Written Guide Intermediate Astrocart 40 min

Migrating from Shopify to Astrocart

A step-by-step migration guide for Shopify store owners. Covers product export, customer data migration, URL redirects, SEO preservation, and go-live checklist.

What's Inside

Everything you need to migrate your Shopify store to Astrocart without losing data, customers, or search rankings.

Chapter 1: Pre-Migration Checklist

What to back up, which data to export, and how to plan your migration timeline. Includes a downloadable checklist with 35 items to verify before you start.

Chapter 2: Exporting Your Shopify Data

Step-by-step instructions for exporting products, customers, orders, and content pages from Shopify. Covers both the built-in export tools and the Shopify API for complete data extraction.

Chapter 3: Importing into Astrocart

How to use Astrocart's Shopify import tool to bring across your entire catalogue with variants, images, prices, and inventory levels. Automatic field mapping handles the heavy lifting.

Chapter 4: Preserving Your SEO

Setting up 301 redirects from Shopify URLs to Astrocart URLs. Migrating meta titles, descriptions, and structured data. Monitoring search performance during the transition.

Chapter 5: Go-Live Day

Domain transfer, DNS configuration, SSL certificate setup, and post-launch testing. Includes a 24-hour monitoring checklist to catch any issues early.

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Guide Details

Format
Written Guide
Category
Migration
Published
19 Feb 2026

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