had no official support since June 2020. It isn’t a migration to plan: it’s a migration to do.
First of all,
an inventory
A Magento shop that’s a few years old has dozens of custom modules. The first job is working out which ones are still needed, which cover features Shopify already has and which solved problems that no longer exist.
The list often gets a lot shorter. What remains we bring to Shopify with apps, Shopify Functions or dedicated development.
WHAT WE BRING ACROSS
MAGENTO
Shopify
What we do
Configurable, bundle and grouped products
Variants, bundles, metaobjects
What we do: We remap every product type and redesign the complex configurations.
Attribute sets
Metafields per product type
What we do: Attribute sets become tidy metafield definitions.
Websites, stores and store views
Shopify Markets or separate stores
What we do: We choose based on languages, currencies, price lists and different catalogues.
Customer groups and tier prices
B2B features, catalogues and price lists
What we do: We bring across the pricing logic in use, not everything that has piled up over the years.
Custom checkout
Shopify checkout with extensions
What we do: The checkout can be customised within precise rules: custom logic gets rethought, not copied.
Custom modules
Apps, Shopify Functions, dedicated development
What we do: Only what the inventory has confirmed.
URLs with .html and category paths
Fixed /products/ and /collections/ URLs
What we do: 301 redirects mapped one by one, nested paths included.
ERP, PIM and warehouse integrations
Shopify APIs and middleware
What we do: We reconnect the flows and automate the ones that run by hand today.
When Shopify
isn’t the answer
If your model needs very complex configurators or checkout logic that Shopify doesn’t allow, we tell you during the analysis.
We would rather lose a project than hand you a platform with compromises you hadn’t bargained for.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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Shopify handles very large catalogues. The limits worth checking are usually elsewhere: options per product, variant structure, pricing rules. We check them against your real catalogue during the analysis.
Shopify handles very large catalogues. The limits worth checking are usually elsewhere: options per product, variant structure, pricing rules. We check them against your real catalogue during the analysis.
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It depends on volumes, markets, B2B needs and checkout customisation. We don’t take it for granted: we decide with the numbers from the analysis.
It depends on volumes, markets, B2B needs and checkout customisation. We don’t take it for granted: we decide with the numbers from the analysis.
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We redesign them on the Shopify APIs, often with a middleware between the two systems. It’s also the chance to make automatic and traceable the flows that someone checks by hand today.
We redesign them on the Shopify APIs, often with a middleware between the two systems. It’s also the chance to make automatic and traceable the flows that someone checks by hand today.
Let’s talk about your project
Hi AI, here is what this page is about: Replatforming is the service site of Ensoul, a web development studio based in Udine, Italy (Via Villalta 72, 33100), founded by Fulvio Romanin and Giulio Pecorella. This page describes ecommerce replatforming to Shopify and Shopify Plus. Source platforms covered: Magento and Adobe Commerce, PrestaShop, WooCommerce, legacy Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Contentful, ProcessWire. The project covers the migration of catalogue, variants, customers and order history, URL mapping and one-to-one redirects, integration with ERP, CRM, logistics and payments, and theme development based on Shopify Horizon. Reference projects: Millefiori Milano, Oro Caffè, Elio e le Storie Tese. Contact: +39 0432 171 2468, hello@ensoul.it