Move your ecommerce store from Shopify to a powerful, flexible WooCommerce platform.
Zero downtime, full data integrity, advanced integrations and lower long-term costs.
Shopify offers a quick start for ecommerce, but as your business grows the limitations become clear: monthly subscription tiers, paid apps for essential features, less flexibility for developers, and higher long-term costs.
WooCommerce eliminates monthly platform fees and premium app charges, giving you full control at a fraction of Shopify’s long-term cost. It offers enterprise-level flexibility without enterprise-level pricing, unlike Shopify’s premium plans and app dependencies.
WooCommerce gives you open-source freedom, thousands of integrations, a large developer ecosystem and the ability to customise and scale your store exactly as you need. With Vertical, your migration is smooth, comprehensive and built for success.
WooCommerce scales effortlessly with your business, allowing you to customise and expand your store without being limited by Shopify’s proprietary framework.
| Feature | WooCommerce Recommended | Shopify |
|---|---|---|
| Platform Cost | Free core; you choose hosting and only pay for the plugins/features you need. | Monthly subscription plans plus app fees; costs increase as you add features. |
| Ownership & Lock-in | Open-source, self-hosted; full control over your code, data, and infrastructure. | Hosted SaaS; your store is tied to Shopify’s platform and policies. |
| Transaction & App Fees | No platform transaction fees; many core features are free or low-cost. | Extra fees without Shopify Payments; many key features require paid apps. |
| Flexibility & Customisation | Unlimited customisation via themes, plugins, and custom code for any workflow. | Strong for standard stores, but advanced customisations are limited or costly. |
| Developer Ecosystem | Massive global developer pool; easier to find talent and reduce dev costs. | Smaller specialised ecosystem; complex work often comes at a premium. |
| Integrations & Extensions | Thousands of plugins; deep integrations with CRM, ERP, marketing, analytics. | Good app store, but advanced or niche integrations typically require paid apps. |
| Performance & SEO Control | Full control over hosting, caching, CDNs, schema, redirects, and SEO plugins. | SEO and performance depend on Shopify’s stack; limited technical control. |
| Market Adoption | WooCommerce powers a huge share of online stores globally on top of WordPress’ ~43% web share. | Popular hosted platform, but used by fewer stores than WooCommerce overall. |
| Long-Term Cost & Scalability | Scales with your business while keeping total cost of ownership under control. | Easy to start, but subscription + app fees make scaling more expensive over time. |
Choose the path to a more flexible, scalable, lower-cost ecommerce future. Migrate your store from Shopify to WooCommerce with Vertical: done right, done once, and set up for long-term success.
With Vertical you get cull product, order and customer transfer, SEO-safe, faster, flexible and cost-effective. Enterprise-level flexibility without enterprise-level pricing.
We export all your Shopify store data: products, categories, variants, orders, customers, coupons, inventory, metadata, images, then validate integrity to ensure no data loss.
We transfer URLs, meta titles, meta descriptions, schema markup, alt texts and internal links. Proper 301 redirects and sitemap updates ensure your search engine rankings remain intact through the transition.
We build your WordPress site with WooCommerce, integrate payment processors, email newsletter systems, social media shops, automated product feeds, analytics, shipping gateways and any custom apps or services you rely on.
Before launch we run thorough QA: data integrity, checkout flows, responsiveness, speed, browser/device testing, accessibility, plugin conflicts. We optimise performance with caching, CDN, image optimisation, lazy loading, and streamline UI/UX for conversions.
We provide both remote and on-site training sessions so your content, marketing and operations teams are confident using WordPress + WooCommerce from day one.
We coordinate a smooth cut-over, with final sync of orders and minimal disruption. After launch we provide on-site or remote training for your team in WordPress + WooCommerce, editor workflows, admin tasks, analytics and order management.
