Your migration to Shopify in Canada, delivered with complete simplicity.

Migrating to Shopify gives Canadian SMBs three major advantages over WooCommerce, Magento, Lightspeed, or other platforms.

1. Total reliability: Shopify automatically manages hosting, security, and updates without technical interruption.
2. A complete ecosystem of apps, payment integrations, and direct connections to ERPs like Acumatica or QuickBooks.
3. Predictable costs: a single monthly subscription replaces unpredictable fees for hosting, security, and plugins.
4. Most stores migrating from WooCommerce, Magento, or Lightspeed report fewer technical issues, better page speed, and easier daily management.
5. Shopify also benefits from a Canadian-friendly ecosystem, with native support for our currencies, taxes, and carriers.

No, not if the migration is done properly. Loss of Google rankings during a Shopify migration is the #1 risk, but it's entirely avoidable with a structured approach.

Our process includes systematic 301 redirects from your old URLs to the new ones, complete preservation of meta titles, descriptions, and existing structured data, replication of your information architecture, and post-launch SEO monitoring for 60 days. The 301 redirect transfers between 90 and 99% of the SEO authority of an existing page. Most of our clients see their organic traffic stabilize within 30 days post-migration, with no significant ranking loss. Some even see ranking improvements thanks to better Shopify performance.

A Shopify migration in Canada generally costs between $5,000 and $35,000 CAD, depending on the source platform, catalog size, and required customizations.

Here are the typical ranges:

• Simple migration with limited catalog from $5,000 to $10,000 CAD,
• Mid-sized migration with several integrations from $10,000 to $20,000 CAD, and
• Complex migration with custom development and B2B integrations from $20,000 to $35,000 CAD.

The final price depends on the number of products, customers, and historical orders to transfer, the technical complexity of the source platform (Magento and Lightspeed are generally more complex than WooCommerce or Wix), required ERP/CRM integrations, and the desired level of design and customization. Mindweb provides a precise estimate after a free migration audit.

A Shopify migration generally takes 4 to 12 weeks, depending on project complexity. Typical timelines are: simple migration with limited catalog from 4 to 6 weeks, standard migration with mid-sized catalog and basic integrations from 6 to 9 weeks, and complex migration with B2B/ERP integrations and advanced customizations from 9 to 14 weeks.

Timelines depend mainly on the source platform's complexity, the volume of data to transfer, and the responsiveness of validations from your team. We always plan a parallel period during which both stores coexist, allowing thorough testing before final switchover.

We're specialized in migrations from the most common e-commerce platforms in Canada: WooCommerce, Magento (Adobe Commerce), PrestaShop, Lightspeed, BigCommerce, Squarespace Commerce, and Wix eCommerce.

We also handle custom platforms and proprietary systems through specialized data extraction. Each platform has its own technical particularities. WooCommerce, for example, often requires special handling of variants and custom product fields. Magento has a more complex data structure for its categories. Lightspeed has Canadian and Quebec specificities to consider.

Our team has migration experience on each of these platforms, which lets us anticipate challenges and avoid common errors.

No, your current store remains active and operational throughout the migration. Our process is designed to minimize any commercial interruption.

Here's how it works: phase one involves migration in a test environment, with your existing store unaffected. Phase two is a parallel period where both stores coexist, allowing complete testing of the new Shopify store. Phase three is the final switchover, planned during a low-traffic period (typically a weekend or evening), with a switchover time of less than 2 hours in most cases.

Some specific operations may require brief interruptions, but these are always planned in advance and reduced to the strict minimum. The objective is zero loss of sales during the transition.

Yes. The migration includes complete transfer of products and variants, customer accounts and order history, blog content and informational pages, customer reviews when technically possible, and pre-existing 301 redirects.

Some elements require special handling: customer passwords cannot be transferred for security reasons (customers will need to reset on first login), historical order numbers can be preserved or recreated according to your preferences, and certain platform-specific custom fields may require manual mapping. We always start with a complete audit of your existing data to identify what can be migrated, what requires adaptation, and what's better to recreate from scratch on Shopify.

Yes, our entire migration process complies with Quebec's Law 25 on personal information protection, as well as Canadian federal privacy regulations (PIPEDA).

This includes secure customer data transfer, encryption of sensitive data at all stages, configuration of cookie banners and consent forms compliant with Law 25, integration of mandatory privacy notices, and post-migration documentation of all data flows. Quebec's Law 25 imposes specific obligations for businesses handling Quebec residents' personal information: we apply these requirements rigorously throughout the migration process. Our team is up to date on the most recent regulations affecting Canadian e-commerce.

We validate migration success through five rigorous checkpoints before final go-live.

1. Complete data verification (we match every product, customer, order, and page between the old and new platform).
2. Complete order test (we place real test orders to verify payment, taxes, shipping, and confirmation emails).
3. SEO audit (we verify that 301 redirects, meta tags, and structured data are correctly in place).
4. Performance test (we measure page speed and Core Web Vitals on the new platform).
5. Stakeholder validation (your team reviews and validates each functional aspect before launch).
6. Once all checkpoints are validated, we proceed with controlled go-live with continuous monitoring for the first 60 days.

After your migration, your new Shopify store enters a continuous evolution phase. All our migrations include 60-day post-launch monitoring to track 404 errors, SEO performance, and any technical adjustments needed during the transition.

Beyond this period, several options are available based on your needs: support and evolution package with monthly hour bank for continuous optimizations, complete Shopify audit to identify performance opportunities, additional Shopify integrations with your ERP or accounting systems, and custom development for new features. Our role is to support you for as long as it's useful to you, with no long-term commitment.

Many of our migration clients become long-term partners, gradually evolving their store as their business grows.