If you’re outgrowing Shopify’s fee structure, hitting theme limitations, or simply want full control of your storefront code, migrating to WooCommerce is a decision more UK merchants are making. By Design UK plans and executes Shopify-to-WooCommerce migrations that preserve your SEO rankings, product data, customer history, and order records — delivered on a fixed price, with source code you own outright from day one.
We sit deliberately between a freelancer and a traditional agency. You get direct access to the people building your project, a clear scope and fixed cost agreed up front, and AI-accelerated development that compresses timelines without cutting corners on testing or security. No retainers you didn’t ask for, no vague “it depends” pricing.
Most Shopify migrations we deliver fall within our standard Shopify build tier, priced from £499 to £18,999 depending on catalogue size, number of integrations (payment gateways, ERP, CRM, email marketing), custom theme complexity, and whether historical order data needs migrating alongside live products. A straightforward catalogue move with a standard theme sits at the lower end; a multi-warehouse store with bespoke checkout logic and third-party API connections sits higher. You’ll receive a fixed quote before any work starts — not an hourly estimate that drifts upward.
For merchants running more complex operations — multi-currency, subscription billing, or custom internal tooling alongside the storefront — a full SaaS-style platform build (typically £18,000–£650,000+) may be the better long-term fit, and we’ll tell you honestly if that’s the case rather than upselling unnecessarily.
Every WooCommerce migration includes a technical audit of your existing Shopify store, a data mapping plan for products, variants, customers and orders, theme rebuild or custom WordPress theme development, payment gateway reconfiguration, redirect mapping to protect your search rankings, and a staged go-live with rollback contingency. We test thoroughly before DNS cutover, so your store doesn’t go dark during the switch.
We don’t just talk about building resilient software — we run it. Tackly.co.uk is a live multi-toolkit SaaS platform we designed, built, and continue to operate, handling real users and real infrastructure demands daily. It’s the clearest evidence that our team can architect, ship, and maintain production systems reliably, not just prototype them. That same engineering discipline goes into every WooCommerce migration we deliver.
Freelancers are often cheaper up front but carry real risk: availability gaps, inconsistent documentation, and projects that stall if they move on to other work. Traditional agencies bring more structure but typically come with slower delivery cycles, layers of account management, and pricing that’s rarely transparent until you’re several invoices in. By Design UK is built to avoid both failure modes — a UK-based team, fixed pricing agreed before work begins, AI-accelerated build processes that keep timelines tight, and full source code handed over at completion. No ambiguity about who owns what once the project ends.
Migrations don’t end at go-live. Plugin updates, security patching, performance monitoring, and incremental feature work all matter for a WooCommerce store’s long-term health. Our Shopify and WooCommerce support plans start from £299/month, giving you a direct line to the team that built your store rather than a generic support queue. For SaaS platforms built alongside or instead of a storefront migration, support plans start from £797/month.
Curious whether migration makes sense for your store, or want a fixed quote? Learn more about our approach on the about page, or get in toued via the contact page and we’ll respond with next steps within one working day.
Not if it’s done properly. We map every existing URL to its WooCommerce equivalent and implement 301 redirects before go-live, along with preserving metadata and structured data, so search engines can re-crawl your new store without losing ranking signals.
Straightforward catalogue migrations can be completed in a few weeks. Larger stores with custom integrations, subscription billing, or bespoke checkout logic typically take longer. You’ll get a realistic timeline as part of your fixed-price quote before work begins.
Yes. Full source code ownership is core to how By Design UK works. Once your migration is complete, the code, hosting configuration, and store are entirely yours, with no ongoing licence or dependency on us to keep it running.
We build a data mapping plan at the start of the project covering customers, order history, product variants, and pricing tiers, then run the migration in a staged environment with thorough testing before the live cutover, minimising disruption to your operations.
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