Migration From Shopify To WooCommerce
In your Shopify system admin screen, go to the products section page and see the button Export.
Click on the button, and you will see a screen shown below. – Here, you have the option of choosing all products and selecting products to export. You also have the opportunity to export this as CSV for Excel files or Plain CSV files. You will get an email with the CSV file when you click Export Products.
Here, you have the option of choosing all products and selecting products to export. You also have the opportunity to export this as CSV for Excel files or Plain CSV files. You will get an email with the CSV file when you click Export Products.
Talking about WooCommerce, it provides easy steps to import your products in CSV format.
You need to go to Tools> Import and then click Run Importer below WooCommerce products (CSV),
Then, you can upload the CSV file you exported from Shopify.
Then, you can map the columns from the uploaded CSV to WooCommerce fields.
By default, WooCommerce automatically checks for the fields and maps column names from uploaded CSV to WooCommerce product fields.
However, some fields are different, so you need to map those fields manually.
Then, you can start to run the process, and after some time, your import will complete. Now, you will have all your products in the WooCommerce products section. You can install WooCommerce-supported themes for your UI from the store; some are available for free. However, you can modify the theme as per your needs.
All these are the primary product migrations from Shopify to WooCommerce. However, if you have made any customization in Shopify or added any extra meta fields over there, you need to customize this, and you cannot get this field by doing this process.
4. Custom Solution
Implementing Custom solutions should be your last option. You need to verify with the store how it is set up. If it has the custom product app or any other data essential for the new platform, you need to approach this option as it is a time-consuming opportunity and may be expensive, too. You need to hire a Web developer to migrate the data. Custom solutions are time-consuming but are effective methods for developers. They need to verify every detail at a micro-level, and only then can they write a good script that can help them run migration successfully.
Let me give you some steps on what your developer will do. It does not matter which platform. I will conclude this topic by taking the example of Shopify to WooCommerce migration.
Whether the existing platform provides the API or not, that will be the developer’s first approach in the CMS domain. Every CMS offers the API to access the store’s complete data. Developers will call that API to write the custom code into the targeted system. It will then migrate all the data to the structure of the target system.
Over here in Shopify to WooCommerce, As we said, we need to find the API of Shopify. For that, we need to create a private app from the admin and provide read-and-write API access to that app.
Check the below screenshot :
Then click on Create a new private app. You will have to add the app’s name and email, and then you will get the API access when you save.
Once it is done, you can call the data using curl call into your system once you have the data, you can create the custom code for the products or any other data. WooCommerce provides the probability to add the product programmatically here is the sample code for the same:
$post_id = wp_insert_post( array(
'post_title' => 'New Import product',
'post_content' => 'Here is content of the new Imported product, so this is our new product\'s description',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'post_type' => 'product',
) );
wp_set_object_terms( $post_id, ‘simple’, ‘product_type’ );update_post_meta($post_id, '_stock_status', 'instock');
update_post_meta($post_id, '_downloadable', 'no');
update_post_meta($post_id, '_virtual', 'yes');
update_post_meta($post_id, '_regular_price', '350');
update_post_meta($post_id, '_sale_price', '300');
update_post_meta($post_id, '_weight', '15');
update_post_meta($post_id, '_length', '20');
update_post_meta($post_id, '_sku', 'TSHIRT');
update_post_meta($post_id, '_price', '350');
update_post_meta($post_id, '_manage_stock', 'no');
update_post_meta($post_id, '_stock', '1000');
Conclusion
To conclude, it entirely depends on the client’s existing store and setup; based on that, you can select the above option. If there are fewer products, then manual entry is the best way. If you have the right hand on the WordPress and Shopify admin, you can probably choose an option. If you think you are right but do not have time or are not that technical, you can select option four, where you need to communicate with any web development agency that is an expert in Migration. We also provide a custom solution for every requirement, including migrating products, not event products but orders, customers, pages, and settings.
You need to audit your website; based on that, you can take the approach that will help you make the correct decision; if you have any questions on the migration, you can reach us at our email id hello@zealousweb.com.
