Shopify migration
Salesforce Commerce Cloud to Shopify without an enterprise drag.
Enterprise replatforms where cost, speed of change and day to day merchandising matter as much as the cutover itself.
Salesforce Commerce Cloud (Demandware) teams often want Shopify Plus for lower operating cost and faster merchandising. The migration is still a serious data and SEO project.
We phase the replatform, map catalogue and customer data, protect high-value URLs, and rebuild the storefront and integrations the business actually needs.
Why people leave Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Salesforce Commerce Cloud is built for teams with a large internal bench. When that bench shrinks, every change waits on a partner and a release train.
Licence and implementation cost are the obvious reason to look. The quieter reason is speed. A campaign that should take a day takes a sprint.
B2B and retail often share one complicated cartridge stack. Shopify lets you separate company accounts, catalogues and a retail storefront without another custom cartridge.
People move when the platform is stable and still too slow to run the commercial calendar.
What breaks in the data
Cartridges and custom objects
Business rules hide in cartridges. We list the ones checkout, price and inventory actually use. The rest do not get rebuilt for sport.
Catalogue files
SFCC catalogues are large and fussy. Variation attributes, price books and inventory lists need a mapping, not a raw import.
Customers
Accounts, addresses and order history can move. Authentication will not. Activation emails are part of launch.
URLs and locales
Locale folders and content assets have their own paths. Each market that ranks needs its own redirect set.
Timeline and cost
Weeks 1 to 3
Read the cartridges and price books. Write down what must exist on day one and what can wait.
Weeks 4 to 8
Staging catalogue, theme and the ERP or OMS connection. Markets if you sell in more than one country.
Weeks 8 to 12
Redirects, content and a rehearsed cutover. This platform usually takes longer than a Woo or Wix move.
Cutover
A planned window with the OMS team in the room. We do not flip DNS and discover the order feed the next morning.
Migrations and builds typically run £20,000 to £35,000, plus a monthly retainer. A smaller catalogue with a clean export sits at the lower end. Wholesale, an ERP and years of messy data sit at the higher end. We confirm the range after we have seen the store.
How the project runs
Commerce Cloud projects fail when every cartridge is treated as sacred. We list the ones that change price, stock, tax or checkout. The others are not rebuilt to prove we read the code.
Price books and inventory lists are mapped to catalogues or markets. Locale folders get their own redirect sets if those URLs rank. Account activation is part of the launch note, because authentication will not transfer.
This move is longer than Woo or Wix. Eight to twelve weeks is a fair expectation when an order management system is in the path. The OMS owner is in the cutover, not on an email thread the next morning.
The fee sits in the same £20,000 to £35,000 range as other migrations, and a Commerce Cloud estate with several locales is the end that needs the longer discovery.
Checklist
- List cartridges that change price, stock, tax or checkout.
- Export price books and map them to catalogues or markets.
- Inventory locales and the URLs each one ranks for.
- Name the order management system and who owns the feed.
- Plan account activation.
- Agree what will not be rebuilt.
What makes a Salesforce Commerce Cloud migration different
Enterprise catalogue volume
Large catalogues need staged migration and clean metafield strategy, not a single dump into Shopify.
Custom storefront logic
SFCC customisations become theme sections, apps or Shopify Functions. We scope what is worth rebuilding.
Cutover risk
High-traffic stores get rehearsed cutovers, redirect QA and a trading window that respects peaks.
How it runs
01
Audit
We inspect the current platform, catalogue health, traffic URLs, integrations and what regular customers rely on.
02
Map
Data fields, URL redirects and cutover risks get written down. You see the plan before we move a product.
03
Migrate
Catalogue and customers move into staging. Structure is cleaned. Integrations and the storefront come together.
04
Rehearse
Redirects, accounts, checkout and the top landing pages are tested. Cutover is practised, not hoped for.
05
Launch and watch
Go live on the agreed window. We monitor Search Console, 404s and the first trading days with you.
Also in the move
Design and build
The new storefront, product structure and content templates that make the migration worth doing.
Apps and integrations
ERP, 3PL and the tools around the store, connected so stock and orders stay true after cutover.
Ongoing support
Monitoring and improvements once the new platform is live. Month to month, no lock-in.
Salesforce Commerce Cloud to Shopify questions
Is Shopify Plus required?
Usually yes at this scale, especially with markets, B2B or checkout extensibility. We confirm on the first call.
How long do SFCC migrations take?
Often months rather than weeks, depending on catalogue size and integrations. We phase the work so you see progress before go live.
Other platforms
Talk about your Salesforce Commerce Cloud move
Send the store URL and what you are most worried about losing. We will tell you what to protect first.
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