Can I migrate from PrestaShop to Shopify?

Here is what actually happens and what stays on your plate.

Can I migrate a PrestaShop multistore?

Yes. When PrestaShop Importer detects more than one active shop, it asks you to choose a shop before the scope and language settings. Saving the choice reruns the scan, so the product, customer and order counts belong to that shop only. Each migration covers one shop.

The tier for a shop migration is set by that selected shop’s product and order/customer counts. Anything you already paid is credited, so if you migrate a larger shop later, you pay only the difference to its tier rather than buying another migration at full price.

Single-shop installations do not show an extra step. For multistore, the selected shop carries forward to repeat migrations, demo-to-full migrations and inventory sync jobs. It cannot be changed after the migration is paid or downloading.

The PrestaShop webservice key needs GET access to the shops resource and must be associated with every active shop. Follow the PrestaShop multistore webservice key setup article before scanning.

What moves and what doesn’t

PrestaShop and Shopify store things differently, so a migration is a translation, not a copy.

Products move with their names, descriptions, prices, SKUs, accessible images and combinations. PrestaShop combinations become Shopify variants. Categories can become collections in Shopify, and manufacturers can become collections too. If your host rate-limits image requests, fix the source limit and restart the download process.

Customers and orders move as historical records, so you can still look up what someone bought in 2023.

Can I migrate PrestaShop companies to Shopify B2B?

Yes. Under Import customers, enable Create companies for Shopify B2B. The importer then creates Shopify Company, Company location and Company contact records alongside the normal customer records and addresses.

The company name must be stored in the customer-level company field, which PrestaShop exposes when B2B mode is enabled. Company text stored only on addresses does not create companies; it is used only as the company location name. Your Shopify store must also have B2B access.

Company names are matched exactly, so spelling and punctuation differences create separate companies. Repeat migrations reuse exact matches and do not duplicate locations or contacts. The option does not configure catalogs, price lists, payment terms, roles or permissions. See how PrestaShop companies map to Shopify B2B for the full behavior.

CMS pages are the messy one. A PrestaShop CMS page often leans on your theme or on a module to look right. The text and accessible images come over, but the layout usually needs a once-over in Shopify.

Things that do not move: your theme, your PrestaShop modules, your payment gateway configuration, your tax rules and your shipping rules. Shopify has its own versions of all of these and you set them up fresh. Shopify also has no direct equivalent for some PrestaShop concepts, so fields such as attributes or features need somewhere to live. That is usually a metafield plus a small theme change.

If your PrestaShop store uses a custom module that creates its own product type, those products are not part of a standard migration.

How much does it cost?

Short version: the import tool is rarely the biggest line. Shopify’s own subscription, a theme and the apps that replace your old modules add up to more than the migration itself, and your own hours are the line nobody budgets for. See the current PrestaShop Importer pricing for the import itself.

Our guide to Shopify migration costs covers WooCommerce and PrestaShop, including the data transfer, storefront setup, help you can hire and ongoing bills.

On speed, rough figure from our own runs: in about two hours you can download and upload a few thousand products, customers and orders. Bigger catalogs take longer and a lot depends on how fast your PrestaShop server answers.

Will I lose my Google rankings?

Not if you set up redirects. Your PrestaShop product URLs and category URLs will change on Shopify, and a URL that returns a 404 loses whatever ranking it had. A redirect tells Google the page moved, and the ranking follows.

Our PrestaShop Importer can create those redirects for products and collections while it imports. If you migrate a different way, you build the redirect list yourself, and Shopify accepts a CSV of them.

Rankings usually wobble for a few weeks after any replatform even when the redirects are right. Plan the move for a quiet period, not the week before your busiest season.

What to check before you call it done

Open ten products and compare them against the live PrestaShop pages, including one with many combinations and one with a long description full of images. Check that stock numbers match. Place a test order and confirm the confirmation email, the tax and the shipping rate all look right. Search your own site for a product you know exists. Check a handful of your top-traffic old URLs and confirm each one lands somewhere sensible.

Keep PrestaShop running until you have done all of that. There is no prize for switching the DNS early.

A realistic plan

Set up a Shopify trial, run a demo and see what your data actually looks like in Shopify. That one step answers more questions than any article can, including this one. Once you are happy, do the full import, then build the theme around real products instead of placeholders.

If you would rather not run it yourself, our $299 expert migration covers the whole import: we set up the webservice key, run it, verify the result and add theme metafields where they are needed so your PrestaShop attributes show on the Shopify product page. It is not a data cleanup service, so if your PrestaShop data is inconsistent it will still be inconsistent afterwards.

You can try the PrestaShop Importer free up to 100 products and see your own data in Shopify before you decide anything.