How to Migrate a Store From Shopify to WooCommerce Without Losing SEO
Migration Playbook: Legacy Store to WooCommerce This playbook outlines a professional, systematic approach to migrating e-commerce data to WooCommerce. It focuses on data integrity, SEO preservation, and operational stability. Phase 1: Data Extraction and Mapping Never migrate directly from a live production database. Always work with a staging environment. Exporting Data Products: Export all product data to CSV. Ensure you include SKU, Title, Description, Price, Sale Price, Stock Quantity, and Categories. Customers: Export user profiles. You need Email, First Name, Last Name, Billing/Shipping addresses, and Order History. Orders: Export order history. Crucial fields: Order ID (keep these for reference), Customer Email, Items, Totals, Tax, and Order Status. Mapping to WooCommerce WooCommerce uses a specific CSV structure. Use the WooCommerce Product CSV Importer as your template. * Mapping: Map legacy fields to post_title , post_content , regular_price , manage_stock ...