Moving from Magento to Shopify is not just about “dumping a CSV and forgetting.” If you don’t migrate right, you can easily lose some of your products, collections, SEO traffic, and even valid image links. That’s why brands are looking for a partner who will take control of the process, not a tool. For the Binary Future Magento to Shopify migration – this is a managed, phased project, not a technical experiment.
Why brands are moving from Magento to Shopify with Binary Future
Magento is strong as a flexible platform, but its support, hosting, security, and development are increasingly expensive for businesses. Shopify provides cloud infrastructure, scalability, and a simpler stack. The challenge: migrate the product catalog so that:
· all products, variants, and images displayed correctly in Shopify;
· Magento categories have become logical collections;
· old URLs received redirects instead of 404 errors;
· Custom fields did not “disappear”, but became metafields.
Binary Future designs this as a single scheme rather than a set of manual downloads.
How the Magento to Shopify migration works for a catalog
Export data from Magento
At the start, a full CSV export of products from Magento (versions 1.x or 2.x) is created: SKU, names, descriptions, attributes, categories, media. The file must contain the entire structure that the old store worked with. This is where Shopify’s logic is built.
Conversion and import to Shopify
Next, a specialized migration tool (for example, Matrixify) or a custom pipeline is used, which:
· converts Magento products to Shopify import format;
· creates automated collections based on categories;
· generates redirects from old URLs to new ones;
· stores Magento custom fields in Shopify metafields.
Before a “battle” import, Binary Future runs a test on a copy of the data to see how products, tags, collections, and images will appear in the Shopify structure.
Checking products, collections, and redirects migrating from Magento to Shopify
After import, the team goes through all critical points: product pages, collections, filtering, and search. It checks:
- correctness of descriptors (handle) and SEO fields;
- whether all the products have been placed in the right collections;
- Do redirects from old Magento URLs to new Shopify addresses work?
This way, the brand loses neither its assortment nor organic traffic.
Critical details when moving goods on Shopify
Even a “simple” export/import in Magento to Shopify migration has pitfalls:
Image. If you do not account for the actual structure of media folders on the Magento server, some photos may not load in Shopify.
Stocks. Fields like manage_stock affect whether Shopify tracks inventory at all—incorrect mapping means zero inventory or uncontrolled sales.
Collections. Magento categories are converted to tags/collections; if you make a mistake here, the catalog will become chaotic.
Redirects. Without correctly generated redirects, old links from SEO, email campaigns, and external resources will return 404.
Binary Future includes these nuances in the technical specifications before the migration starts, rather than “fixing” them after the fact.
Why delegate migration to Binary Future?
In theory, a store owner can go through all the steps themselves: export CSV from Magento, run it through a converter, import into Shopify, and manually clean up errors. In practice, this means dozens of hours in Excel, repeated imports, risk of data loss, and SEO.
Binary Future offers a different approach:
· designs migration as a full cycle: from audit to post-launch support;
· responsible for data structure, UX, and store speed;
· sets up Shopify so that the catalog can be easily scaled, rather than simply “ported” from the old platform.
If your brand has outgrown Magento and it’s time to move on, Magento to Shopify migration from Binary Future will allow you to do it in a managed way: while preserving your catalog, traffic, and customer trust, and getting a modern store ready for the next stage of growth.
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