If your Wix store is holding your business back — slow page speeds, limited checkout control, or walls you keep hitting every time you try to grow — you are not alone. Thousands of UK ecommerce businesses start on Wix and quickly outgrow it. At By Design UK, we specialise in seamless, fixed-price Shopify migrations for UK businesses ready to move to a platform built for serious selling.
Our approach sits in a deliberate space: more structured and reliable than a freelancer, faster and more transparent than a traditional agency. You get a dedicated UK-based team, AI-accelerated development, and — critically — full ownership of every line of code we write for you. No lock-in. No ambiguity.
Wix is a capable website builder, but it was not designed to be a high-performance commerce engine. As your product catalogue grows, your conversion requirements sharpen, and your integrations multiply, Wix begins to show its limits. Common reasons our clients come to us include:
Shopify resolves all of these. It is purpose-built for ecommerce, with a mature app ecosystem, robust API infrastructure, and a checkout experience that consistently outperforms alternatives. When we migrate you, we do not just lift and shift — we rebuild your store correctly, with clean architecture and room to grow.
Our Shopify builds and migrations are priced between £499 and £18,999, depending on the complexity of your existing Wix store, the number of products being migrated, the level of custom theme work required, and any integrations needed. Every project is scoped and priced transparently before work begins — no hourly billing surprises, no scope creep invoices. You can explore the full range of what we offer via our Shopify services page.
For ongoing support after launch, our Shopify support plans start from £299 per month, covering performance monitoring, updates, and continued development. You can find full details on our support plans page.
Many UK businesses have been burned before — either by a freelancer who disappeared mid-project, delivered code they could not own outright, or offered no support post-launch; or by a large agency that quoted six months and a five-figure retainer for a project that should have taken weeks. Neither model serves growing ecommerce businesses well.
By Design UK occupies the space between those two extremes deliberately. Our fixed-price model means you know exactly what you are paying before a single line of code is written. Our AI-accelerated development pipeline means we deliver faster than a traditional agency — without cutting corners on quality. And our full source code ownership guarantee means the finished Shopify store is entirely yours, forever. Learn more about how we work.
We do not just build for clients — we build for ourselves too. Tackly.co.uk is a live, multi-toolkit SaaS platform that we designed, built, and continue to operate in-house. It demonstrates exactly the kind of robust, scalable software architecture we bring to every client project. When you work with By Design UK, you are working with a team that understands what it means to ship production-grade software — not just prototype it. For clients with larger ambitions beyond ecommerce, our SaaS development services (from £18,000 to £650,000+) reflect that same capability.
Ready to get started? Contact our team today for a no-obligation scoping call and a fixed-price quote.
Most migrations are completed within two to six weeks, depending on the size of your product catalogue and the complexity of any custom features required. We agree a clear timeline before work begins so you always know where the project stands.
Not if the migration is handled correctly. We implement a full 301 redirect map from your old Wix URLs to your new Shopify URLs, preserving your existing search rankings. We also carry over metadata and ensure your new store meets current technical SEO standards.
Yes, absolutely. Full source code ownership is a core part of every By Design UK project. Once your project is delivered and paid for, the store and all custom code belong entirely to you. There are no ongoing licensing fees or lock-in clauses from our side.
Yes. We have handled migrations of varying scales, from small boutique stores to catalogues with hundreds of SKUs and complex variant structures. Larger migrations are scoped accordingly within our £499–£18,999 pricing range, and we will give you a fixed price before any work begins.
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